The Skeptic Zone #852 - 2.February.2025
Feb 02, 2025•56 min•Ep. 852
Episode description
0:00:00 Introduction
Richard Saunders 00:03:44 Looking to the Stars
This week we once again check into those folks on the Internet who claim they are in regular contact with aliens from all over the cosmos. Are we about to receive a visitation? Also an update on Ross Coulthart and his amazing claims about the drone invasion of 2024. 0:17:58 DeepSeek - The Play
Yet another new AI model is available. We test DeepSeek! Can it write a play in under 10 seconds? Joining me in this segment, playing the parts of a psychic and aliens, are Kat McLeod, Adrienne Hill and Lara Benham. 0:25:30 Australian Skeptics Newsletter
What skeptical news has caught the eye of Tim Mendham this week?
Read by Adrienne Hill.
http://www.skeptics.com.au 0:36:36 The TROVE Archives
A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to Mesmerism.
1850.09.25 - Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania
1927.08.07 - The Sunday Times - Sydney
1888.06.30 - The Daily Telegraph - Sydney
http://www.trove.nla.gov.au
Richard Saunders 00:03:44 Looking to the Stars
This week we once again check into those folks on the Internet who claim they are in regular contact with aliens from all over the cosmos. Are we about to receive a visitation? Also an update on Ross Coulthart and his amazing claims about the drone invasion of 2024. 0:17:58 DeepSeek - The Play
Yet another new AI model is available. We test DeepSeek! Can it write a play in under 10 seconds? Joining me in this segment, playing the parts of a psychic and aliens, are Kat McLeod, Adrienne Hill and Lara Benham. 0:25:30 Australian Skeptics Newsletter
What skeptical news has caught the eye of Tim Mendham this week?
Read by Adrienne Hill.
http://www.skeptics.com.au 0:36:36 The TROVE Archives
A wander through the decades of digitised Australian newspapers on a search for references to Mesmerism.
1850.09.25 - Hobarton Guardian, or, True Friend of Tasmania
1927.08.07 - The Sunday Times - Sydney
1888.06.30 - The Daily Telegraph - Sydney
http://www.trove.nla.gov.au