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Exploring Space Part Two
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Gazing at the stars feels like peering into eternity—but did you know we're actually seeing ancient light from celestial bodies that might no longer exist? In this cosmic continuation of our space exploration, Hannah and I voyage beyond Earth to unravel the mysteries of our solar system and beyond.
Picture our sun—not yellow as commonly depicted, but brilliant white—containing enough mass to fit 1.3 million Earths inside it. We journey through each planet's unique characteristics, from Mercury's extreme temperature swings to Venus's lead-melting heat, and Jupiter's peculiar orbit. Along the way, we reimagine the planets as quirky relatives at a cosmic family wedding: Saturn as the cool brother with fashionable rings, Uranus as the tipsy uncle rolling on his side, and poor Pluto as the uninvited child who showed up anyway.
The scale of existence expands dramatically as we venture beyond our solar system into the Milky Way—home to hundreds of billions of stars—and contemplate our galaxy's eventual collision with Andromeda. To grasp the incomprehensible vastness, consider this: if our sun were merely the size of a white blood cell, our entire Milky Way galaxy would stretch across the United States. This perspective triggers an existential moment as we ponder our microscopic place in a universe spanning 93 billion light-years.
Our conversation crescendos with the tantalizing possibilities of extraterrestrial life. While we've found no concrete evidence yet, upcoming missions to Mars, Europa, and Titan might finally answer humanity's most profound question: are we alone? Join us for this mind-expanding journey that transforms complex astrophysics into accessible, often humorous, father-daughter banter that will forever change how you view the night sky.
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Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades or you could choose one by contacting us via email, instagram, facebook or TikTok links in bio.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to part two of Space.
Speaker 1:It's been a week since we last spoke about Space. It has been a long week, still wearing the same shirt, same hair. Still wearing the same t-shirt Same hair. Still got the same hair, yeah Same hair yeah For me specifically, I just noticed you're wearing your. I didn't notice it last week. You've got your Las Vegas, las Vegas, las Vegas t-shirt on. Yeah, did you get that in Las Vegas? I did, I did Vegas baby.
Speaker 2:I actually got it in the airport because my flight got cancelled and then I needed to burn some money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because you flew the same airline that I flew in Florida, which is the Ryan yeah, North Atlantic.
Speaker 2:It's the Ryanair of American travel from the UK. Sorry, North Atlantic, but you failed me and failed them.
Speaker 1:So it's all on you. They failed us big time.
Speaker 2:I mean, at least you got to go home on your actual flight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it's four hours after the. We were in the airport for 12 hours.
Speaker 2:I was in the airport 24 hours.
Speaker 1:Okay, you win, you win and.
Speaker 2:I ended up getting a Virgin flight back. I could have ended up in space.
Speaker 1:Richard Branson, I was watching you on the old flight tracker as you were coming back. It's cute, isn't it? That's actually really cool it is, isn't it?
Speaker 2:It's so good. I'm glad I introduced you to it.
Speaker 1:It's fun to watch. That was really good.
Speaker 2:I liked watching Mitchell. I watched Mitchell take off when he went to Brazil.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I watched him land, because I think it was really early morning for us but yeah, yeah, it was good fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like, oh, they've landed. I saw you as I was coming up to Gatwick in my car. You did.
Speaker 1:That was very cool, I've never seen that before.
Speaker 2:So North Atlantic, I was like it's got to be there, isn't it? I know they're in the landing yeah that was us, I mean. I wasn't late to the airport to pick up my parents. To be fair, actually I was on time. I got stuck at bloody Mildenhall and then sorry, we were going to talk about space but I'm annoyed now that's fine.
Speaker 2:And then I used the sat-nav to take me to Gatwick. I knew they were coming in at South Terminal, I knew that's where I had to pick them up. And I saw the signs and it was saying South Terminal this way. But the sat-nav were telling me to go left to south terminal. I carried on straight. It took me underneath the car park and was like, oh, you're here. Whilst I was in the middle of a motorway I was like, well, no, I'm not here, am I? So basically, if, if, uh, if, I think it's apple maps, that's not jeff bozos, is it? It's who's apple? Um?
Speaker 1:uh, steve jobs, but he's dead now, oh yeah yeah, well it's not his fault then, is it? No, no, can't blame him. You know what you'd have to show that um picture. You have to flash that picture up on the screen of you at the airport.
Speaker 2:But I took a view I haven't even seen that picture. You've not seen that picture. No, was it funny?
Speaker 1:it was because a woman got in my way when you were because you were there holding a sign that had our last name on it, like you were, like our taxi driver.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But the funny thing was you were the only one standing there, so it was like it wasn't, like there was a sea of people where we had to look for you. So you were the only one standing there with this sign, and it just looked hilarious.
Speaker 2:I thought that I was the queen of comedy. I'm not going to lie, I thought of it. I thought of it. Well, mitchell mentioned queen of comedy. I'm not gonna lie, I thought of it, I thought of it. Well, mitchell mentioned it actually and I'd already thought of it but I hadn't mentioned it out loud because I thought, oh, mitchell's gonna think I'm a right twat if I do this. And then he mentioned it to me. It was like you're gonna take like a little sign with their name on it. And I was like, yeah, I was thinking about it actually. And he was like, yeah, you should, you should. And then I told joe about I'll do it.
