Episode #800
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Answer to last week: scanners
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
The largest impact crater on Earth, Vredefort Crater, South Africa, at 300km wide, is also the oldest, over 2 billion years.
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Item #2
Science
The largest single diamond deposit in the world was formed by a meteorite impact, and contains a greater volume of diamonds than all other deposits combined.
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Item #3
Fiction
https://www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/pm-en/press-releases-2020/the-craters-on-earth
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.’ - Zora Neale Hurston