The Multiverse Employee Handbook is a science comedy podcast where workplace humor meets cosmic exploration. From quantum mechanics explained through staff meetings to space history through annual reviews, we decode scientific mysteries through corporate metaphors. Each episode combines rigorous science with absurdist office scenarios, whether exploring the strange physics of black holes or the equally baffling logic of expense reports. Perfect for curious minds who suspect their workplace might exist across multiple dimensions, we deliver astronomical insights wrapped in corporate satire. Whether you’re fascinated by the mysteries of dark matter or the inexplicable disappearance of break room snacks, our show provides genuine scientific knowledge with existential humor. Subscribe now to navigate both the cosmos and cubicle culture with equal parts wonder and skepticism! New episodes arrive every Tuesday, regardless of temporal anomalies.
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The Multiverse Employee Handbook is a science comedy podcast where workplace humor meets cosmic exploration. From quantum mechanics explained through staff meetings to space history through annual reviews, we decode scientific mysteries through corporate metaphors. Each episode combines rigorous science with absurdist office scenarios, whether exploring the strange physics of black holes or the equally baffling logic of expense reports. Perfect for curious minds who suspect their workplace might exist across multiple dimensions, we deliver astronomical insights wrapped in corporate satire. Whether you’re fascinated by the mysteries of dark matter or the inexplicable disappearance of break room snacks, our show provides genuine scientific knowledge with existential humor. Subscribe now to navigate both the cosmos and cubicle culture with equal parts wonder and skepticism! New episodes arrive every Tuesday, regardless of temporal anomalies.
Project West Ford: The Day the U.S. Tried to Fill Space with Needles
The Multiverse Employee Handbook
31 minutes 53 seconds
3 weeks ago
Project West Ford: The Day the U.S. Tried to Fill Space with Needles
Discover the most audacious Cold War experiment ever launched: America's plan to solve communication vulnerabilities by gift-wrapping Earth in 480 million copper needles. Explore how Project West Ford's spectacular failure accidentally created modern space law, international cooperation protocols, and the template for every space debris controversy since 1963.
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Welcome to the cosmic catastrophe that makes your worst IT project look like a masterpiece of restraint and fiscal responsibility. In this episode, we explore how America's response to nuclear communication blackouts involved the most expensive space jewelry in history—480 million precisely-cut copper needles deployed using mothball technology to create Earth's first artificial ionosphere.
Our copper-plated communications coordinator guides us through humanity's greatest orbital accessorizing adventure, from the terrifying 1958 nuclear tests that severed communications across the Pacific to MIT Lincoln Laboratory's audacious solution: replace nature's vulnerable ionosphere with a better one made of cosmic haberdashery. Along the way, we witness Cabinetta Filesworth's existential storage crisis when Quantum Improbability Solutions' Square-Haired Boss demands an innovative solution to their filing cabinet overflow, leading to the discovery of quantum document compression through the brilliant insights of summer intern Samvit Gupta.
Join us for this journey through Cold War engineering's greatest overreach, from nuclear communication nightmares to mothball deployment systems that briefly made Earth the solar system's most fashionably accessorized planet. Because in the multiverse of military communications, we're all just trying to call home across the vast darkness of space, though some of us are apparently willing to redecorate the entire cosmos with precisely-cut copper wire to make that happen.
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AI Transparency: In a universe of AI-generated content, we believe in being transparent about what's human and what's not. Your time is valuable, and you deserve to know what you're experiencing. The narrator, David, is a professional voice actor who has digitized his voice through ElevenLabs' voice cloning technology and is fairly compensated for his vocal performance. Thumbnails are created with OpenAI, and music/sound effects come from Pixabay (which are generated by human artists - not AI). Everything else-the writing, jokes, research, sound editing, and interdimensional coffee consumption, is 100% human-made by a human.
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The Multiverse Employee Handbook
The Multiverse Employee Handbook is a science comedy podcast where workplace humor meets cosmic exploration. From quantum mechanics explained through staff meetings to space history through annual reviews, we decode scientific mysteries through corporate metaphors. Each episode combines rigorous science with absurdist office scenarios, whether exploring the strange physics of black holes or the equally baffling logic of expense reports. Perfect for curious minds who suspect their workplace might exist across multiple dimensions, we deliver astronomical insights wrapped in corporate satire. Whether you’re fascinated by the mysteries of dark matter or the inexplicable disappearance of break room snacks, our show provides genuine scientific knowledge with existential humor. Subscribe now to navigate both the cosmos and cubicle culture with equal parts wonder and skepticism! New episodes arrive every Tuesday, regardless of temporal anomalies.
