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Lunar Leap: Artemis 2’s Historic Mission and the Future of Moon Exploration · Space News Today

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This is Spacetime series 28 episode 154
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for broadcast on the 31st of December
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2025.
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Coming up on Spaceime, the Aremis 2 man
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moon mission now slated for launch in
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February instead of April. Rewriting a
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chapter of the moon's early history and
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consequently that of the Earth as well.
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And failure for Japan's new flagship H3
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rocket. All that and more coming up on
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Spaceime.
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Welcome to Space Time with Stuart Garry.
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NASA has accelerated the launch of the
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historic Artemis 2 man moon mission from
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midappril to early February. The agency
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has tentatively slated the week of
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February the 6th with a 2-hour launch
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window. This will be an historic mission
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because it will be the first time humans
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have traveled to the moon in more than
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half a century ever since the days of
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Apollo 17 back in 1972.
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The 10-day mission aboard the Orion
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spacecraft Integrity will launch aboard
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NASA's 98 m tall three-stage SLS
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Superheavy lift rocket from Space Launch
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Complex 39B at the Kennedy Space Center
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at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in
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Florida. The crew will complete one
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swing around the moon on what's known as
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a free return trajectory. The mission
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profile calls for a multi-trans lunar
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injection with multiple departure burns.
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Orion will initially be sent on a highly
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eccentric Earth orbit with a period of
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roughly 24 hours. By comparison, the
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International Space Station orbits much
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closer to the planet, taking just on 90
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minutes to complete each orbit. During
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Orion's highly eccentric orbit, the
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spacecraft's crew will perform various
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checkouts of the vehicle, its life
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support systems, its ancillary
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components, and it will undertake an
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inspace rendevous and proximity
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operation demonstration using the spent
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intram cryogenic propulsion or upper
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stage as a target. The mission will also
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carry five cube sats which will be
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attached to the inside of the stage
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adapted between the SLS upper stage and
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the Orion spacecraft. These will be
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deployed during Earth orbit. And once
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Orion reaches perigee after completing
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its orbit, it'll fire its main engines
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for its trans lunar injection burn.
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That'll send the spacecraft on a lunar
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free return or gravity assist
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trajectory, swinging around the moon
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with a closest approach to the lunar
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surface of approximately 7,400 kilm.
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Another burn maneuver will then send the
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spacecraft returning to Earth and
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ultimately splashing down in the Pacific
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Ocean. this report on Artemis 2 from
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NASA TV.
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>> So, the most exciting thing to me about
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Artemis 2 is just the return to the
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moon. We haven't been there in 50 years.
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Human eyes are going to see parts of the
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moon that haven't been seen by anyone
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before. It also recommits us to
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exploring the solar system in a way that
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we haven't in a long time. And I think
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it provides an opportunity for younger
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generations to understand the excitement
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of doing that kind of exploration.
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The moon is this great sort of
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Cherroscurro subject because the most
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recognizable thing about it is the
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changing sun angles and how that brings
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out the shape of craters near the
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terminator which is the dayight line
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because there aren't, you know, oceans
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and clouds and and all the things that
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you see on Earth. Um, the moon is really
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all about its shape and the shape is
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telling you something about its long
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history and the history of the entire
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solar system. All the things that have
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happened to the earth have been erased
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by geological processes and weather and
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climate. And that doesn't happen on the
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moon. The moon has recorded everything
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that's happened since its formation
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almost 4 and a half billion years ago.
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That tells us a lot about where we came
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from, where the solar system came from.
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It also reveals something about the
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composition of the Earth that we can't
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see because it's buried beneath the
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crust. Some of that is on the surface of
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the moon because it's been excavated by
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all the impacts. Artemis is our return
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to the moon after 50 years. The emphasis
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of Artemis is going to be first of all
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science, but second of all learning to
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sustain a presence on another world.
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first on the moon, but we're hoping that
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that's a stepping stone to Mars and
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other destinations in the solar system
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eventually.
