1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from how Stuff 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant. There's someone in 4 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: our heads but it's not us. And there's Jerry over there. 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: She's got her own self in her head. She's not Alumi. 6 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: Our band does that song. Oh yeah, yeah, it's one 7 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: of my favorites. It's a good one. We do it 8 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: in the basement. It's not like, Actually we did it 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: at one public show and I think after whatever's like, 10 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 1: we shouldn't do that song out. Yeah, I was like, man, 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, where you like that was out 12 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: of sight? I thought it was totally groovy, and like 13 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: the audience didn't like it, or I think the rest 14 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: of the band felt like it was. You know, there's 15 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 1: a bunch of songs we do just in the basement 16 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: for our own fun, and then there's you know, the 17 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: songs that we'll do in front of people twice a year. 18 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: You guys do yakety sex in the base. I wish 19 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: did you see Dolly Partner played that live at the 20 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 1: Huge Festival and she did a good job. Yeah, it 21 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: was it. Bonorue right, No, it was that the one 22 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: is it Glastonbury in the UK? Dolly Parton doing yakety 23 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: sacks playing the saxophone at Glastonbury, Like, who would have 24 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: thunk that? Whatever? She had the crowd eating out of 25 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: the palm of her hand. Yes, she's putting out a 26 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: new album that, um she's calling her gay friendly dance album. Yeah, 27 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 1: there's a is it the name of the album or 28 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: the name of the track is just a wee bit 29 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: gay or something like that. I think that's one of Oh. 30 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: I thought that's just how she described it. Is that 31 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: the name of one of the songs. I don't know. 32 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: It wasn't quote, but I couldn't tell if that was 33 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: because it was a title or quote. Well, she's got 34 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: a huge following in the gay community, and she's she's 35 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: embraces it fully. Yes she does. And there's always been 36 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: rumors about her. Oh I don't think those are correct. Well, 37 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't mean there are rumors out there. 38 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: She has a long, long term husband. Yeah, she's been 39 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: married for like fifty years. But um, I think the 40 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: fact that he's like, try and find a picture of 41 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: this guy. He's a total recluse and she just says, 42 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: that's just the nature of our relationship. Have you been 43 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: to um It's like the Oprah thing. She has a 44 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 1: really close girlfriend, and everyone's like, oh, well, of course 45 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: Oprah and gayl are gay. Have you been You can't 46 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: be friends lifelong friends with someone of the same sex. 47 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: Have you been to Dollywood? Not? Still, you should go 48 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: to Dollywood. There's a Dolly part museum that's part of 49 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: Dollywood that's like worth the admission by itself. Can you 50 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 1: just go to the museum. There's no reason to just 51 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: go to the museum, but yeah you could. I mean, 52 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: like it's worth going just for the museum. But then 53 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: when you exit the museum, you've got all the rest 54 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: of Dollywood to go hang out at, which is substantial, 55 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: like she updated it. And there's roller coasters, which I 56 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: don't ride. You don't ride roller coasters at all? No, 57 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: you mean I went with some friends and like everybody 58 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: else is riding roller coasters, and we were just like, 59 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: that's okay. Have you never ridden all ridden roller coasters before? 60 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: But I've gotten the point in my life where I'm like, 61 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: I don't feel like being terrified out of my mind 62 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,919 Speaker 1: right now. So that's the reason. All right, the dark 63 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 1: side of the moon is off the bang and start. Yeah, 64 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: who'd have thought Dolly Partner would make an appearance in 65 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: this one, Dolly park So there there, Chuck, We're talking 66 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: about the dark side of the moon. And it turns 67 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: out there is such thing as the dark side of 68 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: the moon, but it's just misused in the popular vernacular. 