1 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, whatnot the stuff to Blow your Mind? 3 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and Julie Douglas. Julie, what 4 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: is What is your relationship with the moon? Hell about it? Yeah? 5 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: Don't you? Well no, maybe I should. Maybe it would 6 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: you could do to get in touch with my primal 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: self when never when you see a full moon, you 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: just ever scream up at the sky la la la, 9 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: and then start howling. No, I guess when I see 10 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: the see the full moon, I my hit just runs 11 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: with some of those uh you know, logical theories about 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: the moon making everyone crazier and bringing out the teen wolves. 13 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: Well possibly between wolves. Yeah, pregnant ladies going to the 14 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: labor teenager is turning into wolves. It's weird. I don't 15 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: actually buy into any the supernatural ideas about the influence 16 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: of them of the moon over human behavior, but I 17 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: still kind of buy into it at an almost subconscious level. 18 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: Like I end up, it ends up moving around in 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: the back of my mind anytime I see a full moon. 20 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: I think it's because it's one of those really primal 21 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: things where that relationship where you look up and you're like, Wow, 22 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: it's just it's, you know, this big luminous light in 23 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 1: the night sky, and you know, our ancestors thought a 24 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: lot about it, and we'll talk a little bit more 25 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: about that, but um, we're kind of looking at this 26 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: topic the moon and thinking of it in terms of 27 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: of a corporation. You know, we're we're Earth Ink and 28 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: we've got that moon. It's one of our subsidiary. Because 29 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: we're jerks like that, right, we think that we are 30 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: just the center of everything, and so we're looking at 31 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: all of our assets here in the milky Way and saying, 32 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: you know, what can we do here to increase our 33 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: earthly profits? And of course we set our sights on 34 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: that glowing orb in the night sky to say, I 35 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: hope you're not thinking of letting the men go, because 36 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,080 Speaker 1: it's it's a very important subsidiary. If we're going to 37 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: discuss it's it's not just it's we're not we're not 38 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: losing money on this investment, the totally delivering. It's more like, 39 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: how could we make the moon more productive for us? 40 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: And what sort of resources and outputs could we nudge 41 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: from it? Right, And when we can talk more about 42 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: we can kind of review its resume here in a 43 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 1: minute and kind of see what it's been doing for us, 44 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: and then maybe what else it could produce for it. 45 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: But let's talk about this idea that the Moon is 46 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: really our companion in orbit. Well, first of all, where 47 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 1: the Moon come from? Right, what's the the origin story 48 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: on the Moon. Well, the leading origin theory right now 49 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: is that a Mars sized body collided with her at 50 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: approximately four point five billion years ago, and then the 51 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,679 Speaker 1: resulting debris from both the Earth and this uh alien 52 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: sphere accumulated all right to form this big molten Moon, 53 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,839 Speaker 1: which um over the course of time cools down um 54 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: most of the magma ocean crystallizes, with the less dense 55 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: rocks floating upward and eventually forming the lunar crust. Okay, 56 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: so essentially like a big glob of the Earth came 57 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: off and then combined with other materials out there to 58 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: form the Moon. Yeah, and the Earth is unique among 59 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: terrestrial planets and having a large satellite. This Moon, which 60 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: relative to the Earth, has the largest mass of any 61 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: satellite parent system. And this is really important because we'll 62 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: talk about this relationship between the Moon and the Earth. 63 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: But it has really set us up for success here 64 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 1: on this planet because as a result of its orbiting 65 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: around us and it's coming it's materials coming from the Earth. Uh. 66 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: The subsequent evolution of the Earth and the emergence and 67 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: development of life has been strongly influenced by the presence 68 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:54,720 Speaker 1: of the Moon. But certainly it's not the only moon 69 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 1: in our solar system. Jupiter has a number of moons, 70 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: but but none of the Jovian moons, even several of them, 71 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: are incredibly fascinating and important to our understan evolving understanding 72 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: of of the cosmos. They're not as essential, uh in 73 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: their relationship with their host planet. And uh and and 74 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 