Jan. 20, 2025

Starship’s Fiery Demise, New Glenn’s Maiden Voyage, and Deep Space Pulsations: S28E09

Starship’s Fiery Demise, New Glenn’s Maiden Voyage, and Deep Space Pulsations: S28E09
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Starship’s Fiery Demise, New Glenn’s Maiden Voyage, and Deep Space Pulsations: S28E09

SpaceTime Series 28 Episode 09

Starship's Fiery End and Blue Origin's New Glenn Debut

SpaceX's Starship experienced a dramatic explosion during its seventh test flight, marking both success and setback. While the super heavy booster was successfully caught by the launch tower's chopstick arms, the Starship upper stage exploded during ascent. Despite the fiery end, the mission demonstrated significant advancements in booster recovery technology.

Blue Origin's New Glenn Maiden Flight

Blue Origin's New Glenn mega rocket has completed its first flight, successfully reaching orbit. However, the mission wasn't flawless, as the first stage booster failed to land on a pre-positioned barge in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission's payload, a prototype for the Blue Ring orbital vehicle, was successfully deployed, marking a significant milestone for Blue Origin.

Mysterious Stellar Pulsations Explained

Astronomers have pinpointed the source of mysterious long-period radio transients, linking them to a binary star system comprising a white dwarf and a red dwarf. This discovery, made using data from the Murchison Wide Field Array and the Meerkat telescope, offers new insights into these enigmatic astrophysical events.

00:00 Space Time Starship destroyed in spectacular explosion during its seventh test flight

00:48 Super heavy booster successfully caught by launch tower's chopsticks during textbook landing

07:09 Debris spotted streaking over Caribbean Sea after SpaceX Falcon 7 launch

11:05 Blue Origin's new Glenn has successfully undertaken its maiden flight

16:55 Astronomers have discovered the source of mysterious extreme astrophysical event

20:50 Long period radio transients are mysterious new class of repeating radio source in space

29:08 Long period radio transients may be caused by binary M dwarf white dwarf systems

32:12 New study warns shallow groundwater is projected to warm by 3.5 degrees Celsius by 2099

34:29 All the hype about mysterious drones over New Jersey disappeared after LA wildfires

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00:00 - Space Time Starship destroyed in spectacular explosion during its seventh test flight

00:48 - Super heavy booster successfully caught by launch tower’s chopsticks during textbook landing

07:09 - Debris spotted streaking over Caribbean Sea after SpaceX Falcon 7 launch

11:05 - Blue Origin’s new Glenn has successfully undertaken its maiden flight

16:55 - Astronomers have discovered the source of mysterious extreme astrophysical event

20:50 - Long period radio transients are mysterious new class of repeating radio source in space

29:08 - Long period radio transients may be caused by binary M dwarf white dwarf systems

32:12 - New study warns shallow groundwater is projected to warm by 3.5 degrees Celsius by 2099

34:29 - All the hype about mysterious drones over New Jersey disappeared after LA wildfires

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this is spacetime series 28 episode 9


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for broadcast on the 20th of January


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2025 coming up on SpaceTime Starship


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destroyed in a spectacular explosion


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during its seventh test flight a mostly


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successful Maiden flight for blue


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origins new Glenn Mega rocket and


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uncovering the source of mysterious


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Stella pulsations from deep space all


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that and more coming up on


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SpaceTime welcome to space SpaceTime


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with Stuart


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Gary there's been a spectacular ending


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to spacex's 7eventh Starship test flight


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with a Starship upper stage exploding in


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a fiery blast as it was ascending to


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orbit but the mission wasn't without its


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success esses either with a super heavy


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booster being successfully caught by the


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launch Tower's Chopstick arms during an


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amazing textbook Landing the 124 M tall


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Mega rocket had blasted off from


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spacex's Star base at bokach chica on


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the Texas Gulf of Mexico Coast on a


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flight that should have taken it to a


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splash down 66 minutes later in the


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Indian Ocean off the Western Australian


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coast 2 10 9 8 7 6 5 4


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3 2


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1 we have


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theic pitching down


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range booster pressure all right we're


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more than 30 seconds into flight


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Telemetry showing 33 out of 33 engines


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as it's pitching down range booster chip


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avoic power and Telemetry nominal here a


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good call outs on the ship and booster


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avionics you just heard the rumble


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hitting us about 6 miles away watching


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Starship Arc into just endless blue


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skies right now vehicle supersonic more


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than a minute into flight the vehicle


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suers Sonic Max Q so we just passed


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through Max Q that's the greatest stress


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the vehicle is going to experience on


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the way up hill reminder that all of our


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teams down here on the ground are now


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looking at systems on the tower they


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just did a manual check through that's


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going to inform that manual flight


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director's decision next moment coming


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up though is going to be hot staging


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what a gorgeous ascent six ship engines


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getting ready to ignite that's going to


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happen while we're still attached we are


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hearing good call outs on the tower


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preparedness from the manual checks


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though we've still got automated


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checkouts on the booster and the ship


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itself but as of right now our manual


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checks and our manual commanding is


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looking go go for a catch cut off start


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up most engines cut off down to those


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middle three start all right hot stage


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confirmed we've got a booster hopefully


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on our WS way back to us and a ship now


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making its Ascent burn into space the


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booster is now making its way back down


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to earth looks like we have 12 of those


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13 engines ignited we're using the


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engines that actually gimbal go for


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booster return an excellent call out


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there we are go for Boost return power


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and nominal there's a lot of criteria


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that needed to line up to ensure that we


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could have a safe a safe booster catch


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and sounds like we got to go for that we


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just jet aend the hot stage the stage


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floating away from the super heavy


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booster now we've shut down the engines


