Speaker 1: It's time for strange science.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, oh, I have that.
Speaker 1: It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 3: I had that insect story I wanted to tell you
Speaker 3: more about. Remember the insect with the most painful bite?
Speaker 1: Yes? I thought we kind of ran through that whole thing,
Speaker 1: didn't we? Was there more to it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, we kind of did.
Speaker 3: It feels like three inch nails stuck in your in
Speaker 3: your foot foot while you're walking through fire on coals.
Speaker 1: Did you ever step on a nail? No? I have twice.
Speaker 2: Really do you have tetanus?
Speaker 4: I didn't. I don't. Yeah, but twice I stepped on
Speaker 4: a nail. And once I stepped on an empty broken
Speaker 4: beer bottle at my little league field.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, your parents don't seem to have
Speaker 3: the house that would be littered with broken beer bottles.
Speaker 4: No rusty nails, yes, but not the broken beer. So
Speaker 4: how big were the nails?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: There's probably what is that three inch nail? Something like?
Speaker 2: How old were you?
Speaker 4: It was five six seven somewhere in that area. Oh
Speaker 4: my god, A little bit older than that when I
Speaker 4: hit that, When I hit the beer bottle.
Speaker 2: A three inch nail into your little foot.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't.
Speaker 4: It didn't go all the way in, but it went in.
Speaker 4: A three inch nail would go all the way through
Speaker 4: my foot. Yeah, so but no, it went in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it hurts. It hurts a lot.
Speaker 3: And your parents did they say, just reb a little
Speaker 3: dirt on it and patch it up.
Speaker 1: Did they care that I was stepping on nails?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay? I was hoped.
Speaker 4: Not.
Speaker 1: In fact, they were like, go out there and get
Speaker 1: a couple more.
Speaker 2: Right, let's build up your immune system.
Speaker 1: Let's see how you do with that nous. No, okay.
Speaker 4: So here's the big story today, science wise, there is
Speaker 4: an atmosphere around a distant planet that shows signs of
Speaker 4: molecules that on Earth are only associated with life forms
Speaker 4: with biological activity.
Speaker 1: We do not know much. We don't know if.
Speaker 4: There is life or if there is biological activity on
Speaker 4: this planet, but we know that it is a possibility.
Speaker 4: If you check out get past all the comics and
Speaker 4: the letters to the editor and the Astrophysical Journal letters,
Speaker 4: there is an article there that says the authors have
Speaker 4: found the best evidence to date of a possible biosignature
Speaker 4: on a planet that is far from our solar See
Speaker 4: what kind.
Speaker 3: Of signature are we talking about animals people? No, I
Speaker 3: guess they're the same. No, No, not that. Okay, here's
Speaker 3: the thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Specifically, the molecule that they say they have detected
Speaker 4: is dimethyl sulfide ahha, and that methyl sulfide on Earth
Speaker 4: is produced by the decay of marine phitoplankton and other microbes.
Speaker 1: But it has no other known sorls.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I smelled last week in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 3: That's the diaculfi when that whale washed ashore.
Speaker 4: So the astronomers say they want to observe this planet further.
Speaker 4: It's known as K two eighteen B to strengthen evidence
Speaker 4: that that it has water in fact present, So.
Speaker 2: It has water so you can live there.
Speaker 1: They think it does.
Speaker 3: Well, how else would you explain the chemical that comes
Speaker 3: from the decay of marine phidoplankton without there being a
Speaker 3: water source.
Speaker 4: I have no idea there. I also don't know what
Speaker 4: goes on on other planets.
Speaker 2: There's no marine without water.
Speaker 1: On Earth, there's no marine without water.
Speaker 3: You think, what do you think these marine I don't know.
Speaker 3: What do you they're swimming in sand?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I think you're like in beetlejuice.
Speaker 4: You're a little arrogant about your own knowledge about what
Speaker 4: goes on other planets.
Speaker 1: You don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure I will die on the hill that
Speaker 3: says the decay of marine phytoplankton is a definite sign of.
Speaker 1: Water on Earth.
Speaker 4: But what if the dimethyl sulfide comes from dirt on
Speaker 4: that planet? Oh?
Speaker 2: I see, I see.
Speaker 3: So it's something else that would result in the same
Speaker 3: chemical that we get from.
Speaker 4: The marine phytal plankton, right, got it? Okay, so there
Speaker 4: you're saying, But they do. They are running on the
Speaker 4: same assumptions. They're saying. Listen, if what we know of
Speaker 4: on Earth, if all of the scientific properties that we
Speaker 4: rely on here on Earth exists and can be counted
Speaker 4: on in other places, then yes, maybe there is marine life.