69 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: The idea of the dark side of the moon is 70 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,760 Speaker 1: that there's another side of the moon that we never see, 71 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: and it's dark. It's out there, exposed to the cold 72 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: chill of space, and um, the dark side of the 73 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: moon is the side of the moon we never see, 74 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: the one that faces opposite our per view. There is 75 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: a side of the moon that we don't see. Right, 76 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: We're going to go ahead and called at the Far 77 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: side of the Moon. Yes, And I think that song 78 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: would be equally as cool. I was thinking about it 79 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: if it was I'll see you on the far side 80 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,839 Speaker 1: of the Moon. Yeah, that's even like a little more 81 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: psychedelic if you ask me. Yeah, because of the whole 82 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 1: far out thing. I don't know it resonated. In fact, 83 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: in the basement, I'm gonna start singing that you are 84 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: you gonna adapt it. Okay, there you go, just not 85 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: out never again. So there is a far side of 86 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: the moon. There is the side of the moon that 87 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: we don't see. People are correct in assuming that, Um, 88 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: But and there is a dark side of the moon. 89 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: And sometimes the dark side of the moon and the 90 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: far side of the moon are one and the same, 91 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 1: but sometimes they're not. Yeah, it gets a little confusing, 92 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: But everything I just said is true. Yeah, And it's 93 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: our job to get you to wrap your heads around this, 94 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: like we had to, yeah, because it's extraordinarily confusing. It's 95 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: almost like, why couldn't just the popular conception be correct? 96 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: Because this is kind of difficult until you wrap your 97 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: head around it and then it's easy. But it is. 98 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 1: It is hard at first. Everybody, so buckling, tie your 99 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 1: shoes on tight. Yeah, maybe pack a granola bar and 100 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: let's get down to this alright. So I guess we 101 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: can start by saying that the moon, um is not 102 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: like the sun. It doesn't generate that warm, lovely glow 103 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: itself that you see. I think most people know at 104 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: this point, UM, that that is reflection from the sun. 105 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: And the moon is really big, and that's why it 106 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: looks super bright. It's not really very reflective, but it's large. 107 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: It is, so on a dark, dark night, a full 108 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: moon looks really super bright because it's big. Yeah, and 109 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: that's from sunshine sunshining on the moon. That's what makes 110 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: the moon glow to us. There's also something called earth shine, 111 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: and when there's no sunshine hitting the moon, as far 112 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: as we can see, uh this, the Earth is still 113 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: reflecting light on it. And they've recently found out that 114 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: the moon if you can somehow and they figured out 115 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: how to using radio telescopes, subtract any kind of sunlight 116 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: interference and just isolate the earth shine. If you could 117 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: just see that, then what you would be seeing is 118 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: a kind of dark turquoise cobalt blue moon. Yeah. So 119 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: technically the dark side of the moon is turquoise. Yes, 120 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: and they have figured that out for the first time. 121 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: Was it It was just this year, right, it was published. 122 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: So that's exciting new news because they tried for a 123 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,480 Speaker 1: long time, that's right, but it took some smart people 124 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: and people used to be dumb. Yes, So there is 125 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 1: a there is a side of the moon, like we said, 126 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: that we just don't see. And you would think, well, 127 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: that's because the moon orbits the Earth right, which it does. 128 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 1: And so if the Moon is just sitting there stationary 129 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: orbiting around the Earth, of course we're going to see 130 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: the same side all the time. That's a fallacy, that's 131 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: right as a or a fact. If the Moon orbited 132 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: the Earth and didn't rotate around its own axis, right, 133 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: we would see all sides of the Moon at some 134 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: point during that lunar orbit, which we call a month. 135 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: And you can test this by just getting a tennis 136 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: ball and keeping it still and rotating it around your 137 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: hand and pretend your hand is Earth, and you would 138 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: see at some point the Earth would see all sides 139 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: of that tennis ball. The trick is the Moon rotates 140 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: on its own axis at the same rate that it 141 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: rotates around in orbit. And so now if you take 142 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: that tennis ball and well you'd have to be pretty 143 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: precise to spin it, but if you could spin it 144 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: at the same rate that you're going around, you would notice. 