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Artemis 2 will be a flyby mission. It's
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not going to land. We're testing all of
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the technology that we've created for
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flying to the moon since Apollo. A lot
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of systems have been modernized, and we
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need to make sure that all of those
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work. The astronauts will be looking out
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the window at parts of the moon that
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have never been seen by human eyes
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before. They will be flying by the moon
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at an altitude that's much higher than
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Apollo's orbits. And so they will see
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the entire disc of the moon, including
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areas that are closer to both the north
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and south pole that astronauts from
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Apollo never saw. All of that depends on
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the lighting, which we really won't know
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until launch day. But we can practice
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with different lighting scenarios. It's
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hard for people to sort of picture that
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in their mind. If you can make a
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visualization of it, show them a movie
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that helps everybody choose the targets
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and also practice aiming at those
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targets. The astronauts have actually
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been looking at these visualizations
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through the lens of the camera and
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practicing aiming at the various
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targets. All of the Apollo flights
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orbited the moon at a distance of about
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110 km. Because the astronauts were
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flying at such a low altitude, their
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horizon was actually quite close and
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they couldn't see the north and south
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poles and it includes this amazing
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impact feature called Oriental. Oriental
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is a very large impact feature. It's
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about 650 km wide. It's got multiple
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rings. These are rings that form like
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ripples in a pond from the impact. But
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of course, it's on a huge scale. The
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middle of Oriental has that sort of dark
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basaltt lava covering it like the dark
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spots that we see on the near side. It's
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one of the biggest ones that's more on
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the far side than near. So seeing it
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with human eyes and sort of picking out
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features that maybe you don't even see
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in robotic cameras is an important goal
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for the mission. One of the photographic
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targets that is on everybody's list is
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pictures of the Earth beyond the limb of
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the moon. During Apollo 8 on their
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fourth orbit, they finally turned their
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spacecraft around so that they could see
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in the direction of the Earth.
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>> Oh my god, look at that picture over
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there. There's the Earth coming up. Wow,
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that's pretty. Hey, don't take that off
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schedule.
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You got a color film, Jim.
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>> I think it surprised all of them how
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beautiful and how human it was to see
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the entire planet Earth from behind the
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horizon of another celestial body. That
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photograph called Earthrise had a huge
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impact on the public because from space
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you don't see country boundaries. You
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don't see some of the human problems
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that we deal with on the surface. And
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you also recognize that the Earth is a
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finite place. It's not infinite. It's
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not everything. It is a pale blue dot in
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the vastness of space. Artemis is going
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to have that opportunity once again. I
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anticipate that the astronauts will have
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the same feeling that the Apollo 8
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astronauts did and I think it will have
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a similar effect on a new generation of
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people who are watching this mission
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unfold.
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And in that report on Artemis 2 from
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NASA TV, we heard from Ernie Wright from
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NASA's Godard Space Flight Center in
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Green Belt, Maryland. And this is
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spacetime. Still to come, a new study of
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lunar rock samples paints a different
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picture of the tortured history of
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Earth's nearest celestial companion. And
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it's a big fail for Japan's new flagship
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H3 rocket. All that and more still to
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come on Spaceime.
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A new study of lunar rock samples is
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painting a very different picture of the
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tortured history of Earth's nearest
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celestial companion. The findings
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reported in the journal Geophysical
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Research Letters pushes back the
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timeline of lunar and consequently Earth
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impacts by some 300 million years. When
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the Apollo 17 astronauts collected a
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small rock from the moon more than 50
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years ago, they had no way of knowing
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that it would still be challenging
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science's understanding of lunar history
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today. The fragment simply known as
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sample 76535 formed nearly 50 kilometers
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under the lunar surface, but it shows no
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signs of the violent shocks usually
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expected when deep rocks are blasted up
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to the surface. And that puzzle has been
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intriguing scientists for decades. Many
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believe the rock was blasted to the
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surface by the same massive impact that
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formed the moon's largest crater, the
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giant south pole achen basin. But new
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research is now offering a simpler
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explanation, but one with very broad
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implications.
