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SpaceX Launched Flight 13 and Is Floating in the Indian Ocean · Made of Stars

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Speaker 4: I'm Wes Carol, joined by my good friend doctor Sean Cruisin,
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Speaker 4: executive director at Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
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Speaker 5: Hey, Sean, they wess good to be here this morning.
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Speaker 4: We have finally the ability to say, hey, SpaceX launched.
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Speaker 5: They finally got number thirteen up.
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Speaker 4: Apparently Bill Murray, Phil Conners whatever, finally got it right
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Speaker 4: and they were able to get us out of the
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Speaker 4: loop of Groundhog Day. So yes, they were able to
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Speaker 4: launch flight thirteen. And the only unlucky part was that
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Speaker 4: they had to, you know, push it back a few weeks.
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Speaker 5: That's all they did. They did. Yeah, so only ten
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Speaker 5: of their thirteen rockets were functioning as the main booster
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Speaker 5: came back into so the main booster hit a little hard.
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Speaker 5: But other than that, this is arguably one of the
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Speaker 5: most successful flights of the Starship vehicle to date, primarily
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Speaker 5: because of the behavior of the ship. Remember one half
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Speaker 5: of it's called booster, one half's called ship. Yeah, the
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Speaker 5: space the actual space vehicle is called ship, and Ship
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Speaker 5: was able to fly all the way out to the
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Speaker 5: Indian Ocean and make a very soft landing, the softest
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Speaker 5: landing yet after deploying a twenty of SpaceX's third generation
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Speaker 5: Starlink Internet satellites, and that's the they call it the
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Speaker 5: Pez dispenser. It's just kind of spitting them out through
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Speaker 5: a little slot near the top of the of the
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Speaker 5: vehicle when it gets to the proper orbit. So those
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Speaker 5: secondary spacecraft all deployed successfully. They had cameras on board,
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Speaker 5: so they were able to on their way out after
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Speaker 5: being dispensed like a Pez candy, they were able to
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Speaker 5: photograph the underside of the ship, as it's called, And
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Speaker 5: why that's important is because it gives the SpaceX engineers
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Speaker 5: a look at how the heat shields and the heat
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Speaker 5: tiles were holding up on the Starship vehicle while it
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Speaker 5: was in space, which is all all important. We need
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Speaker 5: to we need to know that it's a reliable vehicle
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Speaker 5: and it can manage the re entry through the atmosphere
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Speaker 5: of the Earth, and so all of those things, all
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Speaker 5: of that worked.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: Here's something fun. Starship is still floating. It's still out
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Speaker 5: in the water off the coast of Western Australia floating,
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Speaker 5: and so it made such a soft landing that it
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Speaker 5: didn't sink. And SpaceX recently shared in a photo on
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Speaker 5: x as it turns out that that the vehicle is
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Speaker 5: still afloat in the Indian Ocean. This is you know,
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Speaker 5: remember it's a big thing, right, It's a one hundred
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Speaker 5: and seventy one foot long space vehicle floating in the ocean.
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Speaker 5: It will eventually sink, but it's out there now, still floating,
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Speaker 5: which means it made a nice soft landing. One more
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Speaker 5: piece of evidence that the re entry in the landing
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Speaker 5: was very gentle. All of these things ode well for
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Speaker 5: using this vehicle as a possibility for the transport to
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Speaker 5: the service of the Moon and then the re entry
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Speaker 5: vehicle for the Artemis program.
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Speaker 4: Now the pez dispenser name SAR. I want to go
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Speaker 4: back to that or the comparison is that, is that
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Speaker 4: a SpaceX thing or is that just what people are
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Speaker 4: saying in general?
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Speaker 5: I've seen it in the vernacular of various space writers.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if it actually came from SpaceX, but
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Speaker 5: certainly the folks on space dot com and spaceflight now
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Speaker 5: dot com have both used that terminology.
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Speaker 4: I know they have their critics at times at SpaceX
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Speaker 4: and elon and all that, but you can, unquestionably if
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Speaker 4: especially if this falls into the category their nicknames for
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Speaker 4: their stuff is in naming for things is the best?
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Speaker 4: Like that's they rule in that area.
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Speaker 5: They are number one, number one, undoubtedly.
