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The Skeptics Guide #923 - Mar 18 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Rods From God - The Most Myth-Buster-Inspired Episode Ever?

"We wanted to make a video on this, like, rods from God idea," he says. "So our plan was to go out to the desert and load on as heavy steel weights as we could onto,. like, a helicopter." The US military once dropped tungsten-sized telephone poles from space in an attempt to study their kinetic energy. 'There's all sorts of ideas, some of which, you know, I won't share because maybe they'll still come to fruition at some point'

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