#064 - Mars Rocks!

Strange Realm

Tonight we bring you an shambolic yet satisfying look into this week's strangest and most interesting news we could find, a big panel of weird science this week -- including how our universe may be shaped like a donut, how there is almost definitely an underground ocean on Saturn's moon Titan (likely mostly water), how the rock samples of Mars are apparently extremely hard to retrieve and will take decades to return to us on Earth, and a breakthrough in the production of Silicon-28, needed to make high-quality quantum computers, has been made! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.

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Notes:

- The Universe may be shaped like a Donut!

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/universe-geometry-doughnut-physics

- New studies shed light on Titan's underground ocean

https://www.sci.news/space/titan-ocean-12922.html

- Retrieving the rocks from Mars is very difficult

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24153047/mars-sample-return-nasa-budget-timeline-extraterrestrial-life

- New breakthrough in Silicon

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/quantum-computing-takes-a-giant-leap-forward-with-breakthrough-discovery/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-024-00498-0

- Our Haunted Planet

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119

https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet

Intro music: "night drive" by bbrainz (slowed + reverb)
Outro music: "Curious Constellations" by SURGE
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)

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