TheESP – Ep. #294 – Race to Space

Sixty years later, Captain Kirk is finally taking off

We’re happy to report that a special meeting of ESP hosts took place in Frankfurt this week. In other news, the film industry is heading for the final frontier with Russian actors going to ISS and William Shatner going where no nonagenarian has gone before. Looking back at this week in history Niels Bohr was born in 1885, and apart from describing the atom he also took a stand against the Nazis. Pope Francis, on the other hand, is “sad” because hundreds of thousands of abuse victims have been identified in France. Poor him!
Then, of course, there’s the news:

• EUROPE: EMA approves Covid booster shots (third jab)
• WALES: UFO sighting
• FRANCE: Mont Blanc keeps shrinking
• INTERNATIONAL: Diet supplement sales through the roof due to the pandemic
• EUROPE / INTERNATIONAL: Trust in scientists have dropped during the pandemic

120 years after the fact Alfred Nobel gets his own Prize – this week’s Really Right Award!

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; This Week In Skepticism; Pontus Pokes The Pope; News; Really Right; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:51 GREETINGS

• Annika, Luna and András meetup!
• Actors in space! Russia sends film crew to ISS, William Shatner flies next week
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58804143
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/oct/04/william-shatner-space-blue-origin-jeff-bezos

0:05:07 THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICISM

• Niels Bohr’s was born on 7 October 1885. He was a Danish physicist and Nobel Laureate
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

0:09:40 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• 216,000 abuse victims in France, probably many more. Frankie feels “sad”
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58801183
  • Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/10/05/pedocriminalite-un-etat-des-lieux-devastateur-pour-l-eglise-catholique_6097197_3224.html
  • Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/10/05/violences-sexuelles-dans-l-eglise-des-associations-de-victimes-reclament-l-application-des-preconisations-de-la-ciase_6097199_3224.html
  • Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/report-finds-216000-children-were-victims-french-clergy-sex-abuse-since-1950-2021-10-05/

0:17:33 NEWS

• EUROPE: EMA approves Covid booster shots (third jab)
  • EMA: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/comirnaty-spikevax-ema-recommendations-extra-doses-boosters
• WALES: UFO sighting
  • Daily Post: https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/ufo-light-seen-across-north-21759455
• FRANCE: Mont Blanc keeps shrinking
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/29/mont-blanc-shrinks-a-metre-since-last-official-measurement-in-2017
• INTERNATIONAL: Diet supplement sales through the roof due to the pandemic
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2021/10/the-dietary-supplement-industry-is-taking-us-for-a-very-expensive-ride/
• EUROPE / INTERNATIONAL: Trust in scientists have dropped during the pandemic
  • Re: News: https://www.renews.co.nz/nz-has-the-highest-trust-in-scientists-out-of-12-countries-including-the-us-uk-and-australia-survey-shows/
  • Südeutsche: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/coronaregeln-akzeptanz-vertrauen-1.5424436

0:32:36 REALLY RIGHT

• REALLY RIGHT: Alfred Nobel had the right idea when hecreated his prize
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize

0:39:52 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
/ Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996), American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. /

0:41:48 OUTRO

0:43:03 OUT-TAKES