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The Skeptics Guide #910 - Dec 17 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Origin of the Word Warrior in Science Fiction

The word alien started as a catch all for like ETS for extraterrestrials. It's long been used to talk about something being foreign or something being from somewhere else. And then we'll see that in the way of somebody from another planet was a Victorian historian and essay is named Thomas Carlisle. We're not really in any more right. That's quite offensive.

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