Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from how Stuff
Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant. There's someone in
Speaker 1: our heads but it's not us. And there's Jerry over there.
Speaker 1: She's got her own self in her head. She's not Alumi.
Speaker 1: Our band does that song. Oh yeah, yeah, it's one
Speaker 1: of my favorites. It's a good one. We do it
Speaker 1: in the basement. It's not like, Actually we did it
Speaker 1: at one public show and I think after whatever's like,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't do that song out. Yeah, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, where you like that was out
Speaker 1: of sight? I thought it was totally groovy, and like
Speaker 1: the audience didn't like it, or I think the rest
Speaker 1: of the band felt like it was. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of songs we do just in the basement
Speaker 1: for our own fun, and then there's you know, the
Speaker 1: songs that we'll do in front of people twice a year.
Speaker 1: You guys do yakety sex in the base. I wish
Speaker 1: did you see Dolly Partner played that live at the
Speaker 1: Huge Festival and she did a good job. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was it. Bonorue right, No, it was that the one
Speaker 1: is it Glastonbury in the UK? Dolly Parton doing yakety
Speaker 1: sacks playing the saxophone at Glastonbury, Like, who would have
Speaker 1: thunk that? Whatever? She had the crowd eating out of
Speaker 1: the palm of her hand. Yes, she's putting out a
Speaker 1: new album that, um she's calling her gay friendly dance album. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a is it the name of the album or
Speaker 1: the name of the track is just a wee bit
Speaker 1: gay or something like that. I think that's one of Oh.
Speaker 1: I thought that's just how she described it. Is that
Speaker 1: the name of one of the songs. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It wasn't quote, but I couldn't tell if that was
Speaker 1: because it was a title or quote. Well, she's got
Speaker 1: a huge following in the gay community, and she's she's
Speaker 1: embraces it fully. Yes she does. And there's always been
Speaker 1: rumors about her. Oh I don't think those are correct. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't mean there are rumors out there.
Speaker 1: She has a long, long term husband. Yeah, she's been
Speaker 1: married for like fifty years. But um, I think the
Speaker 1: fact that he's like, try and find a picture of
Speaker 1: this guy. He's a total recluse and she just says,
Speaker 1: that's just the nature of our relationship. Have you been
Speaker 1: to um It's like the Oprah thing. She has a
Speaker 1: really close girlfriend, and everyone's like, oh, well, of course
Speaker 1: Oprah and gayl are gay. Have you been You can't
Speaker 1: be friends lifelong friends with someone of the same sex.
Speaker 1: Have you been to Dollywood? Not? Still, you should go
Speaker 1: to Dollywood. There's a Dolly part museum that's part of
Speaker 1: Dollywood that's like worth the admission by itself. Can you
Speaker 1: just go to the museum. There's no reason to just
Speaker 1: go to the museum, but yeah you could. I mean,
Speaker 1: like it's worth going just for the museum. But then
Speaker 1: when you exit the museum, you've got all the rest
Speaker 1: of Dollywood to go hang out at, which is substantial,
Speaker 1: like she updated it. And there's roller coasters, which I
Speaker 1: don't ride. You don't ride roller coasters at all? No,
Speaker 1: you mean I went with some friends and like everybody
Speaker 1: else is riding roller coasters, and we were just like,
Speaker 1: that's okay. Have you never ridden all ridden roller coasters before?
Speaker 1: But I've gotten the point in my life where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like being terrified out of my mind
Speaker 1: right now. So that's the reason. All right, the dark
Speaker 1: side of the moon is off the bang and start. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who'd have thought Dolly Partner would make an appearance in
Speaker 1: this one, Dolly park So there there, Chuck, We're talking
Speaker 1: about the dark side of the moon. And it turns
Speaker 1: out there is such thing as the dark side of
Speaker 1: the moon, but it's just misused in the popular vernacular.
