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Space Walks and Objects In the Sky · Made of Stars

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Speaker 1: Warning. The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics,
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Speaker 1: and space news throughout the known universe. Listeners have been
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Speaker 1: known to learn about astronomical phenomenon, the scientific method, and
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Speaker 2: Go ahead. When made of stars, made them stars, made sizes?
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Speaker 3: When made of stars, you could be from high they
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Speaker 2: Where are.
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Speaker 1: Stars?
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Speaker 3: When we are made of stars? I am Wes Carol,
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Speaker 3: joined by my good friend doctor Sean Cruisan from column
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Speaker 3: State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
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Speaker 2: Hey Sean, Hey Wes, good to be here today.
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Speaker 3: One thing that we didn't do last time that we
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Speaker 3: fully intended to do, we just ran out of time,
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Speaker 3: and I hope we can try to maybe block off
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Speaker 3: a bit of time for this Made of Stars Live
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Speaker 3: two point zero is to have a couple of questions
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Speaker 3: if you got questions, we'll try to get to them
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Speaker 3: at the end.
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Speaker 2: And then we did not.
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Speaker 3: And the first person that came up to me when
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Speaker 3: we know was like, I really wish you guys had
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Speaker 3: done questions, and I.
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Speaker 2: Thought, oh, so do we.
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Speaker 3: We just ran out of time. It's you know, it
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Speaker 3: was time to go and look at telescopes. And that's
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Speaker 3: the other fun part about it. So it'll be Made
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Speaker 3: of Stars Live and then immediately after it's a time
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Speaker 3: look at telescopes and check out Astronomy Night. So it's
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Speaker 3: a nice.
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Speaker 2: Don't yeah, what's going to happen before Made of Stars Live,
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Speaker 2: which is weird debuting a brand new show in the
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Speaker 2: Atmosphere Theater Planetarium. It's called Dinosaur a Survival Story. Wait,
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Speaker 2: Dinosaur a survival Story.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what you got.
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Speaker 2: It. You got as if some dinosaurs survived. That's what
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Speaker 2: I did.
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out how that worked exactly.
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Speaker 2: But I suppose didn't survive.
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Speaker 3: Maybe I suppose that before the extinction they survived something.
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Speaker 3: So you know, it's got to be maybe. I don't
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Speaker 3: want to spoil anything, but maybe that's part of it.
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Speaker 2: I don't think rehab was involved. I think it's not that.
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Speaker 2: I think it's different.
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Speaker 3: So let me just say this because this is always
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Speaker 3: it's always eaten at me, and maybe we should discuss
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Speaker 3: this in greater detail. It made of stars live two
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Speaker 3: point zero. But dinosaurs laid eggs, right, Some dinosaurs laid
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Speaker 3: eggs long before chickens ever roam the earth.
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Speaker 2: There wasn't a chicken in sight.
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Speaker 3: Therefore, however, eggs came before the chicken. That's all I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Were the chickens somehow tied to this whole survival story?
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Speaker 2: I don't really know.
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Speaker 3: Maybe so, But my point is, if there were eggs
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Speaker 3: before there were chickens. We could stop the silly debate.
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Speaker 3: That's all I'm getting at. Eggs existed first, it's over
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Speaker 3: which discussion is done anyway.
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Speaker 2: We like to clean up these issues. Yeah, with stars.
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Speaker 2: Imagine how many we'll clear up with Made of Stars Live.
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Speaker 3: That's right. We do our best, and we don't. We
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Speaker 3: can't promise we'll have another story about aliens, but maybe
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Speaker 3: we will. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: That's not out of the question.
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Speaker 3: I would say, well, our first story this week is
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Speaker 3: it's always fun when there's a spacewalk. Some spacewalks are
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Speaker 3: more fun than others because sometimes the guy who ends
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Speaker 3: up getting picked to be in charge at NASA does
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Speaker 3: a spacewalk before he's in charge of NASA, which is,
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Speaker 3: you know, kind of cool because you're like, hey, wait
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Speaker 3: a minute, that guy was on a spacewalk, like not
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Speaker 3: too long ago, and now he's running NASA.
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Speaker 2: That's true, but we have and we.
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Speaker 3: Didn't confirm this, but I believe, if my memory serves
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Speaker 3: me correctly, the spacewalk, this latest one was the one
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Speaker 3: that was going to happen until there was a health
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Speaker 3: problem by one of the astronauts. If this is not
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Speaker 3: the one. I would imagine whatever was going to happen
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Speaker 3: then probably was also done during this That would be
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Speaker 3: my hunch.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And by the way, the two spacewalking astronauts didn't
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Speaker 2: complete the entire list of all the other things that
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Speaker 2: still needed to be done, so they had a list
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Speaker 2: that was longer than they were able to accomplish. I
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Speaker 2: think they always do that just in case things go
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Speaker 2: better than expected or more efficiently than expected. So even
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Speaker 2: though this was a very successful spacewalk, it didn't accomplish
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Speaker 2: the entire list of things that could be done during
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Speaker 2: the next spacewalk. So we already have the list for
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Speaker 2: the next group of astronauts going out. Okay. So, having
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Speaker 2: said that, there were two spacewalkers on Tuesday, Jessica Meir
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Speaker 2: and Chris Williams, both NASA astronauts, outside the International Space
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Speaker 2: Station somewhere around three fifty four pm Eastern daylight time.