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Speaker 4: So so this thing floating there, you say it's eventually
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Speaker 4: gonna sink. Is it just waiting to fill up with
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Speaker 4: water before it sinks or do they have to do
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Speaker 4: something to it to make it sink?
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Speaker 2: Do you know?
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Speaker 4: Or is it just a matter of time before it
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Speaker 4: fills up and becomes a submarine?
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Speaker 5: So what I mean my belief is that it's just
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Speaker 5: going to sink eventually on its own. But it's pretty big.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's one hundred and seventy foot vehicle out there.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I would guess that if it didn't sink,
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Speaker 5: it would become a hazard to navigation, so they'd have
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Speaker 5: to make sure that it sinks. Right now, it looks
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Speaker 5: a bit like, according to space dot com, looks a
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Speaker 5: bit like an orca sticking up out of the water
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Speaker 5: as it weighs horizontally out there in the Indian Ocean. Certainly,
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Speaker 5: the photograph I saw does kind of invoke that. If
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Speaker 5: you want to see that for yourself, check out space
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Speaker 5: dot com. But yes, it's a vehicle that eventually SpaceX
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Speaker 5: would probably have to do something with if it doesn't
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Speaker 5: sink on its own.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I've got family in Perth, my God's sons
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Speaker 4: in Perth. If we need to, you know, have him
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Speaker 4: swim out, uh, you know, for photos or things. I'm
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Speaker 4: just wondering how long he's got that's all.
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Speaker 5: I mean, if he if he wants to do that,
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Speaker 5: I mean we're you know, we could be up for
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Speaker 5: yet another you know, broadcast award. That's right, could be
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Speaker 5: you can share that with the world.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean he's he's a bit of an athlete.
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Speaker 4: I think he could make it out there. I just
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Speaker 4: you know, he's just got to get back with the camera.
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Speaker 4: That's the important part.
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Speaker 5: Right, western all Australian man makes free swim to SpaceX starship.
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Speaker 4: That's right. I mean, and he's just, uh, you know,
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Speaker 4: finished school, so he's looking for stuff to do.
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Speaker 5: Those things you can do on your on your break,
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Speaker 5: you know, that's right.
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Speaker 4: It's good. More made of stars. Right after this, let's
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Speaker 4: talk about little Red Dots. Now. When I saw this
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Speaker 4: story to begin with, I thought, oh cool, it's like
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Speaker 4: a sequel to that episode of Seinfeld with the sweater
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Speaker 4: with the red dot. But apparently this has nothing to
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Speaker 4: do with the discount sweater.
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Speaker 5: Oh you don't know that, my friend. You don't know
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Speaker 5: if the James Webb Space Telescope scientists who name these
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Speaker 5: things the little Red Dots were not inspired by Seinfeld.
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Speaker 4: It's possible.
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Speaker 5: Cannot make that disconnection, you know.
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Speaker 4: And I'll say this, everybody thinks of the Festivus episode
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Speaker 4: when they think of Seinfeld and Christmas. This sweater episode
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Speaker 4: of Seinfeld also a Christmas episode and underrated. I think
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Speaker 4: it gets overlooked because of the Festivus episode.
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Speaker 5: That makes me want to go back and watch it,
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Speaker 5: I have to admit, just so I can try to
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Speaker 5: see if there are any correlations with the data coming
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Speaker 5: in from the James Webspace Telescope.
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Speaker 4: It's entirely possible. I just know, oh that, you know,
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Speaker 4: no one saw it right away, but everybody saw the
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Speaker 4: red dot eventually. So maybe that's the connection.
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Speaker 5: As they are at Johns Hopkins, you know, or UT Austin,
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Speaker 5: or these scientists are based all right, So what are
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Speaker 5: the mysterious little red dots in the James Webb Space
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Speaker 5: telescope images of the far reaches of our universe? That
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Speaker 5: has been a question that has been lingering for a while.
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Speaker 5: There have been many things suggested. They could be active
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Speaker 5: galactic nuclei or in other words, discs of material orbiting
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Speaker 5: some super massive black hole that formed at the very
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Speaker 5: dawn of the universe. They could be super massive primordial stars,
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Speaker 5: something unlike any of the stars that we see today.