Speaker 1: The idea of the dark side of the moon is
Speaker 1: that there's another side of the moon that we never see,
Speaker 1: and it's dark. It's out there, exposed to the cold
Speaker 1: chill of space, and um, the dark side of the
Speaker 1: moon is the side of the moon we never see,
Speaker 1: the one that faces opposite our per view. There is
Speaker 1: a side of the moon that we don't see. Right,
Speaker 1: We're going to go ahead and called at the Far
Speaker 1: side of the Moon. Yes, And I think that song
Speaker 1: would be equally as cool. I was thinking about it
Speaker 1: if it was I'll see you on the far side
Speaker 1: of the Moon. Yeah, that's even like a little more
Speaker 1: psychedelic if you ask me. Yeah, because of the whole
Speaker 1: far out thing. I don't know it resonated. In fact,
Speaker 1: in the basement, I'm gonna start singing that you are
Speaker 1: you gonna adapt it. Okay, there you go, just not
Speaker 1: out never again. So there is a far side of
Speaker 1: the moon. There is the side of the moon that
Speaker 1: we don't see. People are correct in assuming that, Um,
Speaker 1: But and there is a dark side of the moon.
Speaker 1: And sometimes the dark side of the moon and the
Speaker 1: far side of the moon are one and the same,
Speaker 1: but sometimes they're not. Yeah, it gets a little confusing,
Speaker 1: But everything I just said is true. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 1: our job to get you to wrap your heads around this,
Speaker 1: like we had to, yeah, because it's extraordinarily confusing. It's
Speaker 1: almost like, why couldn't just the popular conception be correct?
Speaker 1: Because this is kind of difficult until you wrap your
Speaker 1: head around it and then it's easy. But it is.
Speaker 1: It is hard at first. Everybody, so buckling, tie your
Speaker 1: shoes on tight. Yeah, maybe pack a granola bar and
Speaker 1: let's get down to this alright. So I guess we
Speaker 1: can start by saying that the moon, um is not
Speaker 1: like the sun. It doesn't generate that warm, lovely glow
Speaker 1: itself that you see. I think most people know at
Speaker 1: this point, UM, that that is reflection from the sun.
Speaker 1: And the moon is really big, and that's why it
Speaker 1: looks super bright. It's not really very reflective, but it's large.
Speaker 1: It is, so on a dark, dark night, a full
Speaker 1: moon looks really super bright because it's big. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's from sunshine sunshining on the moon. That's what makes
Speaker 1: the moon glow to us. There's also something called earth shine,
Speaker 1: and when there's no sunshine hitting the moon, as far
Speaker 1: as we can see, uh this, the Earth is still
Speaker 1: reflecting light on it. And they've recently found out that
Speaker 1: the moon if you can somehow and they figured out
Speaker 1: how to using radio telescopes, subtract any kind of sunlight
Speaker 1: interference and just isolate the earth shine. If you could
Speaker 1: just see that, then what you would be seeing is
Speaker 1: a kind of dark turquoise cobalt blue moon. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: technically the dark side of the moon is turquoise. Yes,
Speaker 1: and they have figured that out for the first time.
Speaker 1: Was it It was just this year, right, it was published.
Speaker 1: So that's exciting new news because they tried for a
Speaker 1: long time, that's right, but it took some smart people
Speaker 1: and people used to be dumb. Yes, So there is
Speaker 1: a there is a side of the moon, like we said,
Speaker 1: that we just don't see. And you would think, well,
Speaker 1: that's because the moon orbits the Earth right, which it does.
Speaker 1: And so if the Moon is just sitting there stationary
Speaker 1: orbiting around the Earth, of course we're going to see
Speaker 1: the same side all the time. That's a fallacy, that's
Speaker 1: right as a or a fact. If the Moon orbited
Speaker 1: the Earth and didn't rotate around its own axis, right,
Speaker 1: we would see all sides of the Moon at some
Speaker 1: point during that lunar orbit, which we call a month.
Speaker 1: And you can test this by just getting a tennis
Speaker 1: ball and keeping it still and rotating it around your
Speaker 1: hand and pretend your hand is Earth, and you would
Speaker 1: see at some point the Earth would see all sides
Speaker 1: of that tennis ball. The trick is the Moon rotates
Speaker 1: on its own axis at the same rate that it
Speaker 1: rotates around in orbit. And so now if you take
Speaker 1: that tennis ball and well you'd have to be pretty
Speaker 1: precise to spin it, but if you could spin it
Speaker 1: at the same rate that you're going around, you would notice.