Speaker 1:Then that was funny. I was expecting a little drawing of a whale.
Speaker 2:I almost did, but it was a rush because I had to pee and then find you.
Speaker 1:Oh, actually talking about whales. Do you know what your mum got yesterday? No, I haven't seen it. She got some D&D dice.
Speaker 2:With a whale in it.
Speaker 1:With whales in them. Like my rubber duck ones, your rubber duck ones your rubber duck ones, but with little whales in them.
Speaker 2:I can't wait to see them. Yeah, they're awesome. I bet they're cute they are really cute.
Speaker 1:I want them. Well, yeah, apparently they're your mums. Sucks to be you yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Well, you've got all your funky dice. I know and your amazing dice tower, that your amazing daughter.
Speaker 1:I know my owlbear dice tower, which is just. It's cute, isn't it? Shall we talk about space.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about space.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about space. So last time we kind of focused on space exploration and going to the moon and the space race and a little bit of history of where we were Space, space, space.
Speaker 1:So, I thought we'd talk this time to kind of keep it separate, but on the same kind of wavelength is to talk about the solar system, the galaxies and the universe Woohoo, solar system, the galaxies and the universe, and the future of what is being planned in space, but also a little bit of a discussion at the end as well about is there life out there?
Speaker 2:cool. Can I ask you a question before we start, please? Do it is space related okay how do you remember? Yeah, all of the planets in order I don't oh I can't ever remember them in order. Really. So you don't know the acronym.
Speaker 1:I don't know the acronym. No.
Speaker 2:So there is a really famous acronym to remember it, but I can't remember it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I have my own.
Speaker 1:Okay, do you want to know what it is? Go on, it's clean, I promise Okay, because I have got them written down here.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I won't look at them.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So my very eager memory jerks and A shows us nature's plan. Because I include Pluto, because when I made this acronym for myself, pluto was a planet. But I can do it in order if you like. Okay, go on then my Mercury very Venus.
Speaker 1:Yes, Earth. Yes.
Speaker 2:Mars.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:My very eager memory jerks Jupiter.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Saturn.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Shows us Uranus.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Neptune.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then Pluto, yeah. Do you know what About the, where the Earth, where all the different planets are? I always thought Jupiter was further out.
Speaker 2:As in.
Speaker 1:As in was one of the furthest away planets. No but no, it's, it's. It's after Mars.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's quite close.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Really, you know grand scheme of space.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Comparatively Comparatively close. It'll take you a couple of days to walk there, but you know it's comparative within the vastness of space.
Speaker 2:Now, do you know what the hottest planet of our solar system is?
Speaker 1:Is it Mercury?
Speaker 2:It is not, even though it's the closest to the sun. It is not. Is it Mercury? It is not, even though it's the closest to the sun. It is not, it's actually Venus, because of the gases Really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that will probably be on here.
Speaker 2:Sorry, actually, would it be on here.
Speaker 1:Sorry, have I ruined one of your fun facts First line the hottest planet in the solar system. Was I right yeah yeah, yeah, you were, yay, yeah, venus Venus oh so, uh, so let's, yeah, let's.
Speaker 2:Let's talk a little bit about the solar system. Should I just stop spouting about?
Speaker 1:things that I know about space, because then, no, not at all okay. So so, if we look at the center of the solar system, what's at the center of the solar system?
Speaker 2:the sun. We originally thought it was the earth yes are you about to say that?
Speaker 1:no, no, no no, but the sun accounts for 99.86 of the solar system's mass and is so massive that 1.3 million Earths could fit inside it.
Speaker 2:Massive bruv.
Speaker 1:This is how big the sun is.
Speaker 2:It's a big boy.
Speaker 1:It is. It's a big old jalopy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It is and she's a scorcher. Yeah, yeah, it is and she's a scorcher. Yeah, it takes about eight minutes and 20 seconds for light to travel from the sun to earth.
Speaker 2:That's crazy. So, there would be eight minutes of fading light before we knew we were dead.
Speaker 1:It would take us eight minutes to know. I think we'll probably know before that. But yeah, for that light to Presumably. But this is why I was saying in the previous episode that we can see the big bang yeah, yeah, because we are we can see the. It's the the amount of time that light travels. Right, that's how far away it is. So when you look up in the sky at night, those stars that you're seeing, you're not seeing them as they are, you're seeing the light from those stars.
Speaker 2:They could already be dead.
Speaker 1:They could already be dead.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just how long that takes for the light.
Speaker 2:I wonder if the North Star will ever fade.
Speaker 1:It will do. Everything's got a beginning and an end, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:I mean in our lifetime. I wonder if we'd notice. Nah, nah, nah.
Speaker 1:Nah, nah, nah, but did you know? The sun is actually white, not?
Speaker 2:yellow. It's not yellow Like it's drawn in every child's photo, ever it's not yellow.
Speaker 1:The sun is actually white. It is the way that the Earth's atmosphere scatters light that makes it appear yellow.
Speaker 2:I see.
Speaker 1:So all the astronauts up in space, I assume would see it as being white. There's a yappy dog outside.
Speaker 2:There is a yappy dog. Is it coming up on the?
