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Episode 589: The Earth from Space (Entry 391.GN0115)

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Society & Culture, History

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In which centuries of inaccurate illustrations of our planet are abruptly upended by satellites and awestruck astronauts, and John never drew spaceships, just Japanese fighter planes. Certificate #35817.

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0:00.0

We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:16.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:21.3

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

0:26.1

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

0:35.0

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

0:41.0

this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the

0:46.4

omnibus. So, You have accessed entry 391.

1:15.0

G.N. 0115.

1:19.5

Certificate number 35817. The Earth from space.

1:29.0

So the one overwhelming emotion that we carried with us is a fact that we really do all exist on one small globe and when you get out 240,000 miles it really isn't a very large earth.

1:44.1

Is this like a superhero, like it's the earth from space?

1:47.0

Pigs in space.

1:50.1

Did you draw as a kid?

1:51.2

I can't remember if I ever ever.

1:52.1

Yeah, I did. I drew a lot and but I also doodled

1:56.8

So I tried to different right? Drawing goofy cartoons in the margins is a little different than I'm home and this is my masterpiece.

2:05.0

Yeah and I did I would do portraits I would make my sister sit there while I drew her and then I

2:10.7

started drawing often my sister from her school photographs.

2:15.4

I would sit and sketch them.

2:17.2

And I took art lessons.

2:18.2

I really wanted to learn all the different, and I'm still really curious whenever I see a book or like a lesson

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