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for that boost back burn that confirms


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boost back burn is now complete that was


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the first of two Burns required to for


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the vehicle to make its way back down to


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Earth 7 minutes after launch the first


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of the test flight goals was achieved


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with a 33 engine super heavy booster


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undertaking a Pinpoint Landing in the


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mechazilla like arms of the launch Tower


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and next coming up will be the landing


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burn that's going to be 13 of those


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Center engines in again that will then


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go down to from 13 down to three engines


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just right before we touch down for that


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booster catch Now reminder our stage one


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objectives are to have a controlled


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Ascent stage separation as well as a


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controlled boost back burn and hot stage


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as well so we're looking good for that


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so far now Starship is still firing its


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engines right now Starship trajectory


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ninal again the booster is currently


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making its way back to the tower today


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so we're looking looking forward to a


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booster catch with the Chopsticks and in


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the meantime those grid fins helping to


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control the vehicle and guide it back to


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its Landing site booster FTS is safed we


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can see the booster coming back in now


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through the plume at least it looks that


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way to us um it's incredible that it


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basically returns it looks like a


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speeding just like silver flare


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attempting to catch the booster at the


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tower this would be the second tower


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catch


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engines booster now hovering as it


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aligns with the tower for catch booster


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coming in ready for that boom down to


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three engines Villa has caught the


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booster once again for the second time a


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successful catch by the launch Tower


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this is the same Tower the Launchpad


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where that booster took off from just 7


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and 1 half minutes ago but just a minute


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later Mission managers suddenly lost


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contact with a 52 met toll Starship


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upper stage all six of starship's raptor


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engines had been firing as planned


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during the ascent burn but High over the


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Caribbean just as Starship was getting


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to the end of its climb to orbit


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Telemetry suddenly began dropping out on


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the engines and all contact was lost


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with the spacecraft waiting for an


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update on what our ship status is we


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were approaching uh that ship engine cut


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off time um so just waiting to hear so


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obviously we've got booster back booster


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on the launch Tower in the Chopstick arm


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uh but we are waiting to get an update


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now on the ship as we were we expecting


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ship engine cut off about 40 seconds ago


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we saw some of those engines start to go


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out prior to that point and so right now


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we are we are just standing by to try


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and get the latest word on where we are


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with ships so stick with us for just a


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couple of minutes as we wait to hear


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some updates obviously from the last two


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flights that we have done where uh the


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uh flight six we attempted but had to


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divert into the ocean and then on flight


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5 we did have the first ever successful


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catch of the booster we used the


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learnings of those two flights to hone


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in that catch commit criteria and we saw


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success today which is pretty awesome


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yeah and just a quick status check so


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we're we currently do not have comms uh


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with the ship so trying to figure out


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exactly when that happened and exactly


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what happened so obviously the


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controllers right now going through


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their data looking to make sure it's not


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anything instrumentation on the ship but


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actually try and get us a status so if


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you are just tuning in we caught a


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booster uh but we are still waiting to


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find out a little bit more uh on the


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ship so it had successfully separated we


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did that hot staging maneuver we did see


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all six of ship's engines on the way


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uphill during its asent but as we were


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getting to the end of that Ascent burn


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we saw engines dropping out on lemetry


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and we have since lost contact with the


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ship moments later burning debris was


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seen streaking across the skies flight 7


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used a new updated version of Starship


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about 2 m longer and fitted with a range


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of upgrades and new


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modifications these included newly


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designed forward flaps which were


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reduced in size and moved further


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forward towards the vehicle's nose and


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away from the heat shield now this spth


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significantly reduces their exposure to


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re-entry Heating and simplifies the


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underlying mechanisms and protective


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tiling but more importantly there are


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also redesigns for the propulsion system


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of this new upper stage including a 25%


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increase in the propellant volume the


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vacuum jacketing of feed lines a new


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fuel feed line system and an improved


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propulsion avionics module controlling


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Valves and reading sensors now all this


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should have improved the vehicle's


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performance and its ability to fly


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longer missions about 17 and 1/2 minutes


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after liftoff the upper stage was to


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deploy 10 dummy satellites similar in


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size and Mass to spacex's starlink


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broadband internet satellites however


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the mission ever got that far as debris


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came raining down over the Caribbean Sea


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SpaceX boss Elon Musk says preliminary


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indications suggest an oxygen fuel leak


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in the cavity above the spaceship's


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engine firewall and that was large


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enough to build up pressure in excess of


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vent capacity musk says apart from the


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obvious double-checking felixs SpaceX


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will now add fire suppression to that


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cavity and probably increase the vent


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area he points out that the ship's new


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forward flaps higher thrust engines and


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tile adherence on Ascent were all tested


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in fact improved heat shield performance


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was the only major thing that wasn't


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tested along with the Pet's payload


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dispenser and these will probably be


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resolved in next month's launch he says


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nothing so far suggests pushing the next


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launch past next month and it doesn't


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change the likely date at which Mars


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will become self-sufficient a clear hint


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at the long-term aim of the Starship


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program which is to act as an


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interplanetary transport and


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colonization vessel the 250 ton reusable


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Mega rocket is the largest and most


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powerful spacecraft ever built it's


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capable of lifting 150 tons of people


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and cargo into orbit and 100 tons on


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missions to the Moon Mars and other


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planets across the solar system


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starship's first mission for NASA will


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be to dock with the oran capsu in trans


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lunar orbit and carry the emus 3 mission


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astronauts down to the lunar surface in


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2026 it'll then provide regular shuttle


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services for NASA between the new


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Gateway space station which is yet to be


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placed in orbit and the lunar surface


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SpaceX plans on eventually using


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Starship to replace the company's