Speaker 1: And there's a handy animation on this article on how
Speaker 1: stuff works dot Com. I thought it was a little
Speaker 1: fast and all at it to actually I think they
Speaker 1: need to go in and slow that thing down a
Speaker 1: little bit. It's handy and fast, but you would notice
Speaker 1: that if it's spinning on its own ax us at
Speaker 1: the same rate that it'sn't spinning in orbit, then you're
Speaker 1: going to see that same side. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: it seems like a miracle, but it's not. It's a
Speaker 1: mind boggling colossal cosmological coincidences coincidence. Okay, well then I'm
Speaker 1: hoping you can explain this to me, because Chuck, what
Speaker 1: you've just said, I think it bears repeating the the
Speaker 1: the Moon's orbit around Earth last twenty nine point five days.
Speaker 1: That's right. The Moon also rotates on its axis. That
Speaker 1: rotation you know, the Earth rotates on its axis that
Speaker 1: lasts about twenty four hours. We call it a day.
Speaker 1: The moon rotates on its texas, so it has the
Speaker 1: day too, but it's day last twenty nine point five days.
Speaker 1: So the Moon's rotation on its own axis and its
Speaker 1: orbit around Earth are the same, which is why no
Speaker 1: matter where you are on Earth, you can't see anything
Speaker 1: but the near side of the Moon because even though
Speaker 1: it's rotating on its axis, it's revolving in orbit at
Speaker 1: the same speed at the same rate around the Earth.
Speaker 1: So you will never see anything but the near side.
Speaker 1: Should we say this a third time? This was what
Speaker 1: this was what got me the most. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: saying it again, like this is this is mind boggling
Speaker 1: to me. So there's a day side of the moon
Speaker 1: and a night side of the moon, just like there
Speaker 1: was on Earth. Your son's gonna if you built a
Speaker 1: little moon lunar cabin, which would be great by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would see a sunrise in a sunset. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it would look exactly the same. Well, it
Speaker 1: would take a month. Yeah, it would be a very
Speaker 1: slow sunrise and a very slow sunset. What to us
Speaker 1: is a month, a lunar month, right, which involves the
Speaker 1: four phases of the moon, the waxing, the waning that
Speaker 1: give us the crescent, the full, the new, all that jazz,
Speaker 1: the super Yeah. Um that to the moon is a day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So our whole concept of there being a far side
Speaker 1: of the moon and dark side of the moon and
Speaker 1: phases of the moon to the moon that it's just like,
Speaker 1: hey man, this is just a day to me, I'm
Speaker 1: just the moon right, reflecting light because just like over
Speaker 1: the course of twenty four hours on Earth, different parts
Speaker 1: of the Earth are exposed to the sunlight over the
Speaker 1: course of twenty nine point five days. Thanks to the
Speaker 1: rotation of the Moon, different parts of the Moon are
Speaker 1: exposed to sunlight. So that far side of the Moon
Speaker 1: that we never see because of the rotation and the
Speaker 1: orbit being the same for the Moon still gets bathed
Speaker 1: in sunlight for two weeks out of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and sometimes we're we're seeing the night side, sometimes we're
Speaker 1: seeing the day side. It just depends on when it
Speaker 1: happens to fall during that lunar day. There's not the
Speaker 1: same thing as our day. It is confusing. That's why
Speaker 1: I said it twice but not a third time. Uh well,
Speaker 1: I guess we should explain a little something about gravity.
Speaker 1: And we did cover this. Um we did something on
Speaker 1: the tides, right title bulge. Yeah, he's at a video
Speaker 1: at least once we've discussed it and now we've done
Speaker 1: it at some point. The reason that everything is uh
Speaker 1: in synchronicity like that is because of gravity. It's because
Speaker 1: Earth is exerting gravitational pull on the Moon and it's
Speaker 1: locked it in with us. But the Moon's doing the
Speaker 1: same thing to us, and it's also getting further away
Speaker 1: from us. About an inch and a half a year.
Speaker 1: I think one point for eight inches per year. Uh,
Speaker 1: And that's what causes title bulge. The gravitational force on
Speaker 1: us causes the title bulge on the near side when uh,
Speaker 1: the Moon has the greatest poll so water is going
Speaker 1: to be pulled toward the Moon and inertia is overcome
Speaker 1: by gravity. And on the far side the opposite is true,
Speaker 1: but they're both bulges when when it's at its nearest
Speaker 1: point in orbit, and it's for this point in orbit, right,
Speaker 1: So if the Moon is moving further away from us
Speaker 1: by one point four eight inches per year, that means
Speaker 1: millions and billions of years from now things are going
Speaker 1: to be completely different. Yeah. Like a billion years ago,
Speaker 1: a day on Earth lasted eighteen hours, and I think
Speaker 1: the month was twenty days long days. Yeah, And then now,
Speaker 1: thanks to gravity and the effect of the Moon on
Speaker 1: Earth and vice versa, the earth rotation is slowing right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And eventually I think in a billion or two years um,
Speaker 1: the day is expected to be about forty current Earth
Speaker 1: days long. Yeah, it says, uh, yeah, forty days. So
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I've never thought about that in terms of
Speaker 1: the evolution of mankind. Uh, not many people, not doing
Speaker 1: a whole lot, not a lot going on short days.
