SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 127
*SpaceX's Starship's Fifth Test Flight Success
SpaceX's Starship has completed its fifth test flight with a spectacular feat of engineering, successfully catching the super heavy booster with mechanical chopsticks on the launch pad tower. The booster, equipped with 33 Raptor engines, returned to Earth after a successful launch from SpaceX's Starbase in Texas, showcasing the potential for rapid reuse and interplanetary missions. The test flight marks a significant step towards developing Starship for NASA's Artemis III mission, aiming for a manned moon landing in 2026.
* Origins of Earth's Meteorites Uncovered
A new study reveals that most meteorites reaching Earth originate from just three major asteroid breakup events. The findings, published in Astronomy and Astrophysics and Nature, identify the Karin, Koronis, and Massalia asteroid families as the sources of 70% of meteorite falls. These discoveries enhance our understanding of asteroid collisions in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter and help trace the origins of over 90% of meteorites on Earth.
* NASA's Europa Clipper Mission Launches
NASA's Europa Clipper mission has embarked on its journey to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the spacecraft will investigate Europa's subsurface ocean and potential habitability. The mission will conduct 49 flybys, using its suite of scientific instruments to study the moon's icy shell, composition, and geology. Europa Clipper aims to determine if conditions on Europa could support life, building on data from NASA's Galileo mission.
The Science Robert
New research indicates that high temperatures and air pollution are contributing to a global increase in stroke cases, with significant rises in stroke-related deaths since 1990. A study warns that the H5N1 bird flu virus is spreading in the US through dairy cows, primarily via udder infections during milking. Additionally, a report suggests that teenage relationships influence life satisfaction in adulthood, highlighting the importance of social acceptance and close friendships during adolescence. Meanwhile, the Cancer Council of Western Australia faces scrutiny for promoting pseudoscientific therapies like Reiki and reflexology, raising concerns about their endorsement of unproven treatments.
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:04 this is spacetime series 27 episode 127
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00:00:07 --> 00:00:10 2024 coming up on SpaceTime space Exodus
00:00:10 --> 00:00:13 starship's amazing fifth test flight a
00:00:13 --> 00:00:15 new study looks at where most meteorites
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00:00:24 --> 00:00:27 SpaceTime welcome to SpaceTime with
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00:00:44 --> 00:00:46 it want many of described as the most
00:00:46 --> 00:00:48 spectacular Space Engineering event of
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00:01:07 --> 00:01:09 what was the fifth Starship test flight
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00:01:41 --> 00:01:43 Milestone coming up it's going to be hot
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00:01:45 --> 00:01:47 ignite on ship to push it away from the
00:01:47 --> 00:01:49 booster first we're going to see the
00:01:49 --> 00:01:51 booster engines start to shut down all
00:01:51 --> 00:01:53 but three we're going to do what's
00:01:53 --> 00:01:55 called most engines cut off instead of
00:01:55 --> 00:01:57 main engine cut off cuz three are going
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00:01:59 --> 00:02:01 see the engines on ship ignite right now
00:02:01 --> 00:02:04 the tower team is doing their go no go
00:02:04 --> 00:02:07 coming up on hot staging next ship most
00:02:07 --> 00:02:10 engines cut off stage
00:02:10 --> 00:02:13 separation booster stage separation hot
00:02:13 --> 00:02:16 stage separation confirmed ship under
00:02:16 --> 00:02:18 its own power I'm seeing six out of six
00:02:18 --> 00:02:20 Raptors lit super heavy booster produces
00:02:20 --> 00:02:23 some 16.7 million pounds of thrust from
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00:02:38 --> 00:02:39 the booster and the tower are both
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00:02:41 --> 00:02:43 we are go for the booster to return to
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00:02:46 --> 00:02:48 those are complete the flight director
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00:02:51 --> 00:02:54 that the tower is go for catch so that
00:02:54 --> 00:02:56 was one of the big criteria we were
00:02:56 --> 00:02:59 looking for wait to hear that the go for
00:02:59 --> 00:03:02 for catch has been sent following most
00:03:02 --> 00:03:04 engine cuto off and hot stage separation
00:03:04 --> 00:03:07 the giant core stage returned to Earth
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00:03:09 --> 00:03:11 later a landing burn with up to 13 of
00:03:11 --> 00:03:14 the 33 Raptor engines helping decelerate
00:03:14 --> 00:03:16 the spacecraft from Super Sonic speeds
00:03:16 --> 00:03:18 and generating Sonic booms before making
00:03:18 --> 00:03:20 a picture perfect controlled Landing
00:03:21 --> 00:03:23 with a pair of huge mechanical so-called
00:03:23 --> 00:03:25 mechazilla Chopsticks reaching out from
00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 the launch Tower to bring the slowly
00:03:27 --> 00:03:30 descending booster to a halt booster is
00:03:30 --> 00:03:33 making its way back to the launch site
00:03:33 --> 00:03:36 we are going to try and catch it using
00:03:36 --> 00:03:38 the chopsticks on the launch Tower the
00:03:38 --> 00:03:40 exact same tower that it just launched
00:03:40 --> 00:03:42 from just wow 5 minutes ago yeah the
00:03:42 --> 00:03:45 booster Starship on nominal trory I can
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00:03:47 --> 00:03:50 booster to come back that is incredible
00:03:50 --> 00:03:52 I'm looking up right now it's pretty
00:03:52 --> 00:03:53 much right over ahead of us and we can
00:03:53 --> 00:03:55 see it starting to come down I can't
