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🗓️ 7 June 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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What would happen if the moon disappeared tomorrow? What makes it so special in the first place? Does it really *do* anything useful? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Space Man. I'm your host Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. You know how this show works, but let's give it another orbit. You go online to Twitter, |
| 0:22.1 | Facebook, use the hashtag Ask a Space Man and start asking me questions, and then I will, like, |
| 0:27.4 | get around to answering them at some point. You can also follow me directly on Twitter and |
| 0:32.3 | Facebook. My name is Paul Matt Sutter, P-A-U-M-A-T-E-R. You can also find all these videos on YouTube, which gives you another place to ask questions. YouTube.com slash C-S-Pol-M-M-Mat-Sutter. It's the same name as all the others. If you want to email, you can do Ask aSpaceman at g-mail.com or just go to ask a space man.com. So so many ways |
| 0:55.9 | to get some questions answered and so little time. We have a very simple goal with this show |
| 1:02.4 | complete knowledge of time and space and to get there it's going to take a while but |
| 1:08.3 | you know we've got a few years left, you know, or whatever. |
| 1:13.3 | On the way to complete knowledge of time and space is not an episode on the cosmic microwave |
| 1:19.4 | background. |
| 1:20.1 | I know a couple episodes ago, I kind of begged you to ask me, and you heard call you heard my pleas you flooded me with questions about |
| 1:32.0 | the CMB the cosmic microwave background and you're not getting it yet I know I know you'd think |
| 1:38.9 | after begging you for an episode on the CMB that would actually deliver well Well, here's the thing. I want to do it right. It's a big topic. It's one of my favorite topics. It's a topic that doesn't get a lot of play. Like we always hear about the cosmic microwave background. Maybe not always. We hear about the cosmic microwave background. And I just want make sure i i do it right so i want to |
| 2:02.9 | give it some time i want to prep it a little bit more not that you'll actually notice a difference |
| 2:08.1 | in quality i want to prep it a little bit more than usual that's all so i'm just taking my time |
| 2:13.5 | don't worry it's there it's at the front of my mind. I worry about it every single day. |
| 2:17.9 | It keeps me up at night. I'm going to do an episode on the Cosm Blackaway background. |
| 2:22.2 | And maybe more than one episode. We'll see. Anyway, on the path to complete knowledge of time and space. |
| 2:29.1 | Today is a question from Anonymous. Somebody who remains nameless, what would happen if the moon were to disappear tomorrow? |
| 2:41.2 | Or today, or, you know, in general, just what would happen to disappear? |
| 2:45.0 | Connected to that in a very strange and unexpected way, we have Twitter at Project Winky. Don't, I don't pick people's |
| 2:54.8 | names. All right. It's just at Project Winky. How did Earth and Thea mix together after |
| 2:59.7 | colliding? So if you don't know about Thea and Earth mixing together, what's all this nonsense? |
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