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Speaker 2: They were out there concluding the spacewalk. Actually, so this
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Speaker 2: was the very first spacewalk for Chris Williams. This is
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Speaker 2: the fourth spacewalk for Jessica Meir. So she's a she's
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Speaker 2: a veteran of the American Space program been out there
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Speaker 2: many times. So during this approximately seven hour and two
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Speaker 2: minute spacewalk, Mir and Williams completed their primary objectives, which
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Speaker 2: included preparing the two A power channel. They might say, WHOA,
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Speaker 2: what's the what's that? What's the two A power channel?
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Speaker 2: It's a it's a certain position on the solar panel
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Speaker 2: array that generates electricity for the International Space Station. So
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Speaker 2: the two A power channel on the ISS is one
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Speaker 2: of the eight main power channels that distribute electricity generated
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Speaker 2: by the station's solar arrays. Okay, so they were out
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Speaker 2: there getting ready to do some updates on that, and
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Speaker 2: this work will enable the future installation of a rollout
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Speaker 2: solar arrays to provide additional power for the International Space
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Speaker 2: Station that can support critical systems and it's safe controlled deorbit,
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Speaker 2: So in other words, they're going to need a little
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Speaker 2: extra power during the deorbiting process. This newly repaired and
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Speaker 2: upgraded power array is going to be able to help
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Speaker 2: generate that extra power, all right, So the space duo
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Speaker 2: completed the additional task, including installing a two A power
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Speaker 2: system jumper cable just in case they have to call
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Speaker 2: Triple A to get up there. For the two A
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Speaker 2: and do a jump on it something like that. I
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Speaker 2: don't know anyway, So there you have it. Friends, check
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Speaker 2: out NASA dot gov for that particular story. Can read
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Speaker 2: all about the successful space walk by Jessica Meir and
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Speaker 2: Chris Williams.
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Speaker 3: Yet not completed. Successful but not fully completed.
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Speaker 2: More to be done.
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Speaker 3: There's always stuff to be done outside. I would think
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Speaker 3: it's just like whenever I think I'm gonna work on
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Speaker 3: one of my cars myself and I go, yeah, I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna do this. I'm gonna get in there. I've watched
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Speaker 3: the YouTube videos, I have at least most of the
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Speaker 3: tools required to do this. I'm gonna get started and
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Speaker 3: see how it goes. And even if I get to
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Speaker 3: the end and I successfully complete it, then I go, oh,
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Speaker 3: I still need to do these things. So it's kind
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Speaker 3: of like that, except you know, not in space. That's
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Speaker 3: the complicated part, isn't it. It's when you have to
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Speaker 3: go into space to do it.
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Speaker 2: It does make it more complicated, and it makes it
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Speaker 2: harder with those gloves to be working on pretty much anything. Yes, yeah,
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Speaker 2: imagine around your house, Like okay, so you have like
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Speaker 2: a to do list on a Saturday, and you know,
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Speaker 2: your spouse approves this to do list and there's like
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Speaker 2: twelve items on it, and you go out and work
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Speaker 2: really hard and get eight of the items done. You're like, well,
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Speaker 2: you know that's a pretty good you know, that's eight items, like,
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Speaker 2: but you always have those other four and then of
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Speaker 2: course that list gets attitude. There's always more to do,
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Speaker 2: as you said, right, so so yeah, they weren't going
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Speaker 2: to get through it all anyway. They always have additional
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Speaker 2: items to make sure they have additional items in case
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Speaker 2: everything goes efficiently. Pretty good job by those astronauts getting
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Speaker 2: the main task completed and also installing the jumper cables.
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Speaker 3: I've never done anything on my Honeydoo list while staring
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Speaker 3: into infinite a ban though, so you know you got
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Speaker 3: that working against you while you're up there. And of
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Speaker 3: course those gloves, I mean that just makes it even
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Speaker 3: more complicated.
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Speaker 2: I always worry about sneezing. It's just like the whole
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Speaker 2: what if I sneeze then what happens?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it would not be good with those domes, right,
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Speaker 3: you sneeze in it and then you're just like, nah, great,
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Speaker 3: let's go back inside. Would that count as an emergency
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Speaker 3: reason to go back inside on the wall, I can't
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Speaker 3: see any for.