1: that's really to your point. The remarkable thing about our 75 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: moon is that it's a very important subsidiary. It is, 76 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 1: and of course the Sun is as well, but we're 77 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: not discussing the Sun today, and the Sun talking about 78 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: egos and this corporate structure of the Sun is pretty 79 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: big there. Um. But you know, we often overlook the moon. 80 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: And let's take out the the resume of the moon, 81 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: because there's some really very powerful stuff here. A stabilizing 82 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: factor for the axis of rotation of the Earth, basically 83 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: ensuring that the difference and heating between the poles of 84 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: the Earth and the equator is sufficient to promote healthy 85 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: and diverse range of climates without veering off into one 86 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: extreme or another. So if you look at Mars, for instance, 87 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 1: and you see that that rotational access has um changed 88 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,240 Speaker 1: and spanned from thirteen to forty degrees over the last 89 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: tense twenty million years, this causes really unpredictable swings and 90 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: fluctuations of climate. And this instability, of course is not 91 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: good for life. Right. So the Moon basically brings a 92 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,160 Speaker 1: lot of stability. In fact, you could say as a 93 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,160 Speaker 1: as a a corporation kind of speak, it brings a 94 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: a a culture of stability to the overall Earth environment. Exactly. 95 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: It is a stabilizing force and hippie speak, it is 96 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: our big satellite of love out there. Now. The other 97 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: big area, of course, is it's it's impact on the tides, 98 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: and this is something that we've creates tidal patterns that 99 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: promotes the the alteration and the migration of organisms from 100 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: one environment to the other. It, I mean, just the 101 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 1: remarkable aspect of the tides to both reveal and then 102 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: uh and then flood areas, you know, creating these Uh, 103 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 1: these transient areas for life to flourish in. It is 104 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 1: pretty remarkable in and of itself, right, is basically seeding life, 105 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 1: spreading it over the planet. Now, as I look at 106 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: the Moon's resume, I see a third point here, a 107 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: third bullet point, and it's pretty huge. Um. It says 108 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: it helped to establish a twenty eight day period of 109 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: observable differences in light emittance, establishing a reliable rhythm for 110 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: early humans to create complex systems by which depend the 111 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: concept of time too. And it says my existence ability 112 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 1: to reflect the Sun's light in orbit helped to create 113 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: conceptual calendar systems, seasons, best agricultural practices, not to mention 114 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: greatly influencing navigation explorations, and mythology, including the one about 115 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 1: the Moon being made out of cheese. Yeah, you really 116 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: can't overstate the importance of the moon for uh, just 117 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: our basic understanding of celestial mechanics of our even earliest 118 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: stages of beginning to understand that the cycles in our 119 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: immediate universe. I was actually reading a little bit about 120 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: eclipses the other week. Espectually, I was interested in uh, 121 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: in ancient Indian ideas of eclipse as well as as 122 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: ancient Indian astronomy, because you see this, you know this 123 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: sort of on one hand, you have religious and and 124 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: mythic ideas of what's going on with an eclipse is 125 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: perhaps the decapitated head of a fallen ostra trying to 126 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: consume the sun and or the moon. Um well, there's 127 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: that idea. But then also you had early Indian astronomers 128 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: who were really figuring out exactly how eclipse has worked 129 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: and uh and and exactly how the Sun and the 130 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: moon and the Earth are are are playing with each 131 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: other in these in these amazing phenomena. Yeah. So you 132 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 1: have all of these um this mythologies, these narratives that 133 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: are just rich tapestries of different cultures. And then you 134 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: have something like the Farmer's Almanac, which is at a 135 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: very basic level just this this sort of like, hey, 136 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: this is how you grow your crops the best way, 137 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: but it is absolutely dedicated to the moon, this almanac. Yeah, 138 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: because you have all theseferent cycles of the moon and 139 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: uh and the not not only I mean you get 140 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: into all the weird moons too, because there's there's the 141 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: there's the basic full moon and half moon, etcetera. But 142 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: then you get into. Yeah, then you get into all 143 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 1: these like strangely colored moons and the different harvest uh, 144 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: