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The Universe Is Doomed! (Pardon the Clickbait) · Made of Stars

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  Speaker 1: Warning.
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  Speaker 2: The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics,
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  Speaker 2: and space news throughout the known universe. Listeners have been
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  Speaker 2: known to learn about astronomical phenomenon the scientific method, and
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  Speaker 2: expanded vocabulary to include terms like quasar asterism and uranus. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: that's your own risk.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: When made of stars, made them stars made sizes. When
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  Speaker 4: made of stars, you could be from high they would
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  Speaker 4: New Mexicomus where a stars?
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  Speaker 1: When we are made of stars.
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  Speaker 5: I'm West Carol, joined by my good friend doctor Sean
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  Speaker 5: Cruising from columb State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
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  Speaker 6: More than Sean, good morning, less could to be here today.
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  Speaker 5: Seems like it was just like a year ago roughly
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  Speaker 5: that we were talking a lot about solar activity and
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  Speaker 5: we had a lot of fun because of solar activity.
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  Speaker 1: And now like five.
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  Speaker 5: Months later there was more solar activity and we had
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  Speaker 5: more fun from it. Now, what we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 5: this week isn't necessarily saying hey, go out and stare
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  Speaker 5: at the sky tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But it it, I mean, could lead to that.
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  Speaker 5: Who knows, Because this week we have had some significant
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  Speaker 5: solar activity and then one of these things where we
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  Speaker 5: had CM's going in opposite directions, like that's kind of cool, like.
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  Speaker 1: Darth Maul or whatever. I mean, what's going on?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, how cool was that scene he turns that
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  Speaker 5: thing on and you're like, all right, here we go,
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  Speaker 5: and then the other side open and you're like, oh
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  Speaker 5: my goodness, this is game on.
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  Speaker 1: This is for real.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not on the sun.
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  Speaker 6: You can catch yourself with that thing, you know, you might.
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  Speaker 6: That's like you're gonna take your wrist off with that
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  Speaker 6: other side there.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I would, I know I would. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even sure.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't have done the Luke move from the you know,
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  Speaker 5: the little out take where he's looking into the actual
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  Speaker 5: handle of it.
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  Speaker 1: And he's going he said, did he really do that
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  Speaker 1: in the movie? No, he didn't in the movie.
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  Speaker 5: But anyway, but this is kind of a cool thought.
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  Speaker 5: Though it's coming in opposite directions from the Sun. But
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  Speaker 5: that kind of thing happens, right, that's not just firing
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  Speaker 5: in all directions, And that's why when it does make
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  Speaker 5: it to us, it's kind of a big deal.
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  Speaker 6: You know, some this might be news to some people
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  Speaker 6: out there, but the Sun is actually.
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  Speaker 1: Round well, it's a sphere.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, so it's round in like a third dimensional sorry, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: so just round.
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  Speaker 3: It's spherical.
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  Speaker 5: Do we have flat sun people or there are there
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  Speaker 5: flat sun people? I would think I think there could be.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to start a movement, but I would
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  Speaker 5: think they probably we exist, don't they.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, if they don't exist, I think they should
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  Speaker 6: start their own movement and just become that. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: if you're if you're willing to live that, go for it.
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  Speaker 5: The sad thing is is we could probably start that
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  Speaker 5: sarcastically and it would become like a real thing.
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  Speaker 6: The Sun's a sphere people, all right, It's roughly a sphere.
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  Speaker 6: It's a spheroid to be technically correct, but it's it's
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  Speaker 6: spheroidal all right. So so anyway, because of that, when
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  Speaker 6: giant sun spots appear, uh in the Earth facing direction
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  Speaker 6: of any kind, they're kind of coming around the corner
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  Speaker 6: of the east side.
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  Speaker 3: I say corner. It's a sphere.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a spheroid, so maybe it does have a corner.
