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Bright out time for this. Everyone says this song at one point five is wake up you sleepy? That's great time to get some people listen to some one point five. This song is fire at one point five. One person said that many many it's four. It's probably it's more than one. I wonder if it's a trend. I wonder if that affects any type of I don't know. I hey, when it comes you listen to one five speed if that changes things. I just want to do the simplest amounts of visibility.
All right, Well on your way, what's up. We're gonna try to keep Kevin interested in this segment by playing this is a bad no, don't do that because we we're talking satellites. If this goes forever, we can't podcast it, so let's just turn it down. I'm in though, on your reference, sick reference. All right, there's a bunch of satellite news. Danny has the first one. I will have the million dollar answer. How many active satellites are circling the globe right now? Get a number
locked in your head. But one of them, I guess, is up there right now, and in about four hours, this thing's going to be plummeting to Terra FIRMA. Yeah, there is a dead European Space Agency satellite and it is called European Remote Sensing to ERS two as we will refer to
it from this point forward in this coverage. The satellite was launched almost thirty years ago, and what it was doing was testing some doing data collection on climate change and things of that nature, just kind of a you know, scientific research type satellite, and it got decommissioned or retired as they call it,
in twenty eleven. So since then, things forever. But it's taken thirteen years to gradually make its way back to Earth, and they are predicting that this satellite will re enter the Earth Earth's atmosphere at ten thirty two am Our Time, Central Central Time, ten thirty two am, so a little less than four hours from now. Now, it does say there is a window of a four and a half hours give or take all. Right, so this could be happening right now. Oh, this could be happening later
this evening or earlier this evening. Are you looking outside a frantically searching a satellite tracker? Yeah, why don't they have Okay, they just don't know where, So it's lowering, lowering, and then who knows when it is? Well yeah, yeah, so the uncertainty they don't know, they can't pinpoint an exact time when it will. It will not only re enter, but land on the Earth's surface. It's primarily due to the influence of unpred
unpredictable solar activity. And what this does is it affects the density of the Earth's atmosphere. Therefore the variable drag that the satellite experiences. There's no way to account for a window smaller than four and a half hours either way. So you've got about a nine hour window between pretty much now and what maybe four or five o'clock this afternoon, where this thing or pieces of this thing will hit. Now, what will happen, though, is about fifty miles
above the Earth's surface. The vast majority of the satellite is going to burn up upon re entry into the atmosphere. Some fragments, though, could make it to Earth, but they will likely fall into the ocean. They're saying that some a human being getting hit by a piece of this satellite is one in a billion. Those are the odds of a human being getting hit by
a piece of this satellite, because that's keep us calm today. Maybe ah, Yes, in all likelihood, the whole thing's just going to burn up when it comes into fifty miles north, fifty miles away from the Earth's surface. But they are saying that there is a chance that some fragments will in fact make it to the surface of the Earth. The largest fragment that could land on us would weigh around be about the size of Megan Fox one. Megan Fox one, Megan Fox about one hundred and fifteen pounds A way to
go. Ouch, what are you doing? Boyfriend's got weird tats? I sit jj this link on the TV there for you guys, we have a trackw so this is a launch print pad tracker here for that's cool. Yeah, but Kevin, you're getting this information from another satellite. Oh damn. And this is the kind of crap you don't think about. And that's why you're lucky I'm here. There's so many soles. Okay, hold on, if it goes on that blue line, yeah, it could be coming right
for us right now. Yeah, re entry countdowns at three hours and eight minutes. But again that's just an estimate, right plus minus. Yeah, Like, it's almost through the part where you're like, oh, it's gonna land in the Pacific Ocean. It's almost through that part, and it's coming for the United States. The commonal US is in its in its flight path or it's whatever you want to call that. It's it's a target zone which goes through Canada up into what I believe is Greenland, and then boy,
it just bisects Africa. Yeah, it all comes straight through Europe and Europe and Africa and then down south to uh Antarctica. They have a poll question on the on the chat on the side, where do you think it will crash a the ocean B north or south? America see Europe, Africa, d Asian or the Yeah. Asia, I'll say North America just for on picking the ocean that's the is the largest area. It covers the largest amount of area on the planet. So yes, i'd say that it'll land in
the drink. A couple of little quick fun facts. I did say that talked about a little bit about what this satellite does. It takes pictures. Oh no, no, no, it collects. I'm sorry, I was on the wrong page. So sixteen year life was. It was retired in twenty eleven, and the r S two collected information on climate change and the Earth's atmosphere, and along with its older sister RS one, it used in an imaging, synthetic aperture radar whatever. It just looks at weather and and
climate change and stuff like that. All right, well, stay vigilant listener. Hopefully a Manuel's not on that plane now. When the same disintegrates when it gets close to the Earth's surface about fifty miles out, it's just going to add to orbital space junk, which there is a ton of about a half a million marble sized objects are currently in orbit. There are more than one hundred million objects one millimeter or smaller, and another twenty five objects.