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Speaker 2: Me because I would just quit. Yeah, that's why I'm
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Speaker 2: not an astronaut. Friends. I wouldn't pass the sneeze test.
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Speaker 2: I would insist on the interior shield squeegee that would
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Speaker 2: be installed in there, just to kind of.
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Speaker 3: Just talking about sneezing. Is I'm gonna sneeze, That's all
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Speaker 3: it would take. Just start thinking about don't sneeze. Don't sneeze.
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Speaker 3: That's part of the training. They learn how to not sneeze.
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Speaker 2: I guess. I guess maybe they probably do work on
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Speaker 2: things like that, like if you sneeze, here's how to
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Speaker 2: do it and not. You know, it's probably it's probably
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Speaker 2: a deal. It's probably a thing, all right.
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Speaker 3: We have artemists too, sls ready to roll back out again.
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Speaker 3: So they rolled it out. And when we say rolled
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Speaker 3: it out slow, like ridiculously slow, crawled it out is
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Speaker 3: the better term, but it technically is rolling. It's on
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Speaker 3: this little flat tank thing that it rolls out on.
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Speaker 3: They roll it out, they do their their first test,
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Speaker 3: not not ready to launch. They do their second test,
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Speaker 3: not not ready to launch, and as we've discussed, there's
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Speaker 3: a there's a time limit on how long it can
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Speaker 3: just sit there before they go, all right, we got
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Speaker 3: to slow crawl this thing back to the VAB. So
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Speaker 3: they did that, they did some more work on it,
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Speaker 3: and now they're getting ready to slow crawl it back
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Speaker 3: out there again with hopes again that there's a there's
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Speaker 3: a launch coming soon, maybe maybe as soon as the
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Speaker 3: first week April.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's exciting, and hey, look before we joke around
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Speaker 2: about this, it is exciting. This is a very important
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Speaker 2: mission in the history of america Space program. It's returning
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Speaker 2: astronauts to at least the orbit around the Moon for
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Speaker 2: the first time since the nineteen seventies. Friends, So this
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Speaker 2: is not an unimportant mission. This is a very important mission.
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Speaker 2: And because human beings are on board, it also makes
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Speaker 2: it a very serious mission. And so we really, as
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Speaker 2: you know, as those who support America's space program, want
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Speaker 2: to see everything go just right. So the fact that
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Speaker 2: they had to roll the rocket back in, okay, let's
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Speaker 2: do that. Let's roll it back in. Let's make sure
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Speaker 2: before we strap human beings to this thing that all
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Speaker 2: the fuel systems are working properly and that fuel can
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Speaker 2: flow to those engines. So the astronauts are not put
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Speaker 2: in danger, okay, So that's what's been taking place. Engineers
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Speaker 2: have been working on this rocket in the VAB for
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Speaker 2: the last few weeks. Now. Engineers are targeting tonight eight
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Speaker 2: pm as we record the show here on Thursday, March
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Speaker 2: the nineteenth, to start the rollout again of the Artemis
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Speaker 2: two Space launch System rocket and the Orion Space capsule
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Speaker 2: back on top of that, out to launch Pad thirty
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Speaker 2: nine B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. So
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Speaker 2: it'll it'll be rolling out there on NASA's Crawler Transporter two,
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Speaker 2: which is the upgraded Crawler Transporter by the way. It
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Speaker 2: will carry the eleven pounds stack, including the mobile launcher
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Speaker 2: that actually holds the rocket up while it's preparing to
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Speaker 2: launch at a screamingly fast pace of one mile per hour,
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Speaker 2: substantially faster than Crawler one. And so it's going to
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Speaker 2: go that four mile route from the VAB the hangar
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Speaker 2: for rockets all the way out to get launch Pad
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Speaker 2: thirty nine B in about four hours, right, So it's
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Speaker 2: going to take about four hours, so if everything goes
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Speaker 2: right as planned. Now we're looking at the beginning of
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Speaker 2: the rollout at eight pm. We're looking at wrapping up
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Speaker 2: around midnight. You can watch the rollout take place. Friends,
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Speaker 2: you can actually tune in to NASA dot gov. They're
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Speaker 2: gonna be carrying the rollout footage there. Also, Space dot
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Speaker 2: com will be carrying the feed of the rollout taking place.
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Speaker 2: So if you like to jump in, if you hear
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Speaker 2: this podcast in real time and you like to jump
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Speaker 2: in and actually watch it take place tonight, that's what
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Speaker 2: you do. Jump into one of those streams. You can
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Speaker 2: do NASA stream on the YouTube channel, you can do
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Speaker 2: Space dot com. You can check out the rollout of
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Speaker 2: this historic moon rocket.
