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Speaker 2: Greetings, USS Hamlet's Father's Ghost. This is Mustard Seed. Can

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Speaker 3: Roger that Mustard Seed.

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Speaker 1: I have two hundred and fifty Shakespeare enthusiast on board,

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Speaker 1: just waking up for a tour of the Uranian moons.

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Speaker 1: Our visit to the Royal Automated Uranian Theater on Titanius

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Speaker 2: All right, Roger that USSHFG. I can confirm your reservation

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Speaker 2: now and docking credentials are good to go with your passengers.

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Speaker 2: A pleasant and safe visit to the Uranian satellite system.

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Speaker 2: The next automated Thespianoid performance will be let's see Ooh

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Speaker 2: Edward the third Well, better luck next time.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, the production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 3: Hey you, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 2: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick, and

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Speaker 2: we're back with Part two of our series on the

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Speaker 2: planet Uranus and its moons. Now in Part one, we

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Speaker 2: focused mainly on the planet itself. This time we're going

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Speaker 2: all of the moons this time. I think last time

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Speaker 2: we promised it would happen. We'll see whether we can

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Speaker 2: fit it all into one episode. But I had a

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 2: First of all, I was wondering what's the density of Uranus,

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Speaker 2: And it turns out that Uranus is the second least

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Speaker 2: You might wonder which planet is the dense baby, that's Earth.

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Speaker 2: is thought to be a hot, dense fluid of ices,

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Speaker 2: of the Ice Giants, and one of the questions Simon

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Speaker 1: So you're saying that all we have to do is

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Speaker 2: I've always said when I look at but the stars

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Speaker 2: we actually got a really great bit of listener mail

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Speaker 2: the James Web Space Telescope just last month released some

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Speaker 2: spectacular visuals of Uranus. These images bost greater clarity than

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Speaker 2: in these images, Urinus looks more like an optical artifact

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Speaker 1: Urinus is a planet designed by Japanese illustrator Hajimi Soriyama, whose,

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Speaker 1: It looks it looks nice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fascinating. How from our human perspective we look

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Speaker 1: So again we have the Shepherd moons here. They were

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Speaker 2: Cordelia is the youngest daughter of King Lear in the

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Speaker 1: But I guess Voyger six just shot right out there, right.

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Speaker 2: Changes in her circle? Orb What does that refer to,

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Speaker 2: like the like waxing and waning of the moon or

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Speaker 2: maybe I'm not sure I know.

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Speaker 3: What that means.

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Speaker 1: I mean I take it to me and yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: like there are different faces of the moon, Like like

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Speaker 1: if your love is like the moon Romeo, then I

437
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Speaker 1: don't you know, it's like what am I going to

438
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Speaker 1: get today? I mean it seems like if it is

439
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Speaker 1: like the moon, she could chart it out and then

440
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Speaker 1: she'd have a really good idea of what she's gonna get,

441
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Speaker 1: you know, phase by phase. But yeah, she's like, I

442
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Speaker 1: need consistency.

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Speaker 2: Right, your love should not wax and wane. We shouldn't

444
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Speaker 2: have a new moon of your love. Yes, it's were

445
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Speaker 2: wolf night every night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Aside from these thoughts, juliet nothing else than literally

448
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Speaker 1: significant once again discovered by Voyger. Two, then we have Portia.

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Speaker 1: This one is named after the heroine from the Merchant

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Speaker 1: of Venice. This one. I guess the main significance is

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Speaker 1: that it orbits Urinus in less than one earth day,

452
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Speaker 1: and it.

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Speaker 3: Was discovered by Voyger two. All right.

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Speaker 1: Up, next we have Rosalind. Rosalind is one of the

455
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Speaker 1: Duke's daughters in As You Like It. That's the namesake.

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Speaker 1: Nothing else really significant to discuss here.

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Speaker 3: This one was also discovered by Voyager two. All right.

458
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Speaker 1: The next one is Cupid. This is this one? This

459
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: one is is a tough one to fit in, but okay.

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Speaker 1: Cupid is, of course the Roman god of.

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Speaker 2: Love, famously invented by William Shakespeare.

