Skeptics Guide #894

The Skeptics Guide To The Universe

Segment #1. Special Segment Steve's Trip to Italy Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Space-Based Solar Power https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/european-space-chief-says-continent-will-lead-in-space-based-solar-power/ News Item #2 – Theory of Decision-Making https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/do-we-need-a-new-theory-of-decision-making/ News Item #3 – Urban Crops https://phys.org/news/2022-08-urban-crops-higher-yields-conventional.html News Item #4 – Protons Have Charm https://www.space.com/protons-charm-quark Segment #3. Who’s That Noisy Segment #4. Dumbest Thing of the Week Nobody competent in chemistry believes the political BS about each element in the human DNA being a pollutant: # Nitrogen is over 75% of the at most fear, but turns into a pollutant once it hits the ground (only a DIRT worshiper would think so) # Carbon is the basic building block of all life on earth # Oxygen(the larger part of CO2) is not a pollutant, even when combined with...: # ...Hydrogen as H2O where it becomes the largest greenhouse gas in the at most fear So go ahead, humor your politically correct self & believe political hacks that the very elements that make up your DNA are the biggest problematic pollution on earth: .. This is very entertaining to Satan who's $nake & $taff your $troking for $$$. Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Florence #1) Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, was named after the city of her birth, Florence, Italy. #2) When the Nazis were fleeing Italy during WWII, Hitler ordered all the bridges of Florence to be destroyed to slow the Allied advance. However, the private tasked with setting the charges on the Ponte Vecchio deliberately failed to make a proper connection, sparing the bridge. #3) In 1527 anti-Medici rioters dropped a bench from a parapet, striking Michelangelo’s David and breaking off his left arm in three pieces. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week “What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.” ― Thomas Henry Huxley