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Speaker 3: More Made of Stars. Right after this, so there was
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Speaker 3: a huge asteroid, six foot seven ton asteroid that flew
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Speaker 3: over Ohio scene across multiple states, and you know, I
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Speaker 3: guess there was a sonic boom involved as well. And
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Speaker 3: this just happened what this week, Yeah, it.
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Speaker 2: Happened Tuesday night, so while the astronauts were out there
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Speaker 2: on a spacewalk something like that. Anyway, it actually happens
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Speaker 2: actually close in time. I hadn't thought about that un
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Speaker 2: till right now.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's possible, and it's also possible, you know.
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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow was out tossing the football around outside. Any
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Speaker 3: of these things could have maybe he saw it.
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Speaker 2: Strange things happened in Cincinnati. So the asteroid approximately and
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Speaker 2: we call it an asteroid, it's a smaller one, but
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Speaker 2: it's too big to be a meteor or a meteorite
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Speaker 2: six foot in length, seven tons. All right, what's the
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Speaker 2: boundary between a large meteor and a small asteroid. Somewhere
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Speaker 2: around the one meter mark or about three feet in size.
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Speaker 2: When it goes over that one meter mark, we go
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Speaker 2: from calling it meteor coming through the atmosphere or a
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Speaker 2: meteoroid in space, or a meteorite on the ground. So
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Speaker 2: we transition from that verbiage to asteroid once it crosses
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Speaker 2: the one meter boundary. This thing was about two meters
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Speaker 2: and seven tons. So when that kind of thing comes in,
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Speaker 2: and it comes in at something near forty thousand miles
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Speaker 2: an hour, that's a show. Friends. So this event took
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Speaker 2: place around eight am local time on Tuesday, so a
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Speaker 2: little bit before the spacewark. But so the American Media
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Speaker 2: Society shares that it received over one hundred reports from
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Speaker 2: several states about this event. That you know, that's just
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Speaker 2: the people that know how to report to the American
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Speaker 2: Media Society. Right, so from the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
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Speaker 2: it says, and more, I don't know where the moor is,
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Speaker 2: but this is the report from WLWTTV in Cincinnati. So
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Speaker 2: there you go. According to WLWT, quoting the American Media Society, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 2: in Illinois and more, we'll never know what those other
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Speaker 2: states were.
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Speaker 3: We could guess, I suppose, but looking and more, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's a good question. I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: don't see western New York and here that's possibility, I guess. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: all right, So according to NASA, the seven ton asteroid
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Speaker 2: was first spotted about fifty miles above Lake Erie, So
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Speaker 2: there you go. It's kind of up in that Great
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Speaker 2: Lakes region, moving east at about forty thousand miles an hour.
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Speaker 2: The fireball created by this event coming in was nearly
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Speaker 2: six feet in diameter. And this thing was It made
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Speaker 2: a giant fireball in the sky, which was observed by
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Speaker 2: all these folks. But as Wes said, it also unleashed
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Speaker 2: a really loud shockwave that comes in through the atmosphere,
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Speaker 2: and we hear that as a sonic boom, that noise
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Speaker 2: from the meteor travel faster than the speed of sound,
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Speaker 2: so it's a hypersonic shockwave. And and that's because the
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Speaker 2: exploding of this asteroids that came through the atmosphere something
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Speaker 2: like two hundred and fifty tons of TNT in terms
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Speaker 2: of the amount of energy released as this thing was
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Speaker 2: exploding in the sky, fragmenting in the sky, So that
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Speaker 2: caused a really loud boom itself. So there were sonic booms,
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Speaker 2: then there was the actual explosion of the object. All
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Speaker 2: of this was loud enough to shake houses, scare dogs,
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Speaker 2: you know, cause people to say f bombs on their
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Speaker 2: dashboard cameras. All of this can be found on the internet. Friends,
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Speaker 2: I saw it, you know, while preparing in the show today,
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Speaker 2: so you can check all of that out. So the
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Speaker 2: fireball even captured on a a a weather satellite, so
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Speaker 2: they had just kind of a bright flash on their
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Speaker 2: weather radar that they have from satellites in orbit. So
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Speaker 2: so quite an event taking place at Ohio kind of
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Speaker 2: shook some folks up in the Cincinnati area just simply
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Speaker 2: because they didn't know what it was. And yeah, a
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Speaker 2: lot of light a lot of sound. It's a scary
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Speaker 2: event when you when something like that is happening and
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Speaker 2: you don't know why.
