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Mon. 01/24 - Why Do Americans Eat So Much Peanut Butter?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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The James Webb Space Telescope has officially reached its destination. What can we expect next? And why do Americans eat so much more peanut butter than anyone else? A bit of history on this National Peanut Butter Day. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Links: NASA’s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope reaches final orbit in space (The Verge) The James Webb Space Telescope glides to its deep-space parking spot today! (Space.com) NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has reached its destination. Now what? (Tech Radar) How World War I Turned Peanut Butter Into a Kitchen Staple (Mental Floss) Why Do Americans Love Peanut Butter? (Slate) Golden Snitchwiches Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge (BBC) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the khaki ride home for monday January 24th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The James Webb Space Telescope has officially reached its destination. What can we expect next? And why do Americans eat so much more peanut butter than anyone else? A bit of history on this

0:57.6

National Peanut Butter Day. Just before recording, the James Webb Space Telescope officially

1:07.5

reached its destination in Lagrange Point to roughly a million miles from Earth.

1:14.2

It's been a month since the telescope launched into space on Christmas Day,

1:18.6

and it's spent that time performing a number of nail-biting maneuvers to unfold from its

1:24.7

origamied position in its rocket, and then continue to be remotely checked

1:29.4

and make its way to its resting place. But just what is that place? What exactly is a Lagrange

1:36.3

point? Here's The Verge, quote, JWST is now orbiting around an invisible point in space

1:43.0

known as an Earth-Sun, Lagrange point. It's a

1:46.6

somewhat mystical area of space, where the gravity and centripetal forces of the Sun and the Earth

1:52.5

are just right, allowing objects to remain in a relatively stable position. The Sun and the Earth

1:59.4

share five of these Lagrange points peppered around our planet.

2:03.1

There's one directly in between the Earth and the Sun and one on the opposite side of our star from us.

2:09.4

JWST is orbiting around one Lagrangian point located on the far side of the Earth further from the sun,

2:16.6

called L2. In this position as Earth moves around

2:20.1

the star, JWST will follow the planet almost in lockstep, like a constant companion, always in the

2:26.3

same location in relation to our planet. No matter where Earth is on its course around the sun,

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