Speaker 1:Nah Okay, sorry, peeps, if you can hear a yappy dog.
Speaker 2:It is my neighbour's dog and it yaps like this quite often.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so when you look at the sun, but in brackets, don't do that directly, don't ever.
Speaker 2:Don't try this at home kids, home kids.
Speaker 1:That's a public service announcement. Don't ever look directly at the sun. You will burn your retinas, which will die. Yeah, which marge simpson did in um oh god, trump did it, didn't he in the um uh, when we had the solar eclipse? That time did he the footage. Yeah, of course he just looked direct.
Speaker 2:I mean he's constantly squinting, so it probably didn't hurt him that much yeah.
Speaker 1:Is that rude to say? Yeah, that's a little a little rude, isn't it? Yeah, probably.
Speaker 2:I take it back he does squint a lot.
Speaker 1:So you did actually say the acronym. Well, you mentioned the acronym and you got them all in order.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not the well-known acronym, but it's my acronym.
Speaker 1:No, it's your acronym. If it works, if it works, it works and I can knock off plan on the end, because it's just nature shows us nature, which is sweet, not nature's plan. Yeah, uh, so mercury, and it does say here despite being the closest planet to the sun, mercury isn't the hottest. It's not like we didn't already know that mercury hasn't actually got an atmosphere oh no, so it's probably been burned away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so because of that it's, it causes extreme temperature fluctuations. So it's like 427 degrees centigrade in the day, that's crispy, minus 180 centigrade at night, that's frosty. There is no way, there is no way that a human being could survive in that no absolutely not.
Speaker 2:You would be either both too crisp or frosty.
Speaker 1:Major frosty Frost. You'd be a frost. Next up is Venus. It is the hottest planet in the solar system. Well done, hannah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Not by much, though. Mercury's highest temperature 427 centigrade. 465 centigrade is Venus, so it's not far off.
Speaker 1:It's not far off. It's not that far off, but it is hot enough to melt lead and it's due to its CO2 rich atmosphere and runaway greenhouse effect. There goes everyone's knees and hips. Yes, it's not made of lead.
Speaker 2:I thought people's body parts were made of Not made of lead.
Speaker 1:Do you get lead poisoning? It'd be like titanium or ceramic. Some of them are made of ceramic.
Speaker 2:Oh, I genuinely always thought they were lead. No, I know you could get lead poisoning, but I just assumed they'd made a lead that wasn't poisonous. I haven't really thought this one out, to be honest, in my old brain spec there. Bless you, carry on.
Speaker 1:That was really stupid. Next up is us. Hello, hello, earth, earth, atmosphere, earth.
Speaker 2:The atmosphere doesn't actually protect us from meteoroids to a degree, yes, but do you know what the Earth doesn't protect us from?
Speaker 1:What's that Us? It doesn't. No, we are a virus of the planet.
Speaker 2:I really like the film WALL-E because I feel like that has such a good message. Good message, but also, I think, because I feel like that is has such a good message good message, but also, I think it's going to very cleverly predict how this world is going to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it just you know, just as the world, as world as we're just going to escape and go to space.
Speaker 2:We're already trying. Katy Perry's already trying, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know it's going to happen. I mean, even Brian Cox said that. He's even said that. He said we need to look after our own planet. Stop looking. Well, not stop looking, but still look. But stop playing around out out here and just look after our own planet yeah but did you know that? A little fun fact for you about 100 tons of space debris hit the earth daily. We're constantly being bombarded with shit from space damn it's space yeah, um, but most of it burns up.
Speaker 2:I feel like that statement, like accurately sums up my life just being constantly bombarded with shit.
Speaker 1:Carry on. Next up we have Mars, famously known as the Red Planet due to its iron-rich dust.
Speaker 2:The subject of David Bowie's song.
Speaker 1:Indeed, mars also has the largest dust storms in the solar system, sometimes lasting for months and covering the entire planet Mars is. It's dusty, mars has is dusty. Mars is just a bit dusty within kind of film and also and also within literature, has been quite a focus of attention, especially when it comes to life because, like you say, the bowie song is the life on mars great song. Okay, he mentions the norfolk broads in that song.
Speaker 2:He does.
Speaker 1:He does. The line is from See the monkeys in the million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not monkeys. Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.
Speaker 1:Wilbur Tanya is out of band, which isn't really. I don't know why he wrote that To my mother, my daughter and friends Ibiza.
Speaker 2:I wrote that because I beat the Norfolk Broads, isn't that far?
Speaker 1:no, it rhymes, doesn't it? I think it was on all of the drugs at the time as well well, yeah, weren't we all? Yeah, or in fact, you take a lot of the. It's what I said to you earlier on about Pixies, wasn't it?
Speaker 2:yeah, I said, you can thank hard drugs for a lot of the you know what actually can we, sorry, segue small slight. I saw a colourised version of the Beatles learning Let it Be and basically Paul McCartney being like nah, it should be like this, because they couldn't work out where the F was going in the song and they ended up dropping the F entirely and he was like why don't mean that?
