Strange Realm - Ep. 059 - April 14th, 2024

On tonight's show we bring you a high-spirirted and highly-elliptical look into some of the weirdest and strangest science stories of the week, including China's new communications satellite orbiting the Moon, the UK laser weapon named DragonFire possibly soon to debut on the Ukrainian front lines, a 50 year old kind of battery that just might be the answer to scaling up energy storage, and a new study suggests Bonobos, the supposed hippies of the ape world, are more aggressive than previously thought! 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:
- China launches moon satellite
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/china-launch-relay-satellite-queqiao-2-lunar-probe-mission-successful-2024-04-12/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/BetriebsorbitPolrelais.jpg
- UK laser superweapon may be used in Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68795603
- 50-year old battery tech now highly sought after
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/researchers-make-new-breakthrough-with-50-year-old-battery-technology-i-didn-t-know-they-were-still-around/
- Bonobos are more violent and aggerssive than we thought
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bonobos-aggressive-previously-thought.html
- 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: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
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