Mid-July skies offer great views of the Milky Way!

0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is Steve Kates, otherwise known as Doctor Sky, and he entertains us every Sunday when when we look up in the sky, what do we see when we dream about a far away skies? What do we see?

0:16 Steve Kates? What the heck is going on?

0:19 Speaker 2 Well, good morning, John. Here in Phoenix where I’m broadcasting from. We’re about ready to set a record of over eighteen days with one hundred and ten degree temperature and other parts of the nation and the listeners of the Cat’s Round Table, I’m sure or in the sweltering heat. But it goes back, John to a story, a backstory about

0:38 where in the story of volcanic activity, how has that changed climate change over history? And we find out that these particular volcanoes put so much carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide and pollutants into the air. But what about two very important ones to go back in our time capsule, back to let’s say the year five thirty six AD.

1:01 We find out that both five thirty six AD and five thirty nine two massive volcanoes, one in the northern hemisphere blue and one in the tropics blue.

1:10 Speaker 3 But you know what it did.

1:11 Speaker 2 It lowered global temperatures for more than ten years, and that’s amazing because major cooling events do indeed happen with volcanoes, so that’s also something that the climate scientists need to take into calculation. I find that fascinating that volcanoes Mother Nature is responsible, of course, for so much of the changes obviously on the Earth.

1:34 Speaker 1 Amazing stuff, unbelievable And why is it is just an ordinarily hot summer.

1:46 Speaker 2 It is John And there’s many things that are going on here. I mean, we see that people in the Northeast have been plagued by this credible smoke from the Canadian wildfires. What’s happening here globally? For the shortest way we can explain it is that the effect which traps much more you know, temperatures and heat into the Earth’s

2:04 atmosphere is taking place. And many climate fie scientists are also saying that maybe we should look at injecting reflective particles in the atmosphere, which would reflect the sunlight and theoretically lower the temperature of the Earth.

2:17 Speaker 3 But I think they have a long way to go.

2:20 Speaker 2 And another amazing theory from some scientists is that if we could harness the power of fusion and we add literally to sound science fiction, doesn’t it. Here it goes, we could have some sort of nuclear powered engine, like a fusion engine, and actually move the Earth about three tenths of a percent of its orbital distance from the Sun,

2:40 maybe lowering temperatures.

2:42 Speaker 3 But I think that’s a little bit way out there.

2:44 Speaker 1 As far as I don’t think it’ll happen. I don’t think it will happen this century. I agree.

2:50 Speaker 2 I think that’s something that’s very interesting. But for the listeners, John, they need to know this. The Earth has a fairly circular orbit. In other words, the differences between the two extremes, you know, when we’re closest and farthest or within millions of miles. But the planet Venus has the most circular orbit of any of the major planets.

3:08 Speaker 3 But go figure.

3:09 Speaker 2 Its temperatures on the surface are a godly, ungodly nine hundred and ten degrees fahrenheit every day. And that’s a planet that you can see beautifully in the west northwest. It’s at its brightest right now. But we have something we always called the mystery of the week, and here it goes. One of the loudest sounds on Earth that

3:27 we know about and they’re measured in decibels. What’s a decibel, It’s a logarithmic measure of sound intensity, and putting it in a simple way, we find out that if decibels are over one hundred and twenty, like a police siren, this of course may damage your ears if you’re close to it. The average room has fifty decibels of sound,

3:46 the hair dryer maybe ninety, and a gunshot sounds maybe up about one hundred and forty decibels. So when were the loudest sounds on Earth? If we go back to the eighteen eighty three Krakatuea volcano explosion, the way ten thousand times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb, it recorded three hundred and ten decibels at that time, and if

4:08 you were one hundred miles away from the explosion, it was still one hundred and seventy two decibels. But going back to our John, our story about the climate change and volcanoes, global temperatures then dropped.

4:20 Speaker 3 For five years.