145 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: And there's a handy animation on this article on how 146 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: stuff works dot Com. I thought it was a little 147 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: fast and all at it to actually I think they 148 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: need to go in and slow that thing down a 149 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: little bit. It's handy and fast, but you would notice 150 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: that if it's spinning on its own ax us at 151 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: the same rate that it'sn't spinning in orbit, then you're 152 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: going to see that same side. And it's kind of 153 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: it seems like a miracle, but it's not. It's a 154 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: mind boggling colossal cosmological coincidences coincidence. Okay, well then I'm 155 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: hoping you can explain this to me, because Chuck, what 156 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: you've just said, I think it bears repeating the the 157 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: the Moon's orbit around Earth last twenty nine point five days. 158 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: That's right. The Moon also rotates on its axis. That 159 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: rotation you know, the Earth rotates on its axis that 160 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,719 Speaker 1: lasts about twenty four hours. We call it a day. 161 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: The moon rotates on its texas, so it has the 162 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: day too, but it's day last twenty nine point five days. 163 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 1: So the Moon's rotation on its own axis and its 164 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: orbit around Earth are the same, which is why no 165 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: matter where you are on Earth, you can't see anything 166 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: but the near side of the Moon because even though 167 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:10,679 Speaker 1: it's rotating on its axis, it's revolving in orbit at 168 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: the same speed at the same rate around the Earth. 169 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 1: So you will never see anything but the near side. 170 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: Should we say this a third time? This was what 171 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: this was what got me the most. That's why I'm 172 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: saying it again, like this is this is mind boggling 173 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: to me. So there's a day side of the moon 174 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: and a night side of the moon, just like there 175 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: was on Earth. Your son's gonna if you built a 176 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:39,080 Speaker 1: little moon lunar cabin, which would be great by the way. Yeah, 177 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,199 Speaker 1: you would see a sunrise in a sunset. I don't 178 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: know if it would look exactly the same. Well, it 179 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: would take a month. Yeah, it would be a very 180 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: slow sunrise and a very slow sunset. What to us 181 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: is a month, a lunar month, right, which involves the 182 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: four phases of the moon, the waxing, the waning that 183 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: give us the crescent, the full, the new, all that jazz, 184 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: the super Yeah. Um that to the moon is a day. Yeah. 185 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: So our whole concept of there being a far side 186 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: of the moon and dark side of the moon and 187 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 1: phases of the moon to the moon that it's just like, 188 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:16,000 Speaker 1: hey man, this is just a day to me, I'm 189 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:20,040 Speaker 1: just the moon right, reflecting light because just like over 190 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: the course of twenty four hours on Earth, different parts 191 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: of the Earth are exposed to the sunlight over the 192 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 1: course of twenty nine point five days. Thanks to the 193 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: rotation of the Moon, different parts of the Moon are 194 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: exposed to sunlight. So that far side of the Moon 195 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: that we never see because of the rotation and the 196 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: orbit being the same for the Moon still gets bathed 197 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: in sunlight for two weeks out of the year. Yeah, 198 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: and sometimes we're we're seeing the night side, sometimes we're 199 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: seeing the day side. It just depends on when it 200 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: happens to fall during that lunar day. There's not the 201 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: same thing as our day. It is confusing. That's why 202 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: I said it twice but not a third time. Uh well, 203 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 1: I guess we should explain a little something about gravity. 204 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: And we did cover this. Um we did something on 205 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: the tides, right title bulge. Yeah, he's at a video 206 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,959 Speaker 1: at least once we've discussed it and now we've done 207 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: it at some point. The reason that everything is uh 208 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: in synchronicity like that is because of gravity. It's because 209 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: Earth is exerting gravitational pull on the Moon and it's 210 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: locked it in with us. But the Moon's doing the 211 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: same thing to us, and it's also getting further away 212 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: from us. About an inch and a half a year. 213 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: I think one point for eight inches per year. Uh, 214 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: And that's what causes title bulge. The gravitational force on 215 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 1: us causes the title bulge on the near side when uh, 216 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: the Moon has the greatest poll so water is going 217 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: to be pulled toward the Moon and inertia is overcome 218 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: by gravity. And on the far side the opposite is true, 219 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: but they're both bulges when