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I'm your host Lila.
And on your other host, David, I'm Lila's dad, I haven't said
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it.
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topic? This week, the moon the moon,
and this episode will be kind of short, because we're going to do
a silly speculation Saturday after
Yep. So we're gonna tell you some facts about the moon. And
then some probably lies about the moon. Yeah, no, but the the
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Kyle is is like Kyle. Yeah. Isn't that Kyle?
Good guy. His his movie, Dragon Ball Super superhero. It's two
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I'm not clicking.
What's it? Oh, it's the wire. Yes. I need to get wire. Yeah.
All right. So we're gonna be talking about the moon. And as
always, thank you for everybody who sent us value. We appreciate
it. I've got to get more channels because some of our
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boosts and and stream sets. I'm gonna have to start balancing my
channels and figure out how to do that poopoo Zilla in the chat
there's Have you ever heard of a vuvuzela? No. Oh my gosh. Okay,
so why don't you I'm going to look this up real quick while we
duplicate that if we lose ALA is a traditional I think it's is it
Australian? Anyway, it's a very unique sounding instrument. So
here is a vuvuzela concert a quartet Here we go. This is off
of YouTube. This guy has 160 subscribers. His name is Berlin
ro phone should look up what if it doesn't have to do with the
vuvuzela which was now been when it has farts? Its pupils ala
What's up
what we're talking about weird instruments. What's it called?
The didgeridoo?
The didgeridoo? Didgeridoo
is one of my favorite you are aware of the didgeridoo
you know you have access to the soundboard now Oh crap. Yeah, do
you got access? Why don't you look up a didgeridoo now that's
an Australian one. I don't know. Well, maybe I'm gonna have to
look up the Venice Venezuela the vuvuzela did that going? Oh
there ain't gonna know if it was a copyright with the didgeridoo.
Background Did you redo ambient music?
Isn't it great. We don't have to worry about ads now. Okay, turn
turn it down until you find the actual didgeridoo noise there we
go here it
is very
light. Yeah, because you click the one that said ambient which
is reduced
royalty free music. Alright, I'm trying to Yeah, hold on. I've
got it
it's just a big stick that you blow into. Yeah, like a home
into it.
You know you don't really harm you do like the little like a
little wet. I don't know where to call it.
This is not the moon.
No. Okay.
Okay, so we were going to do the moon. And then last week we got
in the mail a a postcard flash card from K. So I guess this is
K's corner. I gotta get it. We gotta get somebody who can sing
to do that for
us. Me. I can sing decently.
Okay, we'll record us a KS corner jingle? No, no, we'll do
later. So the only 850 pounds of rocks and samples from the moon
had been brought back to Earth by space missions of these big
Molly is the largest moon rock brought back by the astronauts
of the Apollo 16 mission. It weighs 26 pounds. That's a lot
when it comes to space because talking about the fuel and the
logistics of things in space. 20 bring it back at 26 pound rock
is that's quite quite expensive. The moon is 2159 miles wide.
That's the same distance from Pikeville, North Carolina Leina
to Bogota, Colombia, or Spokane, Washington. The Wright brothers
made their first flight six, first successful airplane flight
and 1903 with the Wright Flyer that was in Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, right on the road from us. We're not having you know,
but within driving distance.
Yeah, it's in North Carolina. anywhere in North Carolina, it's
driving distance,
everything's driving distance if you're brave enough. In 1969,
Neil Armstrong took pieces of the Wright Flyer with him to the
moon on the Apollo 11 mission. This was the first manned
mission to the moon, only 66 years after humans began to fly.
The trip to the moon was the first sci fi movie it was
released in 1902. By Jorge Maitlis. MTL ies with lots of
little lows. I don't think so because of the accents over the
eye, the ease is what comes forward and one of them
backward. And I don't know how that's pronounced Melius
millions they're
like me.