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By running advanced computer simulations
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of giant lunar impacts, the authors has
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shown that the asteroid impact, which
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from the Sereni Tart basin, a massive
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impact crater on the moon's near side,
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could have lifted our rock sample to the
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surface during the latest stages of its
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formation. The findings suggested the
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impact occurred about 4.25 billion years
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ago. That's roughly 3 million years
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earlier than previously thought. In the
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process, pushing the timeline of lunar
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impacts further back in history. Of
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course, that shift reported in the
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journal Geophysical Research Letters
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also reshapes how scientists estimate
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the bombardment history of Earth and
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other inner solar system planets. The
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studies lead author Evan Johns from the
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Lawrence Liverour National Laboratory
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says this rock may be small, but it
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carries a huge story about the moon's
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early history. He says it's sort of like
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a time capsule dating back 4.25 billion
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years. Now, scientists have long agreed
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on two key aspects about the Apollo
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sample. Its chemistry and its texture
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show that it formed deep inside the
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lunar crust, and it lacks the strong
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shock features that typically accompany
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a violent trip to the surface. Earlier
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studies proposed that only an enormous
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impact like the one which created the
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South Pole akin basin could have
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excavated rock from such depths. But
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there's a catch. Carrying the rock from
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that farside basin to the Apollo 17
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landing site would likely require an
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additional impact, all while avoiding
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shocks strong enough to leave telltale
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scars. Jones and colleagues found a more
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direct path. Using their computer
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simulations of large lunar impacts
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together with models of the moon's
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crust, they showed that during the later
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collapse stage of forming a giant
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crater, material from tens of kilometers
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down can be drawn upwards gently enough
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to preserve rock samples like 76535.
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In those simulations, a certain talis
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type impact can move deep material to
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within just a few kilometers of the
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surface. precisely the kind of process
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that could place the sample where Apollo
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17 could find it. The author's models
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kept showing the same thing. Big impacts
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can lift rocks to the surface without
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overshocking them. And if sample 76535
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dates the Serenitus impact at 4.25
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billion years ago, other major lunar
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basins may also be far older than
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currently dated. And that moves
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scientists to rethink how quickly the
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moon cooled and how frequently large
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impacts struck the inner solar system.
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Because Earth's earliest surface record
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has been largely erased by erosion,
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plate tectonics, and geology, scientists
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often calibrate Earth's impact history
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using the moon. And redating a
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cornerstone of lunar impact would
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recalibrate our picture of the early
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Earth as well and also how other inner
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solar system planets may have evolved.
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By pushing serenotus back in time,
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astronomers are shifting the entire
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timeline of when big impacts happened
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right across the solar system. So it has
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ripple effects for understanding not
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just Earth's early environment, but that
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of our entire place in the universe.
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This is spacetime. Still to come,
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failure for Japan's new flagship H3
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rocket. And later in the science report,
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how two of the world's most popular
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beverages, coffee and tea, influence
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burn health in older women. All that and
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more still to come on Spaceime.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,
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JAXA, has suffered a major setback with
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its new flagship H3 rocket failing to
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place its satellite payload into orbit.
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The launch had already been delayed due
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to technical issues with the rocket and
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an abort just 17 seconds before liftoff
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due to an anomaly with the water sound
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suppression system on the launch pad.
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The H3 was carrying the Mikabiki 5
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satellite navigation system spacecraft
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from the Tanagashima Space Center
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southwest of Tokyo. However, as the
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rocket launched into the sky, its second
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stage engine burn suddenly cut off
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unexpectedly far earlier than planned,
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and that resulted in the failure of the
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satellites deployment. This is the
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second failure for the new H3 launch
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vehicle. It also failed on its maiden
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flight back in March 2023 when the
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second stage engine failed to ignite.
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But in between, there have been six
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successful launch missions. The H3
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rocket is designed to replace the
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earlier H2A workhorse of Japan's growing
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space industry, which has had a near
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perfect success record. The new H3 is
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meant to be more modular and more cost
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effective in the global space market.
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This is spacetime.
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And time now to take another brief look
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at some of the other stories making news
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in science this week with a science
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report. Researchers say both small and
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big increases in social media use
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between the ages of 9 and 13 are linked
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with a lower overall performance in
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tests of cognitive abilities. Findings
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reported in the Journal of the American
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Medical Association tracked increases in
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social media use of some 6,554
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kids over four years, categorizing them
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into three groups. No or very low social
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use, low increasing social use, and high
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increasing social use. The kids
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completed a range of cognitive tests,
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including tests in reading, memory, and
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vocabulary. The authors found that both
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small and big increases in social media
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use were linked to lower scores in all
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these tests. They speculate that it
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could simply be because kids are
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spending more time on social media, they
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end up spending less time on their
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schoolwork.
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A new study is offering fresh insights
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into how two of the world's most popular
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beverages, coffee and tea, influence
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bone health in older women. The research
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reported in the journal Nutrients,
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followed nearly 10,000 women aed 65 and
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older over a decade to explore whether
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their daily habits of sipping coffee or
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tea were in any way linked to changes in
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bone mineral density, a key indicator of
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osteoporosis risk. They found that tea
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drinkers had a slightly higher hipbone
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mineral density, suggesting modest
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benefits for bone health.
