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The Chinese Space Bacteria and a Drone Rescue You Won't Hear About Today
Strange stories lurk in the shadows of our news cycles, overshadowed by flashier headlines but no less fascinating. Today's episode dives into two such tales that deserve your attention.
First, we explore the concerning discovery of a mysterious new bacterial strain aboard China's Tiangong space station. This microorganism, related to bacteria found in soil and waste, has developed peculiar "unique abilities" that allow it to thrive in space environments. While scientists frame this as a beneficial discovery for understanding life beyond Earth, questions arise about potential applications by a nation with questionable motives on the world stage.
The narrative then shifts to Pensacola Beach, where modern technology and quick thinking converged in an extraordinary rescue. When a teenage girl found herself caught in a powerful riptide, traditional rescue methods proved too slow. Enter an unlikely hero – a shark hunter who repurposed his drone to deliver a flotation device to the struggling swimmer. This remarkable incident highlights how everyday technology can transform into life-saving tools when conventional approaches fall short.
Beyond these captivating stories, the episode takes a more personal turn as I reflect on my relationship with social media and content creation. Like many of us, I've been questioning the balance between online engagement and real-world connection. The constant pull of digital spaces often disconnects us from what matters most – a struggle many listeners likely share. The episode concludes with a fascinating exploration of dream interpretation through my recent experience of being attacked by a bear yet feeling anger rather than fear. What do your dreams reveal about your subconscious? Listen, reflect, and perhaps share your own dream experiences in the comments. Sometimes the most revealing stories are the ones we tell ourselves while sleeping.
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Well, hello, good morning, happy Wednesday. I just have a couple of short stories for you, unusual stories that are probably you're not going to see in the headlines today. You're going to hear a lot of other things. Oh, by the way, we had storms last night, but obviously we're all safe and good here. I have not heard of any tornadoes touching down yet this morning, but I have not been listening to the local news yet. So, as far as I know, around here in Huntsville we're good. Now the outer, you know, rural areas, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I have a couple of stories here from the New York Post that I've put out here on X, on my X file. The first one I want to talk about mysterious bacteria with unique abilities discovered on chinese space station. First of all, I did not know there was a chinese space station and they're probably using it as a lab up there. Obviously, um, back to the future is how this starts out. Chinese scientists discovered a novel strain of bacterium with unique abilities and unique abilities is in quotation marks, so you know that's not a good thing. That allowed it to thrive on the Tiangong space station, according to a report. Oh my gosh, these damn pop-ups. Okay, oh my gosh, enough with the pop-ups. Stop it. Okay, what the hell? Okay, stop it. Oh, y'all, I'm sorry. Okay, we are moving on. This is really ticking me off. I'm sorry, Bear with me. I'm sorry, bear with me, I'm getting there. We're gonna do hide reader view. Maybe there we go, okay. The novel strain is closely related to terrestrial bacterium how do they know this, uh, called niallia I I'm sorry, I cannot do it with these words Circulans which is found in soil, sewage, food and human stool. Oh, that's lovely Early this morning, but exhibits several mutations that could prove beneficial in the study of life as it moves out into space, the paper claimed. Scientists said the novel strain demonstrates a unique ability to hydrolyze gelatin. I don't know what that means, suggesting that it can utilize gelatin as a substrate in nutrient limited environments. I don't know what all that means. I'm not a scientist, so but obviously, even if it's, even if this article reads like it's, it might be a good thing. You know it's the chinese, and then you know they're going to use it for bad. They are the villain in the world of these days and they're just going to use it all for bad stuff. I am sure of it. Come on. It's the Chinese. All right, sorry, no, I'm not sorry.
Speaker 1:Okay, moving on, this next story is kind of extraordinary. It happened in Pensacola Beach and it's really quite interesting from the New York Post. The basic story is that you know you're on the beach, you go in the water Sometimes you can't swim well, or whatever great and you get caught in the riptides, you get pulled out. Well, this is what was happening to this girl. She was being pulled out into. Obviously she could tread water, so she was okay for a little while, but she was being pulled out into the current riptide, whatever you call it, and people were scrambling on the beach to try to, you know, get something to go save her. And I'm like, why is there no lifeguard on? Had a drone and he flew his drone out there to drop her flotation device. However, it didn't go well at the first attempt. Finally, on the second attempt, it worked anyway. It's an extraordinary story. Let's go read it.