That was the first film director made the first sci fi movie. So
in honor of that, which I've, if you've seen it, there's a
picture of the dude with the moon face, like the moon with a
face on it, and then the spaceship crashes into its
eyeball. I'm sure everybody's seen the picture. It was
actually called Live we as dans la lune. So you know, French
1902. And since it is 1902, that means that it is in the public
domain. And you know what that means? It's royalty free. We can
play it on the show. Are you ready for some audio from the
trip to the moon? Sure. And go are you good? Yeah, it's not
playing? Yes. No, it's not. Yes, it is. It is. It's a silent
film. It's
Oh, so funny. Yeah.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. The can't hear it. Okay, so Lila,
back in the day, when films first started out, they did,
they didn't have any audio. And they would have a band actually
play like the soundtrack, like play what was happening, and
like alive, so there'll be Music To accompany it. But I don't
know which of the music that is on the YouTube versions of it. I
don't know which of the which of those is copyright free. So I
don't want to. I don't like using other people's stuff
without their permission, or without it being public domain
or whatever. So anywho it's a very short movie. It's like just
under 13 minutes long, and it's about them taking a trip to the
moon and landed on the moon. And it's it was the first sci fi
movie. So there you go. I'll link to that in the show notes.
Got the full movie. There's a couple of different versions on
YouTube with music behind it and stuff like that. But yeah, got a
troll. Gotta troll the trolls. All right, so why don't you tell
us some actual real facts about the moon besides what Kay just
sent us which was awesome. And we got another one from Kay.
A few days ago or yesterday. And we will do that. We don't have
ads in our PO Box.
Yeah, PO Box is trying to get get the the ads. But we will do
that one on the next episode. Because we're going to do this
one now. Actually, actually, no, I'm gonna go grab it. Because
we're not doing a live episode next week. We're not even
recording an episode next week. So we'll go ahead and talk about
it. Or do you want to wait? No, because the silly speculation
Saturday is gonna come out next week. Oh, we're gonna alternate.
Oh, all right. All right. Cool. Until we figure out if we're
just gonna go all solely speculation Saturday, who knows?
Everything's in flux. So tell us some good facts about the moon
and I will get the notes for this week's case corner.
Okay. The moon. The moon's the Earth. Earth's only permanent
satellite. It is the fifth fifth largest. Oh my gosh. It is the
fifth largest natural natural satellite in the solar system
and the largest among the planetary satellites relative to
the size of the planet that orbits okay. The moon is the
second densest satellite Among those among those whose densest
are known anyway, the first densest is Jupiter satellite IO.
My favorite of Jupiter satellites is Europa. It is made
of ice. I made a whole presentation for it. For my
class the last year, the moon always shows the Earth, the same
face. And the Dark Side of the Moon is just the side of the
Moon that never faces us. So Dad, are you back?
Yes, I'm back.
All right, speaking to the mic. Alright, so
we're gonna talk about the moon some more, and then we'll get to
case corner towards the end of the show.
Yep. What he had to say about the moon. Okay, so
the moon. I like I like talking about the the phases of the
moon. You used to be obsessed with the phases of the moon?
Yes. You used to when you were probably four or five. You'd go
outside and you'd be like, Oh, it's a waning gibbous or you
know, whatever. Whatever phase it was a diva know the phases
anymore.
Waxing, crescent, waxing, gibbous. Full new. And then
waning. gibbous and waning. Crescent, and then half and
half. Right? Yeah.
Right. You used to use gnome. Like, you could look at them and
be like, Oh, it's this Oh, it's that. You're all over it. Now.
You're just like, oh, it's moon. Its moon.
It's a new moon tonight. Yeah, there you go. No moon,
but like the the orbits of the moon and things that just the
movements of the moon is what I like and how it relates to the
earth. And I found a thing that talks about the four different
kinds of lunar months. So our months correspond approximately
to the length that it takes for our natural satellite, the moon
to go through full cycle phases. And there's four different
kinds. And therefore different durations are all about the
same, but a little bit different. So there's no
ballistic, not animalistic. Oh, and no ballistic
anomalistic
Why don't you just, that would make more sense. You just why
don't you just mind your business? Okay. Yes,
anomalistic. Okay. anomalistic the length it takes for the moon
to circle the Earth measured from one pedigree, the closest
point in its orbit to the earth, the dog food to the next. Yes,
exactly. That's why they needed the dog for that.
What, what does pedigree mean?
