October 23, 2025 âą 10 mins
In #StrangeScience, they revisit their favorite cosmic wanderer 3I/ATLAS đȘ and wrap with a surprising study on the âhealthiestâ way to drink alcohol đ·.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we have quite the update on the Three Eye
Atlas story. As much as we have fun with the
Harvard scientist who believes this could be an alien probe,
the behavior of this thing has just raised even more
eyebrows than at Harvard. It reversed thrust. That's where we
(00:20):
kick off strange science.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Strange science. It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, we've talked about Three Eye at Lists and what
it is and what it's going to mean to civilization.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
If it's not a.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
If it's not an interstellar comet but instead a mothership
of some kind, and it's going to probe and eat
us all something like that, that would be one of
those black Swan events. But for the most part, the
general consensus is that Three Eye Atlas is an active
comet that consists of its solid icy nucleus and a coma,
which is the cloud of gas and the icy dust
(01:03):
that escapes from the nucleus.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You say Calmet, I say, mysterious interstellar visitor. The object
has performed a dramatic tail reversal, now pointing away from
the Sun. Now, this comes just months after Hubble captured
an unusual anti tail, a jet of particles streaming toward
the Sun instead of away from it. Mmmmmm, hey, you
(01:30):
know what, what's it? Stop making fun of a very
serious thing.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Part of the problem right now is that some of
this change, this anti tail that then turned into a tail,
did so recently, and as we talked about just yesterday,
day before three, i Atlas is on the other side
of the Sun from us, so we can't see what
it's doing over there.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's not good.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's also dropping weight.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Researchers at the University of California found that it is
shedding material at a rate proportional to the solar radiation
striking its surface. It was losing about three hundred and
thirty pounds of material per second.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It's getting smaller or invade, Is that why?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, it was twelve miles long, I believe. I don't
know how wide it was. But if this thing wants
to come be a probe here, it can't be twelve miles.
It's got to shed some size, right, that's too big
of a probe.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The other thing is that it's a mother ship and
the potential for it to be full of baby ships and.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Those see now you're just you're talking, you're talking like
it's a novel or something. Yes, it's not a mothership
full of baby ships.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We don't know that. How do you know that? You've
already it's an interstellar.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No evidence of it being a mothership.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But there's a lot of evidence of it being a comet.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And there's a lot of evidence of it being a
mysterious interstellar object that we don't know, but certainly not
a commet.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And then why not a mothership full of babyships.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Because there's no evidence of that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I don't understand where you're choosing.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
You can't make things up with no evidence. There is
evidence that it could be a comet, but there's also
evidence that runs contrary to that, but there's certainly no
evidence that says it's a mothership full with baby ships.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Are you a fan of Abby Lobe or not?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I like the way he thinks, okay, because he's not
a limiting he's not he doesn't limit possibilities.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
He's the one who's saying this could potentially be a mothership.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And as we get to that, he did.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Say that, and what and to what he and why
did he say that?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, he was saying that if this thing is full
of baby ships, that this is roughly the time this
you know, from from Tuesday when it went behind the
sun to the next couple of days when it emerges
from behind the sun, that this is the time for
it to release. If it had baby ships in it,
that would be the time to do it, because you
take advantage of the gravitational pull of the sun to
(04:12):
maximize the energy that comes out, whether you're using it
to break or to accelerate.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So the material it's shedding he thinks could be baby ships.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm just listen.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There's no evidence though that of that in the in
the material it is shed I think now he's just
toying with us.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, he's been toying with us the entire time.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
That is not true. Yes, he wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There is all the evidence that says, if you're looking
for a healthy drink, by the way to get you
through this kind of discussion, the cyanide scientise, I introduce.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You, well, that is one of the things that it's
kicking out. Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Really?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, it does. It releases different cyanide. It emits cyanide
gas and atomic nickel vap.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Atlas three I three iye Atlas really yes, huh.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But if you are looking for the healthiest of all alcohols,
which is not saying much considering it's all technically poison. No,
I mean, you can guess, but I won't tell you
if you're right until we come back. All right, guess Fireball,
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And just like a piece of lettuce, did you.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Have you ever heard of tequila touted as a more
healthy option or.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
If you look around to the skinny people, they drink
tequila just like straight. That's what skinny people drink. They'll
just drink like yeah, tequila straight.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Or vodka straight. I my grandfather was very, very skinny.
