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Bob Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Jay?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Ooh, the first and third ones really seem likely.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Melanocarcographer.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I'm going to go sailing at night.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Sailing at night.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I'm just linguistically guessing.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I wouldn't surprise me either.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

That's the question I was referring to.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

So the question is not that it would line up by chance on Mars, but that there would be something like that lining up by chance, like within our solar system, right?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Yeah.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

In the spirit of this question, I would also like to recommend the book Enumeracy by John Alan Paulos that I read many moons ago.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Yeah, very good.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

It was a very, very good book.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Yeah, I totally can't disagree with that.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I think that if chordates did exist prior to the Cambrian explosion, I think that would be more fully represented in the fossil record and not just like, oh, look what we just found in China in the 2020s.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

I think we would have already found that elsewhere previously.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

So I'll say that one's fiction as well.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

And Jay.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

They didn't fossilize because they were soft.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

Are they eras?