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Speaker 1: Well, he is technically a character in Shakespeare's what is

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Speaker 1: it timin Timon of Athens. I'm not familiar with this play.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anything about that one. This may be

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Speaker 1: one of the more obscure ones. I don't remember studying

466
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Speaker 1: this one in school. But the discovery of it is

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Speaker 1: kind of interesting because it was discovered by m R

468
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Speaker 1: Showalter in JJ Lissauer using the Hubble space telescope in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and three. It was too small and too

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Speaker 1: dark for Voyager two to spot. And I was thinking

471
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Speaker 1: about this. It's tempting to try and spin this one out.

472
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Speaker 1: And think of like, Okay, here we have Cupid as

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Speaker 1: this dark, near invisible shadow press presence, you know, reminding

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Speaker 1: us of past discussions about how Cupid was sometimes said

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Speaker 1: to shoot lead and arrows. So it's you know, he's

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Speaker 1: not only dealing out love with his projectiles, but also

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Speaker 1: some of the ramifications of love, and maybe even the

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Speaker 1: tragic ramifications of love. But again, this one, this one

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Speaker 1: seems to sort of slip by on a technicality in

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Speaker 1: terms of its naming. All right, the next one is Belinda,

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Speaker 1: And this is one where we have to just have

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Speaker 1: to ask Shakespeare to move over, because this one is

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Speaker 1: named after the character whose lock of hair is stolen

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Speaker 1: in Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock.

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Speaker 2: Now, this is an unfortunately titled poem because it doesn't

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Speaker 2: mean what it sounds like. That the poem by Pope

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Speaker 2: is an older definition of the word rape, which is basically,

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Speaker 2: in this context it means like theft or snatching. So

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Speaker 2: the poem is a mock heroic satire. It narrates like

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Speaker 2: a social scandal in which a lord of some sort.

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Speaker 2: I did read this in school, and I forget a

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Speaker 2: lot of the details, but he steals a lock of

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Speaker 2: hair from a young woman. But it's written like in

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Speaker 2: the style of the Iliad, to be mocking of the like,

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Speaker 2: oh hoho, this is actually insignificant. I think Pope's point

496
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Speaker 2: is best summarized in one of its lines, where he says,

497
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Speaker 2: what mighty contests rise from trivial things? Though I don't know,

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Speaker 2: thinking on it now, there are obviously much worse crimes,

499
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Speaker 2: but stealing somebody's hair is pretty weird.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Plus hair has magical connotations. They could be stealing

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Speaker 1: it to work some sort of magic. Maybe that's explored

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Speaker 1: in the poem. I don't know. I have a degree

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Speaker 1: in English, and I somehow managed to never read this poem.

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Speaker 1: I remember that, you know the course. I'm familiar with

505
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Speaker 1: the author's name and his popularity and importance in English literature,

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Speaker 1: but I remember this title would come up and I

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Speaker 1: would think, Oh, that doesn't sound like something I want

508
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Speaker 1: to read, not realizing that it's about hair theft Alexander Pope.

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Speaker 2: Everything I recall that he wrote is basically satirical in nature.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he must have written serious poems, but like

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Speaker 2: the other main thing I remember he wrote is something

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Speaker 2: called the Dunceiad, which is a sort of an epic

513
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Speaker 2: poem about stupidity.

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Speaker 1: Hmm.

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Speaker 2: He was like, it seems like he was just really

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Speaker 2: into not suffering fools.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 2: I feel like if that's your main vibe, you really

519
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Speaker 2: open yourself up to scrutiny, don't you.

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Speaker 1: All Right, well, we'll come back to Pope's work in

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Speaker 1: a bit, because there are more moons named after him.

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Speaker 1: The next one is Perdita, and this is the daughter

523
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Speaker 1: of Leontes and Hermione in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tail.

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Speaker 1: This one's discovery is actually pretty interesting because Voyger two

525
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Speaker 1: is involved in its discovery, but it wasn't recognized till

526
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Speaker 1: two thousand and three. Basically, University of Arizona's Eric Karkoshka

527
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: discovered it by comparing Voyger two imagery with Hubble imagery

528
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Speaker 1: and sort of working out its existence based on these

529
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Speaker 1: two different streams. All right, up next, we have Puck Is,

530
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Speaker 1: of course, named after the sprite from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Speaker 1: Stanley Tucci played him in the nineteen ninety nine film adaptation,

532
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Speaker 1: which had a great cast. I do remember seeing this

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Speaker 1: film when it came out, and I imagine I've seen

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Speaker 1: multiple it seems like Midsummer Night's Dream is just one

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Speaker 1: of those plays that if you're just going to fall

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Speaker 1: into seeing it, even if you don't set out to

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Speaker 1: watch Shakespeare in life.

