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What weird thing in space is pulsing every 20 minutes?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Effects of Pulse on Heart Rate

Our heart beats are something that makes me think of something with a very regular pulsating mechanism. Some animals can slow down their heart rates quite a bit when they go into a sort of state of torpor. We don't know whether this is an actual alien slime whale or not but we do know that there are things in the night sky that pulse andLots of our listeners mentioned one of them pulsars that we're going to dig into in a moment. Every 11 years the sun flips its magnetic field and it also changes its brightness not that much like 0.1% over 11 year cycles but it does change it is variable.

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