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NOVA-C Could Be the First Private Company's Spacecraft to Land Safely on the Moon · Made of Stars

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Warning. The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics, and
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space news throughout the known universe. Listeners have been known to learn about astronomical
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phenomenon, the scientific method, and expanded vocabulary to include terms like quasar asterism
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and uranus. Listen, that's your own risk, Go ahead. When made
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of stars, made them stars, madies, When maida stars, you could
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be from high they would new Mexicomas. Where are stars? When we are
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made of stars? I'm Wes Carol, joined by my good friend doctor Sean
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Cruising from Columbus State Universities Coca Cola Space Science Center. Morning Sean, good
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morning. Well that's good to be here today. Thursday means it's made of
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Star's day most weeks anyway. So we're gonna jump into a couple stories.
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One kind of a continuation on something that we've been talking about, and it
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comes from a discovery made by the James Web Space Telescope. And when I
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say discovery, it really ends up being a giant question mark and scientists are
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working their way to try to figure out what the answer is to the question.
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And that's what happens when you look deep, deep into space with some
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technology you haven't had before. Is you make discoveries that some of those galaxies
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in deep space are a lot brighter maybe than they should be, and they
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may have an explanation. Yeah. So I mean two things. Number one,
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if you put a new instrument in space that has greater capabilities and you
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find nothing new, that's not very Yeah, that's a problem in its own
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right. What a waste. That's like dropping a new piece of technology right
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before you launch it into space, right, I mean the same piece of
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technology in fact, yes, So fortunately that you know, it's fortunately this
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particular instrument survived its drop, then got to space, did a miraculous set
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of unfoldings and fine tunings and self alignments, and then it actually worked,
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which is amazing. So that's that. Kudo's there for James Webb once again.
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But as James Webb data has rolled in, they have found a very
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interesting mystery, which is what you've mentioned, when they've been able to peer
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back further in time than we have before, because we can see further in
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distance than we had before, and light has a finite travel time, so
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when you look farther away, the light takes a longer time to get here
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and then, as they say, ipso facto, it means that you're looking
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back further in time. So astronomers found a set of galaxies that, with
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this look back time, seem to have formed or they're viewing them at an
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age that's less than one billion years old. In fact, it's about five
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hundred million, so half a billion years old. In other words, the
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universe itself is only half a billion years old, and these galaxies look stunningly
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mature for that short of a time frame, and they base that on how
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bright they are, because the notion is the brighter the galaxy, the more
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stars have formed, and with current models of galaxy and star formation, it
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just shouldn't have been able to form that many stars to be that bright within
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that short of a period of time. And one of the JWST scientists commented
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that it's like walking into a kindergarten class and finding a sixteen year old.
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Right, So it's not that they failed kindergarten that many times. It's as
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they matured so fast that they appear to be a sixteen year old. And
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so that's kind of what these galaxies are like. They should be in a
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kindergarten class in terms of how long they've been able to age. Yet they
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appear like sixteen year old's quasi adults in that setting, which makes it mysterious.
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When I referenced, you know, Billy Madison last time, and I
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suppose it could have been a Benjamin Button explanation. You know, I didn't
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think of that movie. I went straight to Adam Sandler instead of maybe the
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kids reverse aging. Right, wasn't that Benjamin Button anyway? So a couple
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of explanations. One would have been that they were just dead wrong on the
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age of the universe. But they've come up with something else, and I
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suppose, you know, this is a possible explanation for it. But and
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it just relates to something called the burst star formation. What exactly is that?
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And who gave it that name? Yeah, so one of two things
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has to be true. As you said, the universe is older than what
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we thought, and so there's been more time for them to mature, or
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something's going on with that star formation that you don't really understand. And so
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what a team based out of Northwestern the lead authors from Northwestern University, there's
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a team of researchers that used supercomputer simulations to say well, wait a minute,
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what if our ideas about star formation don't necessarily apply to these ultra young
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galaxies. What if the way stars are forming in that highly young universe in
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which they're coming of age just something allows for star formation to take place at
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a much faster rate. And so this is where the term bursty star formation
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came from. It came from this group of scientists to say, look,
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maybe things were really quiescent, in other words, just in the early stages,
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not much as happening at all, and then all of a sudden,
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a giant wave of star formation occurs. Now that's not just again, that's
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not just a hand waving explanation. They went to the supercomputer to see if
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they could simulate that given a certain set of physical parameters that are consistent with
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the early universe, and lo and behold, they were actually able to create,
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with certain initial conditions this very event taking place in their simulations where you
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have fairly quiet, not much going on at all, and then all of
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a sudden, a very violent period and active period of star formation in the
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history of that galaxy when it is very very young, that allows it to
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shine as brightly or nearly as brightly as a mature galaxy like the Milky Way,
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but do so in the very early part of its life time. So
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that's where the whole notion of a birsty star formation episode has come from.
