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092 = Broken Hands and Alexander's Bands
🕑 Added 2024-09-02 10:38:04 +0000 UTC🌈 How many colours are really in a rainbow?
🕰 How often is a broken clock is right?
💼 The Any Other Business briefcase is open. Briefly.
🏴 And we have a NEW POST CREDITS easter egg.
To hear more about the brilliant and terrible Emily In Paris premier, listen to this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/point-break-pt-1-season-04-episode-01/id1720149980?i=1000666164553
If you want to see where the Mattparker asteroid / minor planet is in the universe, you can locate it on this NASA database: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=314159&view=VOP
A full circle rainbow was captured by aerial photographer Colin Leonhardt while flying through a rain shower just above Cottesloe Beach in Western Australia: https://s.abcnews.com/images/International/cn_round_rainbow_australia_jc_141010_16x9_992.jpg?w=1600
And if you want to be even more wowed, you can see a reflective rainbow (or six!) in Norway: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0709/sixrainbows_nordvik_big.jpg
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Comments
Stein Strindhaug
As I recall the most recent discussion of rainbows on pod before this podcast was in 087 in a tangent/example about how the exciting thing about eclipses isn't the darkness, just like the exciting thing about rainbows isn't the rain.
Hugo Bouma
In the version of Battleship that my father taught me, you fire off a volley of three shots at a time, and you're told the results in order of ship size. This way there's some interesting logic to it, and three misses is actually a very useful result. Imagine my disappointment at learning that the 'canonical' version just does single shots.
Brian Shelf
Did anyone else first hear the "Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day..." in the film Withnail and I? For a long time I assumed it was a Bruce Robinson bon mot.
David Burström
Thanks for the latest episode, it was a treat! I'm sure I'm not the only one pointing this out, but regarding the European Health Insurance Card that gets mentioned at the end of the episode, in general it will be possible to get reimbursed for any expenses incurred if you don't have the card with you when you seek necessary and unplanned medical services abroad: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/health/unplanned-healthcare/payments-reimbursements/index_en.htm