when it's at its nearest 220 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: point in orbit, and it's for this point in orbit, right, 221 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: So if the Moon is moving further away from us 222 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: by one point four eight inches per year, that means 223 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: millions and billions of years from now things are going 224 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: to be completely different. Yeah. Like a billion years ago, 225 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: a day on Earth lasted eighteen hours, and I think 226 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: the month was twenty days long days. Yeah, And then now, 227 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: thanks to gravity and the effect of the Moon on 228 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: Earth and vice versa, the earth rotation is slowing right. Yeah, 229 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: And eventually I think in a billion or two years um, 230 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: the day is expected to be about forty current Earth 231 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: days long. Yeah, it says, uh, yeah, forty days. So 232 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,040 Speaker 1: that's interesting. I've never thought about that in terms of 233 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: the evolution of mankind. Uh, not many people, not doing 234 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 1: a whole lot, not a lot going on short days. 235 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 1: Now everyone's populating the planet longer days and longer days. 236 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: It's all coincidental, I'm sure. Yeah. I wonder what impact 237 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: it would have on our sleep cycle if you still 238 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: have one a billion years from now. Yeah, all right, 239 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: So coming up in just a second, we're going to 240 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: talk about the phases of the moon, because there's some 241 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 1: misconceptions about that too. So, Chuck, were you had promised 242 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: everyone that we would talk about the phases of the moon. 243 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: I think that's called a tease. I think you should 244 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: deliver on it. Oh yeah, well, I think well. Strickland 245 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland of tech Stuff wrote this article, by the 246 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 1: way that we're working from um and there are some 247 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: misconceptions about the phases of the moon, he thinks, and 248 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: I agree. UM. One is that a new moon occurs 249 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 1: when the Earth is blocking light from the Sun. And 250 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: if you're just a dumb human like me and you 251 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: look up and see a new moon, that's sort of 252 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: what it looks like. It looks like the Earth is 253 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: blocking it the Sun because you can almost see the 254 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: shadow like clearly, that's what's going on, right, but it's 255 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: not true because the moon is actually in between the 256 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: Earth and the Sun at that point, which makes it 257 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: impossible when when the moon is full, the Earth is 258 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,719 Speaker 1: between the Sun and the moon. Right, you're saying, well, 259 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: no, no no, I'll say during a new moon, the moon 260 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: is between the Sun and the Earth exactly, But for 261 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: a full moon, the Earth is between the Sun and 262 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: the moon. So both of them are kind of counterintuitive, 263 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: but they make sense when you remember that the whole 264 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: reason the moon glows is because of its exposure to sunlight. Right, 265 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 1: So if the moon, if we see the side that's 266 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: being exposed to sunlight, that means that the Earth is 267 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: between the Sun and the moon. That's right, right, because 268 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: that's the only way we could see that part exposed 269 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: the sunlight. But if the moon between the Sun and 270 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: the Earth, and the side that's being exposed to sunlight 271 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: is the opposite side of the moon, the far side 272 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: of the moon, so of course we couldn't see that. 273 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: So that's what the new moon is. Yeah, And Jonathan 274 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 1: he broke it down in another pretty easy way to understand, 275 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: Like if you're if you're sitting in a room and 276 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: someone and there's only a single light source like a spotlight. 277 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: Let's say, and someone walks in between the light and you, 278 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: you're gonna see a silhouette of them, but you're not 279 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: going to be able to see their detail, right, But 280 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: if you could somehow get behind them, right, you would 281 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: see that their back is bathed in that light exactly. Now, 282 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: if they walk behind you, you're both facing the sunlight. Yeah, 283 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 1: so if you can just kind of make your eye 284 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: travel around the side of your head to the back 285 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: and poke out through your hair there, you would see 286 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: that that person is a full moon, that's right, and 287 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: the initial one when they are between you, when you 288 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: see their silhouette, that is the new moon. So it 289 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 1: makes sense when you think about it that way. I 290 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,479 Speaker 1: think it does. Or if you look at this illustration 291 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: that's helpful to it definitely is like this is lunar phases. 