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0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is Steve Tates. Otherwise, donus doc the sky with an update what’s going on on Mars the moon up in the skies And I’ll tell you it’s a popular segment for US Sunday morning. Uh, Steve, tell us give us an update. What’s going on?

0:19 Speaker 2 John? There’s so much in this month here as we move out of February and move into March. But here we go a quick analysis of the moon landers. Notice I said landers that we both experienced ruin the month of February, the Japanese slim Lander and the US Odysseus Lander. That, of course, both of them. Unfortunately, as we reported here

0:38 on you know your particular radio show listeners around the nation and around the world on the Cat’s Roundtable, both of them, in case people don’t know, tried to land but actually fell on their side, which is totally amazing.

0:51 Speaker 1 But here’s something I know, I know. We had a discussion one night when Rita was out that it was the dumbest thing ever saw that they built a completely vertical Oh yes, without the ability to adjust because if one leg was in the crater, it’s going to fall.

1:14 Speaker 2 Absolutely it’s too tall. And you’re right look at the old lunar landers of the Apollo era, John, Those legs are spread out far and wide on a spacecraft that’s not as tall, with the probability like these of leaning over.

1:27 But the good news for the landers, even though they’re kind of half functioning, is that both the Japanese Slim Lander and the Odysseus are still sending back well little bits of data here. But what’s so interesting about this the Japanese lander actually woke up after the long lunar night.

1:43 By the way, the temperatures there on the Moon get down well below two hundred below zero fahrenheit, and they’re operating on batteries. But what’s really interesting about this is that that particular lander also has interesting enough a ham radio station that’s sending out a signal at four hundred thirty seven point forty one megahertz. Not that that means

2:03 too much to people out there, But the bottom line on this is we find out that both the Nova Sea of Disseus lander which is on its side, and the other lunar lander that I mentioned before. It’s interesting.

2:14 We obviously need to make a big change, as you mentioned in how we get down onto the surface of the Moon without this unfair, you know, toppling over that is very very sad.

2:24 Speaker 1 Well, let’s take advice. Let’s take advice from the space Aliens flying sources. They’re big, round and across, and they come down slowly. They can’t tip.

2:35 Speaker 2 Over absolutely, and they have one advantage that we haven’t figured out yet. John, I’m not the anti gravity.

2:41 Speaker 1 Well, I told you once already. I have some information that we do have anti gravity, but we’re not telling anybody yet.

2:51 Speaker 2 Well, John, I hope that becomes a reality sooner than later. But here’s a quick analysis space missions for twenty twenty four. We can expect that SpaceX’s starship, we’ll get another series of tests, you know, vehicles to get up above and hopefully get their starship, you know, actual spacecraft out into orbit around the Earth. They’ve been doing the best they

3:10 can elon Musk now with the most powerful rocket in the world. But how about this, John, The Chinese are actually done to launch in twenty twenty four their own version of the Hubble space telescope and the Giant Webs telescope.

3:22 So get set for stories about that as they peer deeper into the universe. But John, we know that you’re telling me this is very popular segment, and I agree. But the mystery of the week is what we’re talking about today. And here’s another one. When the universe was formed thirteen point seven seven billion years ago, we found

3:39 out that, well, the universe is expanding. The what’s it expanding into? Now?

3:43 Speaker 2 How about this? Astronomers and cosmologists believe that there’s something way out there in space. I’m talking about outside maybe where the envelope of expansion is, or maybe we don’t know. It’s told the Great Attractor. And what’s that, John, It’s an area in the universe where all of the galaxies like ours, and the whole cluster of them is actually

4:03 actually moving toward one direction. And how about this, This massive super galactic cluster of thousands and hundreds of thousands of galaxies is called the Ilaniakia galaxy cluster. So what I want to make sure that everybody heard me say is that the universe is not just moving outward like a bubble, like an expanding balloon, but our galaxy and

4:25 others are moving toward another region of space. We call that the Greater Attractor. Isn’t that mind boggling? On a Sunday, morning.

4:32 Speaker 1 Well, I hate to disagree because you’re a good friend. There’s no way they would know that. That’s strictly speculator. Think about it, it’s strictly speculation. It’s expanding. It is expanding somewhere. And it’s the other discussion I had this morning with a friend of mine who wrote a book about God, and I said, of course there’s a God.

4:59 Of course there’s a creat a because Earth and human beings are too complicated to be an accident.

5:06 Speaker 2 Well, that’s a good way to look at it, John, and I agree with you one hundred percent. But the only evidence that we have for this, at least right now, from the astronomers is that they can actually detect this thing called a red shift. And what’s that. That’s a shift that they see, meaning the farther an object is out,

5:21 the faster it’s moving away. But in this particular case, they’re mapping points as if we look at you little pegs on a wall. They’re noticing that a good percentage of those are actually moving into another direction, not just expanding like a balloon wood. But the jury is still out as we were talking about this, but it’s amazing, John,

5:40 to know that the outer edge of the universe right now. Is what they think they know that is scientists, is that it’s about ninety three billion light years. Has that expansive end, whatever it’s expanding into that is quite mind boggling in my estimation, totally.

5:56 Speaker 1 Well, Steve Kates, doctor Sky, thank you for you know, shaking up our minds a little bit this morning. And we always welcome you because things are going on up there that we don’t know about, and hopefully before it’s time for us to go that we learned a little bit more.

6:15 Speaker 2 Well, John, thank you for having me here on the Cats Round Table as we open people’s minds on Sundays. Check our doctor Sky experience at WABC radio dot com as we count down the big eclipse that’s just around the corner. Thank you so.

6:28 Speaker 1 Much, doctor Sky. Thank you, and we’ll talk soon.