The Final Final Frontier (Part 6): The Real Color of the Sun, How Many Nuclear Bomb Powered Rockets It Would Take to Stop the Earth Orbiting the Sun and Much, Much More

The BrainFood Show

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Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by discussing the clandestine way Niel Armstrong managed to get his application to the astronaut program in despite submitting it past the deadline. We then look at why he got to be first to walk on the moon when precedent should have had it been Buzz Aldrin. Next up we look at the oft’ forgotten second thing Armstrong said when stepping out onto the moon. Moving swiftly on we do a rapid fire of a variety of space related bonus facts including, but not limited to, the real color of the Sun, how much energy it would take to cause the Earth to stop orbiting the Sun, how old the Sun is in Sun years, how many Sun rises and sunsets astronauts aboard the International Space Station see every day, etc. And for those curious on Simon and my treatise on the proper order of watching Star Trek series and other such thoughts, the mentioned forum post is here. On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post The Final Final Frontier (Part 6): The Real Color of the Sun, How Many Nuclear Bomb Powered Rockets It Would Take to Stop the Earth Orbiting the Sun and Much, Much More appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello welcome to you another episode of the brain food show this one is
0:06.8	tell me we're on part six of our final frontier or epic space it one of these is the
0:12.0	working title one of them is not. It goes live as the
0:14.2	Final Frontier. But no, for some reason, David is taken to naming every document an Epic
0:21.0	Space Series, while the actual name of this series is the final frontier
0:25.2	so that's been helpful and easy on me thanks because I can never spell
0:30.3	frontier right I get it wrong every single time.
0:33.0	Is this the final part?
0:35.0	This is the final part.
0:36.0	It doesn't have to be, but I decided we should move on because we're probably losing
0:40.0	everyone who has no interest in space.
0:42.0	Yeah, it is.
0:43.0	I feel like this is the space podcast.
0:45.1	I mean, how many episodes do we have overall?
0:47.0	Like 20?
0:48.0	This is like a third of our episodes now.
0:50.5	Is it even 20?
0:51.4	I have so many more we could we could do for this space series, but I'm cutting myself off.
0:57.0	I think I want to put a six month veto on on space. I like space, but I'm aware that not everyone likes space. So do we know what's coming up next week by the way?
1:08.8	Vague ideas but no I haven't settled on exactly. I have different options, I'm not sure.
1:13.7	Okay, okay.
1:14.5	No worries.
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