AI Fighter Jets, Space Delays, and New Space Mysteries

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, what’s going on up when we look up in the skies with us today is Steve Kats also known as doctor Sky. Well, Steve, so many things happening. Where do you want to start?

0:12 Speaker 2 Well, good morning, John, happy Valentine’s week.

0:14 Speaker 3 As we move towards the days of love.

0:16 Speaker 2 But here we go President Trump of course, being behind this new generation F forty seven jet fighter. Just a little bit of an update here, John. These are called generation six aircraft. What’s that? These are aircraft that fly upwards of maybe mark two and beyond. They also have the capability of flying autonomous with the thing called AI. In the United States is

0:37 hoping to build maybe one hundred and eighty five of these very high tech jet fighters. But hold the phone, because the Russians are also developing the big forty one.

0:46 Speaker 3 They claim to have.

0:47 Speaker 2 An aircraft that can go out to the reaches of maybe near space and China, of all people, John, they’re building the J thirty six called the Chengdu. And that particular aircraft also has mysterious properties. But all for plus, you know, more than Monk two, maybe some hypersonic lots of technology going on.

1:07 Speaker 1 The Steve Kates I understand the Automus two by NASA is being postponed to March or something. Would you tell us why? What happened? John?

1:17 Speaker 2 From what we know and this is pretty much unofficial at this point, some fuel leaks on this particular big SLS rocket, So obviously we don’t want to launch rockets that you know, don’t make it to space. So that’s basically the delay. So they’re pushing toward early March. And here’s the reason and specificity. There’s certain launch windows that

1:36 you have to do if you’re doing the lunar voyage. So the one that was in February, which was right around now, maybe up till the eleventh, they’re going to have to wait until the next launch window.

1:45 Speaker 3 But they have some problems to fix before they do that, with so called.

1:49 Speaker 2 Leakage inside some of those precoman tanks understood.

1:55 Speaker 1 What else would you like to talk about this Sunday morning.

1:57 Speaker 2 Well, John, people around the world have been noticing the largest sun spot of Solar cycle twenty five.

2:03 Speaker 3 It’s so big. I was just out the other day with those you.

2:05 Speaker 2 Know, eclip spots, and then I could see it with the naked eye.

2:08 Speaker 3 How big is it?

2:09 Speaker 2 It’s from the Earth to the Moon in distance over two hundred thousand miles. It blew out an X flare on the eighth scale. I mean, it was a powerful solar flare. So we’re not done with solar cycle twenty five.

2:21 But here’s something interesting. Since the Sun, John, is a big fusion ball. People always asked how long did it take the Sun to rotate so long it’s equator, This particular star, which we love and depend on, it rotates at the equator about once every twenty five days, and towards the poles slower motion. This is all magical stuff

2:41 in the world of fusion. And again, John, can you imagine there’s probably one hundred billion or trillion stars in this particular galaxy of ours. Imagine how many of them if they’re like our Sun. Who knows?

2:53 Speaker 2 Maybe there’s life, maybe somewhere out there. The odds look like that’s more thanlikely.

3:00 Speaker 1 One thing more than we know about, Steve Cakes, because it seems to be between the Earth the planet’s mars. There seems to be oways, some or even the asteroids, some sort of life, whether you call it life or not.

3:17 But it looks like there’s something.

3:20 Speaker 2 Well, John, that mystery goes on, But how about the mystery of the week.

3:23 Speaker 3 Here’s a lighthearted one.

3:24 Speaker 2 Here’s the question, how accurate has punks atoni Phil been over the years. Well, the simple answer, John, is not too accurate. He’s accurate about thirty five to thirty nine percent correct over the past century. And that since eighteen eighty seven, when they predicted the winter one hundred and nine times, the accuracy of punks atoni Phil was only

3:47 thirty nine percent. But closer to home, John, this is amazing. Let’s go to Staten Island Chuck, Charles g. Hog at the Staten Island Zoo. John, he was right eighty five percent of the time, and allegedly he actually bit a former New York City mayor. So we go on to look at this particular and.

4:06 Speaker 1 That mayor, and that mayor ended up dropping him and he and he died.

4:13 Speaker 3 John, I didn’t find that. That’s Oh, that’s so sad.

4:17 Speaker 2 So p So you’re telling me that pork Staten Island Chuck is no longer around. That’s amazing.

4:23 Speaker 1 Yes, he might have been eight time until he met Mayor Deblasio.

4:30 Speaker 3 John, No, that is so sad.

4:31 Speaker 2 I never knew that. Here these are the things you learned on the Cats round Table. That is so incredible, John, But again punks atoni phil As they say, he’s probably ready to retire.

4:42 Speaker 3 But what did he do, John? He saw his shadow.

4:45 Speaker 2 So we have luck six more weeks as of when he did it on the second, and that continues to be very cold and oppressive for many parts of the nation due to the polar vortex. We always remind people, John what to listen to the Doctor Sky experience proudly here on this great radio station Friday night midnight to

5:04 two am Saturday morning, Eastern Standard Time, and also Saturday midnight to Sunday two am Eastern Standard Time, to learn about the many wonders and mysteries of the universe. Amen.

5:16 Speaker 1 Well, thank you so much for coming on, and let’s catch up again real soon. And I always listen to you on Friday night from twelve to two and Saturday morning and Sunday night and Sunday morning and twelve to two.

5:29 Speaker 2 Thank you so much, John, Thanks for the opportunity, and you have a great Sunday and a great Valentine’s Meek