Don't Panic Geocast

Episode 309 - "Assume a Spherical Chicken"

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A recent publication tried to determine if strange folded glasses found in the Atacama Desert formed by an extraterrestrial process. Turns out, mineraology and microscopy hold the key!

  • Schultz, Peter H., et al. "Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile." Geology (2021).
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    • Can chicken de-feathering be used as a wind speed proxy? Some old experiments might shed some light on the subject.
    • Vonnegut, Bernard. "Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed." Weatherwise 28.5 (1975): 217-217.
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