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A new study has shown that artificial
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intelligence systems huge massive
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amounts of energy to operate, in fact,
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more energy than it takes to light up
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New York City. A report of the journal
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Patterns claims AI chatbots like Chat
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GTP are environmentally quite
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destructive with a carbon footprint
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between 32.6 six and 79.7 million tons
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of carbon dioxide over a single 12-month
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period. And it's not just pollution and
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greenhouse gases. The findings also show
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AIS consume between 312.5
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and 764.6
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billion L of water every year just for
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cooling.
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Androids and robots will be dominating
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news at the world's biggest consumer and
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electronic show, CES, which will be held
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in Las Vegas next week. With the
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details, we're joined by technology
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editor Alex Harro from Tech Advice
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Startlife.
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>> The past couple of years, of course, has
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been AI, AI, AI. And the thing that has
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always stopped home robots from being
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real, besides the fact that it's
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difficult to make a humanoid robot that
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can, you know, easily glide around, walk
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around, deal with stairs, and have the
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dexterity needed to, you know, handle
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plates or help your seniors or handle
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babies is the fact that you need a robot
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with an AI brain to be able to talk to
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you like a human could, reason, ask
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questions, decide to do things
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autonomously. And so we finally live in
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an era where we have at least LLM AI
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systems that can pretend to think. I
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mean I don't really think they can think
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the way that humans think as yet, but
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you know they show
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>> large language models, right?
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>> Large language model which is a way of
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predicting what the next word will be in
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the answer that it gives you to a
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question you've posed by comparing the
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the words that appear in other answers
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across the entire corpus of the internet
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that it's been able to ingest. And so
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that's not really thinking that's just
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predicting what the next word would be.
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And of course we've seen AI systems get
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things completely wrong very confidently
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giving us incorrect answer and
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hallucinating. And you know if robots
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trying to think whether to put an
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ingredient or use a particular mushroom
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that it may have foraged in your back
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garden that may or may not be uh you
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know poisonous. I mean you'd have to
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really be sure to trust the um AI brain
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that it's doing the right thing recipes
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again. Haven't you?
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Well, the long and the short is that we
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now live in an era where you can have
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robots that have this manual dexterity
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and can look like robots and can handle
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things. I've seen a humanoid style robot
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driving a car, for example. Anything
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that can be handled by a human, if the
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robot looks and acts like a human, then
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it can be handled by that robot. And we
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did see earlier this year the 1x.te
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robot called Neo. And it was a humanoid
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robot of the sort you would expect from
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all the sci-fi dreams. I mean, it looked
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like a human. It could load the washing
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machine full of dishes or clothes. It
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could put clothes into the dryer. Could
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water your plants outside. It could help
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you bring things in from the car. I
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mean, it was a robot of the sort you
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would expect from Sci-Fi. And that robot
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goes on sale for $20,000 or you can
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lease it for $499 a month. Now, CES is
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meant to be all about robots. And I have
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read a number of companies already
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emailing me news saying, "We're going to
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have humanoid robots on display." But
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where is someone like a Samsung or an
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LG? Now, back in I think 2021, we did
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see Samsung had a what looked like a
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tower fan with this arm coming out of
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the top. It was kind of a comical robot
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that looked nothing like the robot you
19:31
would expect, but at least it could move
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around and it had the arm that could do
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things like pack the dishwasher, but it
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was definitely not humanoid. Then we
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have Samsung with its balling, which is
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a bit like the BB-8 from Star Wars,
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except it only had the ball. didn't have
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the top section which was the the head
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with the with the camera as the eye and
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you know that can run roll around and it
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can project things on walls and it can
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help you do things but I mean it's very
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much a nonhumanoid robot. So LG has come
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out just on Christmas day with a press
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release saying that their robot will be
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called LG Cloy C L O I D with I in lower
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case and the rest of the characters in
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uppercase. And so far they've just shown
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a hand. They haven't shown the full
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robot in any of the images they've
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shared. And the hand looks one of like
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one of the hands you'd see on those
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robots from Boston Dynamics or from Elon
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Musk, the the Optimus robots. It's
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obviously a robotic hand. And they're
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saying that this robot is designed to
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perform indoor household tasks. And
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they're calling their vision the zero
20:26
labor home makes quality time. Now this
20:29
is a future where technology helps
20:31
reduce the burden of daily chores of
20:33
housework. And look, we have seen AI
20:36
powered or intelligent washing machines.