I don't think he.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Drank your grandfather. I'm thinking about more of the like
the West Side Hellos, healthy people, the skinny people, the
health conscious people.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Not Dickerson, Dickerson.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
This would have been Bernard Bernard Bernhardt.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Oh, I was Bernhardt. I did not know that there
was a Bernhardt Grandpa Ben?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah? Ah, No, you.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Called Bernhardt Ben?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I called him grandpa, right.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
How did he end up with the name Ben from
Bernhardt to be.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Burnt less German? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
For some people are heart heart several unwritten rules when
it comes to alcohol. Whiskey makes you aggressive, Wine turns
you emotions.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Whiskey does not make you aggressive.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Quila is the devil. No, it's it's all does the
same thing. It's usually it's the environment you're in, right with,
John said alcohol that changes your John's not here today.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
But John Cobalt always said that different alcohols did different
things to him. No, I think it's all kind of
does the same stuff. Now, tequila gives you license to
active because of all the publicity around tequila giving you
license to act a fool.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
True, yes, and everybody's got well, I shouldn't say everybody.
There are people who have different stories about their moments
with each selection. Right, They've overdone it with beer and
that brings a certain amount of memory. Overdone it with wine,
and that has its own, you know, repercussions on you.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You're so right about the environment because if you think
about it like whiskey, I think it's more of a
sophisticated drink. Why do I think that is because I
drank it like with my grandfather right where I could
not act a fool. I had to act more grown up.
Rom I think of it as like a chill, laid back,
fun drink, because that's what you drink on vacation. You know,
(07:44):
Vodka I think of is just like a wake up
in the morning because I drink it in the morning.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
That was just a joke, just to see if you're
paying attention. But you're absolutely right. It's all about the
environment and who.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You're with, right, yeah, where you are.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
David Jernigan is a fun sponge for Public Health at
Boston University and says it goes through the series of
myths about alcohol, specifically and tequila, because tequila is often
touted as the cleanest option at the bar. It's low calorie,
it's additive free. Sometimes it's hangover proof, which is not true.
(08:21):
It is true that distilled spirits like tequila or whiskey
or gin or whatever can get you drunk more quickly,
but it's usually because you think to yourself, two shots
of this, since it's only an ounce and a half each,
isn't going to be as powerful as say five ounces
of wine or twelve ounces of beer or something like that.
(08:41):
Party proof, it'll get higher, it will get Yeah, tequila
is also not hangover proof. I don't know anybody who
believes it is. But they said that darker spirits like whiskeys.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And bourbons, you can have good tequila, like really good tequila, it.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Is hangover proof.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
If it's like sipping, well, as long as you don't
drink the whole bottle. If you have sipping tequila, it's
rare you're going to get a headache from that.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
They said that one of the things to your point
is that's different from tequila than others is that whiskey
and bourbon and the darker spirits usually contain congeners I
think is what they call it, which is a chemical
byproduct of the fermentation that can add to your hangover symptoms.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
But it doesn't. Tequila's not hangover proof.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It just may because of the qualities, mean that it's
a little bit less likely to cause the hangover. Yes,
tequila and wine do not have health benefits. There are
a lot of studies that suggest.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Fight what they tell.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The alcohol industry pours a lot of money into telling
you that it's good to drink every day, whether it's
wine or whatever.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Beer is less harmful than hard liquor. That's also a myth.
A lot of times people see beer as the thirst quencher.
You know, Cracking a course light on a hot summer.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Day is like a Corse light is a thirst front.
I will I will die on that hill. Like if
it's a bright sunny day like here, it's so far
and the sun is shining through the roof and you've
just walked a mile from your parking spot and you're thirsty.
A Cores light is perfect and it is healthy, and
(10:28):
it will quench your thirst. It will give you relief.
And put the can up to your face. Feel the cold.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Can up to your face.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
The cold of the Rockies Mountains are blue, baby. So
we know what you're gonna be doing for the next.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Get drunk on course light?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
How what are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Drink a case of it?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yes you are, that's how you do it. Oh yeah,
it's that simple.