you know, letting you know it if a sailors should 145 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,960 Speaker 1: take warning or not. We just get really rich in 146 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,880 Speaker 1: our attempts to just almost psychoanalyze what the moon is 147 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: doing and what the Moon is trying to do to 148 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: the planet. All we're gonna take quick break and we 149 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: get back. We're gonna talk about harnessing the energy of 150 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: the Moon, changing some of this duties. All right, we're back. 151 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: We are reviewing the Moon. We're reviewing its potential to 152 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: the Earth Corporation, all the stuff that it is doing already, 153 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: but also the places in its schedule where we could 154 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: conceivably insert more duties, more work to make us an 155 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: overall stronger company. Yeah. I was just looking at the 156 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: review that Earth Inc. Handed down, and it says the 157 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,960 Speaker 1: candidate has proven over billions of years to be a 158 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: stabilizing influence for the foreseeable future, at least for the 159 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: next two billion years. Candidate is expected to continue supporting 160 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: efforts to maintain life on Earth in a fairly consistent manner. 161 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 1: As a result, candidate may have extra time and resources 162 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: to offer. Yeah, we get into this area of things 163 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: that we have done to the moon, things that we 164 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: are doing to the moon, and things that we would 165 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: like to do to the moon. Uh, to get more 166 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: out of it. Now. Of course, we've been through the 167 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: phase of lunar exploration where we've send sent machines there, 168 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: we've sent men there, we put a flag on it. Yeah, 169 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: we uh. At one point with Project A one nineteen, Uh, 170 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: this is pretty amazing, we actually considered detonating a nuclear 171 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: weapon on the lunar surface in order to see how 172 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: the mushroom cloud would expand and contract in a low 173 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 1: gravity setting. And even more interesting, this was a United 174 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: States Air Force planned by the way cold war scheme. 175 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 1: Even more interesting, though, a young Carl Sagan was a 176 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: part of the project. Uh, the very man who would 177 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: go on to champion nuclear disarmament and the dangers of 178 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: nuclear winter. And he even tried to use his research 179 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: from the project to acquire an academic fellowship, possibly breaching 180 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: natural national security in the process. Wow. So you know, 181 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 1: he gotta wonder if he tried to get involved in it. 182 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: So he'd be like, hey, guys, this this terrible idea. 183 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 1: I know it shows the sort of pyrotechnics that we can, 184 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: you know, put forth towards the Soviet Union and try 185 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: to scare him during the Cold War. But really bad, 186 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: bad idea, I think. I think that's possible. Also, I 187 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,959 Speaker 1: can't help but but but think it might be a 188 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: situation where saying his thinking that is a horrible idea. 189 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: But if we're gonna do it, it's pretty cool. So 190 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 1: I would like to be a part of it. I mean, 191 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: if someone's gonna nuke the moon and it'll then at 192 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: least let me get in on the science of it. 193 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: Let's at least nuke it, right people. Yeah, And you know, 194 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: I can't help but think about him in a turtle 195 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: kneck as a young man and m now I'm thinking 196 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: about him as a baby, the turtleneck, like he was 197 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,679 Speaker 1: born with the turn neck, like a baby saging like 198 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: a muppet baby Sagan. Yeah, all right, that is completely irrelevant. 199 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: Let's get back to this moon. How do we put 200 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: it to work? Well, one of the big areas, of course, 201 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: is can we get energy from the moon. That's and 202 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,959 Speaker 1: there are a few different answers to that, but one 203 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: of the the more readily available ideas here is we 204 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: have the Moon up there in orbit, and it's exposed 205 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: to a lot of sunlight, so we're just reflecting it. Yeah, 206 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: it's not really doing anything. It's just sunlight bouncing off 207 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: the Moon. But what if we could harness that energy, 208 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 1: use the Moon to harness sunlight, and then send it 209 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: back to Earth. It's brilliant, right because here here on 210 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: Earth we're having problems with us, right, like how are 211 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: we going to really service our future energy needs? And 212 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 1: we do need to think about this in creative ways. 213 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: So someone came up in an extremely creative way to 214 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 1: deal with this, and it's called a solar belt. And 215 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,599 Speaker 1: this was