Overview

We delve into many stupendous science related topics today. Because of Alan’s background, we start right off talking about dinosaurs. Not sure what period his dinosaurs are, but we enjoy talking about discoveries and evolution.

And we’ve seen the new Oppenheimer movie and discuss it. There is so much to unwind with this movie, it’s a fun discussion.

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Oppenheimer trailer

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Transcript

Alan: And boom, there we are. Okay. Boom. How you doing, Steven? Good. How are you? I got I went prehistoric this time. You know, I was all, all library last time, figured I had to do something, a modern primitive, if you

Stephen: will. So, okay. I, I would say, oh, we’ve entered the Jurassic Age, Jurassic Park. But someone would probably say, yeah, well those dinosaurs didn’t exist

Alan: during that.

That’s true. It’s trias or it’s Cretaceous or it’s never

Stephen: appropriate to the, not up on my dinosaurs enough to know exactly where they

Alan: fit. I’m pretty sure this guy’s a Stegosaurus and this guy’s an iguanodon, but I’m not sure. And it’s also that whatever name it once was known as, they tend to like get a new one nowadays when they find out, oh, you were, you know, mixing between the bones.

Or one was old and one was younger. I’ve actually heard a couple fascinating lectures about, for something that is, you know, hundreds of millions year years old, we’re still. Discovering, we’re still figuring out exactly that. It’s, it’s a classic puzzle where like there’s no instruction sheet, there’s no solution you could turn to, you just have to go with what do we know about things nowadays and how animals have to work in order to have weight supporting muscles and have room for organs.

And you know,

Stephen: and you know, that’s a really good example. We’ve talked education a bit. At, at times. Mm-hmm.