00:03:55 --> 00:03:57 wait for us to hear the sonic boom
00:03:57 --> 00:04:00 through Dan's mic
00:04:00 --> 00:04:02 that is going to be incredible it was so
00:04:02 --> 00:04:04 cool to hear the liftoff and so once
00:04:04 --> 00:04:06 again a successful ontime liftoff of
00:04:06 --> 00:04:09 Starship flight 5 the ship has separated
00:04:09 --> 00:04:11 from the booster it is making its way
00:04:11 --> 00:04:14 back to the launch site we are going to
00:04:14 --> 00:04:16 attempt the catch using the Chopsticks
00:04:16 --> 00:04:18 we did hear the confirmation that the
00:04:18 --> 00:04:21 command was sent to the tower we are go
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00:04:23 --> 00:04:26 just be about 30 seconds away from our
00:04:26 --> 00:04:28 Landing burn it's going to happen in
00:04:28 --> 00:04:30 three phases we're going to land 13
00:04:30 --> 00:04:32 engines burn off all of that velocity oh
00:04:32 --> 00:04:33 we can see it coming down through the
00:04:33 --> 00:04:37 plume booster coming in hot for booster
00:04:37 --> 00:04:40 catch we're going to ignite 13 of those
00:04:40 --> 00:04:43 Raptor engines and how fast this vehicle
00:04:43 --> 00:04:46 is moving we're now down to three Raptor
00:04:46 --> 00:04:49 engines we can see those chop sticks now
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00:04:51 --> 00:04:52 here
00:04:52 --> 00:04:55 shut Milla has
00:04:56 --> 00:05:00 po this is absolutely insane on the
00:05:00 --> 00:05:03 first ever attempt we have successfully
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00:05:07 --> 00:05:08 the lunch
00:05:08 --> 00:05:15 toow what ANC of VI are you kidding
00:05:15 --> 00:05:18 me uh Dan uh I don't know about you but
00:05:18 --> 00:05:21 we're we're losing our stuff up
00:05:21 --> 00:05:26 here guys I'm I'm sorry like even in
00:05:26 --> 00:05:28 this day and age what we just saw that
00:05:28 --> 00:05:31 looked like m
00:05:31 --> 00:05:32 oh
00:05:32 --> 00:05:37 wow you must have been
00:05:37 --> 00:05:40 insane we are still going wild over here
00:05:40 --> 00:05:44 over there folks this is a day for the
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00:05:46 --> 00:05:48 heavy booster as it has just been
00:05:48 --> 00:05:51 successfully caught back at the very
00:05:51 --> 00:05:53 same launch tower that it just came from
00:05:53 --> 00:05:56 Dan I love this you are reflecting
00:05:57 --> 00:05:58 exactly what everybody else here in
00:05:58 --> 00:06:00 popcorn uh except maybe a little bit
00:06:00 --> 00:06:02 more cuz you got to see it with your own
00:06:02 --> 00:06:09 eyes how was that we got it we like oh
00:06:09 --> 00:06:12 like I can't even I can't even describe
00:06:12 --> 00:06:15 that oh by the way main engine cut
00:06:15 --> 00:06:18 off ships in orbit but I am I am like
00:06:18 --> 00:06:20 shaking right now that was let's check
00:06:21 --> 00:06:23 in on ship it's hard to believe that sh
00:06:23 --> 00:06:25 nominal orbit insertion all right
00:06:25 --> 00:06:27 exciting news there it's hard to believe
00:06:27 --> 00:06:29 that you know booster isn't the only
00:06:29 --> 00:06:30 exciting that we have today just
00:06:30 --> 00:06:33 confirmation there the ship and it is
00:06:33 --> 00:06:35 now in in the orbit that we expected it
00:06:35 --> 00:06:38 to this is just an incredible day has
00:06:38 --> 00:06:40 the booster vents some pressures there
00:06:40 --> 00:06:43 this amazing fate an unprecedented event
00:06:43 --> 00:06:45 in space flight history was just part of
00:06:45 --> 00:06:47 the highly successful fifth test flight
00:06:47 --> 00:06:50 for the 121 M tall Starship Mega rocket
00:06:50 --> 00:06:52 which also saw the upper Starship stage
00:06:52 --> 00:06:54 enter a nominal sub orbit traveling
00:06:54 --> 00:06:56 halfway around the planet and then
00:06:56 --> 00:06:58 re-entering the Earth's atmosphere belly
00:06:58 --> 00:07:01 first just as PL and the belly flop
00:07:01 --> 00:07:03 re-entry to Earth's atmosphere was
00:07:03 --> 00:07:05 designed to ensure the heat shields were
00:07:05 --> 00:07:07 taking all the heat during The Descent
00:07:07 --> 00:07:09 back to Earth Starship is in a good
00:07:09 --> 00:07:11 attitude for entry approaching the entry
00:07:11 --> 00:07:14 interface re-entry will be enabled by
00:07:14 --> 00:07:16 that heat shield on the bottom half made
00:07:16 --> 00:07:20 up of 18 hexagonal ceramic tiles and
00:07:20 --> 00:07:22 they are designed to insulate the
00:07:22 --> 00:07:24 vehicle during atmospheric entry at that
00:07:24 --> 00:07:26 point in time temperatures can be as
00:07:26 --> 00:07:31 high as 26 de F or about, 1400° C
00:07:31 --> 00:07:34 the design itself also permits for Rapid
00:07:34 --> 00:07:36 reuse with no refurbishment between the
00:07:36 --> 00:07:39 flights the heat shield has been
00:07:39 --> 00:07:41 completely reversed has entered the
00:07:41 --> 00:07:43 atmosphere remains on a nominal entry
00:07:43 --> 00:07:46 trajectory we can start to see that
00:07:46 --> 00:07:48 plasma now starting to build up on the
00:07:48 --> 00:07:51 side it's not quite full plasma yet um
00:07:51 --> 00:07:54 but we are starting to see that color
00:07:54 --> 00:07:56 indicate uh that the heat is building up
00:07:57 --> 00:08:00 on the heat shield yeah so uh the ship
00:08:00 --> 00:08:03 will attempt to light the three Center
00:08:03 --> 00:08:05 Raptor engines and those are the engines
00:08:06 --> 00:08:08 that can gimbal or maneuver or point and
00:08:09 --> 00:08:11 they do that to help flip the ship until
00:08:12 --> 00:08:14 the engines Point down so that it can
00:08:14 --> 00:08:16 land using the Raptor's thrust in the
00:08:16 --> 00:08:19 ocean the flaps actuate a little bit
00:08:19 --> 00:08:22 here as the vehicle controls its role
00:08:22 --> 00:08:24 during re-entry that was one of the main
00:08:24 --> 00:08:27 learning points from flight three was
00:08:27 --> 00:08:29 the roll control didn't work quite as
00:08:29 --> 00:08:31 well as we wanted it to we learned that
00:08:31 --> 00:08:33 we needed some redundancies so we added
00:08:33 --> 00:08:35 more roll control thrusters and we'll
