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Jay Novella

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

The Mond one, number three here, makes a lot of sense.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Dark matter always had scenarios where Mond really had no say, right, Steve?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Like the bullet cluster.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

There were things that were evidence for dark matter that just Mond, I think, couldn't touch.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

It's like, well, how do you explain that then if Mond is a thing?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

It just didn't make any sense.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

The only arena where Mond may have had something important to say was these vast distances and gravity might be –

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

in not insignificant ways when you're dealing with thousands of light years or at the galactic scale or beyond.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

So I don't have a problem with that at all.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

The other two that are tough, the stingers and horns and stingers, yeah, it could be convergent evolution, potentially.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

I mean, they basically need to pierce something that could be tough.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

They're piercing something

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Generally, but then Kara makes a good point about, you know, like horns could have, you know, eventually changed to a sexual display.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

But I wouldn't be surprised if they had, you know, also important piercing function.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

I don't know.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

So this one's tough.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

And then the alloy, this titanium thing is interesting.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

But I mean, heat treating metal is a complex process.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

There's a lot of components to it.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

I'm not sure...