or this is a plan as being championed 216 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: by the Shimizu Corporation. We're talking about installing on the 217 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: surface of the Moon via a massive twelve mile wide, 218 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: six hundred mile long lunar ring of solar panels. Yeah, 219 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing looking. Essentially, you would look up into 220 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: the night sky and on a on a good night 221 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 1: when you could really see the Moon, you would look 222 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: like it's wearing a crazy disco belt. Because because this, 223 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: the strip of solar panels would go all the way around, 224 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: uh the equator, and it would and and The idea 225 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: here is that you'd have a thirteen thousand tara wats 226 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: of continuous energy sent to from the Moon to receiving 227 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: stations around the Earth, and then it's distributed to the 228 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: power of you know, the power the population to power 229 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 1: all the stuff that we have to charge up. And uh, 230 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,439 Speaker 1: they think that we could begin construction on this by 231 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: five if we if we really wanted it. Yeah, And 232 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: the plan here in addition to this is that um, 233 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,439 Speaker 1: the corporation can develop robots that will mind the Moon's 234 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,439 Speaker 1: natural resources to produce the concrete and the solar cells 235 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: some of the materials that they're going to use there. 236 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 1: So that gets into this whole idea of like, well, 237 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: that's right, the Moon does have a couple of resources 238 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: to mine, doesn't it. Yeah. The building material thing alone 239 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: is interesting because because, as as they point out, water 240 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: can be produced by reducing a lunar soil with hydrogen 241 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,079 Speaker 1: that is imported from the Earth, and then submitting material 242 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: can also be extracted from the lunar sources resources. So 243 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 1: suddenly you have concrete, you have bricks, you have you 244 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: can essentially build yourself all the buildings and infrastructure you 245 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: need right out of the lunar surface. Right, you don't 246 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: have to bring your legos with you. The legos are 247 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: there essentially. Yeah, of course you're gonna need machines to 248 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 1: do that, and you're gonna need machines to continue to 249 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: care for what you've built, because the Moon is a 250 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: pretty harsh and bombarded surface for a reason. So so 251 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 1: if you build a massive disco belt, you're gonna need 252 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: not only the robot to build it, throw us to 253 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: maintain it and uh and deal with any of the 254 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: holes that emerge there over time. Indeed, now, one of 255 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 1: the things that NASA is working on is a little 256 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: plan with private corporations because as we know, they have 257 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: a mandate not to spend any more money on the Moon, right, 258 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: so how are they doing this? Uh, they are working 259 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: with Bigelow Aerospace to develop a commercial sector which would 260 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: be involved with them, and is especially focused on plans 261 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: to build a lunar base and mind the moon for 262 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: helium three as well as rare earth metals. Yes, the 263 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: helium three, of course is important, not because we need 264 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: to fill up a bunch of balloons here on Earth, 265 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: but by because mainly because helium through would play a 266 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: vital role in nuclear fusion power. Helium three, just to remind, 267 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: everybody has two protons but only one neutron, and when 268 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: it's heated to really high temperatures and combined with deuterium, 269 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: which is one of two stable isotopes of hydrogen, the 270 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: reaction really just an incredible amount of energy. So just 271 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: two point two pounds or one of helium three combined 272 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: with one point five pounds or zero point six seven 273 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: kilograms of deuterium produces nineteen megawatt years of energy. Roughly 274 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: twenty five tons of the stuff could power the United 275 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: States for an entire year. That's nuts, right, Yeah. The 276 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: other side of that is that the Moon has tons 277 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: of it, not so with Earth. Indeed, actually there are 278 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 1: seventeen chemicals in the periodic table that are an increased 279 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 1: demand because they're heavily using everyday electronics. So if you 280 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: look at that lunar soil, it is rich in these 281 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 1: coveted rare Earth elements and the moon could provide those. 