00:08:35 --> 00:08:38 see those in action as that was a flight
00:08:38 --> 00:08:39 three learning that worked better on
00:08:39 --> 00:08:42 flight four and still enabling that same
00:08:42 --> 00:08:45 design today yeah Starship has passed
00:08:45 --> 00:08:47 through 85 km altitude flaps now have
00:08:47 --> 00:08:49 control of the vehicle great call out as
00:08:49 --> 00:08:51 Kate mentioned the flaps are controlling
00:08:51 --> 00:08:54 the attitude of the vehicle Starship is
00:08:54 --> 00:08:56 designed to land on Mars where there are
00:08:56 --> 00:08:58 no runways or other humans to help out
00:08:58 --> 00:09:01 so we also want rapid reusability so
00:09:02 --> 00:09:04 we're doing propulsive Landing instead
00:09:04 --> 00:09:06 of a more traditional means like
00:09:06 --> 00:09:07 parachutes and so we will use the
00:09:07 --> 00:09:10 engines on this vehicle to help slow the
00:09:10 --> 00:09:12 vehicle down for a vertical Landing yeah
00:09:12 --> 00:09:15 now entry is going to basically happen
00:09:15 --> 00:09:18 in five phases the first is low drag
00:09:18 --> 00:09:21 that lasts for about 3 minutes next is
00:09:21 --> 00:09:23 high heating beginning when heating
00:09:23 --> 00:09:26 increases above the heat rate breakup
00:09:26 --> 00:09:29 limit that lasts for about 10 minutes we
00:09:29 --> 00:09:31 then have high Dynamic pressure Starship
00:09:31 --> 00:09:32 will continue to slow down and
00:09:32 --> 00:09:34 experience increased aerodynamic loads
00:09:35 --> 00:09:36 during that phase and that will happen
00:09:36 --> 00:09:39 before reaching Mach 1 about a minute
00:09:39 --> 00:09:40 after Starship is approaching the peak
00:09:40 --> 00:09:42 heating phase of Entry remains on a
00:09:42 --> 00:09:44 nominal trajectory okay so that was
00:09:44 --> 00:09:46 phase two that he just called out that I
00:09:46 --> 00:09:48 was mentioning after peting is that
00:09:49 --> 00:09:52 Dynamic pressure around Mach 1 and that
00:09:52 --> 00:09:54 will last about a minute after leaving
00:09:54 --> 00:09:56 the Hypersonic area and then we go into
00:09:56 --> 00:09:59 subsonic and then of course Landing burn
00:09:59 --> 00:10:01 is experiencing Peak heating remains on
00:10:01 --> 00:10:04 a nominal entry trajectory we are hoping
00:10:04 --> 00:10:07 that all four flaps will stay more
00:10:07 --> 00:10:09 intact than they did last time we did
00:10:09 --> 00:10:11 make some changes to the design in order
00:10:11 --> 00:10:13 to Starship is now halfway through the
00:10:13 --> 00:10:15 peak heating phase of Entry remains on a
00:10:15 --> 00:10:17 good trajectory L better chill has
00:10:17 --> 00:10:19 started now we heard a call out there
00:10:19 --> 00:10:22 saying that engine chill has begun this
00:10:22 --> 00:10:24 is an indication that we are starting to
00:10:24 --> 00:10:28 flow a little bit of the super cold
00:10:28 --> 00:10:30 liquid oxygen through through the
00:10:30 --> 00:10:31 hardware through the Raptor engine
00:10:31 --> 00:10:33 specifically the turbo pumps to help
00:10:33 --> 00:10:36 ensure that the hardware is at the right
00:10:36 --> 00:10:39 temperature before we give a full push a
00:10:39 --> 00:10:42 full flow of propellant at engine
00:10:42 --> 00:10:44 startup so all of that to say we are
00:10:44 --> 00:10:46 getting closer to the landing bird we're
00:10:46 --> 00:10:50 currently at about 63 km from planet
00:10:50 --> 00:10:52 Earth we're making a controlled re-entry
00:10:52 --> 00:10:54 this is one of the primary objectives
00:10:54 --> 00:10:57 for Starship today is to demonstrate
00:10:57 --> 00:10:59 another controlled re-entry even more
00:10:59 --> 00:11:01 controlled than what we saw on flight
00:11:01 --> 00:11:03 four and so far that is looking good
00:11:03 --> 00:11:05 Starship has passed through the peak
00:11:05 --> 00:11:07 heating phase of flight approaching
00:11:07 --> 00:11:09 maximum entry Dynamic pressure all right
00:11:09 --> 00:11:12 we're through Peak heating coming up is
00:11:12 --> 00:11:14 basically Max Q part two we're going to
00:11:14 --> 00:11:16 hit kind of that that part of the curve
00:11:16 --> 00:11:18 where we're still moving really fast and
00:11:18 --> 00:11:20 the atmosphere is just dense enough that
00:11:20 --> 00:11:23 we're feeling feeling the most pressure
00:11:23 --> 00:11:24 but hopefully we're going to start
00:11:24 --> 00:11:26 feeling a little bit less heat now there
00:11:26 --> 00:11:29 are two flaps at the forward end and two
00:11:29 --> 00:11:32 flaps at the AFT end once again Starship
00:11:32 --> 00:11:37 now at t plus 1 hour and 9 seconds into
00:11:37 --> 00:11:39 its flight today re-entering the Earth's
00:11:39 --> 00:11:42 atmosphere currently about 45 km above
00:11:42 --> 00:11:45 the surface of the Earth Now 44 we are
00:11:45 --> 00:11:48 targeting a soft splash down in the
00:11:48 --> 00:11:52 Indian Ocean northwes is of Australia
00:11:52 --> 00:11:54 and we are attempting to as we did on
00:11:54 --> 00:11:57 flight four perform a flip maneuver as
00:11:57 --> 00:11:59 well as a Starship is at maximum entry
00:11:59 --> 00:12:00 dnamic pressure remains on a good
00:12:00 --> 00:12:03 trajectory so this is the greatest
00:12:03 --> 00:12:05 amount of aerodynamic loads that the
00:12:05 --> 00:12:07 vehicle will experience during its
00:12:07 --> 00:12:08 flight it's coming back through the
00:12:08 --> 00:12:10 Earth's atmosphere the atmosphere is
00:12:10 --> 00:12:12 actually helping to slow the vehicle
00:12:12 --> 00:12:15 down now the four flaps on the ship help
00:12:15 --> 00:12:19 steer the vehicle and one of the main
00:12:19 --> 00:12:21 objectives for the ship today is to
00:12:21 --> 00:12:24 demonstrate controlled re-entry during
00:12:24 --> 00:12:26 this phase of flight this re-entry phase
00:12:26 --> 00:12:29 yeah we have six engines on ship but we
00:12:29 --> 00:12:31 only need three of them the three
00:12:31 --> 00:12:34 c-level engines we will have that flip
00:12:34 --> 00:12:37 maneuver happen very close to touching
00:12:37 --> 00:12:39 down for splash down we'll do that flip
00:12:39 --> 00:12:41 maneuver ignite those engines slow the
00:12:41 --> 00:12:43 vehicle down immediately and then
