92: The Chemistry of Computers & The Great Moon Hoax of 1835

Let's Learn Everything!

Tom Lum

Education, Comedy, Learning, Tiktok, Science, Friends

4.8 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

What does chemistry have to do with computers? Well it might just be the best way to understand what's actually going on inside a CPU! And how could there have been a moon hoax back in 1835? Well it involves cosmic pluralism and Edgar Allen Poe so buckle up!

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0:00.0	Well, if we became one of those podcasts that had, like, the producer on, who, like,
0:04.3	occasionally, like, laughs at a especially funny joke or, like, chimes in with the...
0:07.7	I do kind of love it when I hear that in the podcast, yeah.
0:11.8	We include Tom Scott's laugh track, implying that he'd been on every recording this whole time.
0:35.4	Hello and welcome to Let's Learn Everything, the show where we learn anything and everything interesting. Woo!
0:38.3	Yes! Yes! It's my friend.
0:39.3	In front of a live studio audience.
0:41.3	We're just two people.
0:44.3	Very small.
0:46.3	Today we're going to cover a science topic and a miscellaneous topic.
0:52.3	Boo!
0:53.3	Oh, I'm sorry.
0:56.5	Oh my goodness.
0:57.5	That's not the energy.
0:58.7	Hush.
1:04.0	But I'm not doing either of those things because I am the student of the episode.
1:09.8	My name is Ella, and I will be taking notes and stuff.
1:14.7	Notes and stuff. My name is Tom and today's science topic is the chemistry of computers. Ooh. Oh. Oh. We're going to see what that.
1:25.2	Okay. All right. All right. This is my get from fake booing.
1:28.3	Um, I have no idea what that means, so I...
1:32.3	Exactly.
1:33.3	I will begin to react appropriately when you tell us more.
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