For NASA, the moon just got farther away
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🗓️ 7 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
NASA is pushing back its highly anticipated Artemis 2 mission from September 2025 to April 2026. It will be the first crewed mission to the moon since 1972. We’ll unpack NASA’s setbacks. Plus, momentum is building for a TikTok ban. And the hosts share their thoughts on the word of the year in a round of Half Full / Half Empty!
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “NASA delays Artemis 2 moon mission to 2026, Artemis 3 astronaut landing to mid-2027” from Space
- “Trump Defends His Imperiled Pick for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth” from The New York Times
- “Appeals court upholds nationwide TikTok ban-or-sale law” from The Washington Post
- “TikTok advertisers stay put after US appeals court upholds law forcing sale” from Reuters
- “Bitcoin mining surge strains energy grids as miners make a fortune” from Marketplace
- “OpenAI is charging $200 a month for an exclusive version of its o1 ‘reasoning’ model” from The Verge
- “50% off! Cyber Monday deal today only! (Kidding!)” from Marketplace
- “Dolly Parton launches search for actors to play her in a new Broadway musical” from USA Today
- “‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford University Press word of the year” from AP News
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Kai. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Kai. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Kajal. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome back to make me smart. |
| 0:09.8 | Where we make today make sense. |
| 0:10.8 | It is Friday, the 6th of December. |
| 0:13.7 | And I am Kimberly. |
| 0:15.1 | Adams. |
| 0:15.8 | Thank you everyone for joining us, especially Kai, with your sore throat. |
| 0:19.2 | This is economics. |
| 0:20.7 | No, I feel fine. I just sound terrible. What happens is it just settles right in my mind. joining us, especially Kai with your sore throat. This is economics. |
| 0:22.4 | No, I feel fine. |
| 0:23.1 | I just sound terrible. |
| 0:25.6 | What happens is it just settles right in my vocal cords. |
| 0:28.0 | And I'm like, all right, fine, never mind that that's how I make my living. |
| 0:29.3 | Exactly, right. |
| 0:31.9 | Anyway, this is economics on tap. |
| 0:36.7 | Our weekly happy hour episode, folks may notice I am in a different location than usual. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm swapping with Kai. I'm in Kai's studio today in Los Angeles. It's so funny. It's so funny. I looked at her on the Zoom. I'm like, |
| 0:42.8 | where are you? I'm literally three feet from where you do your show every day. I should have stayed. |
| 0:49.6 | That's too funny. Too funny. Anyway, some news. We'll do a quick break to pay the bills and then a round of |
| 0:56.0 | half full, half empty. First, though, let's talk drinks. You're at work or my work, and I don't know |
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