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  Speaker 6: I get those spheroids sometimes they're sharp. Anyway, So the
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  Speaker 6: U in the lingo of the BIZ we call it
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  Speaker 6: the limb of the Sun. And you know that would
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  Speaker 6: that would refer to the visible edge of the Sun. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: not the edge, the visible edge. So so so the
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  Speaker 6: Sun as it rotates, is rotating giant storms around that
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  Speaker 6: occasionally form on the far side of the Sun, rotate
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  Speaker 6: into view on the eastern limb of the Sun, and
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  Speaker 6: then make a roughly two week trip across the Earth
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  Speaker 6: facing side before disappearing over the western limb as viewed
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  Speaker 6: from the planet Earth. Okay, so what happened was there
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  Speaker 6: was one giant sunspot that we've been looking at for
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  Speaker 6: the last ten days or so making its trip toward
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  Speaker 6: the west, and then there was another newly emerging giant
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  Speaker 6: sunspot group just coming around the eastern limb when they
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  Speaker 6: both erupted at the same time. That's been within the
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  Speaker 6: last forty eight hours this has taken place, and there
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  Speaker 6: was a resultant one point two X class flare and
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  Speaker 6: X one point two and that event caused a shortwave
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  Speaker 6: radio blackout over the Americas both north and south. It
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  Speaker 6: was our hemisphere that was facing that direction when those
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  Speaker 6: electromagnetic waves arrive from the Sun. Now, so the light
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  Speaker 6: travels fast. It gets here in eight and a half minutes,
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  Speaker 6: but the particles that were blasted out in those same
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  Speaker 6: explosions take a little bit longer, and that's called the
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  Speaker 6: coronal mass ejection. That wave of material is now inbound
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  Speaker 6: and maybe arriving here very shortly. And so yeah, it
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  Speaker 6: could be something that we want to watch the skies
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  Speaker 6: for because there were also there was an M class
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  Speaker 6: flare and then also another X class flare that took place,
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  Speaker 6: and so there's been just a series of very powerful
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  Speaker 6: flares on the Sun just kind of popping radiation in
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  Speaker 6: our general direction in kind of a cumulative way. And
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  Speaker 6: even though those flares weren't directly facing the Earth, their
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  Speaker 6: combined product is now causing some disturbance here in our
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  Speaker 6: part of the geomagnetic space. So yeah, yeah, Earth could
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  Speaker 6: be impacted by the incoming particles from these flares. And
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  Speaker 6: maybe even as we saw a year ago, Wes, it
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  Speaker 6: was a year ago this week that here in what
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  Speaker 6: we call West central Georgia we saw the Boreal's phenomenon
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  Speaker 6: on May tenth, twenty twenty four, and then again on
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  Speaker 6: October tenth, twenty twenty four. Could this be another episode, friends,
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  Speaker 6: just go out and look tonight. That's what I would
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  Speaker 6: recommend go out and put your eyes on the sky
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  Speaker 6: for a while. It's a beautiful springtime part of the year. Anyway,
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  Speaker 6: check out the skies tonight, particularly those listeners in northern
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  Speaker 6: latitudes up toward the Canadian border or in Alaska. Go
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  Speaker 6: out and check out the sky. Well in Canada, you
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  Speaker 6: know it's not part of the US, but okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: in Canada too, go look there anyway, So check out
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  Speaker 6: the skies. You might see some of that Aurora borealis phenomenon.
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  Speaker 5: I want to jump to a story about Aurora's on Jupiter.
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  Speaker 5: James Webspace telescope captured those just following in the chain
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  Speaker 5: of this Aurora thing and another win for James webb Man.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so the James Webspace Telescope has been providing all
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  Speaker 6: manner of interesting stories for us here on this podcast.
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  Speaker 6: So we would like to thank that James Webspace Telescope
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  Speaker 6: in particular and the team of people who are both
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  Speaker 6: operating that telescope and doing research with that great instrument.
