We'll start off with a trivia question about fleas. Let me extricate it here from its paper prison. The question, what is the term for the killing of the flea? Multiple choice inverse alphabetical order is it vulpicide, pulicide, muricide, hiricide, cervicide, or apicide? Now the prize, the only prize for a correct answer, one pat on the back that you'll have to administer to yourself. Certainly a heck of a lot better thana slap on the belly with a wet trout. We'll come back to that in a few minutes. But first, a couple of cases regarding fleas. We go to South Bend, Indiana. And the police for a call to an old dilapidated home where there apparently had been a burglary. But when they entered, they could find no signs of a burglary. All they found were thousands of fleas that attacked them. Four officers and the flea problem was so bad that they couldn't even reenter their patrol car, could not go back to their station before they were decontaminated, because the fleas were so intense. Well, if you have fleas we have some good news for you. Because there's a new study from Ohio State University that indicates that vacuum cleaners very efficiently kill off fleas. They found that fleas, adult fleas are killed to extent to about a hundred percent by vacuum cleaners, and junior fleas, about ninety percent of them are killed by the vacuum cleaner. the vacuum cleaner actually dries up the cuticle that protects the flea, which is then killed. So don't invest in those pesticides that could poison you. Get a vacuum cleaner to fight off fleas if they happen to be in your home. Now for that trivia question. Let's look at the six possibilities again for the technical term for the killing of a flea. Is that vulpicide, pulicide, muricide, hiricide, cervicide or apicide? Is that your final answer, vulpicide? No. It's pulicide. And for the record, vulpicide is a killing of a fox, muricide a rat, hiricide a goat. Cervicide a deer, and apicide a bee. Just in case you're ever on that millionaire show or Jeopardy. Astronomers have just announced the discovery of the first planetary system beyond our own that has at least five planets. It's about fifty-five Cancri, a star some forty-one light years from Earth. It's actually in our galactic neighborhood. They just discovered a fifth planet, second in orbit about a star, approximately in the place where Earth would be, about our sun. And this is important because it actually shows that planetary families are common. For the record there are five gas giants about this star. One, the first orbit about the size of Neptune. The second one, it was just discovered just slightly smaller than Jupiter. the third and fourth about the size of Saturn, and the fifth is four times the size of Jupiter. Now those gas giants are obviously not alone. Undoubtedly there are smaller, rocky Earth like bodies in among them that simply cannot be detected yet. And I think by extrapolation we can argue that every single star in the cosmos is encircled by a family of planets. And including both gas giants and rocky bottoms. It is my contention, my assertion that each one of those planets harbors an entire spectrum of life ranging from lower to higher embodiments. None of which are English speaking, humanoid, or intelligent. But certainly alive. And on some of those bodies, there should be intelligent life and ultimately, life that can travel to other planets. Perhaps accounting for some of the UFO sightings in our own sky. Yes, I believe this discovery is proof of my contention, that the universe is literally teeming with life. That life indeed is the common; yes indeed I said the common denominator of the cosmic backdrop. No doubt about it, no doubt about it whatsoever.
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