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Speaker 3: So when I first saw this story, I thought, I
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Speaker 3: got to go back and look because I remember seeing
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Speaker 3: a headline and I just kind of rolled my eyes
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Speaker 3: because we see these headlines all the time. We get text,
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Speaker 3: you much more so than me, but even I now
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Speaker 3: get text when these headlines are out there, and it's
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Speaker 3: often the things like all the planets are going to
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Speaker 3: line up and so and so o'clock and you have
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Speaker 3: to go look at it or you know, whatever it
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Speaker 3: is to check out the new you know, lime green
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Speaker 3: moon or whatever, and everybody, oh my gosh, it's gonna
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Speaker 3: be lime green tonight. And so that's that's it's got
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Speaker 3: nothing to do with that. And I saw this headline
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Speaker 3: and I thought, oh gosh, here we go. And I
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Speaker 3: honestly didn't even fully read it. I just saw the
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Speaker 3: headline and I thought, okay, whatever, And I mean I
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Speaker 3: read a little bit of it, but I couldn't remember
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Speaker 3: if this was connected to this story, and it was not.
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Speaker 3: So I'll just share the little bit from this. And
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Speaker 3: we haven't planned to talk about this, but the headline
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Speaker 3: just said the Moon is safe for now, and I thought, Okay,
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Speaker 3: what is this story? And I guess this is the
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Speaker 3: asteroid that at some point they said, oh, this thing
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Speaker 3: in twenty thirty two might collide with the Moon and
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Speaker 3: would be a problem if it hit the Moon. And
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Speaker 3: then now I guess they're saying, no, it's going to
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Speaker 3: miss by twelve thousand miles. That's a pretty big miss
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Speaker 3: from it's going to hit it to now it's going
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Speaker 3: to miss by twelve thousand miles. That's I mean, I
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Speaker 3: realize again, you know, infinite nothingness is out there, so
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Speaker 3: twelve thousand miles is close relatively speaking.
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Speaker 2: I'm no golf pro, but I I think I once
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Speaker 2: missed a shot by about twelve thousand miles. Yeah, as
20:05
Speaker 2: you know, the ball came off my club at a
20:08
Speaker 2: ninety degree angle from the fairway. Yeah, so how did
20:11
Speaker 2: I projected that out into space? It'd be roughly a
20:14
Speaker 2: twelve thousand mile miss too, which you know, in Earth
20:18
Speaker 2: terms that's a lot, right, But when you're out there
20:21
Speaker 2: in space, that's kind of a close call. Yeah, Like
20:24
Speaker 2: my golf ball was still on the Earth. Yeah, Well,
20:28
Speaker 2: the size of the galaxy, you know, my golf ball
20:31
Speaker 2: was relatively close to the hole still.
20:32
Speaker 3: And I'm I'm certainly no golf ologist either, but I
20:37
Speaker 3: do claim one record since we live close to Callaway
20:41
Speaker 3: Gardens where they used to have the Buick Challenge golf
20:44
Speaker 3: tournament every year, and I think it's it's unofficial, but
20:47
Speaker 3: I'm ready to claim that I am the worst person
20:50
Speaker 3: to ever play golf at Callaway Gardens. So quite proud
20:53
Speaker 3: of that accomplishment, because I am not what they call
20:57
Speaker 3: good at golf. This is the YR four B, by
21:00
Speaker 3: the way, that we've been talking about for a while,
21:02
Speaker 3: so I didn't really dive into it. I saw the
21:05
Speaker 3: headline and I was like, this is some garbage. Let's
21:08
Speaker 3: move on. And then I thought, well, since we're talking
21:11
Speaker 3: about this, maybe there's some connection to this, and there's not.
21:14
Speaker 2: Well, I mean there's a Segway connection, and the Segway
21:17
Speaker 2: connection is it's important for us to continue to watch
21:22
Speaker 2: the sky to really understand the show. We call it
21:27
Speaker 2: the Neighborhood, and how many near or Earth approaching asteroids
21:32
Speaker 2: there aren't out there, because you know, I was going
21:37
Speaker 2: to say, we can ask the dinosaurs, but we really
21:39
Speaker 2: can't ask the dinosaurs even though it's a survival story,
21:42
Speaker 2: the dinosaurs survival story. You really can't ask them because
21:45
Speaker 2: they don't speak English anyway. But the point is that
21:49
Speaker 2: when really large rocks do hit the Earth, they can
21:52
Speaker 2: kind of hit the reset button on the majority of
21:54
Speaker 2: life on Earth if they're big enough, and we really
21:57
Speaker 2: do want to know if that's coming. We want to
21:59
Speaker 2: have like the Dart mission, where we practice what we're
22:02
Speaker 2: going to do about it if we actually do find
22:04
Speaker 2: one of these asteroids. So the one that came over Ohio, yeah,
22:08
Speaker 2: it's a small one, but we want to know they're
22:12
Speaker 2: coming even if we can, even when they're small. And
22:16
Speaker 2: then the one that you were talking about that's going
22:18
Speaker 2: to hopefully now miss the Moon, it's a large enough
22:22
Speaker 2: asteroid that we've been tracking that for quite some time.
