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The Skeptics Guide #923 - Mar 18 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Can Food Starch Be a Good Concrete Binder?

Food starch is a really good concrete binder, if you have the right substrate with it. The key is that you can make this concrete with oven temperature heating and low heating. You don't need like these thousands of degrees that are necessary to make,. yeah, to make concrete. They also said that you add a little bit of salt that that makes it even, it makes it a little bit stronger. And they said we could source, get this, we could source the salt from the tears of astronauts. Come on. What are we doing here? Because it just takes a pinch of salt. Oh my gosh. So, have to make the astronauts cry. Blood tears and sweat

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