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0:00 Speaker 1 When it’s this Sunday morning. Is doctor Sky otherwise known as Steve Kate’s a good friend and he makes us wonder what the heck is going on up there in Steve Kate’s Good morning, this Sunday morning. What’s new this week?

0:18 Speaker 2 Well, good morning, John, Good to be back on the Cats round Table every week. Here let’s journey way out into the cosmos where we talk about things called black holes. Hard enough to understand and in the simplest way we can describe it. This morning, as people wake up and listen, these areas in space that have great gravity pressure, let’s say,

0:36 they pull in light, heat, and everything. But astronomers are now saying that there may be these tiny primoidial black holes, maybe even smallest the size of an asteroid, that permeate the universe. And the interesting thing about this, John, is that if these little tiny black holes were even to get close to the Earth, nothing that we can prove.

0:56 They obviously send out these things called gravitational waves. That the gravitational wave, you wouldn’t run or run into it. It’s a ripple and space time, which means that it actually changes the bending of time and space. Totally amazing stuff.

1:11 And just to let everybody know, on the theoretical side, if one the size of an asteroid got within let’s say, two hundred million miles of the Earth, it would definitely warp the Earth’s orbit and many of the other planets.

1:23 Isn’t that a fascinating way to begin someday to open them?

1:26 Speaker 1 Well, I hope it doesn’t happen for a few thousand years.

1:31 Speaker 2 Absolutely amazing stuff from the world of science. But John, if we go closer in towards the planets like the planet Mars, we know that the Perseverance rover is doing a great job on the surface. It’s actually doing something that many people may not realize because Ingenuity the helicopter has really taken over first prize. Perseverance is actually doing

1:52 something interesting. It’s capturing, that is, samples of the Martian surface, the geologic material rocks, and putting them in the test tubes, and it’s dropping them on the surface of Mars and also storing them on board. Why because eventually NASA wants to do something called Mars Sample Return Mission, And what’s that In a nutshell, it’s a mission that would send

2:13 an orbiter to Mars, a lander. It would scoop up the little vials of material and send it back to the Earth. But let’s hold the phone, because now it’s an overbudget project. It would be over eight billion dollars to do this particular sample return mission. So it’ll probably happen.

2:31 But as many things we’re hearing, like the NASA Moon mission and also this Mars sample return mission, it’s probably going to have to be a lot later in time as they can focus on the budget interesting though nonetheless.

2:44 Speaker 1 Understood, and the Moon mission, the Mars mission. There’s delays going on in NASA.

2:52 Speaker 2 What do you hear, ony we do? We’re hearing that Artemis too, which was originally scheduled to launch in October of this year, obviously looks like it’s will be pushed back, who knows, maybe into twenty twenty five. And then the big Krem de la Trem as they say the autumn is three. That’s the landing on the service of the

3:09 Moon that might have been predicted to happen as early as twenty twenty six is probably going to have to be pushed back a number of years now. I say this, this is just my opinion, open to everybody’s opinion too.

3:20 Why the Rush. I mean, we’ve done this before, obviously with budget overruns. We look at the privatize part of the world, you know, with the Elon Musk story in SpaceX, and we have to remember that Elon is going to develop the lunar lander that’s now in his testing for his giant rocket, the Big Starship. So I simply say this,

3:40 let’s do it right, let’s do it safely. And they’re also looking to build a lunar space station which is very important, called Gateway. So there’s your summary on that, John, it’s you know, maybe troubled times. Remember NASA’s budget is very small in comparison to many of the other federal agencies, and I do think they do a lot with a little.

4:00 But what say you on that?

4:03 Speaker 1 Well, you know, my mind wanders all the time, and especially with the Mars rovers if they’re looking for something, if they’re finding something that really gets to me, and with learning more about the planet’s Jupiter, and I know this is just the beginning, but at my age, I’d like to find out sooner than later. What say you?

4:34 Speaker 2 I agree, John, But again, let’s do it safe and let’s do it the right way. And I think those rewards will come. But John, one more thing I wanted to mention today. This is quite interesting because this affects people not in an alarmist way, closer to home with earthquakes.

4:49 The US Geological Survey has put out a brand new map and the map doesn’t say much, but the words behind it say that nearly seventy five percent of the US could be under earthquake watch and alerts. Well, we’ve known this for a long time. The new map indicates areas that are hotspots. We know that Alaska, areas of California,

5:08 the Yellowstone Region of course in the far top of Wyoming, and if that ever blew with a giant Caldera volcano, that would be very devastating. But how about some trivia going back to earthquakes in America. Many people may not realize.

5:22 Back in Missouri, the New Madrid earthquake that occurred back in December of eighteen eleven was an eight point two and even today the city of Memphis, Tennessee, with other cities along the New Madrid fault, could be under an alert that, of course, we need to be watchful for not much we can do about it. The largest earthquake

5:42 that we ever recorded in the world, at least that’s what we know in modern times. That occurred back in May of nineteen sixty when a nine point five earthquake John occurred in Chile. And as we talk about this, California’s largest earthquake was back in eighteen fifty seven, a seven point nine on the Rick scale. So hopefully they’re

6:01 getting more focus on where these regions of activity could be and maybe give us some sort of an early prediction. But as you know, earthquakes do exactly what they want.

6:12 Speaker 1 And there is no way to control those earthquakes that we know about. Let me ask a question, sure the weather, are we working on being able to control the weather better? You know, the weather controls the earth in the temperatures, but are we able to control where the weather hits, whether it hits in a major city or hits in

6:38 the middle of the ocean.

6:41 Speaker 2 Not at this point, John, But then I don’t want us on conspiracy. But here we go. There’s been stories about this for a long time that geoengineering has been in full force, and there were a lot of experiments done in Alaska in which they were sending out these ripples and waves into the upper atmosphere. But I think

6:58 that’s something that we’ll both do on because if I go further on this, I might sound totally conspiratorial, but there are many people out there that seriously believe, from the concept of comtrails to other vibrations in the Earth inducing these low frequency radio waves, that that could be part and parcel. But I stop and give you science,

7:18 and I say that again, and we say it proudly and confidently. All weather comes from the Sun, and that’s something we need to study in much greater details. Why John, Because we’re in the throes of a Shulder cycle twenty five and those powerful CMEs and solar flares really have a devastating effect on the Earth, as it’s had many

7:37 times in the past. But you know, that’s a good subject. I like to explore that more about what weather inducing experiments have been done. Let’s see what may be exact from fiction.

7:48 Speaker 1 Thank you, Steve Kags. Stop the sky and we’ll talk to you again real soon, and if there’s anything urgent, let me know during the week and we’ll put you right on. Thank you so much.

7:57 Speaker 2 Thank you, John, have a good morning. Appreciate it.