Speaker 1: Now everyone's populating the planet longer days and longer days.
Speaker 1: It's all coincidental, I'm sure. Yeah. I wonder what impact
Speaker 1: it would have on our sleep cycle if you still
Speaker 1: have one a billion years from now. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: So coming up in just a second, we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about the phases of the moon, because there's some
Speaker 1: misconceptions about that too. So, Chuck, were you had promised
Speaker 1: everyone that we would talk about the phases of the moon.
Speaker 1: I think that's called a tease. I think you should
Speaker 1: deliver on it. Oh yeah, well, I think well. Strickland
Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland of tech Stuff wrote this article, by the
Speaker 1: way that we're working from um and there are some
Speaker 1: misconceptions about the phases of the moon, he thinks, and
Speaker 1: I agree. UM. One is that a new moon occurs
Speaker 1: when the Earth is blocking light from the Sun. And
Speaker 1: if you're just a dumb human like me and you
Speaker 1: look up and see a new moon, that's sort of
Speaker 1: what it looks like. It looks like the Earth is
Speaker 1: blocking it the Sun because you can almost see the
Speaker 1: shadow like clearly, that's what's going on, right, but it's
Speaker 1: not true because the moon is actually in between the
Speaker 1: Earth and the Sun at that point, which makes it
Speaker 1: impossible when when the moon is full, the Earth is
Speaker 1: between the Sun and the moon. Right, you're saying, well,
Speaker 1: no, no no, I'll say during a new moon, the moon
Speaker 1: is between the Sun and the Earth exactly, But for
Speaker 1: a full moon, the Earth is between the Sun and
Speaker 1: the moon. So both of them are kind of counterintuitive,
Speaker 1: but they make sense when you remember that the whole
Speaker 1: reason the moon glows is because of its exposure to sunlight. Right,
Speaker 1: So if the moon, if we see the side that's
Speaker 1: being exposed to sunlight, that means that the Earth is
Speaker 1: between the Sun and the moon. That's right, right, because
Speaker 1: that's the only way we could see that part exposed
Speaker 1: the sunlight. But if the moon between the Sun and
Speaker 1: the Earth, and the side that's being exposed to sunlight
Speaker 1: is the opposite side of the moon, the far side
Speaker 1: of the moon, so of course we couldn't see that.
Speaker 1: So that's what the new moon is. Yeah, And Jonathan
Speaker 1: he broke it down in another pretty easy way to understand,
Speaker 1: Like if you're if you're sitting in a room and
Speaker 1: someone and there's only a single light source like a spotlight.
Speaker 1: Let's say, and someone walks in between the light and you,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a silhouette of them, but you're not
Speaker 1: going to be able to see their detail, right, But
Speaker 1: if you could somehow get behind them, right, you would
Speaker 1: see that their back is bathed in that light exactly. Now,
Speaker 1: if they walk behind you, you're both facing the sunlight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so if you can just kind of make your eye
Speaker 1: travel around the side of your head to the back
Speaker 1: and poke out through your hair there, you would see
Speaker 1: that that person is a full moon, that's right, and
Speaker 1: the initial one when they are between you, when you
Speaker 1: see their silhouette, that is the new moon. So it
Speaker 1: makes sense when you think about it that way. I
Speaker 1: think it does. Or if you look at this illustration
Speaker 1: that's helpful to it definitely is like this is lunar phases.
Speaker 1: Is definitely one where it's like, just look at a picture. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so much easier to see. Yeah. The irony of
Speaker 1: this whole thing is is that thanks to the phases
Speaker 1: of the moon, this lunar day um that the dark
Speaker 1: side of the moon is sometimes the side that we
Speaker 1: can see. Yeah, that's the one that blows my mind
Speaker 1: a bit, you know, it's during a new moon, like
Speaker 1: we're still seeing the near side of the moon. That's
Speaker 1: all we'll ever see side that has the man in
Speaker 1: the moon or the rabbit making mochi in the moon.