I'd set it right after I said it. It's the closest point in
its orbit to the earth. So it you know, comes in and moves in
and out a little bit, just a little bit. And when it's at the
closest to the earth, that's called Billy bone. So Billy
Bones just joined the chat. A new challenger has appeared. So
it's 27 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes and 37.4 seconds for the
anomalistic. And then you've got no decal? No, no, it's not
nautical, like the, you know, the ocean stuff. It's an odd, I
see a L. And that's the length of time it takes the moon to
pass through one of its nodes, which is where it crosses the
plane of the Earth's orbit, and to return to it. And that's 27
days, five hours, five minutes, and 35.9 seconds, which is about
eight hours shorter than the other one. You've got side real,
which is the length of time it takes the moon to circle the
Earth using the stars as a reference point, which is 27
days, seven hours, 43 minutes and 11.5 second works. What do
you mean?
I know that it orbits the Earth, but the earth also spins and if
it has, if, if you're in Asia, right, okay. And you know, gosh,
okay, just let me talk. Okay. So we are in North Carolina, and we
can see the moon. If the moon's out. How does Asia see it?
Because it's on our side of Earth.
If you were to take blender, right, or other 3d modeling
software, and you were to create a sphere, which the earth is a
sphere, sphere. Now that's not a perfect sphere, okay. But if you
look at if you render it out, and then render out a moon, that
distance away. There's also there's this thing called
lensing. But you're not you're not realizing how far away the
moon is.
Yes, I know the moon is really far away. But like how do you?
How do you see it? With your eyeballs? Lila? But like, is it
on all sides of the Earth at all times? No,
no. How does that work? Because time travels forward, I
don't understand time. Spinning around the Earth and the Earth
is spinning, too. How does how does it work? Is it just really
fast? So it goes,
I'm going to introduce you to a there's some space simulators.
The
earth spins faster than the moon orbits. Okay, uh huh. But
okay, we're gonna. Okay, next question. We're gonna have to
find you in a space simulator. So you can look it I can just
look it up. Yeah, you can look it up. Oh, look up. Look at us
and
all right. Anywho maybe we'll discuss it next episode.
violation.
Side side real pronunciation. Oh, ere we go.
Say do real. Serial. How does say do did you say that? What?
When I say do
real side real. I said tried real though. I told
him to stop. Okay, okay. There we go. Claims. When do you say
that?
I said it when we go. I said the length of time it takes the moon
to circle the Earth using the stars as reference point. Right
when he started talking about how can they see it? And besides
real I did though. I didn't say side Uriel, which is the proper
pronunciation. Thanks, MO. Yeah. Billy bone says the flat earth
is how everybody can see the moon at the same time. It's
turtles, turtles, turtles, turtles all the way down. And
then there's synodontis Senate who came up with that? Sinad
Dicle Synoptical. Who came up with what? Turtles have the
turtles? Yes. Oh, they've been talking about the earth being
flat disk supported by a turtle for for a long, long time. Okay,
that's been, I can't remember. I don't remember where it
originally came from. I read it one time, but I don't remember
it was a long time ago. I looked into it to see the validity of
the turtle theory. But I'm
back. Again, like John Mulaney would say right,
I've got one more type of type of lunar month. Let me get
through it. Yeah, thank you. So nautical, the length of time it
takes the moon to circle the Earth using the sun as a
reference point. That is a time lapse between the two successive
conjunctions of the sun. Going from New Moon to New Moon as 29
days. 12 hours. 44 minutes. 2.7 seconds is the synoptic month.
That is the basis for many calendars today. And is used to
divide the year you remember our calendars episode? No, there was
some weird ones.
Yeah. The moon is drifting away from the Earth.
I have been here and that my whole life and I'm 79 years old
accidently 3.8 centimeters away from our planet every year. So
how old are you?
79.
All right. So let's pull up this nifty calculator.
And let's do 4040
times three point what? Eight. But here's the has drifted.
Here's
the problem though. Yeah, no one will know what you're talking
about. Because it's in centimeters. How many
centimeters? Is it?
140 3.4 3.8 Hold on. So we're gonna do 443 38
It's a calculator. Why not just
know what didn't work? It's 150 to 250 centimeters.