00:12:44 --> 00:12:46 hopefully have a what we call a soft
00:12:46 --> 00:12:48 splash down into the water then with
00:12:48 --> 00:12:50 less than a kilometer to go before
00:12:50 --> 00:12:52 reaching the planet's surface the upper
00:12:52 --> 00:12:54 stage maneuvered itself back into a
00:12:54 --> 00:12:56 vertical attitude before reigniting its
00:12:56 --> 00:12:59 Raptor engines splashing down on top
00:12:59 --> 00:13:01 Target in the eastern Indian Ocean off
00:13:01 --> 00:13:03 the Western Australian coast the next
00:13:03 --> 00:13:05 call out that we'll hear is that it is
00:13:05 --> 00:13:07 traveling about the speed of sound that
00:13:07 --> 00:13:08 will be the call out that it is
00:13:08 --> 00:13:10 transonic and then we will hear another
00:13:10 --> 00:13:12 call out saying that it is subsonic
00:13:12 --> 00:13:14 meaning going slower than the speed of
00:13:14 --> 00:13:16 sound Starship is transonic there it is
00:13:17 --> 00:13:19 so at this point in time we say
00:13:19 --> 00:13:21 transonic because certain parts of the
00:13:21 --> 00:13:23 vehicle like the flat might be
00:13:23 --> 00:13:25 experiencing air flow faster than the
00:13:25 --> 00:13:27 speed of sound while other parts of the
00:13:27 --> 00:13:29 ship may be experiencing air flow
00:13:29 --> 00:13:32 Starship is in the subsonic belly flop
00:13:32 --> 00:13:34 all right so now the entire vehicle is
00:13:34 --> 00:13:36 traveling slower than the speed of sound
00:13:36 --> 00:13:39 so subsonic the crowd here at michig
00:13:39 --> 00:13:42 Patrol Hawthorne also getting excited
00:13:42 --> 00:13:45 just like us we're awaiting uh a water
00:13:45 --> 00:13:47 landing we are going to reignite the
00:13:47 --> 00:13:48 three engines to perform that flip
00:13:48 --> 00:13:52 maneuver and we're basically uh about a
00:13:52 --> 00:13:54 minute and a half wow away from The
00:13:54 --> 00:13:56 Landing flip we saw that speed Drop Like
00:13:56 --> 00:13:58 a Rock so we're basically we're doing a
00:13:58 --> 00:14:00 belly flip right now or belly flop right
00:14:00 --> 00:14:02 now that's what's kind of if you saw the
00:14:02 --> 00:14:05 High Altitude campaign that's the unique
00:14:05 --> 00:14:07 thing about how Starship comes back so
00:14:07 --> 00:14:09 we've bled off pretty much all of the
00:14:09 --> 00:14:11 speed we're going to we're essentially
00:14:11 --> 00:14:13 at terminal velocity Starship is at 5
00:14:14 --> 00:14:16 altitude remains On Target five five to
00:14:16 --> 00:14:19 go coming up soon Landing burn Starship
00:14:19 --> 00:14:21 Is On Target approaching Landing burn
00:14:21 --> 00:14:23 startup Landing burn
00:14:23 --> 00:14:27 startup sh
00:14:27 --> 00:14:30 is I think it is safe say we have a ship
00:14:30 --> 00:14:35 in the water touchdown that is
00:14:35 --> 00:14:38 a ocean
00:14:38 --> 00:14:41 surface what an incredible end to
00:14:41 --> 00:14:45 starship's Journey ship Landing just
00:14:45 --> 00:14:48 about On Target as they were calling out
00:14:48 --> 00:14:50 we hit the target we hit the
00:14:50 --> 00:14:54 target yeah I mean you know we hit the
00:14:54 --> 00:14:57 target because we had these booies
00:14:57 --> 00:15:00 placed in a pretty specific spot so wow
00:15:00 --> 00:15:02 the only obvious problem during the
00:15:02 --> 00:15:04 entire fifth test flight was the vision
00:15:04 --> 00:15:06 from the external cameras aboard
00:15:06 --> 00:15:08 Starship showing that both the left and
00:15:08 --> 00:15:10 right forward fins did appear to
00:15:10 --> 00:15:12 overheat during The Descent but they
00:15:12 --> 00:15:14 still survived long enough to provide a
00:15:14 --> 00:15:17 controlled soft Landing this mission was
00:15:17 --> 00:15:19 an important step in developing Starship
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00:15:21 --> 00:15:22 Mission sled for
00:15:23 --> 00:15:26 2026 during that flight the emus 3 Orion
00:15:26 --> 00:15:28 capsule will Rendevous with a modified
00:15:28 --> 00:15:30 version of Starship which will then
00:15:30 --> 00:15:32 proceed to carry two emus astronauts
00:15:32 --> 00:15:34 down to the lunar surface near the Moon
00:15:34 --> 00:15:37 South Pole it'll be Man's first returned
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00:15:39 --> 00:15:43 1972 some 54 years earlier eventually
00:15:43 --> 00:15:45 SpaceX will use Starship as an
00:15:45 --> 00:15:47 interplanetary Colonial transport
00:15:47 --> 00:15:50 carrying up to 100 people or 150 tons of
00:15:50 --> 00:15:53 cargo on missions to the Moon Mars and
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00:15:55 --> 00:15:58 spacetime still to come a new study
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00:16:00 --> 00:16:02 and NASA's Europa Clipper Launches on
00:16:02 --> 00:16:05 its mission to the Jovian ice Moon all
00:16:05 --> 00:16:12 that and more still to come on
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00:16:23 --> 00:16:25 SpaceTime a new study has found that the
00:16:25 --> 00:16:27 most common types of meteorites that
00:16:27 --> 00:16:29 reach the Earth originate from just
00:16:29 --> 00:16:32 three major asteroid breakup events the
00:16:32 --> 00:16:34 findings are detailed in three separate
00:16:34 --> 00:16:36 papers one in the journal astronomy and
00:16:36 --> 00:16:38 astrophysics and two others in the
00:16:38 --> 00:16:41 journal Nature the Based on data showing
00:16:41 --> 00:16:44 that 70% of all known meteorite Falls
00:16:44 --> 00:16:46 originate from three young asteroid
00:16:46 --> 00:16:50 families Karin coronus and malalia which
00:16:50 --> 00:16:52 were produced by recent collisions that
00:16:52 --> 00:16:53 occurred in the main asteroid built
00:16:53 --> 00:16:57 between Mars and Jupiter 5.8 7.5 and
00:16:57 --> 00:17:00 roughly 40 million years ago in
00:17:00 --> 00:17:02 particular the malalia family is now
00:17:02 --> 00:17:05 been identified as the source of 37% of
00:17:05 --> 00:17:07 all known meteorites the authors were
00:17:08 --> 00:17:09 also able to confirm the sources of
00:17:09 --> 00:17:11 other types of meteorites allowing them
00:17:11 --> 00:17:14 to basically tick off the origins of