Well, we have quite the update on the Three Eye
Atlas story. As much as we have fun with the
Harvard scientist who believes this could be an alien probe,
the behavior of this thing has just raised even more
eyebrows than at Harvard. It reversed thrust. That's where we
(00:20):
kick off strange science.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Strange science. It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, we've talked about Three Eye at Lists and what
it is and what it's going to mean to civilization.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
If it's not a.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
If it's not an interstellar comet but instead a mothership
of some kind, and it's going to probe and eat
us all something like that, that would be one of
those black Swan events. But for the most part, the
general consensus is that Three Eye Atlas is an active
comet that consists of its solid icy nucleus and a coma,
which is the cloud of gas and the icy dust
(01:03):
that escapes from the nucleus.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
You say Calmet, I say, mysterious interstellar visitor. The object
has performed a dramatic tail reversal, now pointing away from
the Sun. Now, this comes just months after Hubble captured
an unusual anti tail, a jet of particles streaming toward
the Sun instead of away from it. Mmmmmm, hey, you
(01:30):
know what, what's it? Stop making fun of a very
serious thing.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Part of the problem right now is that some of
this change, this anti tail that then turned into a tail,
did so recently, and as we talked about just yesterday,
day before three, i Atlas is on the other side
of the Sun from us, so we can't see what
it's doing over there.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's not good.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's also dropping weight.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Researchers at the University of California found that it is
shedding material at a rate proportional to the solar radiation
striking its surface. It was losing about three hundred and
thirty pounds of material per second.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
It's getting smaller or invade, Is that why?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, it was twelve miles long, I believe. I don't
know how wide it was. But if this thing wants
to come be a probe here, it can't be twelve miles.
It's got to shed some size, right, that's too big
of a probe.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
The other thing is that it's a mother ship and
the potential for it to be full of baby ships and.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Those see now you're just you're talking, you're talking like
it's a novel or something. Yes, it's not a mothership
full of baby ships.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
We don't know that. How do you know that? You've
already it's an interstellar.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No evidence of it being a mothership.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But there's a lot of evidence of it being a comet.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And there's a lot of evidence of it being a
mysterious interstellar object that we don't know, but certainly not
a commet.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And then why not a mothership full of babyships.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Because there's no evidence of that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I don't understand where you're choosing.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
You can't make things up with no evidence. There is
evidence that it could be a comet, but there's also
evidence that runs contrary to that, but there's certainly no
evidence that says it's a mothership full with baby ships.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Are you a fan of Abby Lobe or not?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I like the way he thinks, okay, because he's not
a limiting he's not he doesn't limit possibilities.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
He's the one who's saying this could potentially be a mothership.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
And as we get to that, he did.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Say that, and what and to what he and why
did he say that?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, he was saying that if this thing is full
of baby ships, that this is roughly the time this
you know, from from Tuesday when it went behind the
sun to the next couple of days when it emerges
from behind the sun, that this is the time for
it to release. If it had baby ships in it,
that would be the time to do it, because you
take advantage of the gravitational pull of the sun to
(04:12):
maximize the energy that comes out, whether you're using it
to break or to accelerate.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So the material it's shedding he thinks could be baby ships.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'm just listen.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There's no evidence though that of that in the in
the material it is shed I think now he's just
toying with us.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, he's been toying with us the entire time.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
That is not true. Yes, he wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
There is all the evidence that says, if you're looking
for a healthy drink, by the way to get you
through this kind of discussion, the cyanide scientise, I introduce.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
You, well, that is one of the things that it's
kicking out. Did you know that?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Really?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
No?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
I had no idea.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, it does. It releases different cyanide. It emits cyanide
gas and atomic nickel vap.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Atlas three I three iye Atlas really yes, huh.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
But if you are looking for the healthiest of all alcohols,
which is not saying much considering it's all technically poison. No,
I mean, you can guess, but I won't tell you
if you're right until we come back. All right, guess Fireball,
Gary and Shannon will continue.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And just like a piece of lettuce, did you.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Have you ever heard of tequila touted as a more
healthy option or.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
If you look around to the skinny people, they drink
tequila just like straight. That's what skinny people drink. They'll
just drink like yeah, tequila straight.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Or vodka straight. I my grandfather was very, very skinny.
