The Final Frontier Part 4: The U.S. Plan to Nuke the Moon, Why People Thought the Moon was Made of Cheese and Much More

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we begin by discussing the first space walk in which the cosmonaut in question very nearly got stuck out there and his adventures thereafter. We then move on to discussing how the idea that the moon is made of green cheese got started. Next up we discuss the late 1950s plan the United States had to nuke the moon, which interesting enough involved a young Carl Sagan. Failing in that endeavor we then look at that time the U.S. accidentally nuked Britain’s first satellite… That time the U.S. dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain accidentally, and then discuss the best thing that happened to Simon in the last year, which it turns out is not (apparently) getting married a couple weeks ago, but rather something else. Also for reference, here is a picture of the Russian spacecraft mentioned in the episode and here is a link to the Tom Kirby song. 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 Frontier Part 4: The U.S. Plan to Nuke the Moon, Why People Thought the Moon was Made of Cheese and 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	Welcome to the brain food show. This is episode 4 in an epic. It even says it right there in the title, an epic space series.
0:10.0	Is that the actual title? Yeah, that is just the working because I couldn't think of a title when I was originally
0:15.4	titled. Well, I like that it's epic because this one really does go on.
0:18.6	Just before we jump into everything today, we're going to be changing up the format of the show a tiny little bit
0:22.3	for our regular listeners. We're going to be changing up the format of the show a tiny little bit for our regular
0:22.9	listeners. We're going to be doing the sort of follow-up that we do normally at the beginning.
0:27.3	We're going to be doing it after the main content just because, well, we like listening to
0:30.8	feedback and people are like, can you get on with the main like
0:33.2	especially I think new listeners rather than regular listeners were like hey guys jump into the
0:37.5	stuff and then follow up later and I was kind of like well that makes a lot of sense
0:41.6	and David was kind of like that makes a lot of sense and so that's what we're going to be
0:45.5	doing I just want to hit a few things before we do get started leave us a review we
0:49.3	are doing a contest when we get to 200 reviews on iTunes we're're going to be giving away, was it, a $200
0:54.7	Amazon gift card to someone randomly but from all of the review platforms, so leave us a review.
0:59.5	We also sometimes read them on the show, but we're not going to be doing that now because you know we're
1:02.8	gonna jump straight into the contents and also let us know how we're doing on
1:06.6	Twitter with the hashtag brain food show I was gonna say all one word but that's
1:11.4	how hashtags work so I didn't really need to say that and in the form of in keeping things brief
1:17.3	Should we crack on what are we talking about today? We're going to start by talking about the the first guy to walk in space and he's sort of like
1:25.7	the adventures of him it wasn't a good time almost disaster actually yeah
1:30.4	reading through the the prep material before we got started today, I'm like, wow, it seems like something that you do, whatever it is, I was like,
1:38.5	I didn't you test that somehow? Like, we've talked about people being put in vacuum chambers before and
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