282 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: So again it makes sense to kind of look at 283 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: and say, so you're up there, you're stabilizing us, thanks 284 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: a lot, but we're not just gonna step on you 285 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: and and take a peek at what some of your 286 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: soil is composed of. We're actually going to put you 287 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: to work here. Yeah. And the really the great thing 288 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: about about some of these plans we're discussing here is 289 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: that ultimately the goal of NASA and sort of the 290 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: goal of humanity's efforts in space, it's to get that 291 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: foothold on the Moon, to explore Mars, to get to Mars, 292 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 1: to get more robots and hopefully people on Mars and 293 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: then bring them back again. But to do that, you've 294 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: got to you've got to build up, and you've got 295 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 1: to build out. And what better way to get boots 296 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: on the ground, on our boots on the lunar ground, uh, 297 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: than to have there be a profit in the mix 298 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: their minerals energy. Yeah. And uh, NASA is not just 299 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: looking at the actual Moon itself, but also asteroids. And 300 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: we've talked about this before a couple of ideas about 301 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: how to ensnare an asteroid one because it could be 302 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: a threat, it could be in the orbit orbit and 303 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: coming right out of us UM. But in this scenario, 304 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: NASA is looking at building a robotic spacecraft to grab 305 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 1: a small asteroid and then place it in a higher 306 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: lunar orbit where they can kind of look at it 307 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: a little bit more of the asteroid itself and um, 308 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 1: and then kind of dock it over on the Moon 309 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: after they put a huge bag around it. I'm not 310 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: kidding this. These are the descriptors, like, we're going to 311 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: take this giant bag and then bag it and haul 312 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: it over to the Moon where they can mind the 313 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: asteroids as well. Yeah, it's it's This is a great 314 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: idea because in the same way that the the ultimate 315 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: goal is to say, explore the cosmos, get to Mars, etcetera, 316 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: the larger goal here would be let's develop and perfect 317 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: a way to deal with near Earth objects that pose 318 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: a risk to our planet. Uh. But in the to 319 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: get us there, well, let's harvest the asteroids and and 320 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: then in the process we're also studying and we're learning 321 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: more about them, we're developing our means to catch them. 322 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: And somebody can make a buck or two off of me. Yeah, 323 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,360 Speaker 1: and that's always kneel the grass. Tyson's argument for going 324 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 1: to the moon right, like, hey, don't abandon it. This 325 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: is a really great set up for us to try 326 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:54,680 Speaker 1: to figure out best practices elsewhere in the universe. And 327 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: also to have resources. Yeah, I was really thinking about 328 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: our past conversations of Neil yesterday because I heard part 329 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 1: of a Fresh Air interview with him um during a 330 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: Pledge drive for NPR yesterday, and I was thinking back 331 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: to our conversations with him, And then I thought about 332 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 1: our recent episodes about Future Shock, uh by the book 333 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: by Alvin Toffler, which which really of course drives home 334 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: the idea that that no technology happens in a vacuum. 335 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: When new technology comes around it it changes us. It 336 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: changes culture, that changes the way we think about things 337 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: and the way we think about ourselves and what and 338 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: what we're going after and uh and Tyson seems to 339 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: to really push that idea as well, that that it's 340 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: not just it's not just about oh, let's develop this rocket. 341 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: It's in developing that rocket, other technologies spin off of it. 342 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: It changes that the mindset of the people who build it, 343 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: the mindset of the culture responsible for exploration and innovation. 344 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,959 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I mean half of home Depot's items wouldn't 345 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: exist without NASSA. If you think about the cordless drill, 346 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 1: you know it did not come about because people were like, hey, 347 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: it would be great if we had this cordless thing. 348 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 1: It was really trying to figure out pragmatically how to 349 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: do things um in space and do them in a 350 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: way that made sense. So yeah, I mean there's all 351 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: these sort of benefits, these indirect benefits that flow out 352 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 1: that you don't really have a grasp of what those 353 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: are going to be until that technology is in place. Yeah, 354 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: and with a lot of these efforts, it's it's more 355 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: about that. It feels like it's more of a definitely 356 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,919 Speaker 1: a dangled carrot as opposed to residual effects. It's instead 357 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: of like a bunch of little residual effects saying here's 358 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: the big one. Look at all this energy to be gained. 