Speaker 2:and uh, like that. I was looking at them in that way, but I was thinking. I was looking at John Lennon particularly and I was thinking all right, gringo, you're gonna play them on the drums, but they were like known as, like you know, very sexy icons. Not, not for me. No, no, not for me no this, this episode about space. And there's me going. The Beatles were not attractive people. I think Paul McCartney was the most attractive out of the lot, do you?
Speaker 1:know one of my favourite quotes from the Beatles was when I can't remember what John was asked. John Lennon was asked a question about Ringo and saying about Ringo being a world-class drummer, and John Lennon's response was R saying about Ringo being a world-class drummer and John Lennon's response was Ringo's not even the best drummer in the Beatles.
Speaker 2:I mean, they were very down-to-earth. Like yeah, very down-to-earth. Who was the best drummer in the Beatles?
Speaker 1:Well, no, it was a joke, because Ringo is the drummer, isn't he?
Speaker 2:Well, I know he's the drummer, no-transcript play on stage and he's like well full fighters I've got it. Well, he's got to find all of the thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rip taylor hawkins indeed, full fighters, full fighters, full fighters. Fact one of the famous quotes from John. Another quote from John Lennon is he said I'm an artist. If you give me a tuber, I'll get you something out of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good accent.
Speaker 1:Are they Liverpudlian? They were Liverpudlian. Yeah, they were yeah.
Speaker 2:Liverpool.
Speaker 1:Liverpool, clinton, stanley. Who are they exactly exactly?
Speaker 2:canacholk it's very canacholk, isn't it?
Speaker 1:I've never really thought about that. You know, I said about accents yeah that's what you say, certain things to get into the accent. Yeah, that's one for Liverpool canacholk, canacholk.
Speaker 2:I have to for Irish. It's easy. It's like top of the morning to you, the Irish accent. It was really easy after that, but you've just got to get into that first initial bit, that's quite southern it's a soft Dublin?
Speaker 1:oh, it's not a soft Dublin, oh you've got the Northern Irish accent, which is what's your name, what's your freaking name? The Belfast accent it's quite, it's louder it's quite aggressive the kind of, yeah, aggressive and quite kind of what's your name? What's your name, me, me.
Speaker 2:So me, me, what's your name?
Speaker 1:then you got the dairy accent, of course, which is a yes, I love dairy girls uh, what's her? She's also in bridgerton yeah, yeah nick nicola oh yeah, I can't remember awesome, and the other girl in it.
Speaker 2:I didn't realize also how old she was because she plays like a 14 year old girl, but she's like 34. Yeah, she sounds identical to Adele, like that, that London accent.
Speaker 1:I can't remember her name. I love Adele when we think about Adele because, again, when I sing, I don't sing with a Norfolk accent no a lot of people think I sound American. I remember, I think I've said this on a podcast before jack is jack. When we were, when we were recording one of my others, the latest single jack was like dave, stop it. You're singing in the american accent again, and I had to kind of bring it back to that kind of british accent yeah, yeah, back to space just segue.
Speaker 2:That was the, the biggest tangent we've ever been on. Yeah, exactly, and it was all because of me and the beatles. Let's go back to j shall we?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we just spoke about Mars. So Jupiter is so massive that it doesn't actually technically orbit the sun. Oh, In the traditional sense Didn't know that the sun and Jupiter orbit a common centre of mass located above the sun's surface, so it doesn't actually in the same way as what the others does. It has a really weird kind of thing.
Speaker 2:Oh, is it saying that the sun and Jupiter kind of orbit one?
Speaker 1:No, no, they orbit the same way, but it's just the angle that it orbits. It's a different angle Different angle. But not to do with the gravitational pull of the sun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I know that Pluto has like an elliptical.
Speaker 1:I love Pluto. Pluto gets bad press, I feel like Pluto has like a.
Speaker 2:it doesn't have a circular one, it has like a oval one.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Because I know there's a sketch where it's like meow, meow, meow rather than I don't know, I just thought that Postman Pat video, remember that one when the Yorkshire lads have overdubbed it. Oh, pat video, remember that one where the where they've the yorkshire lads have overdubbed it.
Speaker 2:Oh no, the really rude postman pat stuff. Maybe this is ringing a bell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, is there a quote from it? Yeah, there's what I'll do, a quote, but I will have to bleep it on the uh and it starts off with the uh, the van going around damn it, I'm gonna have to quack that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we don't have um. By the way, when I, when I edit these, the the visual, uh podcast side of things, there's no beep in my soundbar system. So I use a quack because I don't, I haven't got anything. So it's like and sometimes it's really like because we talk quite softly, I think yeah and then this quack just comes in. It's like really overpoweringly, like ow, like wah.
Speaker 1:We were saying earlier because obviously because for the, because the audio podcast is done through these mics and through the Rodecaster Pro here, but the visual podcast and the YouTube video is done on these lapel mics. So you so what I edit and what Hannah edits are two different things. But of course, because the lapel mics are not plumbed into here, that doesn't come through yeah on the mic, on the sound pads.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna have to record these for hannah and she's gonna have to put those in. That's why I don't press these buttons very often yeah, yeah, that they're, they're just.
Speaker 2:I think they're a nice little nest egg for our audio listeners. They are they get something that the visual people don't, because the visuals get to see our faces and you know what's, what's cooler than that exactly? So yeah, yeah, anyway, back to so, back to jupiter.