22:25
Speaker 2: And really if a large enough asteroid did hit the Moon,
22:29
Speaker 2: that could be a problem for us too because of
22:32
Speaker 2: the amount of debris that could potentially be thrown into
22:35
Speaker 2: the orbit around the Earth or into the Earth itself.
22:38
Speaker 2: All of those things are are potentially bad. So so
22:42
Speaker 2: good news that it's not going to hit the Moon
22:44
Speaker 2: not terribly surprising news, but good news. And then also, yeah,
22:48
Speaker 2: we need to keep watching for these things because we
22:51
Speaker 2: need to understand the Earth's near Solar system environment to
22:55
Speaker 2: the best level that we can, so that we can
22:58
Speaker 2: understand what we have to do to defend life here
23:01
Speaker 2: on Earth.
23:02
Speaker 3: And maybe we can just relax a little bit with
23:05
Speaker 3: the you know, the next dart loaded in the slingshot.
23:08
Speaker 3: You know, we can kind of ease off just a
23:10
Speaker 3: little bit, like maybe it doesn't have to quite be
23:13
Speaker 3: ready to go more made of stars. Right after this,
23:37
Speaker 3: let's give an update speaking of looking at the sky
23:39
Speaker 3: and the importance of looking at the sky. Sometimes it's
23:41
Speaker 3: just about fun. It's not about oh my gosh, we're
23:44
Speaker 3: gonna get hit by something. Sometimes you just want to
23:46
Speaker 3: keep an eye on what's going on, because you know,
23:48
Speaker 3: comets are just fun.
23:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, so commets the cousin of the asternoid asteroids that
23:54
Speaker 2: are out there. The comets are are a bit more
23:57
Speaker 2: shall we say, slushy tadmore slushy, right, asteroids When they
24:02
Speaker 2: hit the Earth, they're usually like a full on iron
24:05
Speaker 2: nickel punch in the eyeball. Comets when they hit the Earth,
24:09
Speaker 2: they tend to air detonate. That's what happened over Cheliabin's
24:14
Speaker 2: Siberia back in twenty thirteen. We actually have a fragment
24:18
Speaker 2: of that one on display here at the Coca Cola
24:20
Speaker 2: Space Science Center. By the way, come down and check
24:22
Speaker 2: out that piece. But the newest comet to possibly be
24:25
Speaker 2: bright enough in the sky for people to see looks
24:29
Speaker 2: like it might be what we call is a catalog
24:32
Speaker 2: number at Comet see twenty twenty six A one. We
24:36
Speaker 2: know that better as Comet maps. Maps is the is
24:40
Speaker 2: the name given to it because of the discoverers they
24:42
Speaker 2: get to name it, and maps is an acronym for
24:47
Speaker 2: telescopes to watch the sky, So maps Comet maps is
24:51
Speaker 2: a sungrazing comet. It's part of the cruits group we
24:54
Speaker 2: talked about this last week. I had just a little
24:57
Speaker 2: bit of an update, So folks have been watching this
24:58
Speaker 2: since we kind of air the story earlier. The commet
25:02
Speaker 2: between March sixth and March ninth quickly brightened by about
25:07
Speaker 2: one and a half magnitudes. That's pretty substantial if you
25:10
Speaker 2: don't know the magnitude system, it's a fairly substantial brightening.
25:15
Speaker 2: So got up to where people could see it in
25:18
Speaker 2: backyard telescopes reasonably easy. Then, as the comet was being
25:24
Speaker 2: monitored through March from March eleven through the seventeenth, so
25:28
Speaker 2: just in other words, in the last few days it
25:30
Speaker 2: seemed to kind of fade again just a little bit.
25:33
Speaker 2: So comets are notoriously unpredictable and in their behavior, and
25:38
Speaker 2: it's because we just simply don't know how the slushy
25:41
Speaker 2: material is going to melt off the surface and then
25:45
Speaker 2: either grow the coma or grow the tail, and those
25:47
Speaker 2: are really the parts of the comet that we see.
25:50
Speaker 2: That commet's brightness kind of plateaued in that week from
25:54
Speaker 2: March eleventh through the seventeenth, and it has a well
25:57
Speaker 2: condensed coma, but it shrank back down a little bit
26:00
Speaker 2: from about nine arc minutes down to about six arc minutes. Again,
26:05
Speaker 2: still big enough to see, but not the right direction
26:08
Speaker 2: that we'd like to see for a comet that's going
26:10
Speaker 2: to be easily backyard visible. So what does that tell us, Well,
26:14
Speaker 2: it tells us we really don't know anything. Still, remember
26:17
Speaker 2: that what's going to happen is this comet, because it
26:20
Speaker 2: is a sungrazing comet, one of the cruits group, it's
26:22
Speaker 2: going to come very close to the Sun during its event.
