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Steve Kates Space and astronomy broadcaster (Dr. Sky)

Humans pump out so much water from Earth that it tilts.

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Speaker 1 What is today is Steve Kates, otherwise known as doctor Sky, and he knows a lot about science. And Steve, what do you want to talk about this Sunday morning.

Speaker 2 Well, good morning, John, it’s great to be back on the Cat’s Roundtable, as we wish everybody a great Sunday. But the main news event obviously is about inner space. And said that, we of course got confirmation that those five people on board the very tiny little submersible emotion gate the Titan. But I wanted to put this in

kind of relative perspective about innerspace versus outer space. John, We’ve only mapped twenty percent of the ocean floor. We know more about the surface of the planet Mars with all the spacecraft that have orbited it for years, which makes the inner world of the oceans so much more complicated and so much more unknown. And we find out, John,

that there are three layers of the ocean. To keep it really simple. As we move on, there’s an area called the sunlight zone. It goes down to about two hundred meters. There’s an area below that called the twilight zone.

Not the TV show, but a part of the ocean where sperm whales and other exotic fish live, and that goes down to about one thousand meters and then we have this very strange region on the under the ocean called a midnight zone one thousand meters to four thousand meters and who knows beyond what’s there. But according to

the scientists, they say that sunlight begins to fade when you get about six hundred and fifty feet below the surface of the ocean. So what’s interesting about this, John, is that’s really an unknown realm, to say the least, it’s totally amazing, and it’s very sad the report what we’ve heard, the confirmation of the loss of the Ocean

Gate Titan.

Speaker 1 Now, I was on the other day with some people and they were telling me at ten thousand feet the pressure on that craft that was down near the Titan submarine is it’s almost thirty thousand pounds per square inch.

So really has to be a solid situation otherwise, and you know what happens. It’s like a balloon. If you blow it up and deflate it so many times, it gets weaker.

Speaker 2 You’re right, John, And what’s so sad about this? And I don’t want to attack any of the people from the Ocean Gate Company. I don’t know them, but we do know this. The twenty two foot long sub obviously was searched for in fourteen thousand square feet of water.

I remember it was an experimental craft and it actually didn’t get US certification by US regulations. So how did it actually go to do the deep dives? They did it in international waters, but that was the technicality.

Speaker 1 And I understand his articles out that he’s been offering discounts to people that want to do it just to bring money in, and that he might have been in trouble with money.

Speaker 2 Well, John, they supposedly wanted to do eighteen more dives this year, but how about this one? I think this one knocks it out of the park. Years ago, on one of my shows, I had an interview with the Captain Don Walsh who is he? He and a famous aviator and explorer named Jacques Picard. They went to the

deepest part of the ocean called the Challenger deep down at the Mariana Trench. They did this Get a load of the day, John, January twenty third, nineteen sixty. They went down to thirty five thousand, seven hundred and ninety eight feet that’s three times deeper than where the Titanic is, and they did it in this rather unusual craft. The

technical name is called a bathscape, comes from the Greek word both meaning of course deep and vessel. But I talked to Captain Don Walsh, and God bless him, he’s like ninety some years old now. But that’s incredible. They knew in that particular craft that it took many, many hours to descend, but they had an ability where they

could not be trapped down at the bottom of the ocean that deep because of the way that craft was designed, and it was also used is called the Trieste. It was also used to recover, or at least to identify the location of the US submarine, the nuclear submarine Thresher that went down in the Atlantic Ocean back on April tenth,

nineteen sixty three, and eighty four hundred feet of water. But isn’t that amazing, John, More people have been to the Moon than they have actually technically been to the deepest parts of the ocean, making what the oceans one of the most amazing mysteries. As we always talk about mysteries, this one on a sad note. The loss of people

on an experimental craft but John, the point is very well made. I think here on the Cat’s round table, we know so little about the oceans, and yet we know so much more about outer space. Isn’t that amazing?

Just to say it is amazing?

Speaker 1 But thirty thousand feet down, the pressure is enormous, and I understand, and I there is some kind of life down there.

Speaker 2 You bet. And what they reported. Captain Walsh told me this many many years ago, and it’s documented, you know, in print in books that even at that depth, he and mister Picard looked out their window if they want to call it a window kindie little porthole, and they actually saw a fish that looked like a filet, I

mean kind of a sleigh of soul, kind of fish, like a flatfish. And they actually saw some other items down there that actually glowed in the dark. And if we remember the movie The Abyss, there are literally creatures under the ocean. I’m not an oceanographer, but I can just pass it on. The Abyss to me was one

of the most amazing movies about interspace because down there, where there’s no lights, the fish actually glow, you know, as if you had some sort of power that they glow on their own, which makes innerspace even the more fascinating part of the story of the Earth and all the different things that we talk about here on the

Cat’s Roundtable to keep up everybody’s mind open and expanding our minds. But in this case, John, a very sad story to report about the loss of five humans on board the Ocean Gate Titan, very.

Speaker 1 Very sad story. But the other thing that gets me, Steve Kates, is the Navy knew about it when it.

Speaker 2 Happened, absolutely, Johnath, Yes, you’re right, and.

Speaker 1 They never picked up the phone to tell the post.

Speaker 2 Clay, Well, here’s one of the theories on this, And again I don’t know this for certain. If I don’t know something, I’ll be always honest with everybody, you and the listeners. It’s been reported and I’m trying to get confirmation of this that the Navy obviously, as Hugris stated accurately, they knew about this quote implosion. They actually either registered on

some kind of device. It registered on a device, but they didn’t want to reveal too much detail because that’s one of our secret type technologies when we’re talking about searching for submarines and things of that nature. But it’s a shame that we don’t have a ship that was once owned by Howard Hughes called the Glomar Explorer. It

was used in some very secret recoveries of a Soviet submarine or two that went to the bottom of the ocean and imploded, and their purpose was to identify what that submarine had as far as the nuclear warheads that were still down at the bottom of the ocean. But it’s an amazing story, I gather John enclosing the technology

that the Navy has. They didn’t want to talk too much about how they did it, but the point of the matter is some of those things I’m sure are breathing beyond top secret about how they identify something so deep and get some sort of a echo on a implosion that more likely happened with this particular craft.

Speaker 1 We know understood. We got a minute left. Anything you want to tell us on what’s going on out there? Is anything special this week?

Speaker 2 Well, John, one of the big things, another quick story here that’s been taking people’s attention and off the charts is this humans are pumping so much groundwater that it changes the Earth’s tilt. And that’s amazing story. We could talk about it in detail in the future. But according to what these you know geologists are talking about, between

nineteen ninety three and twenty ten, they’ve pumped about twenty one hundred fifty gigatons of water out of the Earth, causing the Earth in mid latitudes where most of the orders water’s pumped out to actually change the poll shift of the Earth. So that’s quite amazing itself. Once again, we know so little about Mother Earth. But when we

look into the night sky, John, inclosing, just remember as you look into the northwest after sunset is summer’s here. The planet Dinus shines bright, the planet Mars is nearby. We find the new Moon moving brighter each night, moving on to a full phase in early July. And it’s always a privilege and honor to be with you on

the Cats Round Table, opening and expanding people’s minds as we recommend them to go to WABC Radio dot com the Doctor Sky Experience, where so much information is there for our listeners. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Steve Katson. We’ll catch up again, Wilson, have a good bit. Joh

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