359 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: Let's get up there. Yeah, and any sort of moon mining, 360 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 1: asteroid mining, of course you're gonna have to and we 361 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: had a whole episode on this, but you're still going 362 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: to have to consider space junk and the removal of that. 363 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 1: So in a way, this could be a boon to 364 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 1: those concerns that people have that mining uh the Moon 365 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: would just create more and more debris or stripping of 366 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 1: resources as we have seen here on Earth. The actual 367 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: pursuit of mining really does necessitate a pretty big degree 368 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: of responsibility on our part. You know, as we're reviewing 369 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: the moon's performance here, I do have one critique. I 370 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: think the moon could dress it up a little bit more. 371 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: We do have a dress code here at ear. Think, uh, 372 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: could the moon lighten its appearance a bit, make itself 373 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: a little more shiny in the night sky and thus 374 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: a little more illuminating. You know what's crazy about that 375 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: is that when the moon is only it's full brightness, 376 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: it appears to our eyes as being like half is bright. 377 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: So I don't know, I think the moon, to play 378 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 1: devil's advocate, might turn around to us and say, ah, 379 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 1: but if you guys could just enhance your visual systems, 380 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,400 Speaker 1: you could see how hard I am working to be 381 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: bright for you. Well, that's all well and good. But 382 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,959 Speaker 1: the Fourio Institute they have another idea, of course, and 383 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: this is this is why you know, I started looking 384 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: at this. I was awfully skeptical, because the idea is, 385 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: let's make the moon brighter so that there's more so 386 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 1: that our nights are brighter, that we can cut down 387 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 1: on our energy usage of or street lamps and what 388 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 1: have you. So, I mean, you think about natural sunlight 389 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: streaming into your windows, right, and how you don't have 390 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: to always put on the lights. Yeah, basically that this 391 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: is directly from the four Other Institute's pitch for this. 392 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: They say the four Institute has found an extremely smart 393 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: and feasible solution that can deliver enormous results to address 394 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 1: the global energy crisis. Nobody has ever considered that a 395 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: small transformation of the moon face is possible by increasing 396 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:28,199 Speaker 1: the reflectivity of sunlight, that can bring the equivalent of 397 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: four extra nights of having a full moon. Combined with 398 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: smart street lighting sensors are used to dim or completely 399 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: power off lights when not needed. Uh. This will dramatically 400 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: cut the world's energy consumption. And so the ideas you're 401 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: using materials already on the moon. You just make um 402 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: portions of the moon uh more reflective and overall the 403 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 1: moon becomes brighter. Now that just makes me think that 404 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 1: I have to get a really massive blackout shade, get 405 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: like a serious one. Well, because you're thinking about it, 406 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be able to sleep. It's gonna have 407 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 1: an effect on my health, right. Well, they they thought 408 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: of that. They argued that it should not be an 409 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: issue because we would have a gradual process here. This 410 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: would this brightening of the moon would take place over 411 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: thirty years, so you have time to adjust. But they 412 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: do admit that additional scientific studies are required. Likewise, Um, 413 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: as far as the environment goes, they state, because moonlight 414 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: is four hundred thousand times less potent than sunlight, Uh, 415 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a negligible impact on the environment. But 416 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 1: research is on going. I'm shaking my head because I 417 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: gotta tell you, on the full moon nights, I mean, 418 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: besides the fact that I get, you know, tons of 419 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: hair all over my face and grow fangs. Um, I 420 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: do seem to wake more often and perceive that light. 