Speaker 1:But another little fun fact for you is that jupiter's great red spots. You know the famous red spot in jupiter.
Speaker 2:I knew this.
Speaker 1:It's just a storm. It's a storm and it's larger than Earth, and it has raged for over 350 years.
Speaker 2:That's mad.
Speaker 1:So at some point that storm will stop, so that spot will go, it will be popped. It's quite sad. The zit will be popped on Jupiter.
Speaker 2:It's like a cyst.
Speaker 1:Then we come on to Saturn. Now Saturn is and its rings. I love Saturn purely because of its rings.
Speaker 2:It's not the only planet in our solar system that has rings. I know, it's just the most famous one it is.
Speaker 1:It just looks cool. Saturn is just like Saturn looks cool.
Speaker 2:Saturn looks like the planet. Yeah, the planet you want.
Speaker 1:It's like the popular kid. Yeah, you got like. You got like he's a little bit cool, he's got, he's got a ring.
Speaker 2:You got like jupiter who's like. He got earrings for everyone else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like the hard nut of the solar system. Yeah, and you got saturn, who's just like cool yeah, he's got.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mystical, but also I feel like saturn would be a nice guy. Yes, a cool, nice guy yeah, uh, saturn is uh.
Speaker 1:his rings are made of ice and rock, and some particles are small grains of sand and others as large as mountains, and a day on Saturn lasts only 10 hours and 33 minutes, making it the planet with the second shortest day in the solar system.
Speaker 2:Oh, you wouldn't want to work on that planet, would you?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Every 10 hours.
Speaker 1:Yep. Next up, we have the worst name for a planet. Bless its heart is Uranus. It it has. Uranus has a bit of an odd tilt to it.
Speaker 2:I fell in love with Uranus and because it makes no sense at all and Uranus is like the drunk planet the drunk planet, the drunk planet, do you think it's like old cousin Bill.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He's always he's like he's either drinking in the corner of the family party, he's always smoking a doobie and he's like stoned out of his mind.
Speaker 1:That's Uranus. So Uranus is actually rolls around on its side, not on its back. Exactly, yeah, exactly, he's pissed.
Speaker 2:Uranus. Uranus is pissed um. He's like the older brother that you um. That that yeah he's, he's like he's like the older family member that like, yeah, he's just, he's on his own path.
Speaker 1:The black sheep he just sat in the corner with his bottle of whiskey, you know, just rolling around, um. So you know, we have that. Well, not a phenomenon, but where we have uh phenomenon so our poles. We experience so much light, or so many days of sunlight and then so many days of darkness at certain times of the year and the seasons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we also have a tilted axis, so we are mildly drunk. Maybe Uranus has something to do with that we're tipsy. Yeah, we're tipsy.
Speaker 1:Uranus is off its tits, so it experiences 42 years of sunlight followed by 42 years of darkness at each of the poles.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm only 28, so I have not experienced a full revolution of their day, or night Exactly.
Speaker 1:I've experienced one day and a few hours Come off it.
Speaker 2:Who's?
Speaker 1:50 this year, I know yeah. In a couple of months and you're gonna give me some money for my next tattoo, aren't you?
Speaker 2:oh yeah, oh yeah, I don't have to actually get you a gift you don't actually give me a gift. No, no I feel like you two just buy what you want, so you're hard to gift yeah, I'll get you something to open, but oh, thank you daughter.
Speaker 1:So next up. So did you actually know as well? A little fun fact, for uranus was the first planet discovered with a telescope in 1781 by William Herschel.
Speaker 2:Uranus was the first one discovered, yet it's one of the furthest away. Yeah, well, obviously they're just looking around and they're like oh, let's ignore that big red blob, do you think how? The planets are formed. Well, yeah, we're not aligned, are we I?
Speaker 1:suppose we were recently, though All the planets were aligned weren't they, were they Very Hercules, yeah, all the planets were aligned. Next up we have Neptune.
Speaker 2:You run the underworld.
Speaker 1:It's the windiest planet, with winds exceeding 1,300 miles per hour faster than the speed of sound on Earth.
Speaker 2:So this is like Uncle Kev, who's like, yeah, farting in the corner exactly at the yeah why? All right, I'm picturing a wedding. You got. You got uranus. You got uranus in the corner that's stoned out of his mind with a whiskey in his hand lolling. Yeah, you've got us. You know, having a good time. We're a little bit tipsy, we're a little bit tipsy, we've got, we've got, excuse me we've got venus. Who's like the most beautiful bride?
Speaker 2:yes you could possibly imagine yeah, venus is uh. Which one of the gods is? Is it greek? Uh, no, no roman yeah, roman is venus I believe yeah because, uh, it would be aphrodite, would be the greek equivalent. Um, yeah, and you got mercury, who's like I'm a little bit hot, hot damn. So that, damn.
Speaker 1:So that's the groom in my opinion, mercury's the groom, yeah. Earth is kind of like the maid of honour, or best man, maid of honour, best man, yeah and then Jupiter's, like your jolly old dad yeah you know, coming in Saturn's obviously cool.
Speaker 2:So that's your, that's your cool younger brother. Yeah, where am I? Neptune, is your, is your, yeah, yeah, yeah, uncle.
