The Skeptics Guide #731 - Jul 13 2019 (Ad Free)
Added 2019-07-13 06:00:01 +0000 UTC5-10 Years: Recorded Future; News Items: Eating Jellies, Rebutting Denialism, Cancer Quackery on YouTube, Detecting Earthquakes; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
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This recording isn't supposed to be Tereshkova. It is earlier - 1961 vs 1963 for VT. It is still probably a hoax, but the recording wasn't advertised as Tereshkova by the hoaxers. This is pretty good: https://answerswithjoe.com/mysterious-lost-cosmonaut-recording/
Jim Sky
2019-07-16 06:42:21 +0000 UTCYes, she's 82 now, married a cosmonaut and they had first-ever child of two space travellers. Speaking of space trivia, surprised no-one called out last week's comment about how unlikely it would be to fly a drone on Mars, when there's one going aboard the Mars 2020 rover, which should be airborne way before Dragonfly launches from Earth.
Steve Nerlich
2019-07-14 11:37:39 +0000 UTCRight on (and then some). That was rather stupid. As a ham radio operator during the early space program I was impressed by what some of my (unknown) colleques managed to do. They figured out the frequencies of the ground-to-space radio links by measuring the antenna lengths from published photographs of the capsules. So, they were evesdropping on the early American space missions. The Russians did not publish ANYTHING before their early missions, and so the possibility that any civilian was able to catch any of their transmissions - and gee wiz just happen to have a tape recorder running to capture it - is pretty infinitesimal. As C.S. said: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. FWIW - while I really love WTN, that one was pretty lame; although the guess about amelia earhart was pretty interesting.
Jack Reeves
2019-07-13 23:29:15 +0000 UTCRe quake feeling proximity and epicentre depth is more a factor than just magnitude. Eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Mercalli_intensity_scale?wprov=sfla1
Robin Capper
2019-07-13 22:12:29 +0000 UTCRegarding the WTN segment, I am surprised you guys bought the Judica-Cordiglia brothers' hoax hook, line and sinker. First, Tereshkova is still alive. Second, the woman in the recording sounds unlike other Soviet cosmonauts in her accent, in her use of callsigns and communication protocols. You guys should be more skeptical about this sort of thing. If you can live-google whether there are recordings of Marie Curie, you can check whether Tereshkova died on reentry.
Csaba Türkösi
2019-07-13 17:11:51 +0000 UTC
