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Ep. 658: Space Exploration Horror Stories

Astronomy Cast

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Those Cosmic Rays on Your Eyeballs. Yeah, Yeah.

Our house has steam radiators that paying in hiss. So I get that happening here. And then there's the creepy thing every single astronaut experiences. Can you guess? Uh... You close your eyes. Oh, yeah, of course, of course,. Of course, cosmic rays on their eyeballs. Yeah. The astronauts had the misfortune of just being in space and you keep getting these bright flashes coming at you randomly in different places in your vision. It's just flashes of high energy particles working to act damage on your retina. Just like you get cosmic rays on CCD images, you can get them on your eyeballs. Right.

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