00:17:14 --> 00:17:16 more than 90% of meteors which reach the
00:17:16 --> 00:17:19 Earth's surface while more than 70
00:17:19 --> 00:17:21 meteorites are known to have reached the
00:17:21 --> 00:17:23 Earth previously only 6% had been
00:17:23 --> 00:17:25 identified by their composition and
00:17:25 --> 00:17:28 they're known as the condres coming
00:17:28 --> 00:17:30 either from the Moon Moon Mars or Vesta
00:17:30 --> 00:17:32 the largest asteroid in the main belt
00:17:32 --> 00:17:34 other than series the source of the
00:17:35 --> 00:17:38 other 94% of meteorites the majority of
00:17:38 --> 00:17:39 which are ordinary condres that these
00:17:40 --> 00:17:41 meteorites containing silicates
00:17:41 --> 00:17:43 representing Approximately 80% of all
00:17:43 --> 00:17:45 known meteorites had remained
00:17:45 --> 00:17:48 unidentified until now the new
00:17:48 --> 00:17:49 discoveries were made possible thanks to
00:17:50 --> 00:17:52 telescopic surveys analyzing the
00:17:52 --> 00:17:54 compositions of all major asteroid
00:17:54 --> 00:17:56 families in the main asteroid belt this
00:17:56 --> 00:17:58 was then combined with computer
00:17:58 --> 00:18:00 simulation ations of the collisional and
00:18:00 --> 00:18:02 dynamical evolution of these major
00:18:02 --> 00:18:04 families in order to determine their
00:18:04 --> 00:18:07 trajectories of course the origins of
00:18:07 --> 00:18:09 the remaining 10% of all known
00:18:09 --> 00:18:12 meteorites is still unknown to remedy
00:18:12 --> 00:18:14 this the authors plan to continue their
00:18:14 --> 00:18:15 research this time focusing on
00:18:15 --> 00:18:17 categorizing all young families that
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00:18:20 --> 00:18:24 ago this SpaceTime still to come NASA's
00:18:24 --> 00:18:26 Europa Clipper Mission set sail for the
00:18:26 --> 00:18:28 Jovian ice Moon and later in the sunmer
00:18:28 --> 00:18:31 sence report a new study has found that
00:18:31 --> 00:18:33 high temperatures and air pollution are
00:18:33 --> 00:18:35 driving an increase in stroke cases all
00:18:35 --> 00:18:43 that and more still to come on
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00:18:53 --> 00:18:56 SpaceTime NASA's Europa Clipper Mission
00:18:56 --> 00:18:58 has embarked on its long Voyage to the
00:18:58 --> 00:19:00 Jian nice Moon and its Global subsurface
00:19:00 --> 00:19:02 liquid water ocean where it will
00:19:02 --> 00:19:04 investigate whether life could exist
00:19:04 --> 00:19:07 there the Galilean Moon Europa is about
00:19:07 --> 00:19:10 the same size as the Earth's moon but it
00:19:10 --> 00:19:12 contains twice as much water as all the
00:19:12 --> 00:19:15 Earth's oceans combined the 5 kg
00:19:15 --> 00:19:18 spacecraft was launched aboard a SpaceX
00:19:18 --> 00:19:20 Falcon heavy rocket from space launch
00:19:20 --> 00:19:22 complex 39a at the Kennedy Space Center
00:19:22 --> 00:19:24 in Florida the flight had been delayed
00:19:24 --> 00:19:27 several days because of Hurrican Milton
00:19:27 --> 00:19:30 the Falcon heavy comprises three Falcon
00:19:30 --> 00:19:33 9 core stages strapped side by side and
00:19:33 --> 00:19:35 this provided the extra power needed
00:19:35 --> 00:19:36 because Europa Clipper is the largest
00:19:36 --> 00:19:38 spacecraft ever built by NASA for a
00:19:38 --> 00:19:41 planetary Mission the probe will travel
00:19:41 --> 00:19:44 some 2.9 billion kilomet on a trajectory
00:19:44 --> 00:19:46 that will Leverage The Power of Two
00:19:46 --> 00:19:48 gravity assists the first to Mars in 4
00:19:48 --> 00:19:50 months time and then back to the Earth
00:19:50 --> 00:19:53 for another gravity assist flyby in
00:19:53 --> 00:19:56 2026 about an hour after the launch
00:19:56 --> 00:19:57 Europa CPP is separated from the upper
00:19:58 --> 00:20:00 stage of its Falcon 9 rocket and Ground
00:20:00 --> 00:20:02 Control received a signal establishing
00:20:02 --> 00:20:04 two-way Communications through ness's
00:20:04 --> 00:20:06 deep space Communications facility in E
00:20:06 --> 00:20:09 cam so just after an hour after the
00:20:09 --> 00:20:12 Europa C launched it comes up over the
00:20:12 --> 00:20:14 Western Horizon here in Australia so
00:20:14 --> 00:20:16 it's part of the deep space Network and
00:20:16 --> 00:20:17 the three stations around the planet it
00:20:17 --> 00:20:21 comes up over us first so shortly after
00:20:21 --> 00:20:23 it separated from the launch vehicle we
00:20:23 --> 00:20:24 were able to then make direct contact
00:20:24 --> 00:20:26 with the spacecraft inform mission
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00:20:28 --> 00:20:30 ational and able to do two-way
00:20:30 --> 00:20:32 communication and to be a to relay any
00:20:32 --> 00:20:33 commands for the spacecraft that they
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00:20:36 --> 00:20:38 cruise to Europa and that's a six-year
00:20:38 --> 00:20:40 cruise and it's coming back to Earth for
00:20:40 --> 00:20:42 a gravity assist it's also visiting Mars
00:20:43 --> 00:20:45 yeah so two flybys so to conserve fuel
00:20:45 --> 00:20:46 for this very large spacecraft in fact
00:20:46 --> 00:20:48 the largest interplanetary mission that
00:20:48 --> 00:20:51 n has ever built the spacecrafts will
00:20:51 --> 00:20:53 need a gravity assist from Mars in
00:20:53 --> 00:20:56 February next year and in about 11
00:20:57 --> 00:20:58 months after that it'll get a gravity
00:20:58 --> 00:21:00 assist of the earth and then that will
00:21:00 --> 00:21:02 slingshot it out on its trajectory
00:21:02 --> 00:21:05 towards Jupiter arriving there in April
00:21:05 --> 00:21:07 of 2030 it must be a busy time for the
00:21:08 --> 00:21:09 deep space Communications complex in
00:21:09 --> 00:21:12 cber right now yeah we' already over 40
00:21:12 --> 00:21:14 missions representing 27 Nations around
00:21:14 --> 00:21:16 the world and it seems to be a new
00:21:16 --> 00:21:18 Mission launching every other day at the
00:21:18 --> 00:21:19 moment so eura clipp are sort of the
00:21:19 --> 00:21:22 latest of those spacecraft we have so
00:21:22 --> 00:21:24 much more coming up with missions from
00:21:24 --> 00:21:27 Japan and from European Space Agency all
