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True Weird Stuff

Moon Struck

True Weird Stuff

Now! Media

Science, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today's True Weird Stuff - Moon Struck

Ever look up at the night sky and wonder, what is the moon? Has the moon always been there? That humble, dusty little satellite that hangs in our night sky and has inspired everything from love songs to werewolves to snack cakes, but until fairly recently, we had no real idea what the moon really is, or why it’s even here.

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0:00.0

Hey, stick around at the end of this episode for some bonus content.

0:03.8

We're going to take you behind the scenes and talk about the moon.

0:10.6

Ever look up at the night sky and wonder?

0:15.0

What is the moon? Has the moon always been there?

0:19.0

If not, how to get there?

0:21.4

Some say the moon is just a big old dead rock.

0:25.2

Others say it's not a rock at all.

0:27.6

It's an artificial object placed in Earth orbit by extraterrestrials.

0:33.6

Why?

0:34.9

Alien base,illance outpost?

0:38.6

Would it shock you to hear that even science is uncertain about the moon? What?

0:46.1

That's one small step for man.

0:50.8

One giant leap for man.

0:58.0

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror True, weird, weird, style. True weird stuff.

1:18.2

The Looja people of Kenya tell a story of two brothers.

1:23.4

One is the sun.

1:25.3

The other is the moon.

1:27.2

In this story, the moon is the older of the two and brighter,

1:30.9

so much brighter. The younger brother, the sun, resented his lesser status. He grew jealous of

1:38.8

his brother Moon and taunted him, leading to a terrible fight between them. As they wrestled and grappled, the pair fell into the mud,

1:47.6

and the moon's spectacular brightness was dimmed.

1:51.5

Eventually, even God got tired of their endless conflict and rivalry

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