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existing Dragon spacecraft and its


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Falcon 9 and Falcon heavy launch systems


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both man and Freight only versions of


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Starship are planned as well as


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refueling tanker versions and SpaceX is


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also looking at us using Starship to


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provide point-to-point transport for


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passengers between major cities on Earth


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remember once you're in orbit any two


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places on the planet are only ever 90


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minutes apart this is spacetime still to


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come the maiden flight of blue origin's


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new Glenn Mega rocket and uncovering the


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source of mysterious Stella pulsations


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from deep space all that and more still


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to come on SpaceTime


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well we've seen seven test flights some


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more successful than others of spacex's


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Starship super heavy and we've seen a


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successful first flight for NASA's SLS


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space launch system which will take the


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Aran capsule in emus spacecraft on


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missions to the moon and eventually Mars


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and Beyond and now the third of


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America's Trio of new Mega Rockets blue


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origins new Glenn has successfully


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undertaken its Maiden flight the ng1


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mission which had been delayed several


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days successfully launched from space


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complex 36 at the cape canaval space


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force space in Florida high seas at the


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booster Landing site and a buildup of


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ice on a purge line were blamed for the


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delays the flight successfully placed


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the upper stage and payload into its


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pre-planned orbitus 10 9 8 7 6 5


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4 One lift off all seven engines have C


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thrust chamber pressures are good


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vehicles cleared the tower engine


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chamber pressures look good now beun the


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pitch roll maneuver to Point downrange


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Body rate respones are nominal chamber


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pressures continue to look good now 40


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seconds into flight end of roll St now


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level data quality looks good coming


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down from the vehicle passing mock one


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new BL is now supersonic engines


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continue to perform well now passing


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through Max Q maximum Dynamic pressure


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body r are nominal throughout the Press


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Contin look good on all 7 B4 engines


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acceleration profile is good body rates


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look good b3u lh2 chilling started e4s


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continue to perform well throughout the


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bo days stage two RCS priming and we


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have Mo we have stage set and we have


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ignition on both b3u chamber pressure is


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good now passing 3 minutes 40 seconds


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into flight body rates look good data


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quality coming down from both stages


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looks good GS2 performing a pitch up


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maneuver body rate response phenomenal


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being3 chain with pressure continues


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look good we have good payload fairing


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jettison our booster is going to try to


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make a landing they're going to land on


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the Jackin The Landing ship that is


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awaiting this beautiful booster to make


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a landing trajectory looks good on both


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stages stage one our booster we are


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looking to land it on our Landing ship


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Jacqueline stage two carrying the


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Pathfinder for blue ring will continue


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its Mission up towards Mo orbit where we


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will be collecting data for 6 hours


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confirmed gs1 engine chill active less


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than 1 minute now remaining to EXO


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atmospheric engine ignition so coming up


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here we're going to see the middle of


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the 37


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be4 chamber pressures on both be3 going


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to slow the vehicle down and then as the


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vehicle gets closer to the landing ship


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the jacin the two outer of the three


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middle engines will shut off and just


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one in the center will remain to help


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slow as well as guide the vehicle back


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to The Landing ship we have the steering


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fins at the top of the booster as well


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as the strakes which act essentially as


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Wings this vehicle is flying back to the


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jacine providing lift to come in for a


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nice soft and vertical Landing onto the


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landing ship the Jacqueline all three


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engines relight confirmed 8 minutes 20


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seconds into flight justs two tank


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pressures staying within their


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acceptable limits body rate responses


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look good good chamber pressures look


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good throughout the burn continue to see


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data from both stages our second stage


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GS to continues 10 minutes 20 seconds in


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Ascent as well as as its climb towards


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Mo which is where it is headed this


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evening GS2 is now 1,700 km down range


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traveling at 6.7 km/ second we have I AP


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vanish GS2 is now orbital and we have


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engine cut off however the attempt to


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land the first stage booster on a


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pre-positioned barge 1,000 km down range


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in the North Atlantic Ocean failed we


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obviously have some frozen data here on


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our our stage one on our booster we're


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still waiting to understand what the


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situation is with the booster we're


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trying to get all of the data here we


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seem to have lost Telemetry on the first


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stage we very well may have lost the


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booster and now I actually I do have


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confirmation that we did in fact lose


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the booster as you did hear we did have


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the booster relight the three middle


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engines which was what we were looking


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for so things we know were good up into


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that point the first stage Telemetry


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showed the booster was traveling at an


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approximate speed of back 5.5 and at an


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altitude of 25.7 KM before it suddenly


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disappeared deemed lost but the missions


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payload which made it successfully to


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orbit was a prototype for blue origins


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new blue ring orbital vehicle a


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maneuverable spacecraft designed to dark


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width and service satellites the 98 M


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tall two-stage Rockets named new Glenn


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in honor of mercury 7 Astronaut John


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Glenn who was the first American to


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orbit the earth its smaller cousin new


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sheeper which is used to carry space


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tourists on suborbital Joy flights


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beyond the Carman line the


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internationally recognized start of


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space is named after another Mercury 7


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astronaut Alan Shepard he was the first


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American to achieve space flight but


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where it's new Shepherd's a fairly small


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single stage vehicle with a capsule


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mounted on top new Glenn is a massive


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rocket capable of carrying 45 tons into


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low earth orbit more than 13 tons into G


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stationary orbit and at least 7 tons


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into trans lunar orbit NASA's already


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contracted new shepher to carry two Mars


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probes to the red planet and it will


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also support the deployment of the new


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Kyer Internet satellite constellation


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which will ultimately compete against


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starlink this is spacetime still to come


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uncovering the source of mysterious


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Stell pulsations from deep space and