00:21:27 --> 00:21:28 heading out to different locations
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00:21:30 --> 00:21:32 forward to in future years New Zealand's
00:21:32 --> 00:21:34 rocket Lab company who's now announced
00:21:34 --> 00:21:35 that they're going to send a mission to
00:21:35 --> 00:21:37 Venus and of course listeners can follow
00:21:37 --> 00:21:39 on what's happening with Europa Clipper
00:21:39 --> 00:21:40 with the eyes on the solar system
00:21:40 --> 00:21:42 website yeah this is a great website
00:21:42 --> 00:21:44 that Nas produces part of a whole Suite
00:21:44 --> 00:21:46 of eyes programs where you can actually
00:21:46 --> 00:21:48 find out about where all our spacecraft
00:21:48 --> 00:21:50 are across the solar system and see that
00:21:50 --> 00:21:53 happening in real time so if we send a
00:21:53 --> 00:21:54 command to the spacecraft you'll
00:21:54 --> 00:21:56 actually see a model of the spacecraft
00:21:56 --> 00:21:59 on your screen do that maneuver so if
00:21:59 --> 00:22:01 you want to watch the flyby of Mars and
00:22:01 --> 00:22:03 Earth and its arrival at Jupiter you can
00:22:03 --> 00:22:05 actually watch that entire Journey just
00:22:05 --> 00:22:08 by using eyes on the solar system that's
00:22:08 --> 00:22:10 Glenn Nagel from Mass's deep space
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00:22:12 --> 00:22:15 camra after Europa Clipper arrives at
00:22:15 --> 00:22:17 Jupiter in April 2030 spacecraft will
00:22:17 --> 00:22:20 undertake 49 highly elliptical orbits of
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00:22:22 --> 00:22:24 moon's surface before quickly heading
00:22:24 --> 00:22:26 back out into deep space in order to
00:22:26 --> 00:22:28 avoid as much of Jupiter's toxic rate
00:22:28 --> 00:22:31 radiation zones as possible NASA's
00:22:31 --> 00:22:33 associate administrator Nikki fox says
00:22:33 --> 00:22:35 the Europa Clipper Mission will deliver
00:22:35 --> 00:22:38 new science for generations to come fox
00:22:38 --> 00:22:40 says everything in NASA science is
00:22:40 --> 00:22:41 interconnected and Europa Clipper
00:22:42 --> 00:22:43 scientific discoveries were built upon
00:22:43 --> 00:22:45 the legacy of America's other missions
00:22:45 --> 00:22:48 exploring Jupiter including Voyer
00:22:48 --> 00:22:51 Galileo and Juno which is continuing its
00:22:51 --> 00:22:53 mission in the present day Europa
00:22:53 --> 00:22:54 Clipper's three main scientific
00:22:55 --> 00:22:56 objectives are to determine the
00:22:56 --> 00:22:58 thickness of the moon's icy shell and
00:22:58 --> 00:23:00 its interactions with the ocean below to
00:23:00 --> 00:23:02 investigate its composition and to
00:23:02 --> 00:23:05 characterize its geology to determine if
00:23:05 --> 00:23:06 the moon Europa has conditions that
00:23:06 --> 00:23:09 could support life data gathered by
00:23:09 --> 00:23:12 NASA's Galileo Mission during the 1990s
00:23:12 --> 00:23:14 showed strong evidence that Under
00:23:14 --> 00:23:16 europa's Ice Sheets lies an enormous
00:23:16 --> 00:23:20 salty liquid water ocean and scientists
00:23:20 --> 00:23:22 also found evidence that Europa May host
00:23:22 --> 00:23:24 organic compounds and energy sources
00:23:24 --> 00:23:27 under its surface now if the mission
00:23:27 --> 00:23:29 determines that Europa is habitable it
00:23:29 --> 00:23:31 may mean there are more habitable worlds
00:23:31 --> 00:23:34 not just in our solar system but also
00:23:34 --> 00:23:37 Beyond in 2031 the spacecraft will begin
00:23:37 --> 00:23:39 conducting its science dedicated flybys
00:23:39 --> 00:23:42 of Europa swooping down as close as 25
00:23:42 --> 00:23:45 kilm above the icy crust Europa Clipper
00:23:45 --> 00:23:46 is equipped with nine scientific
00:23:47 --> 00:23:49 instruments and a gravity experiment
00:23:49 --> 00:23:51 included our ice penetrating Radars
00:23:51 --> 00:23:54 specialized cameras spectrographs and a
00:23:54 --> 00:23:56 thermal instrument to look for areas of
00:23:56 --> 00:23:58 warmer ice and any recent eruption of
00:23:58 --> 00:24:01 water there is growing evidence that
00:24:01 --> 00:24:04 geysers ejecting water from deep below
00:24:04 --> 00:24:06 the ice sheet might be present as the
00:24:06 --> 00:24:09 most sophisticated Suite of scientific
00:24:09 --> 00:24:10 instruments NASA has ever sent to
00:24:10 --> 00:24:12 Jupiter they'll work in concert to learn
00:24:12 --> 00:24:15 more about the moon's icy shell its thin
00:24:15 --> 00:24:18 atmosphere and its deep interior to
00:24:18 --> 00:24:19 power those instruments in the faint
00:24:19 --> 00:24:21 sunlight that reaches Jupiter Europa
00:24:22 --> 00:24:24 Clipper also carries the largest solar
00:24:24 --> 00:24:25 arrays NASA has ever used for an
00:24:25 --> 00:24:28 interplanetary Mission fully extended
00:24:28 --> 00:24:31 the spacecraft and its solar arrays
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00:24:50 --> 00:24:53 spacetime and time now to take a brief
00:24:53 --> 00:24:54 look at some of the other stories making
00:24:54 --> 00:24:56 news in science this week with a science
00:24:56 --> 00:24:59 report science have found that high
00:24:59 --> 00:25:00 temperatures and air pollution are
00:25:00 --> 00:25:03 driving an increase in stroke cases
00:25:03 --> 00:25:05 although stroke is highly preventable
00:25:05 --> 00:25:07 and treatable there's been a rapid rise
00:25:07 --> 00:25:10 in global stroke burden over the last 30
00:25:10 --> 00:25:12 years globally the number of people
00:25:12 --> 00:25:15 having a new stroke Rose by 70% since
00:25:15 --> 00:25:19 1990 stroke survivors have risen by 86%
00:25:19 --> 00:25:21 and stroke related deaths have risen by
00:25:21 --> 00:25:24 44% making this condition the third
00:25:24 --> 00:25:27 leading cause of death worldwide a
00:25:27 --> 00:25:29 report in the Lance medical journal
00:25:29 --> 00:25:31 claims the jumps due to a combination of
00:25:31 --> 00:25:33 factors ranging from a growing global
00:25:33 --> 00:25:36 population to air pollution and higher
00:25:36 --> 00:25:38 temperatures for example the authors
00:25:38 --> 00:25:40 noted that the impact of high