Twenty five thousand objects are bigger than ten centimeters. Now, that may not seem like a lot, but they can cause a pretty significant amount of damage on other spacecraft. The reason being is the average impact speed of one of these pieces of space junk is usually twenty two thousand miles per hour. There's a Santa Arcle today saying thirty thousand objects bigger than a softball. Damn, thirty thousand objects are just hurtling a few hundred miles above Earth ten times faster
than a bullet. So tiny objects can just shred metal on a spacecraft. You know fast that is. We can't even comprehend the times fastable space. It's amazing and see it, so you don't think about it. You're just there. I'm guilty of this too, But I think everyone is a little
bit. It's like we think we know it all sometimes. You know, I know, I know, I know, you say everything that you know, you know everything right when it comes like feelings that I have about things, that's certain, like give a little hunch towards things right about that, But like like in general, like how often times how many times a day. Do we say I know we know nothing? No, we don't nothing. That's the funny thing about human beings. We know absolutely nothing to to
certainty, No, we don't. But we think we know a lot. We believe, we believe things, but we know nothing. All right, John Snow, how many satellites active satellite as of January of this year? One of my favorite websites, it's a satellite tracking website or amster orbiting. Now, how many active satellites are in various Earth's orbits right now? My guest that I wrote down off the tip is nineteen point five million, Danny,
nineteen point five million satellites like things that we've put into orbit. Yeah, nineteen million, Yeah, nineteen million, you're kidding. I sent up a PlayStation one see if Pluto was real or not? How about ten thousand? Let me do some quick quick math. Is closer? He's closest to
the pen eight three hundred and seventy seven activities. That's a horse crab, really, I mean, we would have to have we need more satellites up there, like every launch would have to have two hundred and fifty thousand satellites on it. Every day since we started launching satellites in what the late fifties? What was Sputnik was? What was that nineteen fifty nine or sixty or whatever. So in sixty years, sixty plus years, we would have to be launching how many a day, Mikey? How many did you say?
Twenty two million? Yeah? Oh my god, I just got an email from NASA saying that they've chosen someone else for the job. Just refreshed right now. Yeah, damn it. So there's another satellite story that was just gonna be a tour guide. Yes, yeah, you can't even get your TMS job back. Damn Moving to Houston. It's got a light about this number of satellites up there. He's going to live in that hotel he stayed at for the ALCLS, next to the dog. So we didn't intend this.
By at eight o'clock, we are doing a story on Navalney and his murder in a Russian prison alleged, which is just fascinating, great documentary when we're talking about that. So we didn't mean today to be Russia. But there is a story I read about a Russian weapon that uh is designed to disable thousands of satellites at once, that like the US government has talked about
today or yesterday, like as it's essentially a nuclear space weapon. It is not made to hurt humans, you know, directly, but it is designed to go up in space and blow and annihilate, like I said, thousands of satellites at a time, which would be brutal for obviously you know, US and world military and government concerns, but I mean everything cell phones, Internet, everything, Netflix. Yeah, it could impact your streamings. And this is like a big thing now. They're like, god, you know,
it's funny. Among the things I read, they said, among other things, this would be a violation of the nineteen sixty seven Outer Space Treaty. What I'm like, keep talking sixty seven dang and the uh. The one quote about the nineteen sixty seven Outer Space Treatise is the one inviolable law and conscious and consensus agreed to an international space law. The one thing we agreed to do not place nuclear weapons in orbit on the Moon or on celestial
bodies. Like in nineteen sixty seven. They're like, all right, we can do this. We can get up there, we can get up there. Let's do a lot, man, we can help a lot of people. No, nukes on the moon. But they did this in sixty seven. That was two years away from US landing on the Moon. Yeah. Yeah, because I mean it's just the wild west of that, and so we should make some agreements here. Let's go no nuke, don't blow up the moon. God, we agree. Is this thing? Has this been
launched? No, it's apparently not launched, but I guess they have the capability. You know, how this goes, You always get the whispers of
the weapon is under development, not yet in orbit. That's when they had that like urgent press conference last week, and it was very vague though, because they they kind of mentioned it, but they were like, it's not a threat now, not a threat now, but it will be right, they say this this weapon would cross a dangerous rubicon in the history of nuclear weapons and could cause extreme disruptions to everyday life in ways that are difficult to
predict. Generally known by military space experts as a nuclear emp electrobemagnetic pulse, and would create a pulsive energy and a flood of highly charged particles that would tear through the space to disrupt all these satellites winging around Earth, eight thousand plus of them, not nineteen million man. We talk, you know, over the years, a big concern when it comes to a different type of warfarees, you know, shutting down the electrical grids and compromising our water supplies
and things like that. But you really want to send the world into a tizzy yep, knock out all the satellites and see how far that gets you, right, And that's what we don't. You don't think about that, how reliant you are on it, and reliant air conditioning, so I rely on of course what for heating and air conditioning. Okay, but yeah, you don't think about it. But that's smart. And you know Russia was like, we're sick of them looking at everything from space. So it's just
a plant of boot. Knock out some American spy satellites and imagine, okay, so what I say, eighty six eighty six hundred satellites, whatever it
