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🗓️ 6 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Millions of years ago, a massive planet called Maldek was part of our solar system. |
0:10.0 | Maldak had an enormous moon that could support life. |
0:15.0 | It was warm, it had oceans, and an atmosphere. |
0:18.0 | And on that moon, a civilization of giants built pyramids, monuments, and great cities. |
0:24.4 | They created intelligent machines to mine Maldak for resources. |
0:28.7 | But the machines evolved, turned on their masters, and claimed Maldak for themselves. |
0:34.2 | A devastating war lasted generations. |
0:37.2 | Finally, the giants built a weapon powerful enough to destroy all the machines. |
0:41.3 | The weapon worked. The weapon worked too well. |
0:44.3 | The explosion destroyed Maldek. |
0:47.3 | With their planet shattered into a billion pieces, the giant's moon was adrift. |
0:52.3 | Soon the atmosphere vanished, the oceans froze, |
0:55.0 | and the surface turned to dust. |
0:57.0 | Their civilization collapsed. |
0:59.0 | And we don't know what the giants called their moon, |
1:03.0 | but we have a name for it. |
1:05.0 | We call it Mars. In 2020, |
1:17.6 | actor Terence Howard appeared on the Joe Rogan experience |
1:22.6 | and said something that made mainstream scientists very uncomfortable. |
1:26.6 | He claimed NASA's explanation for how planets' form was completely raw. |
1:32.3 | Neil de Krasse Tyson and other experts immediately pushed back. |
1:35.3 | They dismissed Howard as just another celebrity with fringe theories. |
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