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later in the science report a new study


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shows that New Zealand's ancient bird


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the mower had what today would be


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considered very expensive tastes


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apparently they liked eating truffles


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all that and more still to come on


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SpaceTime


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astronomers have discovered the source


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of mysterious extreme astrophysical


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event known as a long period radio


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transient a strange regular pulse of


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energy being emitted from somewhere in


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deep space the findings are reported in


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the astrophysical journal letters point


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to a system made up of a highly compact


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Stellar corpse known as a white dwarf


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the super hot core of a once sunlight


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star and a low mass spectral type M Red


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Dwarf star the most common type of star


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in the galaxy researchers made the


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discovery after first detecting a pulse


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of bright energy coming from deep space


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among archival low frequency data from


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the merchison Widefield array radio


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telescope in Outback Western Australia


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the array is one of the precursors for


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the square kilometer array project which


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is currently under construction and and


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when completed will be the world's


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largest radio telescope so big it's


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being built across two continents the


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arback of Western Australia and southern


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Africa the strange energy pulse of radio


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waves known as long period radio


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transients were observed occurring every


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3 hours and Lasting around 30 to 60


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seconds each time and that makes these


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the longest period radio transients ever


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detected long period radio transients


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are relatively new to science their


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source and how they gener ated has been


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a long-standing ongoing mystery but now


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with this new discovery scientists


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believe that they may have both


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identified the probable source of the


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energy burst and also shed light on how


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they're being generated see the problem


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is all previously discovered radio


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transients were located deep within the


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Milky Way galaxy and surrounded by lots


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of stars and gas and dust and all that


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made it challenging to try and determine


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exactly what could have been generating


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these radio waves one of the studies's


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authors associate Professor Natasha


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hurly Walker from the curtain University


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node of the International Center for


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radio astronomy research says long


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period radio transients are extremely


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exciting but for astronomist to


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understand what they are they need an


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optical image and the problem was when


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you look towards the source of the


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signal there are simply too many stars


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in the way but in a stroke of Good


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Fortune the newly discovered transient


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named gleen XJ


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074379346 the much more sparely


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populated region of space in the


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constellation papus around 5,000 light


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years away because the new discovery


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lies far off the galactic plane there


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are only a handful of stars nearby and


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Hurley Walker and colleagues were able


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to narrow down the source generating the


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radio waves to one specific star system


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then using another Square kilm array


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precursor this time the mirat telescope


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in South Africa they were able to


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pinpoint the location of one specific


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star following up with a sword t scope


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in Chile they determined the star


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Spectra showing it to be a low mass


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spectr Type M Red Dwarf now this


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discovery answered some pressing


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questions but it created a few more and


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M dwarf alone simply couldn't generate


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the amount of energy that the


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astronomers were seeing remember these


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are very low mass stars they only have a


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fraction of the Sun's mass and


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luminosity and as we mentioned earlier


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there are lots of them making up some


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70% of all stars in the Milky Way galaxy


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but as the authors look further into the


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data they found that this specific Red


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Dwarf was actually part of a binary


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system with another object most likely


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the corpse of a dead sunl Stein known as


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a white dwarf and together the two of


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them power the radio emission the


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authors are now working on follow-up


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observations that will conclusively


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determine the nature of the system and


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also the explanation for this extreme


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astrophysical event long period radio


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transients are mysterious new class of


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repeating radio Source in space you


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might be familiar with the idea of a


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pulsar that's a rapidly rotating neutron


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star that produces a continuous beam of


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radio wave and the radio waves can be


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offset from the axis of spin so a little


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bit like a lighthouse the Pulsar can


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spin around and every so often the radio


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waves go across our line of sight and we


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see a pulse and that's why pulsars are


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called pulsars so we have long known


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that pulsars spin every few Mill seconds


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every second something along that line


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maybe up to once every 10 seconds but


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we've always thought that as the Pulsar


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slow down their radio emission stops and


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so we've never seen Pulsar at a longer


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like slower period than about 30 seconds


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so in a way we've kind of stopped


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looking for things that spin more slowly


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than that and that's led to a a kind of


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a bias in our observations where we're


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only looking for quickly spinning things


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now my team about four years ago now we


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did a blind experiment where we looked


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for things that change in our galaxy and


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across slower time scales like if they


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could change minute to minute or week to


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week we would pick them up and we found


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one source that in 2018 appeared and


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disappeared every 18 minutes which is


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much much much slower than a normal


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pulsar and indeed you would not have


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been able to find this object with a


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normal Pulsar search so that was a real


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mystery and that Source basically


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produced pulses that lasted 1 minute


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each and they were 18 minutes apart and


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it was only on for 3 months in 2018 and


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by the time we found it in 2020 we had


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missed the fireworks essentially we we


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didn't know what that Source was and we


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couldn't really go and get more


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observations we tried but it had


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switched off so then I designed a new


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survey to actually find these things and


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very quickly follow them up and we found


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a new source which repeated every 22


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minutes which is still completely


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inexplicable we have no idea how you


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generate radio waves that repeat every


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22 minutes and we rapidly followed that


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up with lots of telescopes and to our


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surprise we also found that in other


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archive that went back even longer than


00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:06.549
the mwa there were actually pulses all


00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:09.590
the way back to 1988 and that was GPM


00:23:09.600 --> 00:23:12.350
j39 minus 10 and that repeated every 22


00:23:12.360 --> 00:23:14.470
minutes and has been active for 33 years


00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:16.950
so that was a mystery because we thought


00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:19.029
that these things would only be briefly


00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:20.630
active and then disappear now we have


00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:22.870
one that's been here all this time but


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the other thing that that that tells us