20:38
I remember the Fisher and Parkle washing
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machine had some sort of fuzzy logic in
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it systems to know whether it should
20:43
apply more force or less when it's
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washing certain types of clothes. And
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that was around long before AI. I
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remember the Japanese talking about
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fuzzy logic a couple of decades ago,
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which again is an AI kind of move. But
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now we have devices that you can talk
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to. You can talk to your fridge. If you
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have a Samsung fridge, you can say,
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"Hey, Bixby." And ask it to look at the
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ingredients you have in the fridge and
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suggest recipes. And this natural
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language user interface with our
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appliances is going to become more
21:08
common. But the other end of that scale
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is to have humanoid robots that can just
21:12
use the appliances that we use. And
21:14
instead of, you know, having to talk to
21:16
the appliance, you talk to the robot and
21:17
get it to do things. So, you know, this
21:19
robot is built to perform a variety of
21:21
tasks within the home. And look, we will
21:23
talk more about this when I've had a
21:24
chance to see it. And we get to see the
21:26
uh exact image of what it looks like. It
21:28
talks about two articulated arms powered
21:30
by motors and with seven degrees of
21:32
freedom providing motion similar to
21:34
natural mo movements which by natural it
21:36
obviously means human movements and
21:37
there are five individually actuated
21:39
fingers on each hand to provide
21:41
dexterity so that can perform delicate
21:43
and precise tasks that require fine
21:45
motor control. So you can imagine that
21:47
by 2030 these sorts of robots will be on
21:50
sale in the Best Buy and the Harvey
21:51
Normans and JB Highfi and Boots in the
21:54
UK and you know the traditional
21:56
electronics big box department type
21:58
store. They'll be selling these robot
22:00
butlers for your home. I mean they'll
22:02
come with different names. Android Cloyd
22:04
I mean the problem with the word droids
22:06
is that that is actually a term that's
22:08
licensed to Lucasfilm because of the
22:10
droids that are in Star Wars. So, we're
22:13
yet to see what's going to happen there,
22:14
but I'm sure people will have real life
22:16
R2-D2 style robots, except much less
22:19
clumsier and much less dense than uh
22:21
C3PO appear to be at times, much less
22:23
annoying. But this should be common
22:26
place.
22:26
>> Well, that's right. You want C3PO
22:28
because he is a humanoid robot. But if
22:30
you had an R2-D2 that could move around,
22:33
sort of glide around that, but then
22:35
could grow arms as needed to be able to
22:37
help you with things and even lift
22:39
itself up, couldn't have a robot that
22:41
>> they couldn't walk downstairs.
22:42
>> Well, that is one of the problems. And
22:44
in fact, I have heard on the quiet from
22:46
one of the vacuum cleaner makers, they
22:48
have a robot that can go up and
22:50
downstairs properly. So, I'm being told
22:52
and yes, the Daleks and also R2-D2, they
22:55
couldn't go upstairs. And there was an
22:57
episode of Doctor Who where the Dalek
22:59
did have jets and could fly up the
23:01
stairs. And in the original u prequel
23:04
trilogy, not the original trilogy, but
23:06
in the prequel trilogy, I think in the
23:07
middle movie, there was a moment where
23:09
Archer Dichu did indeed fly to
23:11
>> here. Little jets. Yeah,
23:12
>> little jets. But those sorts of jets
23:13
won't be appearing in robots anytime
23:15
soon for the home because you can
23:16
imagine those jets are going to blow air
23:18
everywhere or if they are jets that have
23:20
uh you know the won't be happy. I mean,
23:23
not with dust. Well, Roomba's actually
23:25
gone out of I think Roomba's gone out of
23:27
business. Um, I mean, they've been
23:28
bought by by somebody else, but they're
23:30
one of the original robot vacuum cleaner
23:31
companies that no longer exist. So,
23:33
we've seen cons consolidation all over
23:34
the place, but having a robot, which is
23:36
something Apple has spoken of as well,
23:38
but this next 5 years is going to see
23:41
robots and AI, which is basically a
23:43
computer on either legs or wheels,
23:45
become autonomous and mobile and a true
23:47
robot sidekick. It's going to be
23:49
something we'll see over the next 5
23:50
years that's going to change the world.
23:52
That's Alex Aarovit from techadvice.life
23:55
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