Ep 130: Science... sort of - Old Lander On The Moon
Science... sort of
Brachiolope
4.7 • 674 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2012
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
00:00:00 - The LRO, everyone's favorite lunar orbiter, has taken some photos of Space Race era Soviet landers which has finally answered pressing questions such as: did the lander fall over? and, why was this rock so weird?
17:24 - It's easier to drink on Earth than on the moon, especially carbonated beverages such as Ben's Canada Dry ginger ale or Jacob's Cold Nose brown ale. Ryan, however, would be sipping just fine on his Balcones Rumble, whatever the gravity.
00:23:22 - Trailer Trash Talk gets cutesy with the upcoming Disney documentary Chimpanzee.
00:36:23 - Jacob wishes we could live long enough to take advantage of ion thrusters (which he's written about before on the Paleocave blog), Ryan wants to know what this means for TIE fighters, and Ben finally understands the aerodynamics of the Star Wars universe.
00:53:47 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like ion thrusters, they take a long time to get going but are hard to stop. Ben has a tangent promoting e-mail from Peggy. Jacob helps Randy answer an elementary math question. And Ryan reads a website comment from Kevin with a bit more info on pterosaur taxonomy.
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Music for this week's show provided by:
To The Moon & Back - Savage Garden
Rumble - Nigel Goodrich (Scott Piglrim Original Score)
Take Care of Me - Jonathan Coulton
Momentum - The Hush Sound
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ryan's in no mood for games, Ben. |
| 0:02.9 | Okay, we're going to call it Rock Donkey. |
| 0:06.4 | No, we're just going to call it episode 130. |
| 0:11.0 | Disappointment abounds. |
| 0:13.8 | From science sort of.com, you're listening to Science Sort of Hello, Hello, welcome to Science Sort of episode 130. |
| 0:30.2 | The theme this week is Oldlander on the moon. |
| 0:34.2 | I'm already tired. |
| 0:35.5 | My name is Ryan. |
| 0:36.5 | I am tired because I am being joined to talk about things |
| 0:38.9 | that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science by |
| 0:42.8 | the tiring Benjamin Tippett. Good evening, everybody. And the exhausting Jacob Stump. Aloha. |
| 0:49.4 | Ben, do not act like you're all serious and somber. You have been wasting my time for a half hour, |
| 0:53.9 | and now |
| 0:54.2 | we are finally recording the show and i'm ready to talk about some science are you ready to talk |
| 0:58.0 | about some science ben hey jacob i propose that we do the rest of this podcast talking only in math |
| 1:03.9 | speak so that ryan can't understand what we're saying uh i sign what you're doing there wait |
| 1:10.5 | i'm not i'm not unbad at math I sign what you're doing there. Wait. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm not unbad at that. |
| 1:19.4 | Oh, that's, Ryan, you're such a typical oiler equation. |
| 1:20.3 | You know what I mean, Ben? |
| 1:28.0 | Oh, man, that guy, he's a four-year analysis of that guy would tell me that his remainder has a pole. |
| 1:35.8 | I mean, Lopital alone would say that Ryan is not continuous. |
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