Speaker 1:Shark hunter deploys a drone at a florida beach to save drowning girls. Life. A guardian angel used a drone he usually deploys for shark hunting to save a girl who lifeguards say would have surely drowned if not for his quick thinking and careful piloting. Well, where were you lifeguards? Isn't that not your job? Maybe, I don't know. Okay, andrew Smith was ready to go home after work Thursday, but his friends convinced him to head to Pensacola Beach for some night fishing.
Speaker 1:Ten minutes after Smith arrived at the beach, pandemoniums broke out. There was a teenage girl struggling in the water. According to reports, she was getting pulled further away from the shore by a powerful riptide. A girl sprinted to Smith asking him if he knew how to swim. Okay, a lot of these details do not need to be in the freaking article. So he had an idea to use his drone to deliver a flotation device to the girl so she could hold on until help arrived, and it took a while. Apparently, her friend was getting sucked more and more out and I looked at the drone and I was like well, the drone can swim, but I can't. Said, smith, that does not make any sense whatsoever. Um, so he, the first time the free, said the first try did not work out. It was too windy, he dropped it too soon. He uh, it was really windy, it was like it wasn't close at all.
Speaker 1:Smith knew time was running out for the girl. She was getting pulled further away and had been battling the relentless current for five minutes. At this point, that's all. It seems like it would take longer than that. Uh, anyway, he eventually got the damn thing out there and got her, and then all of then. After that, then the, uh, the, the, the other people arrived, what do you call them? The rescue people arrived after.
Speaker 1:After all of that, what the hell? Okay, I don't know, I'm so confused. Look, I struggled to find stories this morning, anything, I don't know. I, maybe my heart's just not in this anymore, at least today. Tomorrow will be different, uh, so I guess I need to come up with a question of the day.
Speaker 1:I don't know why I do this anymore. I mean, I guess it's sort of still fun. I think I've just gotten into a routine now, so I'm just kind of expected of myself to come and do this, and I do. I guess I still like it. I, I don't know. I kind of want to do something else, but I don't know what. I don't know what, maybe.
Speaker 1:And then I think maybe I should pull back a little bit and just focus on my blog and whatever. Um, I don't know what to do. I know what I really need to do. I really need to pull away from all kinds of social media altogether, or if I, you know, I need to be selective on what I watch and listen to and read. The last few times I've been on Twitter, I've been thinking I need to just pull back and not engage so much and not put things out there so much and just pull back and just get back into my real life instead of living online. So that's probably what I'm going to start doing. I don't know. I don't know what I'm going to do, but we need to go on to the question of the day. That's for sure. That's for one thing I know for sure.
Speaker 1:Okay, the question is do you still dream, and, if so, what was your last dream that you remember? I had a dream last night that I was being attacked again, this time by a bear, but it was so weird. I was sitting on a couch in a house somewhere. I'm sitting on a couch and all of a sudden, this bear comes in on all fours he wasn't standing up, he was on all fours comes over to me and just kind of he doesn't bite me or anything, but he kind of, with his head, just nudges me real hard and kind of pins me to the couch and I have my arms up and I'm trying to, you know, hold him off. And I see a cop in the next room and he's like flirting with some girl and I'm calling for help and he's just ignoring me. So that's the second time I've had a dream that I was attacked.
Speaker 1:The thing is, I wasn't scared again, I was just like it's almost like I was annoyed, like hey, hello, I'm over here with a bear on me, come get him. And you're over there flirting. I was more annoyed than I was scared and, like the other dream I had, where a man was actually attacking me and I was freaking, fighting him off, punched him in the throat and all this stuff, I wasn't mad. I mean, I wasn't scared either, I was just mad. What does that mean? Okay, I need a dream interpreter. Maybe I'll look it up later. All right, that's the question of the day. Do you dream? And if so, what was your last dream that you had? Okay, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Love y'all. Bye.