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Speaker 5: They could be the early primordial galaxies that they are
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Speaker 5: just smaller than the ones we see now. Or they
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Speaker 5: could be something else. They could be something else. And now,
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Speaker 5: according to Universe today dot Com, a group of scientists
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Speaker 5: from UT Austin, among other places, it's coming out and saying, yeah,
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Speaker 5: we think there's something else. We think those little red
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Speaker 5: dots are perhaps generated by the super massive stars that
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Speaker 5: are forming in the middle of distant globular clusters. Oh,
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Speaker 5: there's the new key entry into the race, the globular cluster.
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Speaker 4: I know people people tend to buy the globular clusters
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Speaker 4: at their their favorite store for pastries. But if you
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Speaker 4: make them at home, man, you can save some money
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Speaker 4: and they're just as good. I think.
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Speaker 5: Weren't those coming off the Willy Wonka line?
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Speaker 4: I think, so? Yeah, yeah, And you know it's tempting
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Speaker 4: to just go to your favorite chocolate shop your chocolate
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Speaker 4: tear and get it. But you can make them at.
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Speaker 5: Home everlasting globular clusters something like that. So I can't
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Speaker 5: remember anyway, So and and really completely irrel into the story.
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Speaker 6: So but we'll get back on track. So glob what
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Speaker 6: is a globular cluster? Friends, Well, we have them. We
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Speaker 6: have a case of the globular clusters right here in
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Speaker 6: the Milky Way. It turns out that there are these
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Speaker 6: massive spherical groupings of stars that kind of orbit around
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Speaker 6: the shell, the outer shell of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Speaker 6: And when we test these globerary clusters the stars within
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Speaker 6: them to try to determine the age of these globular clusters.
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Speaker 6: They appear extraordinarily old, as if they formed at the
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Speaker 6: dawn of the formation of the Milky Way Galaxy itself. Well,
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Speaker 6: we have studied globutary clusters around other galaxies now and
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Speaker 6: we find that it's the same phenomenon. So what these
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Speaker 6: astronomers are suggesting is perhaps when we see the lrds
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Speaker 6: the little red dots, and yes they really are acronymed,
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Speaker 6: they're acronym to lrds. When we see the lrds in
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Speaker 6: the JWST data. If you know all this, then you're
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Speaker 6: really hip, even into the show a while. Then they
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Speaker 6: could be globular clusters information around the parent disks of
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Speaker 6: distant galaxies that are just too faint for us to
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Speaker 6: even see. That is a really interesting idea. The discovery
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Speaker 6: of the lrds was first reported in twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 6: They all appear to be at a distance of somewhere
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Speaker 6: between thirteen point two and twelve point two billion light
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Speaker 6: years away, which means they're thirteen point two to twelve
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Speaker 6: point two billion years old. And yes, we talk about
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Speaker 6: things in reverse ages when we talk about astronomy, because
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Speaker 6: it correlates with distance. Here's here's what some of the
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Speaker 6: authors wrote in their paper, discovering these lrds but then
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Speaker 6: trying to explain them as super massive stars in the
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Speaker 6: centers of globular clusters. Here we quote quote here we
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Speaker 6: explore the possibility that these sources or globular clusters information
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Speaker 6: when they die, these super massive stars would blow out
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Speaker 6: the material, They would blow it back out into the
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Speaker 6: universe and the seeding of the next generation of stars
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Speaker 6: with chemical fingerprints. We still see inglobular clusters today unquote.
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Speaker 5: So that is an interesting set of discoveries. It's a
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Speaker 5: it's an interesting suggestion. And you know, this cage match
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Speaker 5: of astronomers trying to explain lrds is not over. This
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Speaker 5: is just the newest entry. It's going to be fascinating
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Speaker 5: to watch this story evolve and see if lrds are
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Speaker 5: really the center of gcs in the JWST data from
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Speaker 5: UT Austin.
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Speaker 4: Oh wait, wait a minute, I gotta get a pen
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Speaker 4: because you lost me on all the letters. I want
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Speaker 4: to make sure I got everything covered. I'm started. ABC
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Speaker 4: is easy as one, two, three, I know that I
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Speaker 4: got that, and then what was the next LRD. I
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Speaker 4: like the fact that it's we don't have any real answers,
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Speaker 4: so that means we get to talk about these things.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure for many years to.
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Speaker 5: Come, this story will come back around. I promise it's.
