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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the all New Toyota Corolla. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Stuff you should know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's

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Speaker 1: Charles Bryant Chuckers. You might know him. An Sure, there's

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Speaker 1: a w in there somewhere at sure for the Wayne. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: named after Wayne coyn Right, No, we talked about that before. Yeah, John, Wayne,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing. I'm great, man, Um, I am

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Speaker 1: all over this NASA activity. Oh yeah, yeah, good because

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Speaker 1: it seems like i'll we hear about NASA these days

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Speaker 1: is how they're having to shut down uh space programs, Right,

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Speaker 1: that's the other stuff is cool. Well, that's the impression

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Speaker 1: I have is that they're kind of taking their um,

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Speaker 1: their field of vision the mountain to outer space and

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Speaker 1: turning it planet word towards Earth. Why not, That's where

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Speaker 1: all the people are that are buying Big Max. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: if if space exploration is going private, you got the

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk's and the Richard Branson's of the world saying

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Speaker 1: we got this, NASA, you go do something else with

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Speaker 1: all of your high tech remote sensing equipment, then it

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Speaker 1: makes sense that NASA would say, Okay, we'll become the

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Speaker 1: watchdog guardian of the planet. And that's what they've they've become. Plus, also,

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Speaker 1: if you're the United States using NASA's remote sensing equipment

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Speaker 1: on Earth, is a dynamite cover for intelligence gathering? Well yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you have all sorts of satellites carrying out

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Speaker 1: different functions, but really all of them are taking pictures

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Speaker 1: of the Earth, highly detailed ones too. You want to

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Speaker 1: know about Russian troops formation as NASA yet of volcano? Sure?

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Speaker 1: If you want to know what kind of sand way? Uh,

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Speaker 1: Julian Assange had today, asked NASA, Well, that's NASA. Everyone

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Speaker 1: knows that what Juna fish is, That what his thing is.

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Speaker 1: Sure every day, that's how he keeps his white main white.

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Speaker 1: Him and Michio Kaku. Yeah, the white mullet. Actually it's

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Speaker 1: not so mellody. It's just more of a main main

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Speaker 1: for sure. Both of them have a main, a big

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Speaker 1: helmet of hair. So chuck um. But I guess the

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Speaker 1: question we've posed today I feel like we need to

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Speaker 1: answer is can NASA predict natural disasters? I think we

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Speaker 1: But now that again, they've kind of mothballed space exploration

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Speaker 1: to an extent. I mean we're still hitting Mars. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're not. They're not mothballing it, but they're they're they've

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Speaker 1: reached the point where they're like, Okay, we've got all

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Speaker 1: this really good equipment, let's start monitoring Earth a little

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Speaker 1: more because there's a lot of questions we have. Um. Now,

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Speaker 1: they've reached this point where since the beginning of twenty

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Speaker 1: one century, they've started conducting missions. They have planned ones

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Speaker 1: in the next couple of years, and from all this

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Speaker 1: data they'll be able to analyze it and start to

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Speaker 1: be able to predict natural disasters. So they have this

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Speaker 1: whole like toolbox. I guess if you wanted to go

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Speaker 1: into like corporate buzz speak of of programs and missions

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Speaker 1: that they're carrying out that will help them predict natural

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Speaker 1: disasters pretty soon. That's right, not the low hanging fruit, right,

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Speaker 1: they're just trying to reach out and play together with

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Speaker 1: the Earth in the same in the same space, in

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Speaker 1: the same space. Maybe Java storm boy at the corporate talk, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we shunned that at all costs here, Um, all right,

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Speaker 1: so let's talk about this. We talked about remote sensing.

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Speaker 1: That is UM basically detecting energy reflecting from something UM

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Speaker 1: when it's pointed out in space, like when you're looking

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Speaker 1: for new planets, it's pointed out in space. When you

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Speaker 1: pointed on Earth, it's a heck of a lot closer, right,

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Speaker 1: And to get more detail. And they're they're using different

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Speaker 1: kinds of UM detectors. They're detecting different kinds of energy

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Speaker 1: just like using your peepers. That information can be translated

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Speaker 1: It's like mounted on aircraft or it's part of a

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Speaker 1: They're looking back at you right now, yes, the wave. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: or it's looking at the Earth where we're just the

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Speaker 1: insignificant tiny specs crawling around on the Earth. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: You know, it makes sense, it's sensible what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: It's a smart thing. To do with NASA's department, but

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Speaker 1: would have guessed that meteorologists and climatologists knew how tropical

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Speaker 1: And the goal with pretty much everything that we're going

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Speaker 1: But like the old saying, that's right, but if you

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Speaker 1: know it's coming, then you can get people out of

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Speaker 1: Like anybody can point to a hurricane be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: If you can point to the very beginnings the cradle

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Speaker 1: like you, guys need to get out of here. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And there is one really cool program they've had going

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Speaker 1: since two thousand two called GRACE. There's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: lot of acronyms today, by the way, the UM the

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Speaker 1: It's it's really cool basically what they're doing. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's step back a minute. Let's talk about Newton. Okay,

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Speaker 1: gravity depends on the mass of an object. In the

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Speaker 1: case of polar ice caps, the mass is changing. So

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Speaker 1: if the mass is changing, the gravity is changing. Right.

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Speaker 1: So when when the polar ice caps melt and turn

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Speaker 1: estimate has between two thousand and ten and two thousand

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Speaker 1: they're called Tom and Jerry because they're chasing each other

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Speaker 1: polar orbit. Yeah, it's very cute. So they're constantly going

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Speaker 1: the Earth spins below them, right, that's right. And um

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Speaker 1: they're taking they're they're taking measurements, two different types of measurements,

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Speaker 1: but they're precisely separated from one another, and they're on

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Speaker 1: gravitational field of Earth. Yeah, and they've Nanasa. They always

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Speaker 1: they worked with a company in Germany to develop UM

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Speaker 1: an ultra precise distance measuring system that basically can measure

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Speaker 1: in the the the gravitational field is not perfectly round either.

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Speaker 1: up now there's some pretty cool UM artists rendering of

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Speaker 1: what the Earth's magnetic field looks like and as a

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Speaker 1: the ultimate goal basically is to measure this gravitational field

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Speaker 1: over time see how it's changing with kind of accuracy

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Speaker 1: can then form into a hurricane. That's what they learned

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Speaker 1: think based on the data from the two thousand ten experiments. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: aren't they still analyzing that stuff? Alright? I imagine like

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Speaker 1: analyzing NASA data. Yeah, and just anything to do with

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Speaker 1: All right, so that's tropical storms and hurricanes. We didn't

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Speaker 1: is called the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency or JACKSON, and

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Speaker 1: that is a Global Precipitation measurement and they are using

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