What a Weird Week Podcast for Sunday May 22 2022: Martian Doorway! and The Parents Who Sued Their Son for Failure to Produce Grandchildren

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Here's the Top Ten... 


❿ Parents sue their son because he won't give them a grandson...
Notes:
- this story is from India
- the internet sure got angry fast at the parents
- the stress and mental anguish over not having a grandchild after their son has been married for 6 years caused them to sue him and the daughter-in-law
- they're demanding $650,000 in compensation unless a grandchild is born in the next year  
 
 https://globalnews.ca/news/8832832/india-parents-sue-son-no-grandchild/
 
 
 
❾ UFOs or UF Nos? ©DadJokesRUs
This week they had a public hearing on UFOs in the USA. 
Notes:
- first time since the 1960s that they've done this
- they want to figure out what could be causing these weird things in the sky
- the weird things in the sky have been officially acknowledged by the government as a real thing
Results:
- at the hearing they said that a lot of the weird things in the sky can be identified, but not all... 
- they don't think there's evidence of aliens being the cause of the weirdness
- THIS LINK has a good rundown  but essentially... to be continued

 
 
 
❽ They keep seeing Weird Fish you guys...
- they got a photo of a Dragonfish 1000 feet down
- "In more than three decades of deep-sea research and more than 27,600 hours of video, we've only seen this particular species four times!"
- the Monterey Bay Aquarium folks are on this stuff like glue on glue... they also had that rare sighting of a jelly with sparkly poop (see archives if that's what you're into)

 
 
 
❼ Ketchup of the Future seems like it might be a mushy situation...
- Heinz teamed up with a company called Pulpex who specializes in better-for-the-environment packaging
- the wood pulp ketchup bottle is supposed to be better than plastic and glass
- they'll be recyclable 
- still in the testing phase now to make sure they don't leak
- I'm glad when big companies show concern about planet earth
- I'm concerned about mushiness but am willing to keep an open mind
 
 
 
❻ Piece of the Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs located, being held for questioning... 
Notes:
- it's just a little fragment of the asteroid from 66 million years
- NASA says the find is mind-blowing
- How can they track down asteroids from when the dinosaurs were around? I'm glad you asked... this was found at a site in North Dakota with a bunch of fossils from the time when it all went down for the dinosaurs... these fossils started to tell the story of a big catastrophe... they found two tiny specks of rocks that got preserved in amber and those particles are testing positive for asteroiditis* (*see, I can talk sciencey too you guys)
- they still need to do more tests
 
 
 
❺ Will Elon hit Purchase or Exit?
- at publish time Elon Musk has put his purchase of Twitter on hold
- more reports are coming out that he might be getting cold feet
- Elon says (essentially) that he needs to be thorough before writing the big cheque
- to be continued



❹ In other Netflix News... besides the layoffs and stock stuff and that talk about them maybe getting commercials... (some of the other streamers are in on commercials now BTW) ... Netflix continues to slowly turn into regular TV - they might start doing live shows...
- would be for their "unscripted" shows like dance competitions and stand-up specials 
- also maybe live reunion specials (you know, those shows that come on after a reality show finishes and they want to get one more episode out of it...)
- Wait to see
 
 
❸ Stonehenge Seems to be Weirdening...
- archaeologists discovered thousands of hunting pits at Stonehenge 
- some of the holes were likely for catching deer and wild boar
- THIS ARTICLE says the holes are mysterious and also points out how wild it is that we're still finding out new stuff about Stonehenge because it is studied all the time... it's waaaayyyy studied you guys
- the article also mentions how they discovered ancient pits near the parking lot... like they made a parking lot for visitors... years go by... then they discover these mystery holes from thousands of years ago right there by the parking lot? That's weird, right?
- icymi, Stonehenge was built around 5000 years ago, but the mystery pits are 7000-8000 years old so people were hanging out at the site for a long time before someone was like "you know what this place needs? Rocks. And more pits!"*
*not an actual quote.

 
 
❷ Algae Computers are real...
- Engineers at University of Cambridge kept a microprocessor going for over six months using algae
- algae generates energy that can be harnessed
- they're looking at how to power bigger things... imagine a fleet of autonomous boats that clean the ocean or something and they're powered by algae...thank you algae
- it seems a little like the matrix but instead of humans being the battery, we turned the tables and enslaved the algae! (evil laugh)
 
 
 
❶ Martian Doorway! 
- The Curiosity rover (you know, the one on Mars?) has a twitter account and tweeted a photo that got shared all over the place the other day
- sorry-not-sorry, it looks exactly like a doorway going into a mountain on Mars
- apparently it isn't? are you TOTALLY SURE you guys? because it really looks like a doorway on Mars.
- One article says it's not an actual doorway on Mars but it IS a DOORWAY TO SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY (barf)
- this article says it's just a crevice. K. But still. 



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