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Wed. 12/20 - Space Laser Communication, Latest Doritos Product, 103-Year-Old Artificial Tree Sold

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode –NASA looks to speed up communication in space, Doritos does it again – you’ll never guess what they’ve added nacho cheese flavoring to now, and one of the oldest artificial trees goes for a surprising amount at auction. All that, plus this day in history - we stick with our Christmas theme. Space Lasers (AP News) (Forbes) Doritos Product (Sky News) 103-Year-Old Artificial Tree (UPI) (Sky News) Connect with us by email using the address coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Want to give a special someone a gift they'll truly love this Valentine's Day?

0:04.8

Treat them to something that never goes out of style.

0:07.7

A beautiful bouquet of 12 red roses.

0:11.1

They're classic for a reason.

0:12.9

And all for just 15 pounds at Waitrose.

0:16.3

Selected lines and stores.

0:17.6

Subject to availability ends 14th of February.

0:20.5

Welcome again to another edition

0:22.2

of cool stuff ride home marcus path with reggie rezoo coming up on today's episode nassah looks to speed

0:28.3

up communication in space doritos does it again you'll never guess what they've added

0:33.3

nach cheese flavoring to now and one of the oldest artificial trees goes for a surprising amount

0:39.8

at auction. All that, plus this day in history, we stick with our Christmas theme. Coming up

0:44.8

on cool stuff, ride home. In an attempt to speed up communication in space, NASA has sent the

0:50.9

first video by laser, and it featured a tabby cat named Taters.

0:55.0

The high definition video is 15 seconds long and shows Taters chasing a red laser on a couch.

1:01.0

The video was beamed to Caltech's Palomar Observatory from NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is 19 million miles away.

1:10.0

It took the video 101 seconds to be sent to Earth at a maximum rate of 267 megabits per second.

1:16.6

They loaded the video onto Psyche's laser communication before it blasted off in October on its way to a rare metal asteroid named Psyche 16.

1:24.6

The video test was faster than most broadband internet connections on Earth.

1:29.4

The test was done to try and speed up communication between Earth and astronauts when they travel

1:34.1

on faraway missions. According to JPL or NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the laser system is

1:40.3

designed to transmit data from deep space at rates of 10 to 100 times greater than the

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