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🗓️ 14 November 2023
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We spend a lot of time on top of our planet, but we don’t spend much time inside it. So it makes sense you might wonder what our planet is made of, deep deep down. Is it more rocks? Is it lava? Is it a gooey caramel center? And what about the other planets, like Mars and Jupiter? We asked astronomer Mark Popinchalk to help us find the answer.
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0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on this is moment of um. |
0:07.0 | Moment of um. |
0:10.0 | Moment of um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Braxton Bramble Bush, the third. |
0:18.0 | Um, Braxton Bramble Bush, the third, professional cover |
0:24.2 | judger at your service. |
0:26.9 | I'm the world's foremost expert at looking at book covers and |
0:31.0 | judging what's inside. |
0:33.0 | Cha, how did I get into this wildly unnecessary line of work? |
0:38.0 | Well, you know the old phrase, never judge a book by its cover. I heard that and I thought challenge accepted. |
0:48.1 | Now all I do is judge books by their cover. War and peace. Two very simple words on the |
0:56.4 | cover so it must be like a simple book, maybe for babies. Next. Of mice and men? I only see two men on the cover so the inside |
1:08.6 | must be where all the mice stories are. So basically it's a book about mice. |
1:13.0 | Boring. Next. |
1:15.0 | The dictionary. |
1:18.0 | Hmm. A very simple red book with no pictures on the outside must be so interesting inside they |
1:28.0 | don't need fancy art to sell it I'm adding this to my must read list. Now I've been trying to branch out into |
1:37.2 | other lines of judging two, like I judge the inside of potatoes by the quality of |
1:42.2 | their skin or the softness of pillows by their pillowcases and I wanted to |
1:48.1 | judge planets by their surfaces but the problem is I have no idea what I'm judging. Like what's even inside a planet? |
1:57.8 | Is Jupiter like filled with rocks and dust or puppies and kites? Is Mars filled with metal and water or like also |
2:08.1 | puppies and kites? Riah must be in this line of work too because they asked this. |
2:16.0 | Hi, my name is Daya, I'm from Amman Jordan. |
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