Early Bird News

Today, Krysten dives recklessly into the shallow pool of the flat earth. In doing so, she did some real research! (And successfully incorporated references to the Smashing Pumpkins, Terry Pratchett, AND Douglas Adams. She is feeling please as punch about it, thank you very much.)

As promised, below are the sources she used for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuthal_equidistant_projection - a better explanation of the Azimuthal projection than I could ever give.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SlRsbQ3nfM&t=3515s - Sargent’s film “Under the Dome”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG6JmKUpTsw - Spacewalk. At 01:15 there is a clear shot from the astronaut himself out to the planet and the space station.

https://gizmodo.com/5909215/this-is-the-definitive-photograph-of-planet-earth - Non-compsite image of the earth

https://www.google.com/search?q=electro+l+satellite+images&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS742US744&oq=electro-L+&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l5.6528j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 - additional images from the electro-L satellite

https://www.google.com/flights?lite=0#flt=SYD.r/m/015fr.2018-07-16*r/m/015fr.SYD.2018-07-25;c:USD;e:1;sd:1;t:e - Sydney to Brazil, non-stop

https://www.google.com/flights?lite=0#flt=SYD.r/m/015fr.2018-07-16*r/m/015fr.SYD.2018-07-25;c:USD;e:1;sd:1;t:e - Sydney to Africa, non stop

http://ohnopodcast.com/ - Navigate to November of 2017 for the Mark Sargent Interview

Day 1 of Conspiracy Theory Week:

Israeli Animal Spying ... 

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3995302,00.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkey-suspects-bird-was-spying-for-israel/

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2011/01/05/secret_agent_plot_saudi_arabia_claims_bird_working_as_israel_spy.html 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18092775

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11813322/Israeli-spy-dolphin-caught-off-Gaza-coast.html

http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/02/14/ex-iranian-military-chief-israel-sent-lizards-to-spy-on-nuclear-program/

https://forward.com/schmooze/397440/the-5-weirdest-israel-animal-related-conspiracy-theories-out-there/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/10/16/the_strange_history_of_animal_related_israel_conspiracy_theories.html