I don't think he.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Drank your grandfather. I'm thinking about more of the like
the West Side Hellos, healthy people, the skinny people, the
health conscious people.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Not Dickerson, Dickerson.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
This would have been Bernard Bernard Bernhardt.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Oh, I was Bernhardt. I did not know that there
was a Bernhardt Grandpa Ben?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah? Ah, No, you.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Called Bernhardt Ben?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I called him grandpa, right.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
How did he end up with the name Ben from
Bernhardt to be.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Burnt less German? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
For some people are heart heart several unwritten rules when
it comes to alcohol. Whiskey makes you aggressive, Wine turns
you emotions.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Whiskey does not make you aggressive.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Quila is the devil. No, it's it's all does the
same thing. It's usually it's the environment you're in, right with,
John said alcohol that changes your John's not here today.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
But John Cobalt always said that different alcohols did different
things to him. No, I think it's all kind of
does the same stuff. Now, tequila gives you license to
active because of all the publicity around tequila giving you
license to act a fool.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
True, yes, and everybody's got well, I shouldn't say everybody.
There are people who have different stories about their moments
with each selection. Right, They've overdone it with beer and
that brings a certain amount of memory. Overdone it with wine,
and that has its own, you know, repercussions on you.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
You're so right about the environment because if you think
about it like whiskey, I think it's more of a
sophisticated drink. Why do I think that is because I
drank it like with my grandfather right where I could
not act a fool. I had to act more grown up.
Rom I think of it as like a chill, laid back,
fun drink, because that's what you drink on vacation. You know,
(07:44):
Vodka I think of is just like a wake up
in the morning because I drink it in the morning.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
That was just a joke, just to see if you're
paying attention. But you're absolutely right. It's all about the
environment and who.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You're with, right, yeah, where you are.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
David Jernigan is a fun sponge for Public Health at
Boston University and says it goes through the series of
myths about alcohol, specifically and tequila, because tequila is often
touted as the cleanest option at the bar. It's low calorie,
it's additive free. Sometimes it's hangover proof, which is not true.
(08:21):
It is true that distilled spirits like tequila or whiskey
or gin or whatever can get you drunk more quickly,
but it's usually because you think to yourself, two shots
of this, since it's only an ounce and a half each,
isn't going to be as powerful as say five ounces
of wine or twelve ounces of beer or something like that.
(08:41):
Party proof, it'll get higher, it will get Yeah, tequila
is also not hangover proof. I don't know anybody who
believes it is. But they said that darker spirits like whiskeys.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And bourbons, you can have good tequila, like really good tequila, it.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Is hangover proof.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's not true.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
If it's like sipping, well, as long as you don't
drink the whole bottle. If you have sipping tequila, it's
rare you're going to get a headache from that.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
They said that one of the things to your point
is that's different from tequila than others is that whiskey
and bourbon and the darker spirits usually contain congeners I
think is what they call it, which is a chemical
byproduct of the fermentation that can add to your hangover symptoms.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
But it doesn't. Tequila's not hangover proof.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
It just may because of the qualities, mean that it's
a little bit less likely to cause the hangover. Yes,
tequila and wine do not have health benefits. There are
a lot of studies that suggest.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Fight what they tell.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The alcohol industry pours a lot of money into telling
you that it's good to drink every day, whether it's
wine or whatever.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
It's not.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Beer is less harmful than hard liquor. That's also a myth.
A lot of times people see beer as the thirst quencher.
You know, Cracking a course light on a hot summer.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Day is like a Corse light is a thirst front.
I will I will die on that hill. Like if
it's a bright sunny day like here, it's so far
and the sun is shining through the roof and you've
just walked a mile from your parking spot and you're thirsty.
A Cores light is perfect and it is healthy, and
(10:28):
it will quench your thirst. It will give you relief.
And put the can up to your face. Feel the cold.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Can up to your face.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
The cold of the Rockies Mountains are blue, baby. So
we know what you're gonna be doing for the next.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Get drunk on course light?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
How what are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Drink a case of it?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Yes you are, that's how you do it. Oh yeah,
it's that simple.
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