Throwing Stuff into Space

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

News, Science, Society & Culture, Culture, Comedy, Internet, Pop, Games, Gadgets

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Burning tons of jet fuel to propel objects out of Earth's atmosphere and into orbit is an expensive, environmentally damage prospect. One company in California is deleoping an alternative. SpinLaunch just completed their 10th test launch, literally throwing satellites thousands of kilometers up into the air. Jeff and Anthony dig into the engineering challenges - and pure audacity - of such an endeavor... and they come away very impressed.

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0:00.0	I've spent 10,000 hours winning T-shirts and sushi restaurants and here's what I've learned.
0:21.1	The Anthony Carboni story.
0:22.5	This is We Have Concerns.
0:23.5	Hi Jeff Canada.
0:24.5	I Anthony Carboni.
0:26.5	Hello Concerned citizens.
0:29.9	Anthony Space.
0:30.9	We talk about it a lot.
0:33.2	Yeah.
0:34.2	We are enamored of it.
0:35.7	We know that it wants us dead.
0:37.2	And yes.
0:38.2	And we definitely want us dead.
0:39.4	And yes, I still want to kiss it.
0:42.6	Yeah.
0:43.6	I know it's the assassin sent to kill me.
0:45.1	I know it's probably, I know it's probably here to end my life.
0:48.1	And yet, the old war.
0:49.7	It's tantalizing.
0:50.7	It's always there.
0:51.7	Always beckoning.
0:52.7	I want to tango sexily with space.
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