Uber's Lost and Found - is that your chainsaw?

0:03 Calaroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories, and I checked. I actually have five stories for you today if you listen to the previous episode. I got to the story number four and realized I didn't have a story number four Nora five, despite me having left myself a note that this has five stories in the script. No, we'd only had three, but today we definitely have five. NASA has offered three million dollars in a composition to recycle human poop in space. Yeah, you know, you think about it. You go to space long enough, that's gonna be an issue. There are currently ninety six bags of human waste that were left behind on the Moon, So if you think about it, this is some fifty year old poop. The aim of the Luna Recycled Challenge is to prevent adding to the stinky space stash, NASA said on its website. NASA is committed to sustainable space. As we prepare for future human space missions that will be need to consider how various waste streams, including solid waste, can be minimized, as well as how waste can be stored, processed, and recycled in a space environment.

1:09 So little or no waste will need to be returned to Earth. The team who comes out on top of the competition to dispose of the space poop will be awarded three million dollars. Another one of those dogs that turned up. This one, a dog went missing in Utah, turned up two weeks later at an animal shelter in Texas, over one thousand miles from its house. Colony Animal Services said Hue. The dog was picked up as a stray and was later learned that the owner had been searching for him for about two weeks. Shelter officials were surprised to learn Hew we had run away and somehow traveled one thousand miles from Utah to Colin County in the space of a couple of weeks. Uie will be traveling home after members of the community donated about two thousand dollars to cover the cost of the canine transportation. Yeah, that seems like a lot. I mean, I'd just hop in my car and drive one thousand miles, but that's me.

1:59 Good news. If you're a dire wolf, you are no longer extinct. Scientists have brought back dire wolves. Dire Wolves aren't just like a made up thing from Game of Thernes. Apparently they existed, but they went extinct about ten thousand years ago. Texas firm Colossal Bioscience has revealed its plans to de extinct several other historic creatures. They shared videos of three dire wolf puppies brought to life through gene editing and tracking down ancient DNA. So here's what they did. They extracted blood cells from the closest living relative of the dire wolf, a living gray wolf. Some DNA was extracted from fossils, then some science stuff, and now we have living dire wolves. Colossal Biosciences explains it a little better, saying our team took DNA from a thirteen thousand year old tooth and a seventy two thousand year old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies. There's also talk of creating wooly mammoths, perhaps Dodo birds, Tasmanian tigers, and I suspect you watch a couple Jurassic movies before you start messing with dinosaurs. A chimpanzee mother met her baby for the first time fourteen hours after the mom gave birth via c section. Mahaly is a thirty year old Champanzee who lives at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita. Mohley immediately pulled her new infant into her arms, cuddling her clothes, proof that the strong positive signs of bonding take place in animals. The pair will remain behind the scenes at the zoo to allow time for Mohale to heel from surgery and for mom and baby to further develop their bond. Alrighty,

3:32 did you lose something in an? Uber has released its annual lost and Found Index. These are items left behind in ride shared cars, including a mannequin head, a live turtle, and a five gallon bucket of beans. The most common left behind items were phones, keys, and wallets. That makes sense New York City being named the most forgetful city. That makes sense to me. Some other things that were lost in ubers and if you lost one of these, contact Uber They found your stuff. A chainsaw, a ghostbuster's ghost trap, some fresh breast milk, probably not fresh anymore by the time you hear this or by the time even I recorded it. The turtle a urinoal shrek ears a bouquet of one hundred red roses. I do you forget one hundred roses, some of zempic ten live lobsters, how does that happen? A viking drinking horn that I totally understand how that happens, a taxi dermied rabbit, and a passenger's divorce papers. There was some food as well, the aforementioned five gallon bucket of beans, one hundred and seventy five Hamburger sliders. Now I'm not sure if that's one incident, like you know, the drunks went to the White Castle at five am and then happened I could see that happening, or if one hundred and seventy five different times somebody left one slider who knows, one hundred and eight eggs, twenty four cans of corn, and a quote bucket of Feta cheese. Carmel Irving is the vice president of operations at Uber and says, whether essential or

5:05 totally unusual, we understand how important it is to be reunited with your lost belongings. And those are your five good news stores for to day. You have an awesome day,