4:21 Speaker 2 And we have animals that also put out some incredible powerful sounds. Sperm whales, ocean i rippers say that they can give clicks that are over two hundred and thirty decibels. We find the Saturn five moon rocket, These particular powerful rockets about two hundred and four decibels, and the great asteroid impactor called Tumuska it gave off about one hundred

4:44 and ninety five decibels. These are some amazing things, but I’m amazed that these whales can actually send out signals under the ocean. Imagine two hundred and thirty decibels of a click that seemingly would like literally rip apart some swimmers or anything that’s under the water if they.

5:02 Speaker 1 Wanted to, if they wanted to. Now, somebody, somehow, those those whales are getting killed themselves, and it could be somebody. Uh uh windmills that uh they’re they’re putting up by trying to dig hole for foundations for those windmills. He’s so called environmentalists don’t want to create wind power for uh, for electricity. We’re killing the whales and we’re killing a

5:36 lot of birds that try to fly into the windmills, you know, and you know how much electricity the country you can get from from from from those windmills. How do you say, how do you say? Bupkiss? That’s a word from must be a word from Brooklyn because it means almost nothing. And you know, somebody, some uddy is

6:00 conning somebody.

6:03 Speaker 2 John, You’re so right, and it’s amazing. We need to protect those whales. I mean, if you look at the story of how they migrate and how they’re being killed off. In many cases, they were here a long time before humans, of course, but the oceans should be at least sacred for them to be able to reproduce and to live

6:19 and to live their lives. And many people, of course would agree with us. But you know, I want to mention in closing, John the live sky we always talk about things that people don’t know.

6:28 Speaker 1 There’s one additional thing, doctor Skye Chief tates. The other day it was reported that the Mars rover found something that might be connected to possible life.

6:43 Speaker 2 You know, John, there’s many stories on this. What we’re talking about here is Perseverance has been scouring the surface of Mars and doing a great job. It’s been collecting some samples that hopefully, when they’re deposited on the surface surface of Mars, like in these little vials like test tubes, a future Mars recovery.

7:01 Speaker 3 Mission will be able to pick them up.

7:03 Speaker 2 But Like I said before in last week’s episode on the Cat’s Roundtable, the Viking Landers, they may have intentionally found or unintentionally found life on Mars, but they added water to it, thinking that it was an Earth contaminant.

7:17 But the story goes on about searching for life on Mars. It seems like Mars, many many millions of years ago obviously had gigantic oceans and why it died off, John, the simplest explanation is this, Mars lost its magnetic field.

7:32 Thank God, the Earth has its magnetic field. It shields us from the solar radiation. Believe it or not. Many people may doubt that, but it surely does. Mars lost its magnetic field. Nobody knows why. But what happened in the magnetic field broke away or disappeared. Solar radiation then ate away the atmosphere of Mars, and the water simply

7:53 operated into space. But things you can see in the sky as we end off here, John I mentioned before, Venus is so spright, it’s brightest right now, that’s a planet.

8:03 Speaker 3 Some astronomers say there.

8:04 Speaker 2 May be light forms of something called fospians in the Venusian atmosphere, and maybe the place to look for light in the clouds of Venus. But on a more memorable note, where were you John back in nineteen sixty nine, Because Apollos eleven, that is launched to the Moon on July sixteenth at nine thirty two am Eastern daylight time, fifty

8:28 four years ago. Wow, what an amazing story. Let’s never forget the amazing achievement that America did the first time in history landing on the surface of the Moon with Apollo eleven. I can’t get it out of my head.

8:41 Speaker 1 It’s still amazing, it’s amazing, But I got to give you my personal feeling, we haven’t accomplished that much since.

8:50 Speaker 2 Well, we need to keep, as they say, trucking on and hopefully future generations will be able to make these trips a lot easier and much more affordable. And hopefully the ro way ROI John can come back to exploring for minerals and other ways to harness energy that surely lies out in the cosmos.

9:08 Speaker 1 Understood, Uh, Steve Kates, thank you for the report, and we’ll catch up with you again. We assume, like I always say, if there’s anything tremendous happening, text me. We’ll have you on in WABC right away to be able to report to our listeners.

9:25 Speaker 2 Well, thank you so much, John, and a good Sunday morning and Sunday to all your listeners of the Cats Roundtable.

9:31 Speaker 3 Proud to be part of the show.

9:32 Speaker 1 Thank you, thank you so much,