Speaker 3: Well, I certainly rely on this show to bring me
Speaker 3: all of the analysis when it comes to dimethyl sulfide
Speaker 3: and where the hell it comes from?
Speaker 2: And we are where else you would go for that?
Speaker 4: We are your marine phytoplankton, another microbe show of record,
Speaker 4: right we are. So I don't know why anybody would
Speaker 4: go anywhere else.
Speaker 3: Seven federal workers who abruptly lost their jobs in recent weeks,
Speaker 3: are really stretching to make us care.
Speaker 2: I do care about people who have lost their jobs.
Speaker 1: That sucks.
Speaker 3: That can be true as well as there's a lot
Speaker 3: of bloat in the federal government. Both can be true,
Speaker 3: but it's so transparent sometimes when people try to really
Speaker 3: make you care about them losing their jobs, like, for instance,
Speaker 3: seven federal workers who lost their jobs recently say they're
Speaker 3: worried that thousands of biological samples from human urine to
Speaker 3: frozen rodent organs may be left to rot in a
Speaker 3: government lab in West Virginia that without us restoring their employment,
Speaker 3: these samples of urine and frozen rodents will go to waste.
Speaker 3: Like I am not hearing that and then calling up
Speaker 3: my congress person to say, we've got to do something.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you heard the latest about these federal
Speaker 3: workers getting laid off, now we're going to have urine
Speaker 3: go to waste. Now there's just gonna be frozen rodents
Speaker 3: that just they're going to be thrown out.
Speaker 2: Can you believe this?
Speaker 3: We have to do something like this isn't the right
Speaker 3: This isn't the right tree to climb up of on.
Speaker 1: Such a funny it's just the image of the they
Speaker 1: just leave. Who cares?
Speaker 2: Who cares about these things?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean there's studies.
Speaker 4: Their argument is that the studies that are involved with
Speaker 4: these samples and animals need to continue, and if you
Speaker 4: don't have the samples and animals, they can't continue the studies.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's their study on?
Speaker 3: Because I've read more than I wanted to read through
Speaker 3: this article and wired and if there's a study that
Speaker 3: is on health or can give us some sort of
Speaker 3: leg up when it comes to curing things, cool, put
Speaker 3: that in the beginning, because all I've got is frozen
Speaker 3: urine and rodents that you're worried about with no math
Speaker 3: shown on what they provide when it comes to medical answer.
Speaker 1: What they're doing.
Speaker 4: So, the researchers at this Morgantown facility say they've been
Speaker 4: studying how Gulf War soldiers were affected by mustard gas,
Speaker 4: how pregnant workers have been affected by exposure to pfast chemicals,
Speaker 4: or how manufacturing workers contract lung fibrosis silicosis specifically after
Speaker 4: inhaling nanoparticles from things like making countertops.
Speaker 2: Common sense to me, But.
Speaker 4: A team of researchers has developed a living building material
Speaker 4: composed of of fungal, micellium, and bacterial cells that are
Speaker 4: capable of self repairing. They set Unlike conventional construction materials
Speaker 4: like I don't know, cement or concrete, this bio based
Speaker 4: composite is viable for weeks. That opens new possibilities for
Speaker 4: regenerative architecture, like a concrete a building that would be
Speaker 4: able to repair itself right now. They say, mint is
Speaker 4: responsible for about eight percent of global CO two emissions.
Speaker 4: They believe this innovation could pave the way for sustainable
Speaker 4: and adaptive building symptom systems. By producing this material at
Speaker 4: low temperatures, relying on living cells, they could be a
Speaker 4: groundbreaking solution.
Speaker 1: For them when it comes to the construction industry.
Speaker 3: Oh, we've got a meteor shower right in time for
Speaker 3: John's show. Yes, this was a John and Ken special
Speaker 3: meteor showers. They used to get together and watch these,
Speaker 3: but on a cloudy day like today. The Lyrid meteor Shower,
Speaker 3: one of the oldest annual meteor showers known to humankind,
Speaker 3: will grace the earth sky beginning this week. They will
Speaker 3: come into view and last through April twenty fifth. Leary Lyrids,
Speaker 3: like all meteor showers, the flying trails of debris left
Speaker 3: behind by comets.
Speaker 4: That'll be exciting well, and you don't have to sell
Speaker 4: it to me. I'm already going to be out there
Speaker 4: with the telescope looking at the clouds.