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Speaker 4: Not going anywhere anytime soon. That seems like a safe bet.
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Speaker 5: Much like Ferbi's. We haven't had a Ferby story in
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Speaker 5: a while, but they're going to be back. You can
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Speaker 5: believe it, you can count on it.
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Speaker 4: I like this next story because it's giving us something
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Speaker 4: new atmosphere on a terrestrial exoplanet. So we've been talking
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Speaker 4: about exoplanets. It's you know, that's one of the main
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Speaker 4: things that they're looking for when they're looking for planets.
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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously there's a lot of things they're looking
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Speaker 4: for in space, but the thing that is trendy with
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Speaker 4: all the Spielberg movies is these exoplanets, especially ones that
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Speaker 4: might have an atmosphere. And if it has an atmosphere,
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Speaker 4: hey it could have you know. I don't want to
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Speaker 4: spoil anything for the movie, but the point is this
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Speaker 4: is a big discuss.
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Speaker 5: I mean, there was this other movie, it was not
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Speaker 5: a Spielberg movie, that had this rock walking around and
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Speaker 5: having conversations with Hollywood actors.
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Speaker 4: True, yes, yes, this is what we want to know,
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Speaker 4: right with ghosts?
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Speaker 5: Do we make these movies? Why as a species do
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Speaker 5: we make these movies? Because it is reflective of our
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Speaker 5: general curiosity and imagination about what could or what might
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Speaker 5: be living on another world. How many movies have we made,
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Speaker 5: how many books have been written? How many pieces of
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Speaker 5: art have been created? Because we imagine what might be
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Speaker 5: living on another world and might actually come here and
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Speaker 5: visit us. Okay, well, so when we can, in that
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Speaker 5: vein of exploration, present something that is evidence of something
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Speaker 5: for the very first time, it gets exciting, right, And
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Speaker 5: that's what this story is about. Check it out on
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Speaker 5: Sky and telescope dot com. For the very first time,
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Speaker 5: we as human beings have detected an atmosphere around a
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Speaker 5: terrestrial exoplanet. And when I say detected, I mean we've
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Speaker 5: actually measured the atmospheric components. We know what this atmosphere
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Speaker 5: is made out of. When I say terrestrial planet, think
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Speaker 5: Earth like planet. So not like Jupiter, not a gas giant,
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Speaker 5: not something that is a little bit easier to measure
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Speaker 5: the atmosphere. And this is an actual rocky planet probably,
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Speaker 5: and it's about one point yeah, it's about one point
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Speaker 5: seven times the size of the Earth, or about seventy
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Speaker 5: percent larger than the Earth. It orbits a dim red
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Speaker 5: dwarf star, and it orbits about every twenty five days.
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Speaker 5: But that dimmer star, that closer orbit just means that
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Speaker 5: it's close enough to that dimmer star that it gets
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Speaker 5: about the same amount of sunlight that we do. In
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Speaker 5: other words, it's in the Goldilock zone. In other words,
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Speaker 5: it's in a zone where liquid water could exist on
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Speaker 5: the surface of this distant exoplanet. And now, for the
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Speaker 5: first time, a group out of Harvard University led by
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Speaker 5: a guy named Colin Cherubim who now is at the
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Speaker 5: University of Chicago because he graduated, and he was a
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Speaker 5: grad student. He was a grad student, and now he's
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Speaker 5: moved on to bigger and better things at the University
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Speaker 5: of Chicago, But he was at Harvard when doing the
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Speaker 5: data on this particular object. The name of the planet
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Speaker 5: is LHS eleven forty B, which appears to be a
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Speaker 5: rocky world orbiting a star only forty nine light years away. Now,
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Speaker 5: remember a light year is a big yard stick, but
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Speaker 5: compared to the rest of the universe, that's right in
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Speaker 5: the backyard.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right around the corner.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, just you know, you take a left at the
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Speaker 5: local convenience store and you're right there forty nine light
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Speaker 5: years from here. Anyway, So they have made a detection
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Speaker 5: which allows them to examine the constituents of the atmosphere,
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Speaker 5: and what they have discovered is helium helium escaping from
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Speaker 5: the atmosphere of this rocky planet into space. Okay, so
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Speaker 5: what does that tell everybody? Well, the first thing it
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Speaker 5: tells people is the planet has an atmosphere. There is
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Speaker 5: some form of gaseous material in an envelope surrounding this
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Speaker 5: very much earth like planet near the near enough to
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Speaker 5: this dim star that it's in the Goldilock zone. So
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Speaker 5: all of those things are important. The second thing is
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Speaker 5: when modeling these helium rich atmospheres in virtual exoplanets or
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Speaker 5: you know, on the computer we're modeling these things, this
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Speaker 5: kind of on earthlike helium atmosphere. Helium rich atmosphere would
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Speaker 5: still allow for liquid water to exist as surface, which
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Speaker 5: makes this a really interesting discovery and a really interesting world.