Speaker 1:Your windy uncle, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Uncle Kev.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Windy Uncle Kev.
Speaker 1:And then, of course, we have Pluto.
Speaker 2:See, Pluto's the child that you kind of didn't want at the wedding but came anyway. Pluto's me, but I came anyway.
Speaker 1:Pluto's me. Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 and it's got a heart-shaped glacier made of nitrogen ice. A little fun fact is that Jupiter is equivalent to 6.4 Earth days. One day on Jupiter Equivalent to 6.4.
Speaker 2:Earth days, sorry, one day on Pluto. You mean you're saying Jupiter Pluto, sorry, yeah, pluto. So a day on Pluto is equivalent to 6.4 Earth days. Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:And it has a moon by the name of Charon, and that moon is so large that some scientists consider them a double dwarf planet system. So it's got a moon that's almost as big as Pluto itself.
Speaker 2:Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1:The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which is one of Jupiter's moons.
Speaker 2:It's been the subject of lots of sci-fi fiction things, indeed Ganymede, which is one of Jupiter's moons. It's been the subject of lots of sci-fi fiction things. Indeed Ganymede has.
Speaker 1:Saturn's, so it's even bigger than Mercury Ganymede.
Speaker 2:Ganymede's a big old size that's so weird to put into perspective, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yep, ganymede's a big old size. Then you've got Saturn's moon Titan, which has rivers, lakes and seas, not of water, though, but of liquid methane methane oh, like cow farts, yeah, like cow farts liquid cow farts liquid cow farts and Neptune's moons, triton, orbits backwards. Oh, and they think that is because they think it was a captured object from the Kuiper belt that means nothing to me.
Speaker 1:So it's almost like this object was going around in the belt and it's got sucked in by neptune's gravity. Gravity, gravitational pull. But would have come in that way while everything else? Kind of goes that way and it's so it's going around the wrong way on the motorway and everything. Hello, this is going past all the other moons. Oh, I quite like that one. Yeah, uh, trident, so've got. So then we're looking at further away now.
Speaker 2:Galaxies.
Speaker 1:Galaxies. We've got the Milky Way, which is where we are. It's not just a chocolate. The red car and the blue car had a race.
Speaker 2:I was going to say a very good galaxy chocolate is Milky Way.
Speaker 1:Yes, the red car and the blue car had a race and all Red wants to do is stuff his face. He eats everything he sees from trucks to prickly trees, but smart old blue, he took the milky way. Yeah, it is a. That's a beautiful harmony. It has a barred spiral galaxy containing 200 to 400 billion stars Magic stars and spans 100,000 light years across. So okay, so when you think about our Milky Way, just our Milky Way.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh yeah 200 to 400 billion stars, so same as our sun. Yeah, you're telling me that there isn't life on one of those planets, around one of those stars, just in the Milky Way.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We'll come on to that.
Speaker 2:Statistically improbable that there isn't life.
Speaker 1:Statistically improbable. Our solar system orbits the Milky Way's centre, so we're in the centre of the Milky Way, we yeah, at a speed of 514,000 miles. Per hour.
Speaker 2:How do they know?
Speaker 1:that, and we complete one orbit every 225 million years, and that's what's called a galactic year.
Speaker 2:Right, I'm just wondering, just trying to put that all into perspective. And how did they know that? Because right so speed time distance.
Speaker 1:Right, they've got a copper on the outside and he's got a speed gun.
Speaker 2:Yeah to get the speed of something, it's distance divided by time, so they would need to know the time which is relative to the earth. So that doesn't really make a lot of sense actually in ground scheme space.
Speaker 1:But here we are.
Speaker 2:So they, they know what the time is on earth. Yep, how the hell do they know the distance?
Speaker 1:well the measured, but measure the light. They'll be, there'll be certain aspects. They'll take points of reference, won't they, and then work it out from there that's incredible.
Speaker 2:That is incredible. I mean, basic math probably doesn't cover this, but in its simplest form. I'm like how?
Speaker 1:This is like theoretical physics, and yeah. So the nearest galaxy to us is the Andromeda galaxy. It is on a collision course with the Milky Way. We are going to hit it at some point, I don't know when, probably not our lifetime. Yeah, it will create a new galaxy, which has been referred to already as the milkameda good luck future children. Good luck future children. Little fun fact we can already see the andromeda galaxy with our naked eye you can see it, I want to sit with my naked eye you can see.
Speaker 1:You just look up certain point, you can see it. I don't know where the point is, but there you are. Um, there are other galaxies, some shaped shaped like rings, like the Cartwheel Galaxy, and some have irregular forms due to collisions or gravitational interactions. And there's a thing called Starburst Galaxies, which is also another good suite. Starburst it used to be called Opal Fruits years ago. Did you know that? It's a little Gen X question for you.
Speaker 2:Oh, is that the evolution of? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Opal Fruits gen x. Is that the oh, is that the? The evolution of, yeah, opal fruits are now it's called starburst.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think. Can you still get starbursts? Yes, can you. Yes, yeah, he's called and chew, it's similar I love it similar, but thicker mint chew it's.
Speaker 1:Uh, I just love a mint. Oh no yeah like a chewy.
