I am unimpressed by Baumgartner's ability to think

What amount of respect I had for Mr. Baumgartner has been removed by his inability to keep his mouth shut when speaking about things of which he knows nothing. Tell me, Mr. Baumgartner: how much Red Bull pay to have you fall (including the research necessary to make sure you didn't die)? Did you create any new technologies? Did you push the boundaries of existing technologies? Did you try to do something different other than change the height from which you fell? Do you do any research yourself or is your sole job to fall at the earth and not perish? No, Mr. Baumgartner, you broke a world record but did you LEARN anything other than you can do it without dying...and that you can overcome your fear of enclosed spaces? I think not. Astronauts are at least scientists, NASA and the other space agencies around the world enhance, increase, expand, and disseminate knowledge. You, Mr. Baumgartner, are just an ignorant weight that is very good at avoiding hitting the surface of the earth after flinging yourself at it. Meh. [Gary "how's that for a rant?"]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9636188/Fearless-Felix-Baumgartner-Mars-is-a-waste-of-money.html

Episode 081 Texas Freethought Convention Interviews and stuff

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00:01:31 Kathleen Johnson, Vice President, American Atheists
http://www.atheists.org/
00:05:25 Steven Joseph Arauza, Founder "Godless Patriots"
http://godlesspatriots.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/godlesspatriots/godless-patriots-american-atheist-shirts
00:14:00 Kevin Butler, Regional Campus Organizer For Texas, Secular Student Alliance
https://www.secularstudents.org/
00:20:15 Emily Davis - freethinking musician
http://emilydavis.bandcamp.com/
http://www.youtube.com/2hamsters1couple
00:28:00 Darrel Ray
http://ipcpress.com/index.php?id=1
http://thegodvirus.net/
00:34:45 Weekend Recap
Special thanks to State Legislators who supported us being on the Capitol steps
00:39:10 Magic Sandwich Show
00:41:10 The big Debate
First version of abortion debate with Matt Dillahunty and Kristine Kruszelnicki (give it a few days and a better version with clean audio and video will be available):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCg8Kb2qpg0
00:50:10 Atheism+

And no dogs at the convention, on the Capitol grounds, or in the car so who the hell knows what they were doing. Probably barking at something.

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And here is a picture of the shadow of an atom.

Episode 080 takes a flying leap from space nearly landing on a small child who should have known better but doesn't because she didn't

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00:02:00 Birthday
00:12:00 WOT infowars.com
00:16:15 Court rulings
DOMA unconstitutional
Kountz TX cheer leaders allowed to have Bible versus on their football sign things
00:28:00 Free Speech
00:33:00 Help Greta Christina
http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2012/10/18/bad-news-good-news-and-asking-for-help/
00:34:20 A leap from the edge of space and binders full of women
00:38:00 Child Abuse and perpetuation of behavior
01:05:30 Donna's Dinesh D'Souza Divorce Discussion snark
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/big-love-king-s-college-dsouzas-mistress-was-also-married
01:11:45 Lightning Round

And Harpo barks at the pizza guy, ignoring the pizza placed on an easily accessible table: good girl!

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No Big Board so here is the Dvorak Keyboard, which is supposedly more efficient than the QWERTY:

Episode 079 sheepishly responds to questions asks....yeah right...sheepishly

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00:04:45 Corrections updates
Vitamin D, Sputnik
00:05:45 Listener Mail exclamation mark
But very rambling replies
Daniel: Liberals and anti-science
and
Jack:
1: veganism,
2: trying to convince others their woo is bad
3: feminism
00:53:00 Birthday
01:01:13 Lightning Round

And Harpo dictates a sternly growled letter to the editor about...something.


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Still no Big Board so here is a classic sketch from the Two Ronnies
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Episode 078 prevaricates and pivots and ponders and pontificates and prints

...not really different from any other episode really, except for some slightly different words in slightly different order with slightly different meanings and inflections.

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00:04:30 Birthday Christian Sorensen Longomontanus
and Geo Helio Centricism yes I know that is spelled wrong

00:15:30 How do politicians avoid the question and do we care
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/03/162103368/how-politicians-get-away-with-dodging-the-question

00:37:10 New York Times on Retracted papers and fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/science/study-finds-fraud-is-widespread-in-retracted-scientific-papers.html

00:57:00 Lightning Round

And Harpo gets her digs in on Greg for ignoring her for a couple of hours.

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No big board so here is a picture of a selectively bred goldfish.
(found on http://www.thisblogrules.com/2011/01/bubble-eye-goldfish-the-funniest-fish-in-the-aquarium.html)