The Skeptics Guide #932 - May 20 2023
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When and where is the SGU planning to watch the April 2024 total solar eclipse?
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Hello and welcome to The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. Today is Tuesday, May 16th, 2023, and this is your host, Stephen Novella. Joining me this week are Bob Novella. Hey, everybody. Cara Santamaria. Howdy. Jay Novella. Hey, guys. And Evan Bernstein.
Good evening, everyone.
So, here we are. We're just 11 months away from the total solar eclipse that's happening in April 2024. Yes. And we finally were able to book our hotels.
Yes.
So we have plans is what you're saying.
So we are – the SGU will be congregating near Dallas, Texas for the solar eclipse. A wise choice. Even though that's the farthest way – farthest point in the states basically away from where we are right now, at least the Connecticut boys. Because we wanted to maximize the probability that we're going to have good weather. I'm not sure I trust New England in the spring.
Buffalo, New York? No, I don't think so.
Yeah. So we'll be in Dallas. We'll be there the whole weekend before. So this is Monday, April 8th. We'll be there on Saturday and Sunday, 6 and 7 before that. So we're planning on doing live events. We don't have any specific plans yet, but we will let you know as soon as we do. At the very least, we'll do like a private show plus, you know, kind of show. We'll see if we could arrange for an extravaganza as well.
Ooh, an eclipse-themed extravaganza.
Sounds pretty good to me. Yeah, yeah. But we'll all be there. So if you're planning on going somewhere to see the eclipse, you can consider going to the area of Dallas, Texas and maybe joining the SGU to boot.
Get your hotel rooms. Get them now.
Evan, you've seen a total eclipse. How awesome is it?
I went to the 2017 Eclipse. I was out in Oregon. And it was – well, I call it the greatest show on earth because it is. I can't think of anything else that really compares to it. There's no other experience like it.
Really? You agree, Kara? Yeah. I mean it's like bizarre. Like earth becomes weird. Like dude-like.
Like I'm standing on a different planet all of a sudden. What is this place? But – Oh, my gosh. It's overwhelming. And it's emotional. If you feel that swelling, that sort of sense of, you know, like your emotions starting to get the better of you, I think that's normal.
Oh, I cried and I was like live. Like when I did it, I was with an astronaut, Terry Virts, and we were doing a full live stream for Nat Geo, this like massive thing with YouTube. And... Yeah, I cried like live on air. It was intense, baby.
Yep.
You did all the Clint.
I did. Yeah. No, I can't wait. It was fantastic. And it's not, obviously, there's going to be, I think it's about two and a half minutes we will be in totality.
Well, it depends on where we go exactly. It could be three, it could be four minutes.
I think it's over four that we're planning on doing.
Oh, is it over four? Wow, that's great.
I've never seen anything like that. I think it was like a minute something when we were in Oregon.
We had about two minutes in Oregon, just under two minutes, I think. Mm-hmm. and that's that's great also the build-up the actual hour while the eclipse is occurring is also this wonderful build-up in which you watch the environment around you change as it as it moves into the shadow it's this metamorphosis that that takes place so it it's getting you ramped up and in a sense and getting you getting that anticipation going that's a That was a big part of the experience for me as well, was that hour as it started before Totality.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. So we've got a lot of stuff planned between now and then, too. A lot of live events we're going to be doing.
Yes.
Starting with when this episode is coming out, we will be recording the six-hour show on Saturday, May 20th. That's why we're recording early this week. We've got to get it done so we can be ready for the six-hour show. Yeah.
So hopefully if you're listening to this now, you just got done watching us on The 6-Hour Show, and now you're enjoying today's episode.
If you are planning on joining us in Dallas, you could send us an email at theskepticsguide.org with Eclipse in the headline.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
When and where is the SGU planning to watch the April 2024 total solar eclipse?
0:00–16:50
2
What are the details and skepticism around Microsoft’s power‑purchase deal with Helion fusion?
16:50–53:34
3
How environmentally costly is lab-grown (cultivated) beef compared to traditional beef?
53:34–56:30
4
What are the key concerns about scaling, endotoxins and lifecycle analysis for lab-grown meat?
56:30–1:01:50
5
Who (or what) made the weird noises in 'Who's That Noisy?' and how are winners chosen?
1:01:50–1:09:19
6
What logical fallacies and scientific judgment issues arise in the 'Name That Logical Fallacy' and Science-or-Fiction segments?
1:09:19–1:39:34