00:23:25.320 --> 00:23:27.310
is that there must be lots of these


00:23:27.320 --> 00:23:28.950
hiding in our data because if


00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:30.870
astronomers could miss something sitting


00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.269
right in front of them for 33 years then


00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:34.750
all of our data must be full of these


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objects that's just what science is


00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:38.350
about a lot of the time blue sky surveys


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just looking you know what about this


00:23:40.320 --> 00:23:42.110
what about that exactly there was no


00:23:42.120 --> 00:23:44.110
theory that predicted this in fact quite


00:23:44.120 --> 00:23:46.230
the opposite we had theories that said


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there will absolutely not be any radio


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waves that appear on time scales of more


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than 10 seconds or more so it was really


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a huge leap forward to find these


00:23:57.159 --> 00:23:58.990
sources now when you say Blue Sky


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research the issue that we have with


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these long period radio transients is


00:24:02.679 --> 00:24:06.230
that it's kind of white Sky research so


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we're embedded in our own Milky Way


00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:10.750
galaxy and so are these long period


00:24:10.760 --> 00:24:12.390
radio transients and when you think


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where is all the stuff in our galaxy


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where are all the stars where are all


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the neutron stars where are all of the


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black holes where is everything well


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it's all clustered together in the dis


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of our galaxy you go outside on a dark


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night and you can see the Milky Way laid


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out overhead well kind of unsurprisingly


00:24:30.600 --> 00:24:32.230
that's where we're finding the long


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period radio transients because they're


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in our galaxy The difficulty is that


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then when we want to ask the question


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okay what can generate radio waves every


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20 minutes what's actually producing


00:24:43.320 --> 00:24:45.110
this it's a really hard question to


00:24:45.120 --> 00:24:46.950
answer because if you look at where the


00:24:46.960 --> 00:24:49.870
radio pulses are coming from there are


00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:51.870
thousands of stars there's no way of


00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:54.710
telling which star if any of course it


00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:56.389
could be some kind of invisible object


00:24:56.399 --> 00:24:58.389
like a neutron star or a black hole or a


00:24:58.399 --> 00:25:00.070
white dwarf we can't tell which one is


00:25:00.080 --> 00:25:02.430
producing it and then that means it's


00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:05.230
very hard to say how the radio emission


00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:07.029
is generated and you know what these


00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:08.549
things actually are but then you had a


00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:10.950
bit of luck well uh you know Fortune fa


00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:12.870
favors the prepared mind right so we


00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:15.310
realized that this was a problem and


00:25:15.320 --> 00:25:18.350
while we had been doing surveys that are


00:25:18.360 --> 00:25:20.310
targeting the Galaxy with the hope of


00:25:20.320 --> 00:25:22.190
finding these things once we realized


00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:24.110
okay great we can find some but it


00:25:24.120 --> 00:25:25.950
doesn't help too much if we just find


00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:27.310
some radio waves and we can't follow


00:25:27.320 --> 00:25:28.870
them up we need to look at the rest of


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the sky and so very fortunately I'm the


00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:34.190
lead scientist on the galactic and extra


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Galactic all Sky mwa extended survey or


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gleam X for short which is a successor


00:25:40.080 --> 00:25:41.909
to the very popular gleam survey which


00:25:41.919 --> 00:25:44.710
was the first survey in radio color and


00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:47.909
glex is serving the whole Sky south of


00:25:47.919 --> 00:25:50.789
declination 30 so that's about 75% of


00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:53.430
the visible sky and in doing that of


00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:55.029
course we cover parts of the sky that


00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:57.269
are our own Galaxy but also lots of


00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:59.750
parts that are kind of slightly away


00:25:59.760 --> 00:26:02.909
from where all of the stuff is and in


00:26:02.919 --> 00:26:05.630
searching that data we optimized our


00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:07.830
algorithms to find the long period radio


00:26:07.840 --> 00:26:09.789
transients and I worked with a wonderful


00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:11.750
third-year undergraduate student called


00:26:11.760 --> 00:26:13.909
chanard hovas who helped Implement


00:26:13.919 --> 00:26:15.750
filters that would be better at picking


00:26:15.760 --> 00:26:17.950
these elusive signals out of the data


00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:20.510
and we were successful and you saw this


00:26:20.520 --> 00:26:23.430
red dwarf so that's right so we found a


00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:25.549
repeating radio transient that isn't


00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:28.350
buried deep inside the Galaxy it appears


00:26:28.360 --> 00:26:31.909
is about 13° off the plane so it's still


00:26:31.919 --> 00:26:34.510
in our galaxy it's just not buried


00:26:34.520 --> 00:26:37.190
inside all the mess of all of the stars


00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.710
and we could see with the accuracy of


00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:43.669
the mwa that the radio populations were


00:26:43.679 --> 00:26:45.350
coming from one of two different Stars


00:26:45.360 --> 00:26:48.310
we weren't sure which one or indeed it


00:26:48.320 --> 00:26:50.110
could have been that it could have been


00:26:50.120 --> 00:26:52.549
appearing from an invisible Source


00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:54.230
between the Stars we weren't really sure


00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:56.070
with the accuracy of the mwa but we were


00:26:56.080 --> 00:26:57.470
able to make the detection so we


00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:00.950
followed up with mircat which is another


00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:02.630
big telescope in the Southern Hemisphere


00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:05.470
and indeed both the mwa and mircat are


00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:07.470
precursors to the square kilometer array


00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:09.510
so meat's in South Africa and I have a


00:27:09.520 --> 00:27:11.470
great working relationship with the team


00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:13.430
there they've done lots of fantastic


00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:15.269
observations towards these long period


00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:17.230
radio transients so we got time to look


00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:20.110
at our source and mirat has a better