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And so this is just one possible explanation. There could be others, but
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at least there is now a physically probable or physically possible set of scenarios that
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would lead to these ultra bright galaxies, maybe not even being as massive as
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the Milky Way, but shining as brightly as the Milky Way in their early
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lifetimes. So, and as you pointed out, we're looking back in time
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because of obviously how far away that we're looking in the light traveling. So
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because we haven't had the aforementioned piece of technology in place in the James Space
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Telescope, we had no idea that this was even an option. And that's
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what happens again. So there are lots of different parameters that can be put
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into simulations like this. They give you all kinds of different paths to what
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we would call a normal galaxy today. But if you don't have any reason
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to think that it's anything but just kind of a slow, steady process of
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evolving, then there's no reason to add those kind of extreme parameters in your
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simulations. You just say, well, the simple, simplest explanation is it
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grows slowly over time and it arrives at this point. But since they have
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this new data from the JWST, they can now say, well, wait
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a minute, we do have to put in some kind of an extreme modifier
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into our simulations because we're seeing these highly mature galaxies really early on and we
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need to know why that is. So what can we do in this computer
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simulation to kind of change the parameters around on the path of evolution from basically
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nothing to a mature galaxy like the Milky Way or like the Andromeda. And
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so now they have this new episode once again titled Bursty star Formation by the
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authors of this search, that kind of gets us to a much more mature
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galaxy at a much earlier time and then drifts off to become something like the
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Milky Way or Andrameda over a much longer phase of time and just kind of
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an early jump and then in a slow, steady burn to get us to
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the to the present age. And just a reminder, we're talking about scientists.
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These aren't creative writing experts. So you know, when they come up
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with a name like bursty star formation, they're doing their best. I mean,
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astronomers have given this terms like black hole yeah, big bang yep,
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sun spot yep. So you know they're not stand up all night thinking of
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this. Yeah, and they're effective though those are effective. Maybe bursty star
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formation we'll catch on. By the way, if you had Intuitive Machines on
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your scorecard as the possible first private company to launch a put a spacecraft safely
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touching down on the Moon, you may be in for big winnings. I
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would say that that would be a very high ratio, you know, like
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a you know, five hundred to one. I mean, I don't know,
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Yeah, I would think the odds would be good. People know of
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Intuitive Machines, they're not familiar with that company, a real dark horse here
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in the race to land a spacecraft safely. That's the key word, safely.
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And they haven't done that yet. And I'm going to say this too,
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and just looking at the comments from the CEO of the company, I
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appreciate the fact that they're they're looking at things the way we've discussed before.
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You have to celebrate all of the small accomplishments along the way, and that's
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been a very healthy approach for this company thus far. And he's looking through
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each of the next processes for what they have to do to finally be that
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first one. And I know he's excited about the possibility of being the first
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one. Darn straight, is what I would say to that. We,
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you know, here at Space Science Center, as we're moving in progressive,
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you know, fashion, toward something better, we celebrate every little micro step
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along the way, because quite frankly, these things are hard, right And
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that's for running a science museum, I can't imagine for running a commercial space
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company. I would absolutely celebrate every little milestone. So so yes, here's
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what we have. Companies called Intuitive Machines. They have built a robotic lunar
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lander called Nova C and that's nova, the word Nova dash C, the
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letter C Nova dash C, Nova C. And so they are going to
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have a mission called the IM one mission. That's IM for Intuitive Machines DASH
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one. So what do we have While we have Intuitive Machines IM one Nova
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C lunar lander, that's what you have. And on Tuesday, the company
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kind of opened up the doors and let the press come in and have a
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labs close up look at their completed robotic lander, the Novac. This is
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a last look before they cart it up, put it in a crate,
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ship it to Florida, and get ready to mount it to a rocket to
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fly to space. So that's kind of the steps. So it's like,
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hey, reporters, come take one last look. There are a couple of
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great articles. The first the main articles on collectSPACE dot com. It's written
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by the author of that website. His name is Robert Peerlman. He's an
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expert in space artifacts and we've actually worked with Robert here at Space sign Center
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a few times on some of the artifacts that we're curating here in our collection.