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Speaker 5: Such an atmosphere could in fact support water and shield
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Speaker 5: its planet from radiation, making it one of the best
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Speaker 5: candidates for life so far. Don't believe me believe. Robin
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Speaker 5: Wadsworth Wordsworth, Sorry, Robin Wordsworth, from Harvard University, one of
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Speaker 5: Chairman's dissertation advisors, quote as the first discovery of an
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Speaker 5: atmosphere on a terrestrial type planet in the habitable zone.
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Speaker 5: This is an important milestone in exoplanet science unquote. So
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Speaker 5: there you have it, friends, check it out on sky
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Speaker 5: on telescope dot org. The story of LHS eleven forty B,
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Speaker 5: the first atmosphere ever detected around a terrestrial light planet.
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Speaker 4: All right, so you mentioned two things. There's a third
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Speaker 4: thing that it tells us, and that's if there are
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Speaker 4: in fact organisms there that are intelligent life. That means
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Speaker 4: they speak with that helium voice. Like you can't forget that.
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Speaker 4: It's a good possibility that they deal with that all
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Speaker 4: the time.
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Speaker 5: Just constantly. They're all talking like the chipmunks up there
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Speaker 5: all the time.
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Speaker 4: So if somehow we make contact and then they hear
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Speaker 4: the way we speak, they're gonna think that it's hilarious
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Speaker 4: because that's their baseline. So that's the first thing they
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Speaker 4: be saying.
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Speaker 5: Listen to these guys with nitrogen voice. It's so funny.
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Speaker 5: It's mark all loone and slow, and maybe.
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Speaker 4: That's what they do. Maybe they put nitrogen in their
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Speaker 4: balloons and they suck that whenever they're trying to make
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Speaker 4: their voices sound different. So I guess the next question
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Speaker 4: is do your guests on or have you heard are
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Speaker 4: we already sending signals in that direction to go, hey,
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Speaker 4: come kill us?
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Speaker 5: Nothing I know of. I mean, but you know, SETI
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Speaker 5: on a Saturday night, you just don't know what's going
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Speaker 5: on over there. They might be doing this. I would
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Speaker 5: discourage it. Stephen Hawking would have discouraged it. Sure, Yeah,
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Speaker 5: better listen for better to listen for a while and
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Speaker 5: see if we can pick up the helium voice. I mean,
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Speaker 5: like Getty Lee basically a planet.
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Speaker 4: It kind of makes me think about Mars attacks. You know,
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Speaker 4: where they're saying, you know, they're they're they're just basically
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Speaker 4: telling us that they're not here to harm us in
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Speaker 4: those voices, and then they're plowing everybody down. So I mean,
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Speaker 4: that would be a horror. I mean, it would be
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Speaker 4: bad enough that we summoned our executioners. It would be
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Speaker 4: even worse to summon them and they show up and
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Speaker 4: they've got helium voice and they're just plowing us down.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I can't. I can't think of a worse
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Speaker 4: way for that to go. Just my thoughts on it,
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Speaker 4: I don't know your thoughts.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I think we'd have to spend you know,
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Speaker 5: Una Paloma Blanca on vinyl through a loudspeaker system. That's
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Speaker 5: what I think might have to happen. Yeah, something like that.
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Speaker 4: All right. So we are getting close to the Nancy
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Speaker 4: Grace Roman Space Telescope launch that is coming up. We're
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Speaker 4: knocking on the door of August. So at the end
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Speaker 4: of August, we're about a month away before it's finally
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Speaker 4: gonna launch.
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Speaker 5: We've been excited about this new space telescope for a while.