00:27:20.120 --> 00:27:22.549
positional precision and boom


00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:24.470
highlighted that those pulsations were


00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:27.830
coming from one specific star an M3


00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:28.789
dwarf


00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:31.990
so it seemed very difficult to explain


00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:34.070
that we're seeing these bright radio


00:27:34.080 --> 00:27:36.310
pulsations from what looks like kind of


00:27:36.320 --> 00:27:39.669
a boring star but when we looked at the


00:27:39.679 --> 00:27:42.149
timing of the pulsations sometimes they


00:27:42.159 --> 00:27:43.950
would arrive a little bit sooner than


00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:45.789
they expected and sometimes they would


00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:47.789
arrive a little bit later than we


00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:50.909
expected as if the source of the radio


00:27:50.919 --> 00:27:53.669
waves was moving closer to us and then


00:27:53.679 --> 00:27:55.990
further away and then closer and then


00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.630
further away and that of course impli


00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:01.909
an orbit so as if the radio emitter is


00:28:01.919 --> 00:28:05.029
in an orbit with the m dwarf now that's


00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:06.870
exciting because there are actually


00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:10.630
known systems that behave this way and


00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:12.789
while some of them have produced radio


00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:14.310
waves none of them have ever been as


00:28:14.320 --> 00:28:15.870
bright as the long period radio


00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.870
transients it at least gives us some


00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:21.070
kind of framework to start testing our


00:28:21.080 --> 00:28:23.470
observations and testing what we see


00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:25.590
against that theoretical


00:28:25.600 --> 00:28:29.149
model now at this stage the hypothesis


00:28:29.159 --> 00:28:31.470
is that the binary partner to this red


00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:33.310
dwarf it's not likely to be a neutron


00:28:33.320 --> 00:28:35.190
star because the beam isn't powerful


00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:37.230
enough but it could be a white dwarf


00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:40.310
yeah that's the suspicion now


00:28:40.320 --> 00:28:41.990
unfortunately our system while it is out


00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.630
of the plane is 5,000 light years away


00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:48.149
so it's still really really far away now


00:28:48.159 --> 00:28:50.350
a white dwarf to put it into context a


00:28:50.360 --> 00:28:53.269
white dwarf is this core of carbon and


00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:56.470
oxygen and helium and it's quite small


00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:58.630
it's about the size of the planet Earth


00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:01.750
and it's quite bright in UV so like just


00:29:01.760 --> 00:29:03.669
a little bit shorter wavelength than the


00:29:03.679 --> 00:29:06.070
visible light that we see but they they


00:29:06.080 --> 00:29:06.830
so


00:29:06.840 --> 00:29:09.830
small they're quite dim and the blue


00:29:09.840 --> 00:29:12.590
light that they produce is very easily


00:29:12.600 --> 00:29:15.590
absorbed by dust in our galaxy and so


00:29:15.600 --> 00:29:17.710
even though our source is is quite off


00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:19.630
the plane and it's closer than most of


00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:21.389
the long period radio trans it's still


00:29:21.399 --> 00:29:23.389
really really hard to tell so we are


00:29:23.399 --> 00:29:25.870
working on followup with other


00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:27.870
telescopes to try and pick out whether


00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:29.830
they're is a white dwarf in that system


00:29:29.840 --> 00:29:31.630
and that would really be Smoking Gun


00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:33.470
evidence that at least some of the long


00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:35.630
period radio transients are caused by


00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:38.389
these binary M dwarf white dwarf system


00:29:38.399 --> 00:29:39.750
and that's very cool because white


00:29:39.760 --> 00:29:41.750
dwarfs they're not supposed to act like


00:29:41.760 --> 00:29:43.789
pulsars essentially that would imply


00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:45.909
that the white dwarf has a very strong


00:29:45.919 --> 00:29:47.990
magnetic field how did it get that


00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:50.549
magnetic field why is it using that


00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:52.110
magnetic field to generate radio


00:29:52.120 --> 00:29:54.350
emission I mean I had a lovely


00:29:54.360 --> 00:29:56.549
conversation with some white dwarf and M


00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:58.549
dwarf experts a couple week weeks ago on


00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:01.389
a telecon and we spent 2 hours talking


00:30:01.399 --> 00:30:03.509
about M dwarfs and white dwarfs and we


00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:06.230
were still not that much closer to


00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:08.190
explaining exactly how these systems


00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:10.230
work but at least having an optical


00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.149
counterpart gives us something to follow


00:30:12.159 --> 00:30:15.430
up as opposed to well it could be any of


00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:17.750
a thousand stars nearby and we have no


00:30:17.760 --> 00:30:19.630
idea where to start when we look at a


00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:21.669
planet like Jupiter we know that a lot


00:30:21.679 --> 00:30:23.990
of its auroral activity comes not just


00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:26.269
from the solar wind but also from one of


00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:28.990
its Galilean moons I which is constantly


00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:31.590
spewing material into space could the


00:30:31.600 --> 00:30:33.350
Red Dwarf be doing the same sort of


00:30:33.360 --> 00:30:35.669
thing to the white dwarf I do agree that


00:30:35.679 --> 00:30:38.310
is a very plausible emission mechanism I


00:30:38.320 --> 00:30:40.190
believe that's called electron flotron


00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:43.310
merer emission and there was actually a


00:30:43.320 --> 00:30:45.389
paper literally we put our paper on


00:30:45.399 --> 00:30:47.789
archive to say we had submitted it to


00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:50.070
astrophysical journal letters and within


00:30:50.080 --> 00:30:52.470
a week a pair of theorists who work on


00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:54.070
these kinds of things had looked at our