Speaker 2:Well, I suppose something's different as well. They were nice lovely, lovely ASMR AMS. That was not our poor, poor audio listeners right now. Well, and visual ones, because that wasn't a visual, it wasn't nice. Visually, you're not missing anything.
Speaker 1:Audio peeps starburst galaxies have intense star formation producing new stars at a thousand times the rate of the Milky Way. New stars, Just like pinging stuff. So when you think about the universe and the cosmos and everything, it's just, it, just I know I've said it on this podcast, like in this episode. It just blows my mind completely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is when I, this is when I start the mental torment of what is my purpose. Yeah, it's insane, isn't it? What am I doing here? Yeah, it's absolutely insane.
Speaker 1:So then, we're moving out to the wider universe.
Speaker 2:Let's go wide.
Speaker 1:It's our observable universe, the whole universe that we can see with technology, and again, the first thing we can see is the Big Bang is 93 billion light years across.
Speaker 2:I can't even put that into perspective.
Speaker 1:So even though the universe is only 13.8 billion years old only, so the whole universe is only 13.8 billion years old. It doesn't seem that old really. I mean, I guess in the grand scheme no.
Speaker 2:But we have nothing to compare that to. We don't have another means of comparing that to older. We don't know if we're a young or old galaxy in that sense, I guess.
Speaker 1:No, we don't.
Speaker 2:Or maybe we do, but only theoretical, presumably.
Speaker 1:So I remember when I was at school we talked about atoms and protons and neutrons and you know when, because you know even your hands, even yourself, your body. There's so much space between the atoms and the things that are flying around it that theoretically there should be nothing there because of the difference in, but it's the way that all reacts but makes it a solid. So to put that kind of into perspective, when you think about that, looking at that as the, as the Milky Way and also the universe, if you take the sun right and you, you imagine the sun as being the size of a white blood cell. The size of the Milky Way is the size of the United States of America. Shit yeah.
Speaker 2:Shit, yeah, shit, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:That's the size comparison, to kind of put it into perspective.
Speaker 2:That is mad, that is crazy.
Speaker 1:The size of a white blood cell, to the Milky Way. So even the Milky Way, just the Milky Way.
Speaker 2:So there is nothing. I guess, if you were to expand that further and just say okay, let's say Earth compared, I guess that would be yeah, a white blood cell to.
Speaker 1:Earth itself maybe Would be a section of the universe, and probably only a section of the universe.
Speaker 2:Shite yeah, because we just don't know.
Speaker 1:So if you put that into perspective, it would almost be like you know the sun would be the size of a white blood cell, then the Milky Way would almost be the size of a white blood cell, then the milky way would almost be the size of the united states of america. Then, you could argue, the andromeda galaxy would then be the size of south america the entirety of south america. Yeah, it's crazy just put just to kind of that's just insane.
Speaker 1:That is just insane uh, then of course you've got mad. Yeah, there's dark matter, and dark holes. Yeah, and that makes up about 27 of the there's dark matter and dark energy, black holes yeah, and that makes up about 27% of the Earth's content. Yeah, and those invisible forces. They shape galaxies and drive the universe's accelerating expansion. Because the universe is constantly expanding, it's constantly expanding. You do at one point, you think, okay, so it's going to expand at some point. Is it going to start contracting again? Is it because of the big bang?
Speaker 1:because it's like we're still the aftermath of the explosion, yeah, is it at some point going to start gravitational pull, pulling it all self back in again, and is it then going to implode on itself?
Speaker 2:yeah, we're talking billions upon billions of years yeah, it happened so slowly, or do we just happen so fast?
Speaker 1:yeah, uh. So the big bang happened 13.8 billion years ago and the cosmic microwave background radiation is the leftover energy from this event. And that is what we can see when we say we can see the Big Bang. Scientists found it in 1965. It's completely by accident. Whilst trying to get rid of some static, they found it by accident.
Speaker 2:It's better to be lucky than to be good exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:And then we've, of course, we've got uh, black holes black holes scared the shit out of me.
Speaker 2:Where do they go?
Speaker 1:there's a brilliant film in a disney film called the black hole. Oh, and it was amazing.
Speaker 2:I thought you were talking about holes like Shia LaBeouf and the no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:Um black holes are I can fix that, I can fix that Um the reasons of space time, where gravity is so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape.
Speaker 2:Dude.
Speaker 1:Do you know how far away the nearest black hole to us is black?
Speaker 2:hole to us is, I hope, a long way, 1600 light years away.
Speaker 1:I'm happy with that knowledge safe in the knowledge that we're not going to be sucked into a hole. We still don't. I saw this interview with brian cox the other day. It's like we don't know enough about black holes, so so we don't. We know that nothing can escape, so not even light can escape the black hole. Okay, so stuff goes in.
Speaker 1:That's why we then can't see it, because nothing goes in, come out so is it that there are lots of theories within physics at the moment whether or not the black hole, if, when it goes into the black hole, that thing ceases to exist, or if it's still there, we can't see it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, does it come out the other side?
Speaker 1:Because if nothing can escape, time can't even escape, so time gets pulled in. So if something was to then come out black hole, would it come out millions of years into the future, but time would stay relative within. Could it be going to come out at the end of the universe? So you think it would go in but then come back out at the end of time. Yeah, but time has stayed the same for that object. Again, just trying to get your head around all of that is completely mind-blowing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's intense, it's intense, it's intense.