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That article was rerun on space dot com, so you can either visit
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collectSPACE dot com or space dot com and see this article about Intuitive Machines and
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Novac. And from that there have come some quotes from the CEO of Intuitive
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Machines. His name is Steve Altimus, and Steve Altimus had this to say
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about the upcoming mission. I would like to be first, okay, hold
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on that that was a quote. Let me explain the first commercial company to
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put any kind of lander on the Moon at all is what he's talking about,
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right, So back to the quote, I would like to be first.
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I hope it works out that way. It looks like it might,
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and so good for us. But every step we moved closer to shipping this
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to the cape, integrating it with the launch vehicle, loading it with cragenics,
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lifting it off the pad, flying it to the vicinity of the Moon,
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capturing an orbit, every one of those is a success in its own
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right, and I'd celebrate each one. So this is, ladies and gentlemen,
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is what Wes was referring to moments ago when talking about celebrating all the
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little milestones along the way that you have to have in order to have a
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completely successful mission. So back to Steve Altimus. One more quote. He
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said this we land safely and softly. I'm sorry he said. He didn't
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say safely. He said we land softly. That's a touchdown. That's a
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wild success. Plus if we don't, well we've learned alone the way.
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We'll pick ourselves up and go to the next So that's Steve Steve Altimus being
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quoted from collectsbase dot com by Robert Robert Perlman, and you can check out
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check out that quote at his website. So the notion is though it's the
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first time any any entity that's not a government would have put safely on the
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surface of the Moon a lander. Now, there have been a couple of
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private companies that have tried this with very splattery results, because those things crashed
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into the Moon at some kind of high velocity. So when Steve Altimus is
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talking about a soft landing, that's what we mean. It's actually able to
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descend in the gravity of the Moon and touchdown softly on the Moon for any
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American entity. That would be the first time since Apollo seventeen in December of
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nineteen seventy two. It's hard to imagine that no entity from the United States,
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either government or commercial, has landed anything on the Moon with a soft
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landing since nineteen seventy two. Now, we've argered a few things in on
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the Moon, some of those intentionally, some of them not intentionally, but
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we haven't had a soft touchdown. So this really is a big deal.
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It's an engineering feat. And by the way, we know that Intuitive Machines
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may not be considered a sister company, but it's at least a cousin company
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to a different organization we've talked about here a lot, which is Axiom Space.
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Some of the same ownership people are involved in both of these companies,
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so Axiom Space and Intuitive Machines, both from Houston, Texas. This would
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be the first ever moon bound spacecraft to be built in Houston, which is
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also interesting, right A lunar lander has never been built in the city of
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Houston, the space city of Houston, and so a couple of important firsts.
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And we wish the folks at Intunor Machines a lot of luck. They're
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gonna ship this thing down to the Cape. It's gonna fly, by the
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way, on a SpaceX Falcon nine. It's due to launch at its earliest
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on November sixteenth, and whatever day it does launch, they're anticipating a six
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day trip to the Moon, so a rather quick trip up there, and
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then we'll see if they can land or not. You mentioned there have been
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some other attempts to land on the Moon with splattery results. Just as a
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side note, if you're in your forties, it may be time for your
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colonoscopee. Just as a public service announcement. I don't know what made me
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think of that, but just a heads up, maybe you should consider at
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least checking with your doctor. It's always good to get things checked out.
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And I just want to reference this because I like Steve Altimus's comments and I
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know it's important for space companies to approach things that will And we've talked before
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about even a company like SpaceX who sometimes seems to just be, you know,
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just taking the big swing. Maybe the precautions aren't necessarily done the way
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everyone else does it. They take the big swing, but they still take
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time to celebrate even what seems like a failure, and that's just important.
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And I know we often talk about kids that are considering STEM careers or possibly
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going in that direction later in life, and it's just important to remind them
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of that because that's a big part of the whole process. You learn as
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you go along. John Hume, I think is his name, the guy
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who does the song for the Welcome Direcshum documentary series and it's the opening theme
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to the show and it's don't forget to sing when you win, And that's
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important for these companies. They have to remember to do that when they have
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those wins. So if they get their one hundred percent a plus win of
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a soft touchdown and the wild success. I'm sure you're going to see folks
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with their shirts off, waving them around there, celebrating and appropriately so.