292 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: Is definitely one where it's like, just look at a picture. Yeah, 293 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: it's so much easier to see. Yeah. The irony of 294 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: this whole thing is is that thanks to the phases 295 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: of the moon, this lunar day um that the dark 296 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: side of the moon is sometimes the side that we 297 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:10,520 Speaker 1: can see. Yeah, that's the one that blows my mind 298 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: a bit, you know, it's during a new moon, like 299 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: we're still seeing the near side of the moon. That's 300 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: all we'll ever see side that has the man in 301 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: the moon or the rabbit making mochi in the moon. 302 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: That's a Japanese thing. It's like their version of the 303 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: man in the moon. It's a rabbit making mochi, which 304 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: is like some sweet, sticky rice treats. And is it 305 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: something that they see in the moon. Yeah, And what 306 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: you're seeing are the lunar seas, like the Sea of Tranquility, 307 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: all that stuff. And with the well, I guess with 308 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: the advent of the Soviet Luna three spacecraft, that was 309 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: the first time we ever saw the far side of 310 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: the moon. And that was I think in nineteen and 311 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: that crazy, so that long ago we were that advanced. Yeah, 312 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: it is, And if you're into that, you should go 313 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: listen to her how the space race worked episode that 314 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: was a good one because Russia was advanced too. But 315 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 1: these photos sent back from the Soviets showed that the 316 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: far side of the moon didn't look anything like the 317 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: near side of the moon that we see. It was 318 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: all just little pockmark craters. There weren't any like sea 319 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: of tranquility or anything like that. And for a long 320 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: time it posed this this riddle called the lunar far 321 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: side Highlands problem. Why was the far side of the 322 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: Moon so different from the near side. So they finally 323 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: recently think that they came up with the riddle, like recently, 324 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: like this year, um or the answer to the riddle. 325 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: They came up with the riddle after But the the 326 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: reason being that the side of the Moon, the near 327 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: side that's closest to us, has been locked what's called 328 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,239 Speaker 1: tidally locked. It's the whole reason that we have this 329 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: whole why this whole podcast is going on. Because the 330 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: Moon and the Earth are locked into orbit, right, and 331 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: because they effect one another through gravity, decide that's closest 332 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: to Earth, um was subject to Earth's gravity more than 333 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 1: the other side. So as the Moon cooled and the 334 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: Earth was cooling, but it was still super hot, it 335 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: was heating the side of the Moon that was closest 336 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: to us, right, that makes sense. So on the far side, 337 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: as the Moon cooled, the crust was thicker and sturdier. 338 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,159 Speaker 1: On the near side the crust is a little thinner. 339 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: So as the Moon was still cooling, it got blasted 340 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: with asteroids and meteorites and all that jazz. And on 341 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: the side that's closest to us, the thinner crust side, 342 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: lava float up from those meteor impacts and formed things 343 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: like the Sea of Tranquility. On the other side, the 344 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: crust was thicker, so no lava flowed up from it. Interesting, 345 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: that's what they have to explain it. I wonder if 346 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: there's any value in exploring the far side of the Moon, 347 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: or if that would just make a great movie. I mean, 348 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: they're they're talking about to mean that. I don't know 349 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: what the value is though. Yeah, and with the way 350 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,439 Speaker 1: that funding is we've talked about with NASA's going, I 351 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:08,919 Speaker 1: doubt if it's a priority, but that would make a 352 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: good movie because one creepy thing about it. It made 353 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: me think of space movies and such as that you 354 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: lose radio contact on the far side of the Moon, 355 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: so the movie version, obviously you would have to sign 356 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 1: off and go dark for a period of time, and 357 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: that's when like the event horizon occurs. What was the well, 358 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: the event horizon, that's like, yeah, that's not the real thing. 