Strange Realm - Ep. 064 - May 20th, 2024

Tonight we bring you an shambolic yet satisfying look into this week's strangest and most interesting news we could find, a big panel of weird science this week -- including how our universe may be shaped like a donut, how there is almost definitely an underground ocean on Saturn's moon Titan (likely mostly water), how the rock samples of Mars are apparently extremely hard to retrieve and will take decades to return to us on Earth, and a breakthrough in the prdoction of Silicon-28, needed to make high-quality quantum computers, has been made! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.

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Notes:
- The Universe may be shaped like a Donut!
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/universe-geometry-doughnut-physics
- New studies shed light on Titan's underground ocean
https://www.sci.news/space/titan-ocean-12922.html
- Retrieving the rocks from Mars is very difficult
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24153047/mars-sample-return-nasa-budget-timeline-extraterrestrial-life
- New breakthrough in Silicon
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/quantum-computing-takes-a-giant-leap-forward-with-breakthrough-discovery/
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet

Intro music: "night drive" by bbrainz (slowed + reverb)
Outro music: "Curious Constellations" by SURGE
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)

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