00:30:54.080 --> 00:30:55.789
paper and another one that was published


00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:57.430
by or has been submitted by another


00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:00.430
group and did some very complicated math


00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:02.509
and said okay maybe it's electron cyron


00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:04.389
Meer emission with relativistic


00:31:04.399 --> 00:31:06.750
electrons now that's great that's a step


00:31:06.760 --> 00:31:08.710
forward now we need to take some of the


00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:11.149
testable predictions from that paper and


00:31:11.159 --> 00:31:13.029
then compare them to our observations


00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.789
and a lot of scien is done like this The


00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:17.710
Observers will find something unusual or


00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:19.389
strange that is not explained by the


00:31:19.399 --> 00:31:21.110
current theories and once we make enough


00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:23.430
noise about it and we say no look guys


00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:25.190
you've got to update your theories the


00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:26.830
theorists will spend some time on a


00:31:26.840 --> 00:31:28.430
Blackboard or a white board and then


00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:31.509
they'll write a whole a whole paper of


00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:33.070
very complicated equations which


00:31:33.080 --> 00:31:35.389
hopefully has some ideas in there about


00:31:35.399 --> 00:31:37.470
what observers should see if that theory


00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:39.509
is correct and so we do this kind of


00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:41.590
dance back and forth that's associate


00:31:41.600 --> 00:31:43.629
professor Natasha Hurley Walker from the


00:31:43.639 --> 00:31:45.190
curtain University node of the


00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:47.549
International Center for radioastronomy


00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:52.710
research and this is spacetime


00:31:52.720 --> 00:32:06.190
[Music]


00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:07.710
and time now to take a brief look at


00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:09.110
some of the other stories making news


00:32:09.120 --> 00:32:11.190
and science this week with a science


00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:13.870
report a new study has warned that


00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:16.230
shallow groundwater is projected to warm


00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:20.430
on average by between 2.1 and 3.5 de C


00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:22.990
by the end of the century the findings


00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:24.230
reported in the journal Nature


00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:26.549
geoscience are based on a new Global


00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:28.310
groundwater computer simul ation


00:32:28.320 --> 00:32:30.789
temperature model the model estimates


00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.029
that by 2099 between 59 and 588 million


00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:37.230
people worldwide will be living in areas


00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:39.310
where groundwater exceeds the highest


00:32:39.320 --> 00:32:41.830
threshold for drinky water temperature


00:32:41.840 --> 00:32:43.350
the model predicts the highest warming


00:32:43.360 --> 00:32:45.669
rates will be in central Russia northern


00:32:45.679 --> 00:32:48.110
China and parts of North America in the


00:32:48.120 --> 00:32:50.269
Amazon forest with Australian


00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:52.430
groundwater temperatures also expected


00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:53.909
to


00:32:53.919 --> 00:32:56.830
rise a new study has shown that sugary


00:32:56.840 --> 00:32:58.950
drinks could be responsible for one in


00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:01.629
10 new typee 2 diabetes cases and at


00:33:01.639 --> 00:33:03.789
least one in 30 new cases of heart


00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:06.629
disease worldwide the findings reported


00:33:06.639 --> 00:33:08.470
in the journal Nature medicine used


00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:10.149
worldwide data on the consumption of


00:33:10.159 --> 00:33:12.269
sugar sweetened beverages combined with


00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:14.430
data on diabetes and heart disease rates


00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:16.590
around the world to estimate how many of


00:33:16.600 --> 00:33:18.389
these health conditions could reasonably


00:33:18.399 --> 00:33:20.190
be attributed to the negative Health


00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:22.509
impacts of drinking too many sugary


00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:26.269
drinks they estimate that in 2020 2.2


00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:28.750
million new cases of type to diabetes


00:33:28.760 --> 00:33:30.750
and 1.2 million new cases of heart


00:33:30.760 --> 00:33:32.830
disease could be attributable to these


00:33:32.840 --> 00:33:35.269
drinks with subsaharan Africa seeing the


00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:38.629
greatest increase over the past 30


00:33:38.639 --> 00:33:40.789
years scientists have discovered that


00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:43.110
the now long extinct ancient New Zealand


00:33:43.120 --> 00:33:45.830
bird the Moa had expensive tastes


00:33:45.840 --> 00:33:48.669
enjoying a snack on truffles scientists


00:33:48.679 --> 00:33:50.149
have found that fossilized mower


00:33:50.159 --> 00:33:52.029
droppings show that these ancient Birds


00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:54.549
used to consume fungi that was symbiotic


00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:56.870
with trees a report in the journal


00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:59.190
biology letters analyzed two ancient


00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:01.149
coer lights found in Nelson and


00:34:01.159 --> 00:34:03.870
fjordland Beach forests both from small


00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:06.669
Upland Mower and identified fungal DNA


00:34:06.679 --> 00:34:09.550
and spores they found that the M had


00:34:09.560 --> 00:34:11.629
been munching on truffle likee fungi


00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:13.349
that have mutual relationships with


00:34:13.359 --> 00:34:15.909
Forest forming trees the author said


00:34:15.919 --> 00:34:17.750
that these native fungi may have been


00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:20.230
dependent on MOA to spread their spores


00:34:20.240 --> 00:34:22.109
so the extinction of these ancient birds


00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:23.710
that ate them could have affected not


00:34:23.720 --> 00:34:25.990
only their spread but also native New


00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:29.389
Zealand forest ecosystems


00:34:29.399 --> 00:34:31.109
well it was the biggest story in America


00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:33.389
just weeks ago but all the hype about


00:34:33.399 --> 00:34:35.589
those so-called mysterious drones that


00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.629
were allegedly invading the Skies of New


00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:39.909
Jersey have all of a sudden disappeared