359 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: Sam Neil goes crazy. Yeah, something happens creepy on that 360 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: other side, right, was that in that movie Moon with 361 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: the Sam Rockwell, what the far side of the moon? Yeah? 362 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: What was the movie where the guys like racing to 363 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: get out of the um nightfall on the moon? Because 364 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: like the sunrise? I think that was Moon. Okay, but 365 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 1: we'll hear about it if it's not. I like that movie. 366 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: That's a good one, fantastic. Yeah. I think David Bowie 367 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: soun directed that. Yeah, Duncan Bowie his name, it's Duncan something. 368 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 1: Oh he took because David Bowie's not even his real name. 369 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: Probably No, I don't think that. Zky start us right, 370 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: Duncan started us to his name, and he's from the moon. 371 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 1: Anything else I do? I have one more thing? Um, 372 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: it turns out that we can see more than just 373 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,400 Speaker 1: the near side of the moon sometimes. All right, how's that? Well, 374 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth isn't 375 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: a perfect circle, it's elliptical. Um, when it's furthest away, 376 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: we can see an extra eight degrees of the eight 377 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 1: of the eastern side. And when it's um no, when 378 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: it's closest to us, I'm sorry, and then when it's 379 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: further away, we can see an extra about eight degrees 380 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: of the western side, And I think we didn't mention um. 381 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,880 Speaker 1: We said that if you if you stopped that tennis ball, 382 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: we would see all sides of the Moon. But even 383 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: if it fell out of sink a little bit and 384 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: slowed down or sped up a little bit, we would 385 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: see portions of the Moon that we've never seen before exactly. 386 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: So this is why I'm like, we're you don't find 387 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: it incredibly amazing that we're alive at a point in 388 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 1: time when the Moon's rotational spin and it's orbit around 389 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 1: Earth are completely the same? Who said that wasn't amazing? 390 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: You don't think it's a coincidence. I don't. I think 391 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 1: that's why. I think if that weren't true, then there 392 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 1: wouldn't be Earth as we know it, right, Okay, so 393 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the anthropic principle. What's that? Well, it 394 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,719 Speaker 1: basically says that things are the way they are because 395 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: we're here to observe them, and if they weren't the 396 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: way that they are, then we wouldn't be it wouldn't 397 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: be possible for us to be here to observe them. Yeah, 398 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: I think I've never heard of that but I think 399 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense to me. What about you, 400 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: I don't know. It kind of smacks of like intelligent 401 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: intelligent design a little bit, you know, because it's basically saying, 402 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 1: like the idea is that the universe is fine tuned 403 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: to support life. But if we if that's the case, 404 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:05,360 Speaker 1: like why do we appear to be the only one 405 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: out there? Oh? I don't think necessarily fine tuned. I 406 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 1: think just lucky that things locked into support life. And 407 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: that's another interpretation of it. Yeah, should we wake Jerry 408 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 1: up and ask her? Jerry she has the answer. I 409 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: do recommend people go to the article. The article on 410 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:27,360 Speaker 1: the website is called what and Where is the Dark 411 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: Side of the Moon? Yeah, because there is a very 412 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: handy phases of the moon graphic and a super fast animation, 413 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: so fast actually I think I got it. Wait, you know, 414 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: and it's kind of small and you can't really see 415 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,919 Speaker 1: that spinning, So I'm going to retract my statement that 416 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 1: it's super handy. It kind of stinks and it's stinky. 417 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,000 Speaker 1: But I bet you there's a YouTube out there that 418 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: that shows it in better colored, high graphic detail. And 419 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: there's a YouTube out there, yeah that sound like an 420 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: old man. I do have one more thing too. We're 421 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: talking about billions of years um that the the the 422 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: Earth and the Moon will have such an effect on 423 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 1: on one another that the Earth's day will last forty 424 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: current Earth days and that will also be the exact 425 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: amount of time the Moon's orbit. So the lunar phase 426 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,360 Speaker 1: and the Earth day and a few billion years will 427 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: be one and the same forty days. And then apparently 428 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: after that it's not going to change much. So it's 429 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: they're both going towards some sort of equilibrium. Right. Sounds well, 430 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: because the Earth day will be in lockstep with the 431 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: lunar cycle. At that point, the shoe will be on 432 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: the other foot, and when you're on the moon, you 433 