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  Speaker 6: But yes, just a month ago we ran a story
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  Speaker 6: here on the podcast that Aurora phenomenon had been confirmed
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  Speaker 6: in the atmosphere of the planet Neptune. It was say
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  Speaker 6: confirmed because they thought they may have seen it in
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  Speaker 6: voyager images but not sure, and JWST captured the first
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  Speaker 6: proof positive that aurora phenomenon were taking place in the
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  Speaker 6: atmosphere of the planet Neptune. Well, now we have a
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  Speaker 6: story about aurora phenomenon in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Now
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  Speaker 6: that's not new, we have recorded that before. But the
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  Speaker 6: James Webs Space Telescope has captured some very important data
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  Speaker 6: for understanding these phenomenon, but also just some beautiful images
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  Speaker 6: of the aurora taking place in the atmosphere of the
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  Speaker 6: largest planet in our Solar system, the planet Jupiter.
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  Speaker 3: So these Jovian.
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  Speaker 6: Auroras were observed there over one hundred times brighter than
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  Speaker 6: the aurora phenomenon here on Earth. It's for two reasons.
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  Speaker 6: Number one, Jupiter's magnetic field just a whole lot stronger
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  Speaker 6: than Earth's magnetic field, so it's capturing more efficiently those
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  Speaker 6: particles coming from the Sun even though it's farther away
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  Speaker 6: from the Sun. The second reason that these phenomenon are
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  Speaker 6: brighter on Jupiter is because there's a little moon near
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  Speaker 6: well it's not that little, it's one of the solar
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  Speaker 6: system's larger moons, but it's little compared to Jupiter anyway.
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  Speaker 6: So it's it's called the it's called the moon is
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  Speaker 6: called Io, and so Io has something very interesting taking place.
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  Speaker 6: It is the only world in our Solar system that
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  Speaker 6: has active volcanoes taking place besides the Earth, and it's
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  Speaker 6: actually even a bit more volcanic than the Earth by comparison.
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  Speaker 6: So the volcanoes on the moon Io, which are generated
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  Speaker 6: due to tidal heating from that really strong gravitational force
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  Speaker 6: of Jupiter squeezing that little moon. It just kind of
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  Speaker 6: shoots its stuff up in the area. The Moon gets
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  Speaker 6: squeezed and it just kind of pops and it shoots
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  Speaker 6: particles in the air. But those particles are also charged,
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  Speaker 6: also react with jupiter strong magnetic field and also stimulate
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  Speaker 6: auror phenomenon in the atmosphere of Jupiter. So you have
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  Speaker 6: particles streaming in from the Sun due to the effects
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  Speaker 6: of coronal mass ejections and things that cause aurar here
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  Speaker 6: on Earth. But you also have auror on Jupiter because
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  Speaker 6: of the moon Io and its charged particles being ejected
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  Speaker 6: from its volcanic surface.
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  Speaker 5: Coming up after a quick break, a supermassive black hole
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  Speaker 5: exposed its we'll talk about that next. Que the muse
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  Speaker 5: we got a super massive black hole story.
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  Speaker 6: I can never do enough super massive black hole stories.
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  Speaker 3: They just make me happy.
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  Speaker 5: Well, this is kind of a cool one because this
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  Speaker 5: thing just kind of was like, hey over here, yeah, so.