is, how many of you know about or don't know about it? I mean, that's a tracking site that tracks the literal things rotating, so they know about how many are up there, but what they're used for and what percentage of those are for surveillance, surveillance, you know, it's just it just goes to whether you know what they could just this thing could just be a piece of metal that does nothing. But if they say that's what it
is, we do not take them seriously. They're not going to allow any type of independent you know, investigators or researchers to go in there and kind of do inventory of this stuff and file a report. Yeah that's real. They've got plutonium on these satellites. They are gonna be. They could just say it, and just by saying it, because of who they are,
it just instills more fear. Yeah, you know that if we mess with Russia, Okay, we got the nuclear satellite, you want us to knock out HBO max and and all of your internets for you know, we can target certain satellites that provide these services to certain countries. And it's probably rooted in because of the Ukrainian conflict that Starlink provides all the Internet to Ukraine, and Russia's like, I'm sick of this Starlink Internet, So speed round this
thing and get it up there. And I guess they can try to blow clusters of satellites and not just any satellite or all satellites. I mean, they're obviously not gonna do that, but they're gonna ruin their own satellites as well. I'm excited for you to watch Oppenheimer mic Diamic because it's very I mean, it's kind of reminds me of that I remind you of doctor Oppenheimer. I know, the story reminds me of well, yeah, you have the IQ ah yeah, okay, I know you understand. I can't see
that. Do you feel me on that? At Old Danny because they're kind of like talking about, well, you're because he's some of his students were, you know, not from America. So they're like, well, you taught some of your students how to do this, you are at fault. And he's like, well they were. I wasn't thinking about it like that, Like we were all on the same team making this. I think that
this stuff. You know, look, when you were doing the president presidential uh that was it, the presidential explosion, Yeah, last couple of days, and you were reading some of the campaign barbs that were being tossed at one another back at the turn of the last century and prior to that.
I mean, some of the stuff that they were saying about each other on the campaign trail was more scathing than anything you could imagine from Trump, who says anything he wants, And it just makes me kind of put it if you take a step back and put it all into perspective. I think every
generation just goes through this stuff. You know, we dealt with, you know, the Cold War and the nuclear crisis, and the fear of US stocking up armaments from you know, the United States, Russia, other countries getting their more more unstable countries getting their hands on stuff North Korea, and we just kind of live in this cyclical fear that the world is going to
end. And I think our best chance is that we all hope that we are just not the generation or in our lifetimes are the ones that see the world said it, Yeah, it also figured Kevo delivery. It was like, f men, well it's okay that it ain't going to affect me. Definitely, all all on board with planet's safe there for sure, But I said, it's not going to affect me. So people think like when they're like when people talk about big changes to uh, protecting the environment and the
planet. But going with what I was saying, it's also, well, we're all going to die anyway. We're at the near of you know, we're at the brink of yeah, total global destruction at the hands of you know, superpowers. Why do I need to care about some you know, seal or an ice cap? And how much do you did you care until you had Malcolm? You know, because you're like Josh is thirty. Now he can handle it. I care a little. I don't have kids, and I care. I care too. I just wonder if there's people out
there who kind of don't at all. A lot there's a lot that don't even they also, how do you stop some of these things? They don't die everywhere, They don't think about it enough to make a decision whether to care or not. Always lovel of business or like to our carbon footprint, we're offsetting this many. I'm like, Okay, you don't have to put it that way. You're still spending a lot of money damaging the planet too. This is not a planet crusader money either. It's just what you're saying.
God, they got real deep this segment, didn't it? Not that deep? We're talking about the unknown future. We were talking about satellites. Yeah, on one's coming to Earth and one is possibly leaving to space. The other satellites. We are inside of three hours until re entry for the e R S two uncontrolled re entry. Uh. Every person hearing this could it could land on your head, Megan Fox, could land on your head. Yeah, just straight down right on your head, full weight. Yeah
yeah, all right, bam bam. Did you see the machine gun Kelly tattoo? Oh yeah, I did that. Showed it to Mikey too. What do you do? He just went full black upper body. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Yeah, which he's offensive. It is a color that he went with. I don't understand. It's a lot that would have hurt. That tattoo would have hurt. He's just covering bad tattoos, right, because it is like it looks like he's wearing a seventies cut off shirt,
a long sleeve black cutoff shirt. Looks like he got painted. That's all just black. It's weird. I don't think he's as interesting as he thinks he is. No, he's not, but maybe he is. I don't know. Man, the machine gun, he's a cool thing. He had a cool thing happened to him on stage one time here in town. To talk about it, all right, let's move on. Good job thirty two percent of Americans have a tattoo, Are you sure? Nineteen minutes not
nineteen million satellites up there, very nineteen million under ten thousand. We shall track this satellite all morning for you. Well, we're gonna keep you very, very safe. Kevin, come up next, I'd like to update our SNL bet we have points on the board. Oh oh, and and guys, this is the weirdest way to get kicked out of the Olympics. Next on ninety seven one, the Free