The famous Ziggurat of Ur may contain a wormhole (“stargate”) that allows travel through time and space. Did the US wage the Iraq war to take control of it? Where are the other wormholes? And why did the Sumerians build it in the first place? We investigate these questions, plus what happens when the EMP destroys all of our data, why you can put trash in a wormhole, why Natalie hates outer space, and why Einstein would have hated all of this.

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