4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | I just had to share this story. |
0:06.6 | A farmer in Australia, he's sitting there, he's minding his own business, and he hears this |
0:10.6 | enormous bang. |
0:11.8 | So loud, like neighbors from Miles reported hearing this too. |
0:15.3 | He goes outside, goes out to his sheep pen, he's a farmer, And there's this 10-foot mystery object sitting there. |
0:23.2 | And he has no idea what this thing is. Turns out it's actually space junk. It's from the SpaceX |
0:28.4 | Crew One craft that launched back in 2020. SpaceX, Elon Musk Company, they sent four astronauts |
0:34.4 | up to the International Space Station. And then when it's time to come back down, part of this capsule stays up in space. |
0:41.5 | Well, what goes up? |
0:42.4 | Must come down eventually, right? |
0:44.4 | And all of this stuff should have landed in the ocean. |
0:47.0 | Clearly that did not happen. |
0:48.2 | No. |
0:49.2 | Luckily in this case, no people or sheep were injured. |
0:52.2 | By the way, this spacecraft costs $62 million per launch. |
0:56.7 | For launch? |
0:57.6 | Per launch. |
0:58.2 | So you'd think, you know, maybe they can work in some cleanup funds next time. |
1:02.7 | Welcome to Tech Refresh. |
1:04.5 | The podcast guaranteed not to drop any space junk on your sheep farm. |
1:07.9 | We promise. |
1:08.5 | We promise. |
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