Speaker 1: That's a Japanese thing. It's like their version of the
Speaker 1: man in the moon. It's a rabbit making mochi, which
Speaker 1: is like some sweet, sticky rice treats. And is it
Speaker 1: something that they see in the moon. Yeah, And what
Speaker 1: you're seeing are the lunar seas, like the Sea of Tranquility,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And with the well, I guess with
Speaker 1: the advent of the Soviet Luna three spacecraft, that was
Speaker 1: the first time we ever saw the far side of
Speaker 1: the moon. And that was I think in nineteen and
Speaker 1: that crazy, so that long ago we were that advanced. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is, And if you're into that, you should go
Speaker 1: listen to her how the space race worked episode that
Speaker 1: was a good one because Russia was advanced too. But
Speaker 1: these photos sent back from the Soviets showed that the
Speaker 1: far side of the moon didn't look anything like the
Speaker 1: near side of the moon that we see. It was
Speaker 1: all just little pockmark craters. There weren't any like sea
Speaker 1: of tranquility or anything like that. And for a long
Speaker 1: time it posed this this riddle called the lunar far
Speaker 1: side Highlands problem. Why was the far side of the
Speaker 1: Moon so different from the near side. So they finally
Speaker 1: recently think that they came up with the riddle, like recently,
Speaker 1: like this year, um or the answer to the riddle.
Speaker 1: They came up with the riddle after But the the
Speaker 1: reason being that the side of the Moon, the near
Speaker 1: side that's closest to us, has been locked what's called
Speaker 1: tidally locked. It's the whole reason that we have this
Speaker 1: whole why this whole podcast is going on. Because the
Speaker 1: Moon and the Earth are locked into orbit, right, and
Speaker 1: because they effect one another through gravity, decide that's closest
Speaker 1: to Earth, um was subject to Earth's gravity more than
Speaker 1: the other side. So as the Moon cooled and the
Speaker 1: Earth was cooling, but it was still super hot, it
Speaker 1: was heating the side of the Moon that was closest
Speaker 1: to us, right, that makes sense. So on the far side,
Speaker 1: as the Moon cooled, the crust was thicker and sturdier.
Speaker 1: On the near side the crust is a little thinner.
Speaker 1: So as the Moon was still cooling, it got blasted
Speaker 1: with asteroids and meteorites and all that jazz. And on
Speaker 1: the side that's closest to us, the thinner crust side,
Speaker 1: lava float up from those meteor impacts and formed things
Speaker 1: like the Sea of Tranquility. On the other side, the
Speaker 1: crust was thicker, so no lava flowed up from it. Interesting,
Speaker 1: that's what they have to explain it. I wonder if
Speaker 1: there's any value in exploring the far side of the Moon,
Speaker 1: or if that would just make a great movie. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're talking about to mean that. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the value is though. Yeah, and with the way
Speaker 1: that funding is we've talked about with NASA's going, I
Speaker 1: doubt if it's a priority, but that would make a
Speaker 1: good movie because one creepy thing about it. It made
Speaker 1: me think of space movies and such as that you
Speaker 1: lose radio contact on the far side of the Moon,
Speaker 1: so the movie version, obviously you would have to sign
Speaker 1: off and go dark for a period of time, and
Speaker 1: that's when like the event horizon occurs. What was the well,
Speaker 1: the event horizon, that's like, yeah, that's not the real thing.
Speaker 1: Sam Neil goes crazy. Yeah, something happens creepy on that
Speaker 1: other side, right, was that in that movie Moon with
Speaker 1: the Sam Rockwell, what the far side of the moon? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What was the movie where the guys like racing to
Speaker 1: get out of the um nightfall on the moon? Because
Speaker 1: like the sunrise? I think that was Moon. Okay, but
Speaker 1: we'll hear about it if it's not. I like that movie.
Speaker 1: That's a good one, fantastic. Yeah. I think David Bowie
Speaker 1: soun directed that. Yeah, Duncan Bowie his name, it's Duncan something.
Speaker 1: Oh he took because David Bowie's not even his real name.