00:25:40 --> 00:25:41 temperatures on poor health and early
00:25:41 --> 00:25:44 death due to stroke has risen by 72%
00:25:44 --> 00:25:47 since 1990 a trend that's likely to
00:25:47 --> 00:25:49 continue to increase in the
00:25:49 --> 00:25:53 future a new study warns that the h5n1
00:25:53 --> 00:25:55 bird flu virus is mainly spreading in
00:25:55 --> 00:25:57 the United States through dairy cows and
00:25:57 --> 00:26:00 it's through the process of milking them
00:26:00 --> 00:26:02 rather than respiratory spread
00:26:02 --> 00:26:03 researchers use the bird flu strain
00:26:03 --> 00:26:06 currently circulating Among Us cattle to
00:26:06 --> 00:26:08 infect six calves by way of the nose and
00:26:08 --> 00:26:11 mouth they also infected six lactating
00:26:11 --> 00:26:13 calves by way of their utters three with
00:26:13 --> 00:26:15 the same us strain and three with the
00:26:15 --> 00:26:17 strain circulating in Europe the calves
00:26:17 --> 00:26:19 had mild respiratory symptoms and didn't
00:26:19 --> 00:26:21 transfer it to others while the
00:26:21 --> 00:26:23 lactating calves with either strain had
00:26:23 --> 00:26:25 severe utter infections and high levels
00:26:25 --> 00:26:28 of virus in their milk for several days
00:26:28 --> 00:26:30 but no evidence of infection in other
00:26:30 --> 00:26:33 organs such as the respiratory tract the
00:26:33 --> 00:26:35 findings reported in the journal Nature
00:26:35 --> 00:26:37 also suggest that other strands of bird
00:26:37 --> 00:26:39 flu also have the potential to replicate
00:26:39 --> 00:26:41 in cow's
00:26:41 --> 00:26:43 utters well it seems your life
00:26:43 --> 00:26:45 satisfaction in adulthood could well be
00:26:45 --> 00:26:47 influenced by your relationships as a
00:26:47 --> 00:26:50 teenager a new report in the journal
00:26:50 --> 00:26:52 Frontiers in developmental psychology
00:26:52 --> 00:26:54 surveyed 184 teens attending an American
00:26:54 --> 00:26:57 Middle School at ages 13 and 14 then
00:26:57 --> 00:26:59 again at 7 17 and 18 looking at the
00:26:59 --> 00:27:01 quality of their close friendships their
00:27:01 --> 00:27:03 perceived social acceptance and their
00:27:03 --> 00:27:06 likeability as reported by their peers
00:27:06 --> 00:27:08 the researchers then caught up with
00:27:08 --> 00:27:09 these participants as adults when they
00:27:09 --> 00:27:12 were aged 28 to 30 in order to ask about
00:27:12 --> 00:27:14 their physical and mental health their
00:27:14 --> 00:27:15 job satisfaction their romantic
00:27:15 --> 00:27:18 insecurities if any and their experience
00:27:18 --> 00:27:20 of aggression they found that
00:27:20 --> 00:27:23 self-perception was especially important
00:27:23 --> 00:27:24 with teens who thought their peers like
00:27:24 --> 00:27:26 them reporting far lower levels of
00:27:26 --> 00:27:28 social anxiety and aggression better
00:27:28 --> 00:27:30 physical health professional and
00:27:30 --> 00:27:32 romantic satisfaction and feeling more
00:27:32 --> 00:27:35 socially connected as adults overall the
00:27:35 --> 00:27:37 authors say that for the promotion of
00:27:37 --> 00:27:39 future well-being General Social
00:27:39 --> 00:27:40 acceptance was more important for
00:27:40 --> 00:27:43 teenagers age 13 and 14 while 17 and
00:27:43 --> 00:27:47 18yar olds needed a close circle of good
00:27:47 --> 00:27:50 friends the Western Australian branch of
00:27:50 --> 00:27:52 the cancer Council has been nominated
00:27:52 --> 00:27:54 for the 2024 Ben spoon award for their
00:27:54 --> 00:27:57 promotion of pseudoscience therapies
00:27:57 --> 00:28:00 based on raiki and reflexology the B
00:28:00 --> 00:28:01 spoon award is the highlight of the
00:28:01 --> 00:28:03 Australian Skeptics annual skepticon
00:28:03 --> 00:28:05 conference it's presented to the
00:28:05 --> 00:28:07 perpetrator of the most Preposterous
00:28:07 --> 00:28:09 piece of paranormal pseudoscientific
00:28:09 --> 00:28:12 piple Tim menum from Australian Skeptics
00:28:12 --> 00:28:15 says neither Reiki nor reflexology have
00:28:15 --> 00:28:17 any medical benefit and detailed
00:28:17 --> 00:28:19 scientific research have proven both are
00:28:19 --> 00:28:21 useless from a medical point of view
00:28:21 --> 00:28:23 yeah it's very sad actually that you
00:28:23 --> 00:28:24 cancer council is a very impressive
00:28:24 --> 00:28:26 charity it does a lot of good work etc
00:28:26 --> 00:28:28 but the trouble is what they're offering
00:28:28 --> 00:28:29 in Western Australia and it seems to be
00:28:29 --> 00:28:31 only in Western Australia the Western
00:28:31 --> 00:28:33 Australian branch of the council council
00:28:33 --> 00:28:36 is offering therapies to cancer patients
00:28:36 --> 00:28:37 not just advice and where to go they're
00:28:37 --> 00:28:38 actually offering these things and
00:28:38 --> 00:28:40 they're using people from outside
00:28:40 --> 00:28:43 obviously to give various therapies now
00:28:43 --> 00:28:44 one of them is the beauty therapy get
00:28:44 --> 00:28:45 your hair done Etc that sort of stuff
00:28:46 --> 00:28:47 makeup make you feel good massage make
00:28:47 --> 00:28:49 you feel good Etc and then they're also
00:28:49 --> 00:28:51 throwing in raiki and reflexology now
00:28:51 --> 00:28:55 raiky is a form of energy medicine which
00:28:55 --> 00:28:56 is a red flag straight away and
00:28:56 --> 00:28:58 supposedly wafting your hands over
00:28:58 --> 00:28:59 someone and rebalancing the energy in
00:28:59 --> 00:29:02 their body and it's junk it is Pudo
00:29:02 --> 00:29:04 sites there's absolutely no mechanism or
00:29:04 --> 00:29:07 Reason to suggest it works reflexology
00:29:07 --> 00:29:09 is about massaging parts of your foot
00:29:09 --> 00:29:11 which supposedly link to other organs in
00:29:11 --> 00:29:12 your body and you say this will affect
00:29:12 --> 00:29:14 your heart this will affect your brain
00:29:14 --> 00:29:16 your kidney whatever so neither of those
00:29:16 --> 00:29:18 have any scientific basis pseudo science
00:29:18 --> 00:29:21 pseudo medicine but the reasons given by
00:29:21 --> 00:29:23 the wa cancer council is that it will
00:29:23 --> 00:29:25 make people feel good so they almost