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Speaker 5: We've talked about a couple of other stories. But now
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Speaker 5: that the launch is literally just around the corner of
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Speaker 5: the calendar, just around the corner of the calendar as
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Speaker 5: we move from July into August, it is going to
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Speaker 5: be in this next month of transition. The launch is
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Speaker 5: going to happen on August thirtieth. It's time to start
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Speaker 5: talking about this on a regular basis. So you're gonna
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Speaker 5: hear about this instrument from us a lot. It's going
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Speaker 5: to surpass both James Webspace Telescope and the Hubble Space
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Speaker 5: Telescope in capabilities on a few different fronts. And so
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Speaker 5: that alone makes it really amazing, because if you know
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Speaker 5: your space telescopes, you're going to know that Hubble Space
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Speaker 5: Telescope and the James web have produced the most marvelous
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Speaker 5: astronomical images in the history of humankind. Friends. And now
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Speaker 5: we're about to We're days away from launching the next
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Speaker 5: four billion dollar space telescope from NASA that is similar
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Speaker 5: to the others, but as a little bit different job. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: it's going to be in the L two lagrange point
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Speaker 5: out there with James Webb, but it looks at the
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Speaker 5: field of the universe in a different scale. James Webb
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Speaker 5: takes really close up images of really distant objects. That's
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Speaker 5: its job. Hubble Space Telescope does that same thing in
22:36
Speaker 5: optical wavelengths, while James Webb and this new Nancy Grace
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Speaker 5: Roman Space Telescope do that in the infrared wavelengths. What
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Speaker 5: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is going to do that's
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Speaker 5: just a little bit different, is it's going to be
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Speaker 5: a wide field view of the universe. And what that
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Speaker 5: does is it allows us to see things that are
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Speaker 5: much more nearby in much greater detail. It also allows
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Speaker 5: us to do sky surveys of wide swaths of the
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Speaker 5: sky in much less time than surveys taken from instruments
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Speaker 5: like Hubble. So, for instance, one of the quotes out
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Speaker 5: of the story from space dot Com that we're looking
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Speaker 5: at today is this, it takes about nine months for
23:25
Speaker 5: Nancy Grace Roman to produce something that would take the
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Speaker 5: Hubble Space Telescope about a century to complete. So think
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Speaker 5: about that one hundred years of HST data and something
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Speaker 5: on the order of months for Nancy Grace Roman data
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Speaker 5: to take the same to analyze the same section of
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Speaker 5: the sky in equal detail. All right, that's the interesting part.
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Speaker 4: So it's a significant upgrade. It's not just an upgrade,
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Speaker 4: it's a significant upgrade.
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Speaker 5: The massive upgrade. Something else that we're not used to
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Speaker 5: reporting is that the launch of the telescope is going
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Speaker 5: to happen about nine months ahead of.
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Speaker 4: Schedule, assuming they don't drop it.
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Speaker 5: That's one other big difference with JWST. Yeah, and you know,
24:13
Speaker 5: and dropping it and just yeah, really taking a long
24:17
Speaker 5: time to much years longer than it was proposed to do.
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Speaker 4: You know what, I think that just makes the James
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Speaker 4: Web story more fantastic with the delays and dropping it,
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Speaker 4: and then the images come in and it's like, yeah,
24:29
Speaker 4: think of what they could have done if they didn't
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Speaker 4: drop it or you know, take thirty years to launch it.
24:34
Speaker 4: But that's another story. This is nine months. Let's focus
24:36
Speaker 4: on this one. It's nine months ahead of schedule, you know.
24:39
Speaker 5: The one thing that James Web had because of its
24:42
Speaker 5: long period and then getting dropped right before launch. When
24:47
Speaker 5: it finally got up there and it worked, I think
24:50
Speaker 5: the I think the mood was very celebratory.
24:52
Speaker 4: Yeah it should be.
24:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, and if everything's going to plan and it's gonna
24:55
Speaker 5: go out ahead schedule, you're kind of like, man, okay,
24:58
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, okay, we're that's nice. But when it's
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Speaker 5: taken decades longer and billions of dollars more to produce
25:05
Speaker 5: and then they drop it right before launch and then
25:08
Speaker 5: it goes up and works, I think the attitude is
25:10
Speaker 5: a lot more celebratory. There's all those involved.
