#072 - Swords With Friends

Strange Realm

Tonight we bring you one small step for weird news and one giant leap for plant-kind as Raven's pumpkins are already taking over a whole corner of his garden. We also look into the strange infrared glow in Jupiter's atmosphere, which according to one theory may be due to the collisions of dark matter particles, as well as news about a stolen "Excalibur"-like magical sword, a recent study that estimates the amount of water a moonbase would need to use, and a new plesiosaur find suggests the Loch Ness monster is plausible! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.

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Notes:
- Infrared glow in Jupiter's atmosphere may be Dark Matter
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-infrared-high-jupiter-atmosphere-dark.html
- 'Excalibur'-type sword comes up missing, likely stolen
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/excalibur-sword-lodged-in-rock-for-1-300-years-mysteriously-disappears/
- How much water would a moonbase need?
https://www.universetoday.com/167181/how-much-water-would-a-self-sustaining-moonbase-need/
- Loss Ness Monster Could be Real!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/loch-ness-monster-existence-plausible-following-incredible-new-discovery/
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet

Intro music: "night drive" by bbrainz (slowed + reverb)
Outro music: "Curious Constellations" by SURGE
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
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