That could be a mile my gosh, that could be four inches. I'm
sure nobody knows how far that is.
152 space. Oh, wait. 152 cm two two. I am here we go. 59.84 60
inches.
So five
years? Sure if that's what that is.
Yes. 60 divided by 12 is five. See how easy it is?
Since 1982.
Now how come and floor away?
We could shoot it.
We shot it with dudes.
We could steal the moon. What? Like grew? Wait, are you saying
spoilers to a movie? No. That's just the entire Plot of
Despicable Me is it to steal the moon yeah, and then vectors
trying to steal the moon faster than group and get I think I
have watched vaguely
remember that movie he's a very, very vague
I just remember they're trying to steal the moon because in the
song it's just like the moon in my hands in earth like moon or
like mine
so we see 59% of the moon.
The moon has quakes to moonquakes.
You know? Don't I don't get why we call don't just call it
earthquakes on the moon. Not to call it Moon quakes. It just
don't does it didn't sit right.
Moon is better than Earth. This.
There's no people there.
It'd be so much better. Yes.
I could play my switch.
I don't think the moon exists.
Is it a hologram?
It's it's a mirage.
We're getting into silly speculation
by the Republicans.
Well. Where are you reading this?
My brain? I'm just making stuff up.
Oh my gosh.
Had to bring a political party into it. Right. Hey, you get it.
That's how you get a news article. All right. Anyways,
there's water on the moon. I could still have water if I
lived on the moon.
Oh, yeah. Like is it drinkable water? Can you just like
chat with Dustin minerals under the surface?
Gotcha. But so I have to look into how they know I was
detected can get her off Facebook read it to me real
quick.
This is the form of ice trapped within dust and minerals on and
under the surface. It has been detected on areas of the lunar
surface that are in permanent shadow in there for a very cold.
Okay. Anybody Nice.
So it's been detected. They haven't actually like gotten any
of it? No, they probably haven't. They're probably using
like radars and all different kinds of different techniques to
get the Yeah, what the makeup of it is, and whatnot.
And last night, we were supposed to record this podcast, I looked
at the NASA site, and I looked at all of the satellites that
have been flown out from Earth. There's a lot more than I
thought there was. Hi, hello. Hello.
So in the fun in the fun and the fact in fact, in the Friday
morning. We got people coming in and out of the chat and we're
just
Good morning. Good evening, and good night.
And tonight. We are um we're ASO. What else do they have?
There was
a I have gash monographic kids, okay. A lot of these are very
basic.
Well, I mean, it's a kid site. Yeah, it's
a kid site.
And you read some pretty basic.
So it's the Earth's only satellite. We've already said
that. Have you heard the thing that it's just a piece of Earth?
Yes, I've heard that. It's the Earth's twin. I've heard that.
I've heard that it's a ship of some sort. All right, that I've
heard that we were brought here in the moon. That's like our
mothership. And that explains a lot of things about it that
we'll talk about until the speculation Saturday. All right,
next week. And coming up next for if you're listening live at
FunFactFriday.com and then I've also heard that it's hollow. I
believe they shot a big ball of metal at it. And it rang like a
bell is what they say
hope there's a big hazelnut inside of it. It looks really
tasty. Looks like a forever rochet
there was a Doctor Who episode where there was a dragon okay.
There was a Doctor Who episode where it cracked open and it was
actually an egg. Dragon. Can you name the dragon on somebody
else's fictional television show? Yeah, I suppose. All
right. What do you name the dragon?
My name dragon.
There's a movie called Dragon heart. Where he he's like I'm
not gonna just keep calling you dragon. I gotta come up with a
name for it. He's like, Draco. He's like, what's Draco is like
just means dragon in a different language. Oh, and that was Sean
Connery voiced the dragon and that was really good movie. Oh,
good. Good for what when it came out and my age at the time. So
there's a bunch of moon rocks missing. During the 1970s, the
Nixon administration gave rocks taken from the moon surface
during the Apollo 11 Apollo 17 missions to the leaders of 270
nations as well as some states. Quote, we'd like to share a
piece of this rock with so many of the countries throughout the
world and quote Apollo 11 Astronaut Eugene Cernan said
about the lunar meter meteorites later known as goodwill moon
rocks. Unfortunately, more than 100 of these rocks when went
unaccounted for and are suspected to be circulating in
the black market. While working at NASA in 1998, Joseph goon TAS
created a covert operation called Operation lunar eclipse
to crackdown on the illegal sale of these rocks. Why all of us, a
pea sized piece of moon rock could garner up to $5 million in
the black market, according to the BBC.