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  Speaker 6: Let's talk about our understanding of super massive black holes,
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  Speaker 6: and then we'll talk about this really cool story. By
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  Speaker 6: the way, which is from science alert dot com. So
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  Speaker 6: it's a great, great place to read about some space
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  Speaker 6: stories and other stories. Actually, so here's the thing. Galaxies
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  Speaker 6: like the Milky Way tend to have mass concentrations in
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  Speaker 6: the center of those galaxies, and that mass concentration we
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  Speaker 6: have found typically forms what are known as super massive
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  Speaker 6: black holes. Now, a single black hole, or what we
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  Speaker 6: would call our garden variety black hole or normal black hole,
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  Speaker 6: is a stellar mass black hole. Now, when I say
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  Speaker 6: stellar mass, it's it's more massive than the Sun, but
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  Speaker 6: not by orders of magnitude more massive. It's, you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's a few times more massive than the Sun. And
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  Speaker 6: that's caused generally by a massive star that's reached the
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  Speaker 6: end of its lifetime, exploded and left to what's called
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  Speaker 6: a collapse arre in the middle. The core basically turns
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  Speaker 6: itself inside out and gets so dense that it becomes
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  Speaker 6: hard to describe even with the gravitational theories of Einstein
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  Speaker 6: from general relativity. Okay, so there's your there's your garden
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  Speaker 6: variety black hole. A super massive black hole is that
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  Speaker 6: kind of an object so massive that it turned space
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  Speaker 6: inside out, basically, but it's millions of times more massive
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  Speaker 6: than our Sun. And so we have long believed that
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  Speaker 6: those are a consequence of the process that forms galaxies
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  Speaker 6: in general, because we find them in the center of
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  Speaker 6: the gravitation well of pretty much any galaxy, of particularly
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  Speaker 6: spiral galaxies.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 6: That's what we've come to understand. But here's a weird thing.
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  Speaker 6: What if a galaxy had two super massive black holes.
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  Speaker 6: What if there was another super massive black hole.
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  Speaker 3: And the weird thing is.
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  Speaker 6: You could imagine, Okay, maybe two galaxies ran into each other,
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  Speaker 6: they collided, and so they became one kind of super galaxy,
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  Speaker 6: and the two separate super massive black holes from the
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  Speaker 6: two separate galaxies ended up in some kind of an
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  Speaker 6: orbital dance around one another, where they formed what would
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  Speaker 6: be known as a binary super massive black hole. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 6: I can imagine that happening. In fact, we've seen that
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  Speaker 6: process happening many times in our universe. But this one,
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  Speaker 6: this get this supermassive black hole story is going to
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  Speaker 6: be weirder than that. It's just a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: different because there is an event that was observed called
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  Speaker 6: a tidal disruption event in a distant galaxy. And now
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  Speaker 6: this title disruption event has a catalog number. It's called
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  Speaker 6: AT twenty twenty four TVD. And we don't really need
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  Speaker 6: to discuss what all those letters mean, but the twenty
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  Speaker 6: twenty four part means it was discovered last year, right,
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  Speaker 6: And so.
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  Speaker 3: As we have more closely.
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  Speaker 6: Examined this event using the Keck telescope and some other data,
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  Speaker 6: astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley have realized that
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  Speaker 6: this super massive black hole, the second one, is untethered
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  Speaker 6: from the nucleus of its parent galaxy. In other words,
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  Speaker 6: it's just kind of free roaming in some strange pattern
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  Speaker 6: of motion through its parent galaxy, which means it's not
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  Speaker 6: in a neat orbiting binary pair of supermassive black holes.
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  Speaker 6: All right, So this thing is about six hundred million
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  Speaker 6: light years away, and it was discovered, not because we
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  Speaker 6: saw it directly. It's not like it's feeding and it's
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  Speaker 6: glowing like typical active galactic nuclear I do. No.
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  Speaker 3: This had a one time event.
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  Speaker 6: This second supermassive black hole, traveling in a weird arc
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  Speaker 6: through its parent galaxy, basically swallowed one of the stars
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  Speaker 6: in that galaxy. And when that happened, that's when we
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  Speaker 6: have this event called a tidal disruption event. What's being
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  Speaker 6: disrupted is not the black hole, it's the star, right,
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  Speaker 6: And so we see this enormous flare of light as
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  Speaker 6: the result of this wandering supermassive black hole gobbling up
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  Speaker 6: one of the unsuspecting stars in this parent galaxy and
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  Speaker 6: blasting a giant burst of radiation out into space.