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Speaker 2: Puck's a great character, great mischief maker, the mischief maker

539
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Speaker 2: who brings wisdom, whether on purpose or not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Tucci was perfect casting. Now significance. Here is

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Speaker 1: the smallest of the inner moons, with a diameter of

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Speaker 1: about one hundred and fifty kilometers or about ninety miles,

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Speaker 1: And it was guess what discovered by voyager two? All right,

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Speaker 1: up next we have Mab. It's named after Queen Mab,

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Speaker 1: queen of the fair Folk and English folklore. She's mentioned

546
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Speaker 1: in Romeo and Juliet So and just mentioned. So it

547
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 1: just really really squeaks by on a technicality. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is one of those situations where I feel like

549
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Speaker 1: I want to shout a little bit and be like, look,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of names that are mentioned in Shakespeare,

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Speaker 1: and there are plenty of characters. I don't know why

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Speaker 1: Queen Mab seems like the ideal choice.

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Speaker 2: Here is there an inner moon named Julius Caesar?

554
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Speaker 1: No, but you know you could that would have been

555
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: a good one Caesar, right, But that's just off the

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Speaker 1: top of my head.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure if there's some other.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I should also point out when you

559
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Speaker 1: start looking. And I didn't get into this in any

560
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Speaker 1: of my note taking, really, but there are individual features

561
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Speaker 1: on some moons that are likewise named after other things.

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Speaker 1: So it could be a Caeesar in there somewhere, you

563
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Speaker 1: know what.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I want to be fair, Even a lot of

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Speaker 2: the Shakespeare characters that we think of as more original

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Speaker 2: shakespeare characters are actually often from like adapted versions of

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Speaker 2: pre existing tales. Like a lot of Shakespeare's plays were

568
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Speaker 2: not wholly made up stories. They were based on something

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Speaker 2: from history or from an older story or another play,

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Speaker 2: or something right right, Like who would have thought of it?

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Speaker 1: You know?

572
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 2: Hamlet is the guy from the Northman.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you were around today, he'd be uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, he'd be in the MCU somewhere working on

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Speaker 1: a project.

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Speaker 4: Of it.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Mab is the moon here. This one's discovered in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and three by show Alter and Lisaur using

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Speaker 1: the Hubble space telescope.

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Speaker 2: Interesting in fact, I came across while reading that article

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Speaker 2: by the NASA Goddard researcher Amy Simon. She writes that

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Speaker 2: Mab quote maybe generating a tenuous blue toned ring like

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Speaker 2: Enceladus does for Saturn's e ring, though the source currently

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00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 2: remains a mystery.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know that sounds kind of fitting for the

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Speaker 1: Queen of the fairy Folk.

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Speaker 3: So I do like that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm looking at the clock, and do you know

589
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 2: what the clock reads. It reads a promise broken because

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Speaker 2: we said we were going to do all of the

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Speaker 2: moons within part two, and I think we have failed

592
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Speaker 2: because we're coming up against a time limit. We got

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Speaker 2: to cap it here and we've got all of the

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Speaker 2: major moons left to talk about. So I think that's

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Speaker 2: going to have to be part three of our series

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Speaker 2: on Uranus and its satellites.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully we didn't mess anybody up there, But I

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Speaker 1: think the journey will be better for breaking into three

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Speaker 1: parts here, and there's gonna be a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: stuff to talk about, especially with the major moons of

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Speaker 1: Uranus and then getting also into just some of the

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Speaker 1: additional Shakespearean.

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Speaker 3: References in the naming of these moons.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, if you would like to catch up

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Speaker 1: on past episodes of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, including

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Speaker 1: our past episodes dealing with the moons of Jupiter and

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Speaker 1: as in today's episode, you know, if it relates to

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Speaker 1: artifact or monster fact episode this week. Of course, it

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Speaker 1: ties into our theme of Urinus, so go check that

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Speaker 1: out if you haven't. And then on Fridays we set

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Speaker 1: aside most serious concerns just talk about a weird film

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Speaker 1: on Weird House Cinema. Our selection for this week does

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Speaker 1: not have anything to do with the planet Uranus, but

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Speaker 1: that it's still.

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Speaker 3: A lot of fun. Bye God.

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Speaker 2: We'll find a way to tie it in by the

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Speaker 2: our audio producer JJ Posway. If you would like to

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