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But I also think that if they get anywhere close to it, you're gonna
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see the same kind of celebration because, as he's pointing out, they're learning
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as they go. Yeah, this is a style of engineering and design that
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has become popular with commercial space companies, and it's it's let's just go ahead
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and build a thing, blow it up, figure out what went wrong,
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fix those things, build it, blow it up, figure out what went
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wrong. It's a process called agile development. And if you've got the money
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for it, it's great. That's right. That's the other key. The
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problem is you got to keep building these things, so they all cost money.
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So if you've got enough cash flow coming in, you can just go
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ahead and blow it up and then figure out what went wrong, and then
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blow it up again, figure out again what went wrong, and pretty soon
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you figured out all the problems and it doesn't blow up anymore, and then
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you put precious payloads on it like human beings. But but you know,
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for those people who have worked long and hard on a space vehicle. They
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really don't want to see it blow up. They really don't want to see
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it augur into the Moon at high speed. They really want to just kind
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of have it work. So they have indeed tried to think of everything and
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done all kinds of testing, even in the agile development sort of world which
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modern space companies live in, and don't forget to sing when you win.
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It's important, and that's true in life in general, I think. All
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right, so let's talk about Dish Network, because we've talked off and on
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for a little while now about space junk. No, we're not talking about
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the Star Wars sequels, actual junk in space when it comes. And I'm
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only picking on really two of those movies. You know, the first of
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those sequels, it was all right, It was the last two I got
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more issues with. All right, So let's talk about Dish Network and this
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fine that they're going to have to pay because they're not They got one saddle
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light in general in particular, that's not where it should be and it's just
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part of space junk. Now, can you imagine how much in orbit space
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debris you would generate by blowing up the Death Star it's a great point.
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I mean it's a great right. I mean, think about the space you're
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never going to be able to fly in. It's not tattooy. What planet
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was it? Indoor? I don't know. Something. You're never gonna be
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able to fly into the orbit of that world again because there is a ridiculous
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and excessive amount of space debris. Because we blew up a moon sized space
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station. Now that's what we call contamination, Ladies and gentlemen. I think
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that's a problem. I think that is a series of problems. And uh,
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and now we can officially, I mean, this is this is a
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precedent. Now, I guess for other companies moving forward, right, I
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mean, I think they need to do an entire Star Wars sequel where they
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just do nothing but mitigate the space debris left over by not just blowing up
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one, but two Death Stars. How about that? That would be incredible?
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Yeah, all right, well so there's that anyway, So I'm sure
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that would be a blockbuster anyway. So what if you have a bunch of
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space debris around your planet? Oh wait, we do. We have our
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own space debris problem right here around planet Earth, and defunct satellites are a
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part of that. And so the FCC and other governmental regulation agencies have put
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forth a set of guidelines about how to deorbit satellites that are no longer of
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use, and if you don't do it the right way, there are apparently
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consequences, right, there's gonna be fines and actions taken against certain companies.
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Well, the FCC has never enforced one of these actions before until now.
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It adopted a new rule back in twenty twenty two about the way that communications
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companies should dispose of satellites within five years of completion of their mission. And
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it turns out that Dish Network, Lucky Them, was first up to bat
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for not doing it the proper way. And so this is the first ever
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ever penalty against a company for failing to bring an aging satellite to a safe
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orbit and allowing it eventually to decay into the Earth's atmosphere. You can read
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about this on USA Today dot com, but there's other sources carrying the story.
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So in a settlement, the U s satellite television company Dish Network,
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agreed to pay one hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine for not handling the proper
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deorbiting of its unused satellite anymore, a first in the history of the FCC
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and a new era in legally mitigating the out of space debris or hazardous chunks
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of metal up there flying around our Earth in orbits in which they should be.
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So it's an interesting new day for all of the telecommunications companies and other
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private entities who have pieces of metal orbiting the Earth that they are responsible for.