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  Speaker 1: And this is this was the moment of hey, I'm
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  Speaker 1: over here.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, So that when Wes said it exposed itself, it
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  Speaker 6: did so in this kind of astrophysical manner. It swallowed
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  Speaker 6: a star and as that material was streaking into the
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  Speaker 6: center of that gravitation well, it flashed a bright glow
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  Speaker 6: of light from the acceleration due to that very strong
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  Speaker 6: gravitational field, before passing the event horizon and disappearing forever. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: cool story, very weird. Lead scientist on this project, Yohan
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  Speaker 6: Yao from the University of California, Berkeley, had this quote
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  Speaker 6: at twenty four TVD is the first offset titled disruption
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  Speaker 6: event captured by optical sky surveys, and it opens up
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  Speaker 6: an entire possibility of uncovering this elusive population of wandering
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  Speaker 6: black holes within.
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  Speaker 3: Future sky surveys.
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  Speaker 6: And to continue the quote right now, theorists have given
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  Speaker 6: much attention to offset TDEs. I think this discovery will
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  Speaker 6: motivate scientists to look for more examples of this type
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  Speaker 6: of event, so says yo Han Yau, University of California,
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  Speaker 6: Berkeley about this amazing discovery.
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  Speaker 5: We've been talking for a couple of weeks about the
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  Speaker 5: Cosmos for eighty two. It has now landed on Earth
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  Speaker 5: and we can give this update. Spoloosh all right, as expected.
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  Speaker 5: If you were certainly going to make a wager on
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  Speaker 5: this thing, the safe bet would have been on spoloosh.
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  Speaker 1: At least we assume it was spolluished.
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  Speaker 5: There haven't many reports of many boats getting hit, but yes,
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  Speaker 5: it hit water as you know, just just you basic statistics.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a statistics ologist, but I can tell you
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  Speaker 5: I know that the Earth is mostly water, and if
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  Speaker 5: something is going to be flying into the Earth, it's
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  Speaker 5: a pretty good chance it's gonna hit water. And apparently
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  Speaker 5: this thing hit water on Sunday.
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  Speaker 6: So regular listeners to the show will remember when my
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  Speaker 6: co host West Carroll correctly predicted that this thing would
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  Speaker 6: likely hit in water somewhere, and he was he was
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  Speaker 6: citing the very statistics he has just reiterated, which is
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  Speaker 6: the ratio of hard land surfaces to ocean on the
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  Speaker 6: on the water world of planet Earth.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 6: I was amazing press the digtation. That's that's that invading
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  Speaker 6: former Soviet Union Venus probe landed harmlessly out in a
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  Speaker 6: giant body of water known as the Indian Ocean.
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  Speaker 5: I was, I was reading the stars and tea leaves
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  Speaker 5: and all of those things. Man, It wasn't It wasn't
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  Speaker 5: just something as basic as the Earth is mostly water.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't quite that simple. Come on, man.
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  Speaker 6: So the event occurred somewhere around two twenty four am
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  Speaker 6: Eastern Time on the previous Saturday from recording the show Saturday,
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  Speaker 6: May tenth, which was the one year anniversary by the
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  Speaker 6: way of those Aurora phenomena we were talking about in
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  Speaker 6: twenty twenty four. But anyway, so this thing unrelated events
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  Speaker 6: should we just say the unrelated in an unrelated connection.
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  Speaker 6: So came in on May tenth of this year somewhere
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  Speaker 6: in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, And that's
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  Speaker 6: according to the Russian Space Agency ros Cosmos. But how
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  Speaker 6: do we believe those guys? This was their wreck of
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  Speaker 6: a satellite that was coming back in in the first place.
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  Speaker 6: So anyway, yeah, so the water on Earth is a
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  Speaker 6: big place and it just splashed down harmlessly. Now, one
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  Speaker 6: of the things that this does point out to me
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  Speaker 6: is the need for further what we call space situational awareness,
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  Speaker 6: which is the needed effort to track more accurately all
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  Speaker 6: of the kinds of debris that are up in orbit
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  Speaker 6: around our Earth, whether intentionally or not intentionally, like this
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  Speaker 6: particular space probe was. It was unintentionally in the orbit
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  Speaker 6: of Earth. It was supposed to go to Venus. Anyway,
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  Speaker 6: So as we launch more payloads into space, as we
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  Speaker 6: launch more people into space, as we have more both
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  Speaker 6: commercial and governmental launches into space, we just have more
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  Speaker 6: stuff up there, right, and so we need to we
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  Speaker 6: need to expand our capabilities in tracking and having great
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  Speaker 6: intelligence about where these objects are, what they're behaving, what
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  Speaker 6: their behavior is like in orbit, so that we can
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  Speaker 6: understand how they're behaving and know if they pose any
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  Speaker 6: kind of risk to the space environment, but also re
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  Speaker 6: entry right back back into land like this particular craft yet.
