On Point presents: Space heist (or, how to steal a planet)
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
WBUR, the home of On Point, makes a handful of podcasts you may not have heard before, and we want to change that.
So, we’re continuing with our weekend playlist of other podcasts made at WBUR.
Today: An episode from 'Endless Thread' — about a battle between astronomers over a somewhat unassuming rock.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Megna again. Who else would it be? Honestly, popping into your feed on |
| 0:05.4 | a Sunday. We're continuing with our weekend playlist of other podcasts made here at WBUR. |
| 0:11.8 | Today Endless Thread. The show tackles unsolved mysteries, untold histories, and other wild |
| 0:18.6 | stories from the internet. And today, a genre of story that I particularly love, it's about |
| 0:24.8 | space, and a battle between astronomers over a somewhat unassuming rock. It's presented by |
| 0:32.2 | Endless Thread co-hosts Amory Seavortson and Ben Brock Johnson and producer Dean Russell. |
| 0:37.3 | Take a listen, and if you like it, follow Endless Thread with the same podcast app you use to |
| 0:42.7 | follow on point. Enjoy. |
| 0:44.7 | WBUR Podcasts Boston. |
| 0:48.7 | A couple of weeks ago, Amory and I and our friend Dean went on a field trip. To a place that, to me, |
| 1:01.4 | was pretty familiar. Good morning everyone and welcome to the Charles Hayden Planetarium for our |
| 1:09.7 | what time is it? 11 o'clock, 11 o'clock presentation of Un Discovered World. The Planetarium at Boston's |
| 1:16.2 | Museum of Science, where fun fact I used to work, running many a show on said Un Discovered Worlds. |
| 1:23.0 | We however were there to see one specific already discovered world that we heard had a story, |
| 1:30.6 | an unsolved internet connected mystery. So we made our way down the main hall of the science museum. |
| 1:38.6 | But I would usually like once a month I'd treat myself to some astronaut ice cream. |
| 1:43.4 | I just got that from my kids for Christmas. Freaked up, they freaked out. |
| 1:48.8 | Past a towering, distracting musical chain reaction type machine called a Rube Goldberg. |
| 1:57.2 | Through a locked, double door. To an even more towering 40 foot tall dome that if you look up, |
| 2:04.9 | kind of looks like Professor X's cerebro. Silver screen panels arch over a black metallic |
| 2:10.9 | projector shaped kind of like an imperial probe droid from Star Wars. So we're going to be using |
| 2:16.9 | our six projectors. You can see there's one right there. There's another one right over there |
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