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Dish network customers, keep an eye out. Your bill might go up
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five dollars a month. I don't know. I don't know how that works,
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exactly how they but somehow, I suspect, I don't know what's funny,
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west is I happen to be one of those customers. And that was
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actually my first thought reading the story, is Oh, well, I guess
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my bill's gonna go up. Here we go. Yeah. That's the interesting
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side about that. When a company like that gets fine, you just kind
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of think, well, I guess so if you're a customer, and then
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maybe you're the one that's getting fined. So it would also be unprecedented in
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that regard coming out after a quick go ahead. I'd like to thank the
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FCC really quick before we go to the break. I like to thank the
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FCC for fighting me for satellites. I have no control over whatsoever. In
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an indirect manner, of course, they're fighting me. Thank you, FCC,
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thank you so much. Coming up after a quick break, we're gonna
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talk about quantum dots, and then we'll also talk about an eclipse. We'll
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get into that right after this. So a Nobel Prize in chemistry has been
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awarded for the discovery of quantum dots. What are quantum dots, Sean,
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I mean, they're like your regular dots, except they're quaranties. No,
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they got something to do with TVs, don't they. I mean they do.
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They have things to do with TVs and cancer and a variety of developments.
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Friends. We don't typically talk about esoteric physics or chemistry topics on here,
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but this is just pretty cool and it does have all kinds of potential
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applications to not only space exploration but all branches of science really, So congratulations
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to the twenty twenty three Nobel Prize winners in chemistry. There's a trio of
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scientists who've been awarded their award for their work in the development of quantum dots,
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and a quantum dot, friends, is really kind of a semiconductor nanocrystal.
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It's a really really tiny physical structure made up of just a few atoms
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that can have a very interesting effect because when that quantum dot has engineered or
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structured in just the right way, when it interacts with ultraviolet light, it
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can produce signature colors depending on the size of the quantum dot, and the
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colors are actually produced from quantum mechanical effects. They wouldn't necessarily be produced by
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that physical object, but because of their tiny, tiny size, quantum mechanical
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effects become important. And so these brilliant scientists figured out ways to be able
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to manipulate these tiny nanocrystals the size of them where they would produce signature colors
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when illuminated by ultraviolet light. So, in other words, you could tell
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where these quantum dots are located, which means if they're on the order of
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just a few atoms across, you could implant them into cancer cells and then
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you can trace the cancer cells throughout the human body by illuminating them with ultraviolet
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light, and the quantum dots just simply glow and net is a very important
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indicator that allows cancer to be treated in new and creative ways. So there's
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how it relates to cancer technology. But imagine also if you can just manipulate
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these quantum dots to produce any colors. You have signature applications in both LED
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lighting and quantum dot television screens to produce the kinds of colors that you want
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in the kinds of locations that you want. And so these are but a
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few of the amazing applications of this new quantum technology. And again I keep
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saying the word quantum because you have to be on a very very small scale,
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on a scale of just a few atoms across, in order for these
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quantum mechanical effects to really become important. Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics
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that explores the ultra tiny relationships between parts that somehow have you know, sometimes
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they can have these macroscopic consequences. In other words, we can see them
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in daily life, right, but they're happening on the materials smallest scales.
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So it's really the manipulation of materials at the smallest scales that allow for this
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crazy cool interaction between UV light and the quantum dots producing a whole rainbow of
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colors that then allows for all of these all of these spinoff applications to occur,
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and so we'd like to say congratulations to Maungi Bewendi, Lewis Bruce and
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Alexi Ekhimoff. You can say that again, I don't know if I can.
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I don't know if I want to try. Hopefully I got it right
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the first time. These are pioneers in the exploration of the nano world,
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so said by the Nobel Committee for Chemistry in awarding them the prize in the
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Swedish capital of Stockholm on Wednesday. So congratulations to the group. Believe it
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or not, all three of those people are in the US. Even though
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they have rather foreign sounding names. They are US scientists. One of them
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is a Russian science whose scientist who's relocated to the US, but Bewndi is
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a professor at MIT, Bruce is a retired professor or a professor emeritus at
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Columbia University, and Echamov is a Russian scientist who works for Nanocrystal's Technology Inc.
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Based in New York. Congratulations to this year's winners of the Nobel Prize
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in Chemistry for quantum dots. As the guy who reads names at Columbus State
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university's graduation. A nice job on the names. If I were a betting
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man, and this isn't me being critical, but I would think it would
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be maybe mwonge I'm guessing that there's like a doub sound in that. I
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don't know. I'm gonna I'm gonna do some research. That's my guess,
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but I'm not sure. I'm gonna go with you. That's just a hunch.
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And when I was reading at ahead while you were talking about them,
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before you got to their names, I thought, MWONGEE, I'm just that's
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just a guess. But I'm gonna do my due diligence and look it up
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after we're finished. All right, let's talk about this eclipse. It's coming
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up, because we'll have another show before then, but it's time for folks
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to start mentally preparing for the terror in the sky that is an eclipse.