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  Speaker 6: So anyway, that'll be our last story on the uss
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  Speaker 6: OUR Zombie Venus pro. But we may try to invoke
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  Speaker 6: its memory from time to time, just because how often
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  Speaker 6: do we get to say USSR zombie Venus pro.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we think it's our last story. If it
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  Speaker 5: hit a submarine or anything like under the water, we
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  Speaker 5: may find out about that later. I would you like
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  Speaker 5: to point out the fact that I correctly predicted it
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: would hit water. I did a better job of that
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: than I did of mentioning that it was on Saturday,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: and I said Sunday when it came back, and that's
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: clearly written out for me, So I blew that coming
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: up after it was.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Sunday somewhere, because it was two twenty four Eastern time Saturday. There.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Well that's a good point, all right, Well, never mind,
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: I'll stand by just being correct about everything all the time.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Coming up after another quick break. The end of the
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: universe is coming. That should have we should have led
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: with that.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: We'll get to that next.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I saw a story in the last couple of weeks.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: It said something about how eventually we were going to
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: run out of oxygen on Earth because the Sun was
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: gradually heating up and it was going to be like
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: a billion years. And then I saw we had a
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: universe is going to die story for this week, and
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I thought, oh, this must be that story. But no, no,
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: this is a different story about the universe dying. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of math in this that I don't
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: think I can do. I need to get my boys
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: to come in here and help me figure this out
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: as far as which is gonna happen first. Are we
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: gonna run out of oxygen first? Or basically this.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: End of the universe?
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: So I don't know, you can maybe you can break
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: this down for me. What's gonna happen here if this
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: isn't about the oxygen.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: So the story first on cbsnews dot com. It's an
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: interesting story.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Uh. It's referring to some research.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Out of Rabud University, which is a Dutch university, and
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: they and they've released some very important information about how
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: long they think the universe will last. So this is
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: the universe, and to estimate this, this.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: Is the universe. This isn't just specifically our oxygen.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: This is the entire universe, my friend.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: So if we escape, if we escape the oxygen problem
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: on Earth, you know, with the perri air from spaceballs,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: then we, uh, we still have other problems.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: To deal with later. That's what we're getting at. Okay,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: got it.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: You know the one thing we can we can know
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: from astrophysics is the universe is full of problems.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I mean there's problems out there.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: I mean there's ferbies and slush balls and wandering super
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: massive black holes, and the Sun gets angry once in
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: a while and has Carrington events, and yeah, there's a
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: lot of.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Things to worry about. So if you're a warrior, I mean,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: don't don't study astronomy, just you know, just go about
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: your life day to day.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Don't think about what's above your head, you know, crashing
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: ussr venus probes and whatever else might be up there.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: So if you're a warrior, just find a different podcast
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: that's more peaceful. But for the rest of us we
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: get to think about this really fun fact. The headline
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: on CBS News is this universe will die much sooner
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: than expected, new research says. And when I saw this headline,
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: my first thought was, that's good news for Cleveland Brown fans.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, if I'm a Cleveland Brown fan, the universe
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: probably can't end fast enough. I mean there's Watson and
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: Shaduer and all that's going on. I mean, you know,
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: I'm a Denver fan, you know, and so I just
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: still remember the drive. You know, Sorry, Bernie, you know
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: John Elway was there that day, and you know it's.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: It's sad anyway, all right.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: So but I don't know if the Dutch Dutch astronomers
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: are Cleveland Brown fans or not, but they have come
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: out with a staggering new study that has drastically shortened
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: the life of the universe west.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, believelnd, where's the orange helmets? Dutch soccer teams
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: wear orange. I mean it could be there could be
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: a connection.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean you might be onto something there.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: These are the kind of connections that people listen to