Rock. That sounds pretty cool.
Yes. Now according to the letter that we got from K, which the
link will be in the show notes in the paste bin for ks Moon
note. There was a rock that weighed 26 pounds. So how many
millions of dollars are worth or big Mali worth? They've pulled
850 pounds of rocks and samples from the moon. So that's a whole
lot of money. If you're selling it all. Hello,
okay. I was looking at this other one.
So there's a guy. There's a guy named Dennis hope that thinks he
owns the moon
is his name vector. That's John's hoax. Hope I just said
yeah. We need to change his name to vector. You stole the moon.
petrified wood goes for 5 million on the black market. I
don't know what
I don't know. All right. And 1980 seemingly exploiting a
loophole in the 1960s 1967 United Nations treaty in of
space ownership, which states that no country may lay claim to
the solar system. Nevada resident Dennis hope wrote to
the UN and declared individual ownership. He did. He did not
receive a response. But why wait
on this entire solar system. Before y'all even see me go to
college. I'm going to own the entire not the entire ocean, but
the entire solar system. I will be your control of all of you.
So this dude politician,
so old Dennis set up a lunar embassy and begin selling one
acre plots of the moon for 1999 each.
Along part of the moon
moon rock is really just petrified wood on NPR. Okay, I
gotta get that link for the show notes. Open Lincoln browser.
There we go. Now I've got it forever. Oh, it's a 29 second
listen. And as long as we comment on it, we're in the
clear for copyright because then it's part of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act carve out for education and
information. Okay.
Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep musician in the Dutch National
Museum is not what the curators thought. Back in 1969, the
Apollo 11 astronauts visited the Netherlands and the US
Ambassador gave the Dutch Prime Minister what he said was a
moonrock. No doubt it gave a warm feeling to the US ally. But
when an expert saw it in the National Museum, he said he
wasn't so sure it was real. Geologists have now identified
the moon rock as petrified wood. It's morning edition.
Thank you, man. Now more NPR. Wait. Thank you, Steve.
O Stevens, keep host of in PRs, diversions, or sorry, Morning
Edition. Is that heard on Morning Edition? Yeah, so I
guess it's they somebody somebody took the real one and
replaced it with petrified wood or you need to listen to silly
speculation Saturday next week. We're gonna talk about that.
That's the show. That's all folks.
So there's a teaser. Yeah, I don't I don't have much else. So
there's Dennis guy. He's selling blots for 20 bucks apiece. He
claims to have sold extraterrestrial property to
celebrities and three former US presidents. For the UN, the
solar system is considered in the same way as the world's
oceans outside of the economic zone and therefore belonging to
everyone on Earth. So you do on the entire ocean? I do. Except
for everything within 12 miles of a nation or nation state.
So I own half of the entire ocean.
You own a good chunk of it? Yes. Do I. I don't know. This is a
quote from Edberg. It doesn't really say who Edberg is. But
let's see doesn't really say. I don't know if Dennis hope
doesn't understand this or if he's just trying to force the
issue to get some legal interpretations. So that
development of resources in the sky can begin with less legal
uncertainty. Oh, so he's, this guy thinks that Dennis hope has
some grand plan to get laws written down so people can start
developing resources in the sky. I think that Dennis hope came up
with an idea to sell nothing for $20 to sell a certificate, like
a little piece of paper a printed for $20. Yeah. And I
think that he made a lot of money doing it probably
like that thing where you can be called the Lord. Yeah, I
was actually I was looking at that the other night. Yeah, if
you own land in Scotland, then you are technically a lord.
Well, there are people that own land in Scotland who are willing
to sell you a small small piece of their land foot by foot.
