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Dovetailing Through Space
FromWe Have Concerns
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
May 1, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
There are more than 2,000 active satellites orbiting Earth. At the end of their useful lives, some will continue circling as "zombie" satellites — neither alive nor quite dead. Steve Tilley, an amateur radio operator living in Canada, has a passion for hunting them down. Jeff and Anthony discuss his discoveries and whether he deserves the title of Badass. Then, tales of people being killed by meteorite impacts date back to biblical times. But few deaths, if any, have been documented. Now, Turkish researchers have uncovered the earliest evidence that a meteorite killed one man and paralyzed another when it slammed into a hilltop in what is now Iraq in August 1888. Anthony and Jeff talk about the odds of that happening, and their own irrational fears.GET BONUS EPISODES, VIDEO HANGOUTS AND MORE. VISIT: http://patreon.com/wehaveconcernsGet all your sweet We Have Concerns merch by swinging by http://wehaveconcerns.com/shopHey! If you’re enjoying the show, please take a moment to rate/review it on whatever service you use to listen.Here’s the iTunes link: http://bit.ly/wehaveconcerns And here’s the Stitcher link: http://bit.ly/stitcherwhconcernsJeff on Twitter:http://twitter.com/jeffcannata Anthony on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acarboniToday’s stories were sent in by McCall Melanie https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/843493304/long-lost-u-s-military-satellite-found-by-amateur-radio-operator?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2tcj5Ln4dTycmXRh2OPicdfDPB2eMm4_ENN7ZNARCNcTWs6OwU50M3aVwAnd Mark Nuhfer https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/archivists-uncover-earliest-evidence-person-being-killed-meteorite?fbclid=IwAR0M3F8dAPbEdAx1ZzydowWxOXDMCkffMm2IrHun9odawnYselNRDMXb768If you’ve seen a story you think belongs on the show, send it to wehaveconcernsshow@gmail.com, post in on our Facebook Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/WeHaveConcerns/or leave it on the subreddit:http://reddit.com/r/wehaveconcerns
Released:
May 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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