CLASSIC: Returning To The Moon

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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The nation of China recently made international news by successfully completing an unmanned landing on the far side of Earth’s moon, marking a pivotal point in the resurgent space race. So why do some observers believe there’s more to the story?

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0:00.0	fellow conspiracy realist and space nerds alike. This is a fantastic classic episode.
0:07.6	It's about one of the most extra things human beings have ever done, which is going to the moon. Yes, there are problems on Earth, but
0:15.2	Matt, why don't we go to the moon?
0:17.2	Why do we go to the moon?
0:20.4	Why?
0:21.4	Besides the helium, and it's cool.
0:24.3	And because we do the things because they're hard, not because they're easy.
0:28.0	Not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
0:31.0	Yeah. Well, it's crazy to think we did this episode in 2019 when there
0:35.8	was major news about China one of China's moon missions that they they were
0:41.5	completing and as we're recording this in June 2024,
0:45.6	another one of China's Moon missions successfully is functioning right there on the
0:50.6	Moon right now.
0:51.8	You can read about it in the New York Times and The
0:54.9	Verge everywhere. It's the the lunar race that we've talked about before is
1:01.8	ongoing.
1:02.6	And this episode provides a bit of context.
1:07.0	One thing we can say for sure is that there is more news ahead.
1:12.0	Civilization has technically become a bunch of lunatics.
1:17.0	Hey, fam, I'm Simone Boyce.
1:20.0	I'm Danielle Robe.
1:21.0	And we're the host of The Bright Side, the podcast from Hello Sunshine
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