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: this podcast for.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Thank you for pointing that out.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: I would also like to point out that you skipped
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: right over Dylan Gabriel in the quarterback room, who actually
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: was drafted before Shador Standers, who's not having a great
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: week himself. I don't know if you saw the his
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: press conference where he walked away and then the guy
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: just still just standing there near the podium accidentally walked
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: into the frame and said, I'm taller than he is,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: and I thought that that's not a good That's not
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: a good week for Dylan Gabriel. The guy's got enough
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: on his plate already, with Chador technically maybe behind him
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: on the depth chart.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Anyway.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: I think the Cavaliers maybe had a we too, I'm
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: not sure.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: But they did. Cleveland's not having a great week.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Cleveland. Let me just get Let me just
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: get on with the death of the universe, all right.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: So imagine a number, imagine a number of my friends,
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: that is a one followed by eleven hundred zeros. That's
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: how long we thought the universe was gonna last. That's
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: a pretty good long time. A one, and then eleven eleven,
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: not eleven zeros, eleven hundred zeros. Go ahead and write
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: that one out with the kids with a crayon on
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: the on the tablecloth. A one with eleven hundred zeros.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: That's all. That's the number of years Earth years by
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: the way, that we thought that the universe was going
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: to last. Well, now this new study by Dutch astronomers
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: has come out and said, no, my friends, no, no, no,
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: the universe is not even gonna last near the nearly
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: that long. Now it's only a one with seventy eight zeros.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: That's less.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: That's a lot less.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: It's a lot less.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: I mean it's a lot less, right, it's like fifteen
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: times less something like that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Again, I'd have to get my boys involved in this.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: You know. If you want me to pronounce some tricky names,
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: I can do that. If you need math involved, I
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: gotta enlist my kids.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I just said, fifteen times less.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: People are out there going this guy has how did
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: this guy get a degree in astle physics? Now it's
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: fifteen it's about fifteen times less zeros. Yeah, so in
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: other words, you know, roughly fifteen orders of magnazue.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Anyway, So there you go.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: So it's a lot less, is my point. It's a
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: lot shorter time A one with seventy eight zeros. How
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: did they figure this out? You might be asking, Well,
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: what they did was this. They said, hey, you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: we want to know what the most durable celestial objects
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: are like as the universe expands and cools, but it's
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: already created these hot objects. What objects out there have
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: the longest possible lifetime of staying before the universe dies
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: of a cold death and all the hydrogen quits fusing
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: and all of the temperature just goes out of everything
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: and it all settles down toward absolute zero. And the
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: objects that they calculated would be the longest living objects
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: out there are white dwarf stars. Now you might be
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: wondering what a white dwarf star is. It is the
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: burning hot ember of a star like the Sun. When
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: the Sun gets to the end of its lifetime and
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: expands its outer layers off that nuclear core where all
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: the fusion took place. Even after the fusion is done,
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: that core is going to stay very very hot for
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: a very very long time. And this team of Dutch
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: scientists have calculated that that will be approximately ten to
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: the seventy eighth years ten with a one with seventy
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: eight zeros behind it. Ten to the power of seventy eight.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: And here's the thing that's a long time.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're good.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: That sun that you were talking about burning off all
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: of our oxygen is gonna happen in a way shorter time.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: There billions of years than this event. Yeah, I don't
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: have a name for ten to the seventy eighth. I mean,
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: I've run out of you know, there's billions, trillions, quadrillions,
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: forget it. It's way too big a number. So it's
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: like really giant, but it's a lot shorter than a
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: one with eleven hundred zeros, which was the previous calculation.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: So therefore, if you're gonna worry about things, or you're
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: a Cleveland Browns fan, this is some news for you.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: The universe is gonna last about one times ten to
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: the seventy eighth years in terms of those last glowing
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: embers of any kind of activity White door stars.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: And I think the moral to this story is, even
