Ep. #63 - What If We Can't Leave? (Space Junk, The Kessler Effect)

The What If? Podcast

Spencer Wirth-Davis & Ryan Kopperud

Society & Culture

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We're talking about space junk and the Kessler Effect, which suggests that space debris might create more space debris through a series of collisions. Don Kessler, for whom the Kessler effect is named, suggested that there might eventually be enough space debris to prevent us from launching new objects into orbit.

We also wonder if Keanue Reeves might be the greatest action hero of our generation, we introduce some new sounders, and Spencer tells a story about The Power Team.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the What If Podcast with your host, Spencer with David and Ryan Copperood.
0:06.5	God damn right.
0:09.2	Hell yes.
0:11.2	I'm going to run that shit into the ground today.
0:14.3	Harry Carey is joining us in the booth today as played by Will Ferrell.
0:20.4	What's up, man?
0:21.4	You know, hanging out, talking about space stuff.
0:25.1	Space stuff.
0:26.0	How are you doing today?
0:26.7	Making cool sounds from the internet.
0:30.7	Got a few new ones today.
0:32.1	What you guys don't know is a total amount of time we spend
0:36.4	on creating and selecting sounders for the show.
0:41.2	It's usually more time than is spent like getting actual, yeah, actual show.
0:46.9	Did we ever, didn't somebody, didn't somebody do it?
0:48.6	If you're not prepared to do the research, Brian, why make the statement in the first place?
0:54.6	Also, I'm going to just call you Brian for this whole episode because it's going to make a couple of these more fun.
0:58.7	I want to fucking hate it so much.
1:01.5	Didn't somebody do a post in the Facebook group about favorite soundboard sounders from past episodes?
1:10.9	We've talked about this before.
1:11.9	I know, but did we ever see which one was the official winner?
1:15.2	Was there an actual winner over the vote?
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