00:29:25 --> 00:29:27 admit that there's no scientific value
00:29:27 --> 00:29:30 the New South Wales branch of the cancer
00:29:30 --> 00:29:32 Council says specifically there is no
00:29:32 --> 00:29:34 scientific value in here it doesn't work
00:29:34 --> 00:29:36 so the cancer Council which might be
00:29:36 --> 00:29:38 well-meaning in saying it can help you
00:29:38 --> 00:29:41 when you feel good is also endorsing a
00:29:41 --> 00:29:43 total pseudo science which might
00:29:43 --> 00:29:45 encourage patients to move away from
00:29:45 --> 00:29:47 their pretty horrible treatments like
00:29:47 --> 00:29:49 chemotherapy and radiotherapy stuff like
00:29:49 --> 00:29:50 that which is not pleasant and move into
00:29:50 --> 00:29:52 something which feels good but it's not
00:29:52 --> 00:29:53 going to help you in your treatments and
00:29:54 --> 00:29:55 if it takes it away from treatments that
00:29:55 --> 00:29:57 do work then it's a dangerous thing so
00:29:57 --> 00:29:59 the wa can canc council is endorsing a
00:29:59 --> 00:30:01 dangerous thing and that's what our
00:30:01 --> 00:30:02 concern was so who else has been
00:30:02 --> 00:30:04 nominated we do have some media who are
00:30:04 --> 00:30:07 promoting a laser treatment for autism
00:30:07 --> 00:30:09 which is shuny we have a journalist Ross
00:30:09 --> 00:30:12 Kar who actually won last year for his
00:30:12 --> 00:30:14 promotion of UFOs he's back doing it
00:30:14 --> 00:30:16 again interviewing URI Geller and
00:30:16 --> 00:30:17 various people there's a pharmaceutical
00:30:17 --> 00:30:19 company that are promoting supposed to
00:30:20 --> 00:30:21 be a vitamin things full of sugar here's
00:30:21 --> 00:30:23 a hell of a lot of sugar in these things
00:30:23 --> 00:30:25 so there's a another journalist named
00:30:25 --> 00:30:27 Marian deari she's been promoting
00:30:27 --> 00:30:29 conspiracy the iies about covid-19
00:30:29 --> 00:30:31 vaccination bit of a Media Watch in a
00:30:31 --> 00:30:32 lot of them because of media people who
00:30:33 --> 00:30:34 are promoting these ideas and some
00:30:34 --> 00:30:36 practitioners as well a psychic using
00:30:36 --> 00:30:38 basically what's called a Spirit box
00:30:38 --> 00:30:39 which is a radio scanner flipping
00:30:40 --> 00:30:41 through radio channels and say yeah I
00:30:41 --> 00:30:43 hear voices they're saying things no no
00:30:43 --> 00:30:45 you're picking up static and Tiny
00:30:45 --> 00:30:46 fractions of speech and things you trans
00:30:46 --> 00:30:48 find message so there's a whole range of
00:30:48 --> 00:30:50 people but yes the Ben spoon going to be
00:30:50 --> 00:30:53 announced at the skeptic convention it's
00:30:53 --> 00:30:55 our annual convention it's the skepticon
00:30:55 --> 00:30:57 in fact it's skepticon XL which is our
00:30:57 --> 00:31:00 four convention we've had every year in
00:31:00 --> 00:31:01 a row so I don't think any other
00:31:01 --> 00:31:02 skeptical group have done that it
00:31:02 --> 00:31:04 alternates around the country this year
00:31:04 --> 00:31:06 it's on November 23 to 24 that's the
00:31:06 --> 00:31:08 weekend at the University of Technology
00:31:08 --> 00:31:11 in Sydney and we cover a gamut of topics
00:31:11 --> 00:31:13 everything from classic skeptical topics
00:31:13 --> 00:31:16 through to issues of Medicine Science
00:31:16 --> 00:31:18 law responsibility
00:31:18 --> 00:31:20 miscommunication understanding issues
00:31:20 --> 00:31:22 that people face when they're facing up
00:31:22 --> 00:31:23 to the media or whatever and
00:31:23 --> 00:31:25 representatives of the media talking
00:31:25 --> 00:31:27 about how skeptic and the public can
00:31:27 --> 00:31:28 understand what's going on and we've got
00:31:28 --> 00:31:31 some key speakers like Dr Carl kcki he
00:31:31 --> 00:31:32 probably known to a lot of your
00:31:32 --> 00:31:34 Australian listeners I know Dr Carl is
00:31:34 --> 00:31:37 great hello Dr Carl if you're listening
00:31:37 --> 00:31:39 Robin Williams is also on there just as
00:31:39 --> 00:31:41 good always wish I had a radio voice
00:31:41 --> 00:31:44 like Robin does yes I know and it's he's
00:31:44 --> 00:31:46 he's always like to be interviewed by
00:31:46 --> 00:31:48 very comfy and calming he's a lovely man
00:31:48 --> 00:31:49 but yes everything else you can think of
00:31:49 --> 00:31:51 from a wide range from people who are
00:31:51 --> 00:31:54 proponents of UFOs and unknown animals
00:31:54 --> 00:31:56 to people who are skeptical of those
00:31:56 --> 00:31:58 things and do you think it's it's an
00:31:58 --> 00:31:59 uphill battle when you look at
00:31:59 --> 00:32:03 statistics like 25% of people still
00:32:03 --> 00:32:06 believe in astrology and almost as many
00:32:06 --> 00:32:08 aren't sure but are willing to dabble in
00:32:08 --> 00:32:10 it it always has been difficult the last
00:32:10 --> 00:32:12 40 odd years for the Skeptics in
00:32:12 --> 00:32:13 Australia it's an uphill battle at times
00:32:13 --> 00:32:15 and the times you sort of make a few one
00:32:15 --> 00:32:17 step forward two steps back three steps
00:32:17 --> 00:32:19 sideways the issue for us is that we are
00:32:19 --> 00:32:22 there to provide an alternative what we
00:32:22 --> 00:32:23 would suggest is is the truth but an
00:32:23 --> 00:32:25 alternative explanation for A lot of the
00:32:25 --> 00:32:27 things that Intrigue or confuse people
00:32:27 --> 00:32:29 and therefore we find that those people
00:32:29 --> 00:32:31 who are sort of leaning towards but
00:32:31 --> 00:32:33 might be you interested in hearing what
00:32:33 --> 00:32:34 we would suggest is the real story
00:32:34 --> 00:32:36 behind the misinformation and
00:32:36 --> 00:32:37 disinformation the purveyors of that
00:32:37 --> 00:32:39 sort of stuff are hard to convince
00:32:39 --> 00:32:41 they're sort of committed and they might
00:32:41 --> 00:32:43 have their own motivations for um
00:32:43 --> 00:32:45 continuing with their claim we have a
00:32:45 --> 00:32:48 website called skepticon which is s ke P
00:32:48 --> 00:32:53 TI n.org Au that's tum from Australian
00:32:53 --> 00:32:56 Skeptics
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