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Speaker 4: There's no movie Rudy if he's a tall guy, you know,
25:18
Speaker 4: that's all I'm saying. You know, you gotta be an underdog,
25:20
Speaker 4: and it's an underdog. So it's a great story. Yeah, yep,
25:25
Speaker 4: so this new telescope is a tall guy, is what
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Speaker 4: we're saying, and it's nine months ahead of scale.
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Speaker 5: Yes, it's like Wembin Yama. Will he be successful in
25:35
Speaker 5: the NBA? Oh, I don't know how tall is he? Again?
25:37
Speaker 5: Probably right?
25:39
Speaker 4: He should be pretty good at basketball.
25:42
Speaker 5: But when spud Web made it in the league, that
25:44
Speaker 5: was a little different.
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Speaker 4: Exactly, that's exactly the point. Spudweb or Muggsy Bogues, give
25:51
Speaker 4: me a guy shorter than me out there playing and
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Speaker 4: then we got a story.
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Speaker 5: Let's say you have it, friends, so we'll be watch.
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Speaker 5: We'll be watching this story unravel with all of our
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Speaker 5: goofy analogies well into the month of August.
26:06
Speaker 4: More we're made of stars. Right after this, let's talk
26:31
Speaker 4: about the Columbus State University COCOLA Space Science Center schedule
26:35
Speaker 4: as we move back into the school year with area
26:38
Speaker 4: schools of our home location here in the chatthoo Che
26:41
Speaker 4: Valley getting started next week.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so, speaking of August and spud Weeb here at
26:48
Speaker 5: the Space Science Center, August is kind of like the
26:50
Speaker 5: spud Web sized month for us here. You know, we
26:54
Speaker 5: are our summer camps have wrapped up as Wes said,
26:57
Speaker 5: kids just got back to school, so they're not really
27:00
Speaker 5: taking field trips yet. So what's happening here in August
27:03
Speaker 5: for the rest of you adults out there is that
27:05
Speaker 5: we're kind of quiet, and that's a good that's good
27:09
Speaker 5: news for you because it's still hot outside and you
27:12
Speaker 5: still want to go to a fun, air condition place.
27:15
Speaker 5: My wife and I were just having a discussion about
27:16
Speaker 5: what we might do this weekend, and we were just
27:19
Speaker 5: like ruling out all of the outdoor choices because it's
27:22
Speaker 5: one hundred degrees in the shade and even higher with
27:25
Speaker 5: the UV index. So anyway, so the whole point is
27:28
Speaker 5: we're a good fun place to come when it's air conditioned,
27:31
Speaker 5: and the kids aren't really coming right now. So if
27:34
Speaker 5: you're an adult out there and have some free time
27:37
Speaker 5: during the day, pop on into the Space Science Center
27:40
Speaker 5: and see all of the new upgrades that we've been
27:42
Speaker 5: working on. You can come test out the new Mars
27:45
Speaker 5: rovers that were just introduced earlier this year. We have
27:48
Speaker 5: our new flight simulators and their software which was just
27:51
Speaker 5: introduced last fall, and we have some brand new simulators
27:56
Speaker 5: in the gallery which just came online at the first
27:59
Speaker 5: of this year. So lots of fun new things. We
28:02
Speaker 5: have a new ish show running in our planetarium. It's
28:05
Speaker 5: called Dinosaur, a survival story. That's a fun one too,
28:08
Speaker 5: So come on down to the Space Science Center join us.
28:10
Speaker 5: In August, you might see us doing a little work
28:13
Speaker 5: around here. We're installing a few new things right now.
28:16
Speaker 5: We do that because it's August and it's a little quiet,
28:20
Speaker 5: so that's that's kind of our time for upgrading some facilities,
28:25
Speaker 5: pieces of equipment, and areas that we use for educational purposes.
28:30
Speaker 5: So you might see some you know, hammer and nail
28:32
Speaker 5: kind of stuff going on. But come on down and
28:33
Speaker 5: see us anyway, and enjoy the facilities because once September
28:37
Speaker 5: happens and those schools re emerge, it's gonna be busy.
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Speaker 4: Seawan and I thank you for listening, and we will
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Speaker 4: It is the largest popular arts convention anywhere in the world.
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Speaker 4: On the pregame show this year, you're gonna hear from
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Speaker 4: Star Trek, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Starship Troopers, Smallville,
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