We Weren't Prepared To Answer These Extremely Personal Questions
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🗓️ 10 August 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, the virtue Rebecca has just walked in studio. So we will get to your ask us anything |
| 0:06.2 | questions in just one second. I had to run this one by you guys though. Did you see the |
| 0:11.0 | story of this French physicist last week? French physicist. French physicist, which is |
| 0:17.5 | really not easy to say with veneers. I was getting right to say I was impressed with |
| 0:22.1 | your pronunciation. So I'm not really smart enough to understand space and astronomy and |
| 0:26.9 | stuff like that. But I am really fascinated by it. But I can't really put it all together. |
| 0:31.7 | I do know this James Webb Space Telescope thing that everybody was so excited about a couple |
| 0:37.7 | of weeks ago where this thing is so strong, it can see like thousands of years. I don't |
| 0:42.7 | know in the future or the past or whatever. We got galaxies that we never even knew existed |
| 0:47.6 | and I'm all reading about it all excited about it, not understanding anything that I'm |
| 0:51.1 | really reading. Well, this French physicist, who that is hard. Like tweets, a picture |
| 0:59.0 | out with some really impressive stuff like a picture of Proxima Santori, the nearest |
| 1:06.7 | star to the sun, located 4.2 light years away from us. And he's talking about the amazing |
| 1:13.8 | level of detail. New world is unveiled every day with this new telescope. And he also |
| 1:21.4 | puts a picture up of what was discovered by this brand new telescope, right? Well, it |
| 1:28.5 | got shared like thousands of times and people were just as excited as he was. And then yesterday |
| 1:35.8 | or a couple of days ago, he comes clean. And he says that picture of that planet that |
| 1:42.2 | I said was thousands of light years away or something was really just a picture of a slice |
| 1:48.6 | of chorizo. Wow. That was it. It was a close up picture of like some Italian sausage or |
| 1:56.5 | something like that. And it looked like, you know, with the red hue around it, it really |
| 2:03.0 | looked like a star. And he's like, no, man, that was just a piece of sausage. |
| 2:07.4 | He did that because he's a scientist and scientists have a weird sense of humor. So he |
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