Sun spots and AT&T

0:00 Speaker 1 Well, it’s Sunday, and with us today is Steve Kates, otherwise known as doctor Sky that gives us an update of what’s going on up in the skies on the Moon. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Doctor Sky, how’s the moon landing?

0:17 Speaker 2 John? It’s a very exciting time for space and we should all be very happy. The Intuitive Machines Company of Euston, in conjunction with NASA, as we all know by now, made a successful soft landing on the South pole of the Moon. They’re about one hundred and ninety miles from the lunar south Pole. They landed in a crater called

0:34 malapert A. But more to the point, this is the first spacecraft that’s went on to the Moon that’s used a propulsion system called methlox. What is that? He uses methane and liquid oxygen as propulsion. Obviously that’s something for future spacecraft too. But it’s the first time since nineteen seventy two that America has soft landed on the Moon.

0:56 And of course the Odysseus craft named in honor of the Greek champion of the Trojan War. Spacecraft John can only survive on the Moon for about seven days. That’s a great feat. Wouldn’t you think this is an exciting time for space?

1:09 Speaker 1 Well, I am glad, Myoni disappointed in is we didn’t do it sooner. Have we gotten any pictures yet or any anything from that lander?

1:20 Speaker 2 We have, John, and we’ve got some experiments that were done actually by some colleges. And there’s something even more phenomenal about this for people who wear like Columbia sportswear, you know, the outdoor wear they’ve tested or they will be testing. That is some material for future spaceflight for thermal conditions. But we do have some images. What I’d

1:38 love to see is someday when they put a big four or eight K camera on the Moon and we could actually watch in real time from the camera on the Moon one of these objects landing. And wouldn’t it be great if we could put one by the Apollo eleven to dispel any doubts that we ever landed on

1:52 the Moon. That would be an amazing thing. But maybe some people would doubt that too.

1:58 Speaker 1 I understood tell us the uh sun spots. I understand the or they’re getting stronger and stronger.

2:08 Speaker 2 John. Over the past week, we’ve had an amazing thing happened on the Sun. Three X class powerful flares. These are the highest level flares in twenty four hours over this past week just before, we’ve had three and twenty four hours. But that’s not too surprising because this is sunspot cycle twenty five. But lucky for us, there’s no

2:28 coronal mass ejections that we know of from these. But the jury’s not out, John. That big sunspot is moving right now as we’re talking here on Sunday, right toward the central part of the Sun. And if you get one of those that blast, the big powerful one with the CME in our direction when it’s in the center,

2:45 who knows. But we still don’t know, John, the answer to what the big phone outage was here in this country at and T. At least that’s what I’m finding out, is explaining to people that there was some sort of a software glitch involved. But John, it wasn’t just AT and T. It was a massive group of carriers across

3:03 the country. Some might have blamed this on the solar flare. We pretty much know that’s not the case. But don’t you think that’s so dangerous If we really don’t know how to maintain our software or who knows if it was a cyber attack. Will we ever be told the truth? John, that’s the big question.

3:19 Speaker 1 I am worried if forever being told the truth. But that’s that’s the important thing. But as you find out, you make sure we know and we let our listeners know.

3:30 Speaker 2 John, Thank you, and always check out the Doctor Sky Experience. Of course, WABC radio dot com. Some forty three days to the eclipse, we’ve got lots to stay about that. And it’s always a privilegent honor to join you and the entire nation on the CATS Roundtable. So you have a good morning, and so do the listeners.