26:26
Speaker 2: That's called a paerihelium. That's on Sunday, April fourth, So
26:31
Speaker 2: that's when it gets closest to the sun. If it
26:34
Speaker 2: survives that, if it doesn't crumble or just be pulled
26:38
Speaker 2: into the Sun or disintegrate. Basically, if it survives that
26:42
Speaker 2: trip around the amount of dust and gas it releases
26:47
Speaker 2: during that you know, something along or anywhere between six
26:51
Speaker 2: hours and three to four days around that perihelium time,
26:55
Speaker 2: then when it comes back out, we may be able
26:57
Speaker 2: to see an extremely bright comet here in the northern
27:00
Speaker 2: hemisphere after that perihelion, So you're talking about what you're
27:05
Speaker 2: talking about the fifth, sixth, seventh of April in that
27:09
Speaker 2: range of time a time to start watching the sky.
27:12
Speaker 2: So assuming the comet see twenty twenty six A one survives,
27:17
Speaker 2: we would expect to see a narrow, bright tail because
27:20
Speaker 2: Earth will lie near the comet's orbital plane, similar to
27:23
Speaker 2: seeing Saturn's rings edge on at the equinoxes. So says
27:28
Speaker 2: Sky and Telescope Magazine. Continue to watch their comet observation blog.
27:33
Speaker 2: That's where I pulled some of this information. Check out
27:35
Speaker 2: Sky and tell us Acope Magazine. Check out the comet
27:37
Speaker 2: watching blog. That's a good place for real time updates
27:41
Speaker 2: as we go into early April for a comet that's
27:44
Speaker 2: around eastern We're.
27:46
Speaker 3: Gonna get back to mate A, Stars Live and the
27:50
Speaker 3: Dinosaurs and Astronomy Night in just a minute, but first
27:54
Speaker 3: we have to just I saw the photos from STEM Day,
27:57
Speaker 3: and you guys will get a fantastic crowd for that.
28:01
Speaker 2: We had over eight hundred of our closest friends come
28:04
Speaker 2: down through the Space Science Center. And for those who've
28:06
Speaker 2: been to the Space Science Center, you might be saying,
28:08
Speaker 2: how did you get eight hundred people in your building? Well,
28:11
Speaker 2: we didn't do it all at once, thankfully, it was
28:14
Speaker 2: kind of a flow through that took place from when
28:17
Speaker 2: we opened up at nine am till we closed down
28:19
Speaker 2: about three point thirty. But yes, even more people than
28:22
Speaker 2: last year. And they got to talk to representatives from
28:26
Speaker 2: Kia Motors, from Pratt and Whitney, from Smurfett, West Rock,
28:30
Speaker 2: the paper company, from Lego Corporate, all about jobs in science, engineering, technology, mathematics.
28:39
Speaker 2: Also got to talk to many of our academic departments,
28:41
Speaker 2: our STEM departments here at Columbus State University, including of
28:46
Speaker 2: course the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, in which
28:49
Speaker 2: I am a faculty member, and we offer degrees in astrophysics.
28:52
Speaker 2: So all those students got to check out our robots,
28:55
Speaker 2: They got to check out our teaching aids that we
28:58
Speaker 2: use in the College of Education Health Professions to help
29:01
Speaker 2: people becoming teachers. They also got to visit with folks
29:05
Speaker 2: from our Missions department and find out how to go
29:07
Speaker 2: to college in general and more specifically about attending our
29:11
Speaker 2: university here at Clumbus State University. So I like to
29:14
Speaker 2: thank our partners, all of those just named, in addition
29:17
Speaker 2: to the Georgia State Department of Education, which was the
29:22
Speaker 2: sponsor of the event Georgia STEM Day here at Coca
29:25
Speaker 2: Cola Space Science Center last weekend. We'll be doing it
29:27
Speaker 2: again next year. So if you know people in high school,
29:30
Speaker 2: people in middle school that are interested in science careers,
29:33
Speaker 2: watch out for our announcements next spring. We'll be having
29:35
Speaker 2: that day again.
29:37
Speaker 3: Saturday, March twenty eighth is a debut day for your
29:40
Speaker 3: new show, and then we will have Made of Stars
29:43
Speaker 3: Live two, our second time doing this. First time, we
29:46
Speaker 3: were just figuring it out and I still think it
29:47
Speaker 3: turned out great. We had a great crowd to come
29:50
Speaker 3: out for it. We would love to have a little
29:52
Speaker 3: bit larger crowd. So the best part of the Maid
29:56
Speaker 3: of Stars Live and Astronomy Night is those are both free,
29:59
Speaker 3: so you just come you check out a live podcast
30:02
Speaker 3: where we talk about space stuff. It is like this show,
30:07
Speaker 3: you know, family friendly. We're not going to do anything
30:10
Speaker 3: that's not family appropriate. And then as we do every week.