Yeah, one foot by one foot square. And technically since
you own that land, your name is is written and entitled to that
land. You are technically a Lord by Scottish tradition. So for
folks out there who want to read more, Ben Mezrich, me z r i c h
has an interesting book on the subject of stolen moon rocks,
but it's not for kids. So, so let's let's not get that if
you're a kiddo. Yep. Kids don't read these days. So I think that
we're about done with the Fun Fact Friday portion. If you're
listening live Stay tuned. We're gonna do our little outro Oh, KS
corner. Yeah, let me skim over this. I actually have not even
read it. I just opened it. As it said read it on the show. That's
what I'm skimming for. Looks like it's a cool topic.
Did he have anything on the envelope?
does not say? Yeah, so it doesn't say that it's not for
the show. So we are going to assume it's for the show. And I
will scan it with the blacklight here in a minute to see if he
wrote
Yeah, that's for
sure turn you down so you don't bump your mic. ere we go.
Faberge eggs which I think are kind of cool. Do you have a
blacklight okay here. I'll check it later. Mike so Faberge eggs
are you know what a Faberge egg is? Have you ever seen one? No
going attorney down go ahead and Google it. Okay. f a b e r g e
eggs. They're the fancy egg the party ones. Faberg. It's
February j because there's a accent on the last E Faberge
eggs are. I did I thought I did. You didn't fabric fabric. Fabric
eggs are intricate egg shaped works of art decorated with gold
and jewels that were created by Russian jeweler Peter Carl
Faberge between 1885 and 1917 which is interesting because
they weren't invented until 1978 by Joseph Faberge eggs it was
common in the 1800s for Russians to give gifts of egg shaped
artwork for the Easter holiday. Tsar Alexander the third
commission the creation of the egg from the blouse. Of Faberge
the house of fabric is almost look like blouse because of the
way that the H is written. That's an interesting trips.
Okay, from the house of Faberge in 1855 as a gift for his wife
Maria fair Federer over the first this first egg was known
as the hen egg. It is a white egg with a gold band around the
middle. Opening the egg, you would find a yolk made of gold
and inside that is a Golden Hen wearing a diamond crown with a
Ruby pendant. Wow. The Empress was so happy with the gift that
the Tsar commissioned Faberge to create an egg for her every
year. His only requirement was that the egg should contain a
surprise inside. Each egg was a surprise even though the Tsar,
even for the Tsar himself. The design was kept secret, and not
even Tsar Alexander knew what it would look like until he
received it.
I wish I could say I haven't even read it. What? Read it?
I don't know. Oh, maybe the book No, no, but yeah, the book.
Yeah, the book that we were talking about. So when Tsar
Alexander died in 1894, his son Nicholas the second continue the
tradition of giving Faberge eggs to his mother as well as his own
wife. By the time they were Russian Revolution overthrew the
imperial family in 19 1750 Eggs had been created. Of those eggs
44 are known to exist today. And additional 15 were commissioned
by various wealthy people. One of them was made in 1902 for
Baron Eduardo de Rothschild, the Rothschilds, huh? This egg is
pink with a watch face on the front, a diamond encrusted
rooster pops out of the top to mark each hour. It is the most
expensive Faberge egg to be sold at auction going for $16.5
million in 2007. The Empress is third egg was made in 1887. It
was only three and one quarter inches tall, but made with solid
18 karat gold and encrusted with sapphires and diamonds. The
surprise inside was a 14 karat gold watch, it went missing in
1922. In 2004, a scrap dealer bought the egg in a brick of
rack store for $13,000. But neither he nor the seller knew
when it was intended to sell the object to someone who knew he
knew would melt it down for the value of the gold and jewels.
But nobody would offer him more than he had paid for it. Not
wanting to take the loss. The egg sat as a decoration in his
kitchen for years. And 2014 He decided to look for more
information on the internet. And he found an article describing
the Lost egg. And the new what he had. The expert confirmed
that it had was the egg lost in 1922. It was then sold to a
private buyer for an undisclosed amount. I'm willing to bet the
scrap dealer made his 13,000 back and then some Yeah, that
was a good investment that he thought was a bad investment.
I've made a few of those and I've made a few of the other Oh,
this is a good investment. I'm gonna put some money in this.
Oh.
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