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 1: will only ever be able to see one side of 434 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: the Earth, the United States side. Who knows, well, there 435 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: won't be a United States at that point. You don't 436 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: know that three billion years the Earth is there will 437 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: be no mankind. Don't kid yourself, it's quite possible. We 438 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: we have to talk about the great filters sometime. I 439 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: don't even know what that is. You're gonna love it. 440 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: Is it a full podcast or is it definitely? Well? 441 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,600 Speaker 1: I think we have like a few we could break 442 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: out of that one. I think you just threw down 443 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 1: the gauntlets. That was a gauntlet, So Chuck, we just 444 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,200 Speaker 1: did that. Yeah, I'm pretty happy, but I always feel lost, 445 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: lost in space, like I'm hanging on by the skin 446 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: of my teeth when we do these things. Well, you 447 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 1: did great, thanks, But we always hear like really good 448 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: feedback from astronomers. It turns out there very much non 449 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,679 Speaker 1: jerky right in, very forgiving, very forgiving, and very helpful, 450 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: because I think they really want other people to understand 451 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 1: and they're not including look how much we know that 452 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,639 Speaker 1: you don't know. They're like, look how much you could know. 453 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: They're not like proctologists, those jerks or soccer fans. Alright, 454 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 1: so Chuck um, we are going to do a listener 455 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:07,680 Speaker 1: mail as usual, but it will be right after this message. Josh. Yeah, 456 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,479 Speaker 1: let's chat about squarespace, my friend. 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If you want to know more about the moon, 484 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: you can type in dark side of the Moon or 485 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: moon or whatever in the search bar how stuff works 486 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: dot Com and we'll bring up this article and others 487 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 1: in Since I said search bar, it is time, at 488 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 1: long last for listener mail. I'm calling this cool Kid 489 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,639 Speaker 1: because we like to highlight cool kids that listen to 490 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: the show because they are some of our favorite fans. Yeah, 491 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 1: because they're not yet cynical. Hi guys, my name was Ethan. 492 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: I'm eleven years old. Uh. This is the first time 493 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: I'm writing in even though I've been wanting to for 494 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: eight months. There was nothing to talk about. Then, out 495 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: of the blue, your podcast seemed to mostly match what 496 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,199 Speaker 1: I was doing and thinking. I was talking to my 497 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 1: friend extensively about the space race, and you did a 498 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: I left that this eleven year old is talking extensively 499 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: about the space race in the nine fifties. Uh, and 500 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: you guys did a podcast on that. I was wondering 501 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 1: about why sugar was so sweet and unhealthy. I was 502 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: picking out a movie when I saw some that were unrated, 503 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: and that got me thinking, when it's not unrated, who 504 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,639 Speaker 1: rates it? I think he means not rated. Uh. And 505 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:39,919 Speaker 1: the most recent I was playing Monopoly with my family, 506 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: and since we only have been playing two hours per day, 507 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 1: it stretched into a three day game and counting as 508 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,360 Speaker 1: of writing this email, it still isn't over. It's got 509 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 1: to be over by now, though. That'd be horrific experience. 510 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 1: On the second day or podcast How Monopoly Works came out. 511 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 1: If either of you were mind readers or have a 512 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: mind reading device, please tell me that works. By the way, 513 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: I have an old, old podcast correction to make. In 514 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: the Magnets episode, you said that the second most powerful 515 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 1: force in the universe's magnetism. The real answer is electro magnetism. 516 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: And my source is how Stuff Works dot com. Oh cheeky, Ethan. 517 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: It would really please me if you did a podcast 518 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 1: on electromagnet so I've always been fascinated by them. There 519 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,199 Speaker 1: are many uses listening for more stuff you should know, Ethan. PS. 520 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 1: I'm using my mom's email smiley face. So I wrote 521 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: Ethan's mom back and said, you know, don't have your 522 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,240 Speaker 1: permission to read this because he's a great, great kid. 523 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,239 Speaker 1: She said he would be delighted and so am. I. 524 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: That's awesome. Thanks ethan, and thanks to your mom too 525 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 1: for letting us read your very spectacular listener mail. Thanks 526 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: for the correction to absolutely We're so dumb, not magnetism, electromagnetism, 527 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: and I'm taking his word. 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