00:34:39.919 --> 00:34:42.389
from the headlines or was it just that


00:34:42.399 --> 00:34:44.550
the real news of the disastrous La


00:34:44.560 --> 00:34:47.310
wildfires took away all their attention


00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:49.470
Tim mendum from a strali skeptic says


00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:52.190
the Drone story was never a real story


00:34:52.200 --> 00:34:54.470
just a lot of clickbait Gone Wild these


00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:57.030
things go feds they'll always come


00:34:57.040 --> 00:34:58.950
around particular UFO sightings and you


00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:01.069
people like UFO hysteria and UFO


00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:03.030
enthusiasms but the problem is that you


00:35:03.040 --> 00:35:04.630
know these things pop up every so often


00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:06.870
we had the one not that long ago of the


00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:09.150
talks to Congress Etc the witness was


00:35:09.160 --> 00:35:11.030
coming before US Congress suggesting


00:35:11.040 --> 00:35:12.670
government knows about all these UFOs


00:35:12.680 --> 00:35:13.990
they have them and they have the bodies


00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:15.310
and these things are buried under the


00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:16.910
ground blah blah blah and the truth will


00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:18.630
be out there within 12 months or


00:35:18.640 --> 00:35:19.990
whatever and then it's never happened


00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.150
they've been saying this since the 940s


00:35:22.160 --> 00:35:24.310
when the Uso that craze first started


00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:26.349
that a truth will come out very soon


00:35:26.359 --> 00:35:28.310
we're waiting what 80 years later or


00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:29.589
something like that and it still hasn't


00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:32.710
come out these lights over New Jersey


00:35:32.720 --> 00:35:34.589
it's fascinating stuff people's looking


00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:35.829
up in the sky and seeing things they


00:35:35.839 --> 00:35:37.270
don't look up in the sky often enough


00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:38.630
and they seeing things up there which


00:35:38.640 --> 00:35:40.109
they can't explain fair enough they're


00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:41.910
not trained observers in these things


00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:43.670
and funny enough these lights move


00:35:43.680 --> 00:35:45.829
exactly like planes move they have


00:35:45.839 --> 00:35:47.550
navigation markings on them some have


00:35:47.560 --> 00:35:49.430
navigation light and two people ask why


00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:51.750
would an alien craft have navigation


00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:53.190
lights and someone suggested oh it's


00:35:53.200 --> 00:35:55.550
insurance issues uo worried about


00:35:55.560 --> 00:35:57.270
bumping into another plane and they


00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:58.910
being being have to pay the insurance


00:35:58.920 --> 00:36:00.349
those rats would be out of this world


00:36:00.359 --> 00:36:01.790
yeah yeah but I mean there's a lot of


00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:03.870
people who are are sort of explaining


00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:06.109
patiently what these things are


00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:08.870
self-respecting alien life form that's


00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:10.710
traveled billions of light years to


00:36:10.720 --> 00:36:13.309
reach us would fly over New Jersey well


00:36:13.319 --> 00:36:14.829
the same ones that fly over the the


00:36:14.839 --> 00:36:17.750
Midwest of USA and kidnap local farmers


00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:19.309
Etc you know and give them a good


00:36:19.319 --> 00:36:21.150
probing give a good probing so I mean


00:36:21.160 --> 00:36:22.510
surely one of them's going to land


00:36:22.520 --> 00:36:25.069
somewhere in a real on the front lawn of


00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:26.510
but what are you going to say going to


00:36:26.520 --> 00:36:28.230
land on the front lawn the White House


00:36:28.240 --> 00:36:29.950
and say take us to your leader there's


00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:31.190
going to be a lot of head scratching if


00:36:31.200 --> 00:36:32.630
that happens right


00:36:32.640 --> 00:36:35.550
now very funny after all these years


00:36:35.560 --> 00:36:37.230
there is no evidence and these New


00:36:37.240 --> 00:36:39.069
Jersey well we was calling them drones


00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:40.670
because theyum a lot of them are Dr some


00:36:40.680 --> 00:36:41.910
of them weren't drones some of them were


00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:45.349
actually aircraft that's right were


00:36:45.359 --> 00:36:47.349
aircraft anyone can look at them and see


00:36:47.359 --> 00:36:49.589
their aircraft it's some them are drones


00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.069
Ian Amazon do parel deliveries and


00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:53.750
drones are very common these days you


00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:55.510
know you can pick them up at a local


00:36:55.520 --> 00:36:58.069
supermarket basically but I mean Geller


00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:00.349
of course our favorite spoon bender and


00:37:00.359 --> 00:37:02.030
self-publisher says these sightings are


00:37:02.040 --> 00:37:04.309
a warning to Earth with a show of power


00:37:04.319 --> 00:37:06.990
and Superior technology but you you


00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.710
course he does of course he do he will


00:37:08.720 --> 00:37:10.670
hop on any latest Trend and sort of


00:37:10.680 --> 00:37:12.630
claim it yeah these things they come and


00:37:12.640 --> 00:37:14.950
they go as you say the you know the Los


00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:17.030
Angeles fires have taken the New Jersey


00:37:17.040 --> 00:37:19.309
aliens totally off the front pages but


00:37:19.319 --> 00:37:21.270
give it a few months a year perhaps a


00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:22.470
year and a half and there'll be a new


00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:24.190
set of sightings and definite things


00:37:24.200 --> 00:37:25.630
which the truth is just around the


00:37:25.640 --> 00:37:27.670
corner if the regular occurrence for


00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:29.470
these things it's a trend they come and


00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:31.950
they go like all sorts of Trends that's


00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:36.100
Tim mum from Australian


00:37:36.110 --> 00:37:48.990
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