Speaker 1: Probably No, I don't think that. Zky start us right,
Speaker 1: Duncan started us to his name, and he's from the moon.
Speaker 1: Anything else I do? I have one more thing? Um,
Speaker 1: it turns out that we can see more than just
Speaker 1: the near side of the moon sometimes. All right, how's that? Well,
Speaker 1: because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth isn't
Speaker 1: a perfect circle, it's elliptical. Um, when it's furthest away,
Speaker 1: we can see an extra eight degrees of the eight
Speaker 1: of the eastern side. And when it's um no, when
Speaker 1: it's closest to us, I'm sorry, and then when it's
Speaker 1: further away, we can see an extra about eight degrees
Speaker 1: of the western side, And I think we didn't mention um.
Speaker 1: We said that if you if you stopped that tennis ball,
Speaker 1: we would see all sides of the Moon. But even
Speaker 1: if it fell out of sink a little bit and
Speaker 1: slowed down or sped up a little bit, we would
Speaker 1: see portions of the Moon that we've never seen before exactly.
Speaker 1: So this is why I'm like, we're you don't find
Speaker 1: it incredibly amazing that we're alive at a point in
Speaker 1: time when the Moon's rotational spin and it's orbit around
Speaker 1: Earth are completely the same? Who said that wasn't amazing?
Speaker 1: You don't think it's a coincidence. I don't. I think
Speaker 1: that's why. I think if that weren't true, then there
Speaker 1: wouldn't be Earth as we know it, right, Okay, so
Speaker 1: you subscribe to the anthropic principle. What's that? Well, it
Speaker 1: basically says that things are the way they are because
Speaker 1: we're here to observe them, and if they weren't the
Speaker 1: way that they are, then we wouldn't be it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be possible for us to be here to observe them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I've never heard of that but I think
Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense to me. What about you,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It kind of smacks of like intelligent
Speaker 1: intelligent design a little bit, you know, because it's basically saying,
Speaker 1: like the idea is that the universe is fine tuned
Speaker 1: to support life. But if we if that's the case,
Speaker 1: like why do we appear to be the only one
Speaker 1: out there? Oh? I don't think necessarily fine tuned. I
Speaker 1: think just lucky that things locked into support life. And
Speaker 1: that's another interpretation of it. Yeah, should we wake Jerry
Speaker 1: up and ask her? Jerry she has the answer. I
Speaker 1: do recommend people go to the article. The article on
Speaker 1: the website is called what and Where is the Dark
Speaker 1: Side of the Moon? Yeah, because there is a very
Speaker 1: handy phases of the moon graphic and a super fast animation,
Speaker 1: so fast actually I think I got it. Wait, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of small and you can't really see
Speaker 1: that spinning, So I'm going to retract my statement that
Speaker 1: it's super handy. It kind of stinks and it's stinky.
Speaker 1: But I bet you there's a YouTube out there that
Speaker 1: that shows it in better colored, high graphic detail. And
Speaker 1: there's a YouTube out there, yeah that sound like an
Speaker 1: old man. I do have one more thing too. We're
Speaker 1: talking about billions of years um that the the the
Speaker 1: Earth and the Moon will have such an effect on
Speaker 1: on one another that the Earth's day will last forty
Speaker 1: current Earth days and that will also be the exact
Speaker 1: amount of time the Moon's orbit. So the lunar phase
Speaker 1: and the Earth day and a few billion years will
Speaker 1: be one and the same forty days. And then apparently
Speaker 1: after that it's not going to change much. So it's
Speaker 1: they're both going towards some sort of equilibrium. Right. Sounds well,
Speaker 1: because the Earth day will be in lockstep with the
Speaker 1: lunar cycle. At that point, the shoe will be on
Speaker 1: the other foot, and when you're on the moon, you
Speaker 1: will only ever be able to see one side of
Speaker 1: the Earth, the United States side. Who knows, well, there
Speaker 1: won't be a United States at that point. You don't
Speaker 1: know that three billion years the Earth is there will
Speaker 1: be no mankind. Don't kid yourself, it's quite possible. We
Speaker 1: we have to talk about the great filters sometime. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what that is. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 1: Is it a full podcast or is it definitely? Well?
Speaker 1: I think we have like a few we could break
Speaker 1: out of that one. I think you just threw down
Speaker 1: the gauntlets. That was a gauntlet, So Chuck, we just
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