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The Skeptics Guide #814 - Feb 13 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Manta Shrimp - The Fastest Moving Body Part of Any Animal

A tiny crustacean, the amphipod, dulichiella, apidiculata has the fastest moving body part of any animal. A claw that can close 10,000 times faster than the blink of an eye averaging 93 microseconds. You guys all think that one is science and this one is the fiction. The coronavirus isn't the fastestMovingBodyPart ofAnyAnimal. But yeah, I mean, sounds reasonable. What doesn't sound reasonable is Betelgeuse being 25% closer. That's huge. And for that reason alone, I'm going to say that's fiction.

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