The Travelers: How Moon Trees Hide Among Us

Terrestrials

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Seeds that took a trip to the moon.

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0:07.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
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0:11.6	From W-N-Y-C.
0:14.6	See?
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0:20.3	Three, two, one. Imagine that you're teeny teeny tiny and you have this hard shell but inside that
0:32.0	hard shell is everything you need to start growing to 200 feet tall.
0:38.3	And you are all set to be an earthling
0:41.3	until somebody launches you, hurls you,
0:44.3	toward the moon.
0:47.3	And you travel 250,000 miles
0:51.3	the farthest that any living thing has ever been. You see the far side of the moon
0:58.1	where all there is as stars. And then you start falling. Back, back, back toward the earth
1:06.7	at faster speeds where nobody is sure if you'll survive.
1:18.2	But when you hit the soil, you feel the warm sun and you unfurl from your shell.
1:21.1	You have become a moon tree.
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