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: if you could figure out a way to save our
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: oxygen in a billion years, there's another problem waiting on
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: the horizon. Like you pointed out, there's plenty of problems
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: out there. One more other side note, as you mentioned
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: the you know, the all the hot bodies in the universe.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Congratulations to Salma Hayek for being the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: issue cover model at fifty eight this year. So good
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: for her.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: I mean, fifty eight is a lot less than ten
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: to the power of seventy eight years.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not just gonna go ahead and say it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying that she's ten to the set anyway.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: I'm certainly not accusing that at all. But congratulations to her.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: More made of stars. Right after this, okay, let's talk
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: about what's going on at the Coca Cola Space Science Center.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: It's practically summer. I mean, we've already got school that
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: are out, some starting to drop, like getting the kids
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: out of there, and it's just the field trips slow
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: down for you guys. But you guys are still open
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: for the summer. And you know, as we like to
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: point out as things are warming up, you know, air
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: conditioning is included in the price of admission when you
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: when you come into the see all the artifacts.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: This is absolutely true. And friends, we've got an even
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: cooler deal for you this summer. See cooler like air conditioning,
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: an even cooler deal for you this summer, which is
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: this We have a really great exhibit that's opening up
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: at the Bow Bartlett Center, which is an art gallery
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: also part of Columbus State University.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: As we are here at Coke Cola Space Signce Center.
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: But this is about three blocks down the street, roughly
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: the same street front avenue that the Coke Cola Space
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: Science Center is located on.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: But here's the thing.
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: It's an exhibit at an art gallery, but it's the
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: it's featuring all of the materials that we have from
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: a very famous astronaut, General David R. Scott, commander of
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: Apollo fifteen, also flew to space on Gemini eight and
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Apollo nine. The Scott family, through Dave's brother Tom, has
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: very generously donated many items of memorabilia and beautiful photographs
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: from Dave's adventures in space that were once part of
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: Dave's personal collection. We have archivally framed those up and
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: preserve them and we would love to show the public,
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: but we just don't have enough room in our own
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: exhibit gallery. So the bo Bartlett Center, again part of
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: Colombus State University, has generously offered to collaborate with us
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: to put these pieces on display. And they will be
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: on display this summer from June third through August the
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: second at the bo Bartlett Center here at Columbus State University,
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: about three blocks down the street from the Coca Cola
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: Space Science Center. Now, friends, here's what we'd like to
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: incur you to do. Go see that first, Go buy
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: and visit the bo Bartlet Center. Check out all of
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: these amazing pieces once again starting June third. Check out
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: all of these amazing pieces from the David Scott collection,
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: including images of David Scott on the surface of the
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: Moon driving around the car that he was the first
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: person ever drive a car on the Moon.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: By the way, and.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: While you're there, you will be able to get a
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: QR code, And when you hit the QR code, you'll
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: be able to get discounted in mission tickets to the
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Coca Cola Space Science Center. See you go to the
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: free art exhibition, hit the QR code, then get discounted
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: tickets and come see us at Space Science Center. Make
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: a day of it, Take the kids, go see these
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: great pieces of memorabilia from one of only twelve people
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: to ever walk on the surface of the Moon. Hit
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: the QR code, get the discounted tickets, and then walk
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: down the street, visit us here and enjoy our air conditioning,
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: but also our Ominosphere Theater, our Cyberfighters, our exhibit gallery
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: containing the largest collection of Space Shuttle artifacts in the
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: state of Georgia, and just generally hang out and have
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: a good old spacey time, including a flight to space
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: on our Space Shuttle Odyssey. That's what you need to do.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: Plan a summer day, come down and check out the
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: exhibit from David Scott at the Bow Bartlett Center, get
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: discountered admission to the Coca Cola Space Science Center just
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: down the street.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Sean and I thank you for listening, and we will
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: do this again next week