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Kara Santamaria

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
321 total appearances

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

I don't know anything about the titanium alloys or MOND.

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

It's so hard when you kind of have some understanding of some of the stuff for one of them, but not for the other two, because that can trick you in both ways.

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

Because I'm not confident that Stinger's horns and teeth are due to convergent evolution, mostly because I don't think of those as like fundamental evolutionary properties anymore.

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

Are they that old?

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

Stingers, horns and teeth.

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

They feel like adornment or like new techniques for capturing prey or for eating or for, you know, fighting or sometimes just display, only display.

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

And that kind of stuff, I think, usually kind of evolves out of control after time.

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

But maybe it's one of those things like the circle, you know, it's just it just works in nature.

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

So we see it over and over again.

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

and new techniques simultaneously improving the strength and ductility of titanium in just milliseconds using less than 50 percent of the heat of heat energy of heat treating okay is that a crazy client you're going to be like this is amazing when you tell us that it's fine okay and then the fact that the mond thing you're like the final nail in the coffin

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

I mean, does that mean that nobody believes it?

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

There's always going to be some diehards, right, who dedicated their whole career to this.

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

Okay, so stable gravitational force laws at vast intergalactic distances.

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

I'm just going to say, I think we live in a relativistic universe and we're not going to see something very like Newtonian like that.

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

Like we're not going to see the same, you know, these stable laws at all these different places where there's like massive differences in mass, basically.

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

So I don't know.

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

I'll say that one's science.

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

And I'll say that the titanium alloy science, just because I don't know enough about it.