30:15
Speaker 3: I mean, this show is always family friendly.
30:17
Speaker 2: We try to keep it that way. Once in a while,
30:19
Speaker 2: we do talk bad about the Philadelphia Eagles, but other
30:21
Speaker 2: than that.
30:23
Speaker 3: Maybe another maybe a team in the AFC West, we
30:26
Speaker 3: might do that, but we try are be.
30:29
Speaker 2: Some team wearing black or possibly you know, some kind
30:31
Speaker 2: of arrowhead or something like we talked bad about those.
30:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, occasionally we do that, but for the most part,
30:37
Speaker 3: you know, we even that. We kind of keep it
30:39
Speaker 3: very impartial. So I see you're wearing your Bronco your
30:43
Speaker 3: Bronco shirt now, but we are just excited to have
30:48
Speaker 3: the opportunity to do it again and again. Department of
30:51
Speaker 3: Earth Space Sciences are the people who.
30:55
Speaker 2: Did I get that right?
30:56
Speaker 3: Did I say it right?
30:57
Speaker 2: It is, in fact the Department of Worth in the
30:59
Speaker 2: Space Sciences. Doctor Troy Keller, the department chair. He's the
31:02
Speaker 2: one who's coordinated this event between Earth and Space Sciences
31:06
Speaker 2: and Coca Cola Space Science Center to offer the Native
31:09
Speaker 2: Stars Live podcast, and so it's just a good time.
31:13
Speaker 2: We're just gonna hang out and talk about space, and
31:15
Speaker 2: as we said, we're going to allow you a time
31:17
Speaker 2: to ask us some questions and really dive in. So
31:20
Speaker 2: if you want to talk more about flat earths than aliens,
31:22
Speaker 2: come on down. We'll at least entertain those questions for
31:26
Speaker 2: some short period of time before talking about actual science.
31:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll do that. And then immediately after you'll have
31:32
Speaker 3: doctor Rosa Williams and others there with the telescopes for
31:36
Speaker 3: Astronomy night, and assuming that you know, the weather cooperates,
31:43
Speaker 3: it'll be a great night for both events.
31:45
Speaker 2: To go back to bag.
31:46
Speaker 3: The one good thing about Meta Stars Live is we
31:48
Speaker 3: don't have to say weather permitting on that.
31:51
Speaker 2: Is not i mean, unless it's extreme other than the
31:53
Speaker 2: extreme weather. Yeah, no, weather doesn't really play a factor.
31:56
Speaker 3: Power outages would affect us. But you know, so we
32:00
Speaker 3: invite you to come for that. And then of course
32:01
Speaker 3: you guys are getting ready. You have one final music
32:05
Speaker 3: under the Dome coming up in April. That'll be the
32:08
Speaker 3: final one for this school year and it's the show.
32:12
Speaker 2: No, no, that's not right.
32:14
Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. I forgot the bonus one.
32:16
Speaker 2: There is a bonus I forgot about.
32:18
Speaker 3: The bonus one is the one where the guy plays the.
32:20
Speaker 2: Organ, right, yeah, it comes in and plays the dome,
32:23
Speaker 2: controls the dome with the piano. So we do have
32:25
Speaker 2: one on the first Tuesday of April. That's the last
32:28
Speaker 2: traditional music under the Dome where our friends from the
32:31
Speaker 2: show up school the music are the performers. And then,
32:34
Speaker 2: as Wes said, we do have our bonus music under
32:36
Speaker 2: the Dome the first Tuesday in May. That's our friend
32:40
Speaker 2: Dan Tepfer, who is a he's a global expert in
32:44
Speaker 2: controlling large format theaters from musical instruments, which is kind
32:48
Speaker 2: of a cool thing. He'll be coming down. He's actually
32:50
Speaker 2: going to be doing a master's class with the students
32:53
Speaker 2: at Columbus State University and helping them out, and then
32:57
Speaker 2: he's going to come over and perform that final music
32:59
Speaker 2: under the Dome on the first Tuesday in May. So
33:01
Speaker 2: all of these are fun things. If you want more
33:04
Speaker 2: information about all of the scheduled events, just check out
33:06
Speaker 2: the website. Go to www dot CCSSC dot org, Charlie
33:11
Speaker 2: Charlie SamSam Charlie dot org, or please follow us on
33:15
Speaker 2: the Facebook because we're out there too, and we'll be
33:19
Speaker 2: providing real time updates to any changes in events or
33:22
Speaker 2: any new events that kind of spring up between now
33:25
Speaker 2: and then. So www dot CCSSC, Charlie Charlie SamSam Charlie
33:29
Speaker 2: dot org, the source on the webs for all your
33:33
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