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Listeners of native stars across the continent of North America, you're gonna be having
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an opportunity to engage with an eclipse on October fourteenth of twenty twenty three,
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just a little bit more than a week from now, and if you get
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into the right place, you might even see this rare phenomenon called an annular
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eclipse, where the Moon tries its best to block out the light from the
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Sun, but it's just a little too far away from the Earth because it's
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a position called apagee it's farthest point in its elongated orbit away from the Earth,
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and so it appears a little bit too small in the sky and it
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does not cover up the complete disc of the Sun, but it makes for
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what we call a ring of fire or an annular eclipse, where you see
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a circle of the Sun's outer limb shining around the sphere or the circle of
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the Moon causing this beautiful ring of fire appearance. And yes, that is
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going to be visible in a narrow band from Oregon down through Nevada, down
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through into Utah, down into Arizona, New Mexico. I think it's gonna
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be very close to Roswell. I would just encourage everybody to flood Roswell and
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then get into the path from there, because if I'm going to see a
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ring of fire eclipse, what cooler place to observe it from than Roswell in
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New Mexico. That's all I'm gonna say. That just sounds like fun to
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me. That sounds like a party, and they have Mexican food and Margarita's.
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So let's all meet up in Roswell and we'll watch this together. Okay,
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if you can't make it to Roswell, New Mexico, that is not
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Georgia, Roswell in New Mexico. If you can't get there to see this
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Annulayer or you know the closest thing to the total eclipse, well just come
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on down to the Space Science Center because we're going to have a party right
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here. I won't actually be in Roswell. I'm going to be here in
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Columbus, Georgia looking at about of sixty percent eclipse something on that order depends
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on how you measure it by magnitude or buy service area, somewhere around the
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sixty percent level. In other words, more than half of the Sun is
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going to be blocked from our hometown for the Space Science Center, Columbus,
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Georgia, and I'm going to be here with my team from the Coke Cola
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Space sign Center with an array of telescope set up with safety glass to be
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able to show people the Sun safely without burning their eyeballs out, because you
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really shouldn't stare at eclipses. It's what we consider bad. But we will
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have safe telescopes, and we will have safety glasses, and we'll have some
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other viewing devices and means available for you to come down and actually see that
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total solar eclipse without the pinhole burns in your eyes from staring through a telescope.
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So come on down and join us. October fourteenth, that's a Saturday.
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We schedule it on a Saturday for you. You're welcome. Can't ask
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for more than that. I mean, it's convenient, isn't it. I
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mean, really, you know, I have been to one of these eclipse
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parties at the Cocola Space Science Center and it is wild, man, it
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was. It's crazy. It's a lot of fun, and it's a lot
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of people all like doing the same thing, staring up in the sky without
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having to worry about an alien invasion, because you know, typically in movies,
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when everybody's staring at the sky, you know, the White House is
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in trouble or the Empire State Building or you know, we always have to
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go through those sorts of scenes. So that event's coming up, obviously,
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and I wanted to mention a little further down the line. Because you guys
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just had Music under the Dome. You got another one of those coming up
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on November seventh. Yeah, we have a beautiful concert here last Tuesday evening.
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It was absolutely amazing for the people who attended. Thank you so much
33:54
for coming out. I hope you go ahead and get your tickets early for
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the next coming concerts because we only have one hundred and sixteen seats and they
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sell out rather quickly, So make sure and get your concert tickets for Music
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under the Dome that is a collaboration with our friends from the Schwobe School of
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Music here at Columbus State University. The faculty and students actually perform the music
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live in the planetarium, and we have various artists, including our own planetarium
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director, mister Lance Tankersley, who create the visual graphics that go on the
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dome choreograph to the music being performed by the artists. Folks, it's just
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a fantastic experience and I would highly encourage you to come down if you're anywhere
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near our area and join in on one of the Music under the Dome concerts.
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One more for this year twenty twenty three, and then two in the
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spring of twenty twenty four, and you're invited even if your name is Mungi
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Bewindy. I just checked it out. It's Mongy, So see, I
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overthought it. You were on point, and I blew it. So there
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you go. I mean, you know, I got lucky, you know,
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stopped clocks a rise right twice a day. Right, So here we
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go. Thank you for listening, and we'll do it again next week.
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