421 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: And maybe I'm just a really sensitive sleeper, but that 422 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: kind of drives me a little bit nuts. I feel 423 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 1: like they need to do a little bit more research that. Yeah. 424 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: I mean, well, there is certainly tons of light pollution 425 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: issues to wonder about here. You have to wonder about 426 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: the effects and all the various animals that depend on 427 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,479 Speaker 1: the moonlight for navigation. UM. It is interesting though that 428 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: only they state that only point one percent of the 429 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,440 Speaker 1: Moon's surface, a chunk about the size of Switzerland, would 430 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: need to be transformed to reach of the desired brightening effect. Well, 431 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: that is impressive, but again, we're talking about billions of 432 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: years of evolution in in animals responding to the environment 433 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: that has been you know, fairly constant. Right. Uh so, okay, 434 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: well it's it's an it's incredible idea. They also have 435 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: an electric toothbrush they're working on. By the way, if 436 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: they visited their website, Um so if you're not down 437 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 1: with brightening the moon, then maybe you would like to 438 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: try out a fancy silicone electric toothbrush to brighten you're 439 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 1: pearly white. Yeah. I think if they funded both projects, 440 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: but the toothbrush I think has a little more potential 441 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 1: to hit the market. Uh here, I feel like the 442 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,439 Speaker 1: toothbrush gets a lot of play out there in the 443 00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: corporate world because I remember that there was when we 444 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: were looking at robots and machine um creativity that there 445 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: was one program that created something like eight hundred designs 446 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: for Oral b H to choose like the best design 447 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: for the toothbrush. Really, are they that important? I mean, 448 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: you know, they don't change much. I mean you just 449 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,680 Speaker 1: brush your teeth. Yeah, And it's not one of those 450 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: things where it's like, all right, we've perfected the toothbrush, 451 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,359 Speaker 1: and now we go out of business, so you have 452 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,400 Speaker 1: to continually buy new toothbrushes or new parts for your toothbrush, 453 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: and then replace the electric after a while. But I 454 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: don't know that's I guess that's that's one word to 455 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: analyze what the four Institute is doing here. You kind 456 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 1: of feel like maybe they said, all right, let's choose 457 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: two projects that are gonna get us a lot of 458 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 1: a lot of attention. Uh, let's get get into this 459 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: toothbrush business. Designers are going crazy. There's so many designs 460 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: out there. If we can actually create a design that 461 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: sets ourselves apart for the rest of the of everyone 462 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: that we're doing, we've done a great job. And likewise, 463 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 1: let's figure out something kind of crazy that people will 464 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: overreact about. Let's talk about doing something to the more. Yeah, okay, 465 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 1: I see that. Let's let's focus on this super industrial 466 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: tooth brush complex. Oh and the Moon. Alright, so what's 467 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: your final uh corporate analysis here? What what does the 468 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: Moon need to do to to fit into the new 469 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: corporate environment. I think it needs to think dynamically. I 470 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 1: think that it really needs to show us that um, 471 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 1: even though it doesn't have many resources other than its 472 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: own right now, that it can provide to us a 473 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: long range plan in which it can really deliver and 474 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: impact to the Earth, one that doesn't actually smash into 475 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 1: us and obliterate us, but one that really enhances life 476 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,160 Speaker 1: here on Earth in a way that is fiscally responsible 477 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: and in a way that I think lifts humanity to 478 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: its highest degrees um you know, really just sort of 479 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 1: feeding the better angels among us, better angels of among 480 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:01,120 Speaker 1: us who are trying to gain more band with more 481 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: energy and really trying to bring this synergy to focus 482 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: in a sort of singular point of light. Alright, So 483 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: there you have it. Some some ideas for the moon, uh, 484 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: ways that we can we can take more advantage of 485 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:22,120 Speaker 1: its positioning and uh and take advantage of its energy potential. 486 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: I do wonder this is a question I'd like to 487 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: toss out to our listeners. Imagine a time in the 488 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: future decades from now. Does it does it frighten you, 489 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: does it terrorize you? Does it just kind of amuse 490 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 1: you or excite you even to to envision yourself looking 491 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: up at the night sky and then turn on a 492 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: full moon, and then turning to a young child and saying, 493 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: I remember when the moon didn't look like that. Believe 494 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,239 Speaker 1: it or not, the moon that hasn't always had a 495 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: big shiny belt and it always has hasn't always been 496 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 1: that bright in this scenario, is the the older human 497 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: being and the young child are the outfitted with up packs? Um? Yes, 498 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: that makes it different then? Okay? 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