Speaker 2:Yes, so I feel like I'm having an existential crisis. I know, sorry, I'm going like, uh, shall we kind of finish off with a little bit to do with the future of space exploration let's go to the future and also very, very quickly about whether or not there could be life out there again, I think it would be naive of us to think that we're the only life forms in the universe incredibly naive, incredibly naive.
Speaker 1:So I did a, I did a little bit of a google and naturally, yeah, so we don't have, as of this time of this podcast, so things could change tomorrow. We have no confirmed direct evidence of extraterrestrial life, but what we do have is theories. So we've got the theories that life does thrive in extreme places on Earth, such as deep sea vents, acidic lakes and even inside rocks, which suggests that some form of life, just because we're an oxygen-based life form, doesn't mean that some form of life cannot survive in other harsh environments. Which means, who knows, there could be life on some of the other planets in our own solar system, but just not as we perceive I mean, our windy neptune might just be so windy that it blew all of their life away.
Speaker 2:It could be yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 1:We have also found organic compounds on things in space, such as amino acids. We found them in interstellar clouds, meteorites and comets, comets, comets, comets. We have discovered methane has been detected in Mars' atmosphere, which could be produced by living organisms.
Speaker 2:And in the lakes of Jupiter or Saturn's moon.
Speaker 1:Exactly, Cow farts, NASA's Curiosity rover. I feel sorry. That's just bumbling around Mars. Still, isn't it Just driving around Mars? Oh, he's having a whale of a time, I'm sure he's fine, he's like Wall-E, wall-e, lonely, but he's a robot. Rover has found ancient organic molecules in Martian rocks, which suggests there has been life on there at some point. And you've already mentioned there's some of the others Saturn, it's got icy cross it's methane, so possibly possibly uh moons like europa have uh a subsurface ocean as well again, so could support life fishies exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:So yeah, we have got a few missions we've got a few missions.
Speaker 2:We've got a few missions coming up Set your calendars and your alarms, let's go.
Speaker 1:There was a mission called Europa Clipper, which launched in October last year, which is going to Jupiter's moon, Europa, to have a look at that ocean.
Speaker 2:To see if it can have a look to see if it's the sports life down there. I like to think aboard that flight is a whole crew and then just one fisherman.
Speaker 1:Well, have you ever seen the film Event Horizon? No, okay, very, very scary Actually, as far as scary films go, that is, yeah, it's about space travel and it is a brilliant film, and the ending of that is just what insane.
Speaker 1:So, of course, Mars. We're looking to bring samples back to Earth to investigate those further, to see if we can see signs of life. In 2028, NASA is going to be launching Dragonfly, which is a drone that will fly around Titan's surface, the moon of Saturn, to study its chemistry, to see if it does possibly support life.
Speaker 2:This is the quest to find life now.
Speaker 1:This is kind of yeah, Another Saturn's moon is going to be investigated in the 2030s. They've got planned.
Speaker 2:Do you think they're investigating these so that if we do need to vacate the Earth, we can?
Speaker 1:No, I think it's just purely just for fun. Yolo, yeah, YOLO. So they think that the biggest hopes we have at the moment are Mars, Europa and Titan all places where there is a kind of liquid water.
Speaker 2:That's what. Water being the water of life, that's what they're kind of focusing on. Makes sense, makes sense, wow. So we haven water of life.
Speaker 1:That's what they're kind of focusing on Makes sense. Makes sense, wow, so that's so. We haven't confirmed life. Yeah, haven't confirmed life. So space is, yeah, it's. I think I think, actually thinking about it, let's end on something quite funny. Okay, and when I say funny, but Because everyone's just having that essential crisis, just like I am probably why I've gone quiet. I'm like, oh my god, yeah, I think you know there's. There is one aspect of space that I think, yeah, just talk about the idea of weapons in space space force.
Speaker 1:You know that trump and his star wars kind of thing no, you haven't heard of that.
Speaker 2:No, no, is he putting defensesences?
Speaker 1:in space yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, should we be investing in defence? That's so sci-fi, isn't?
Speaker 1:it Exactly. To be fair, I think we kind of should to a degree, but not against each other, but against like asteroids and shit.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, asteroids and shit, yes, Not each other.
Speaker 1:No, no, not each other.
Speaker 2:So he's planning to put weapons in space to hurt other countries.
Speaker 1:So he wants a branch of the military.
Speaker 2:Space Force. It just seems like a strange thing to pour money into.
Speaker 1:Like proper Star Wars shit. Yeah, proper Star Wars shit, do you?
Speaker 2:think he, I don't know. It's hard to say anything about being political.
Speaker 1:I know, I know. Maybe we shouldn't finish on that one.
Speaker 2:I mean, you tell people to drink bleach.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah, maybe we shouldn't finish on that do you know what space has brought us?
Speaker 2:let's finish on this yeah, do you know what space has brought us? Some very good movies. It has. It has it's been a, it's been a muse for a lot of creators.
Speaker 1:George lucas probably, yeah authors is it george luc, george Lucas? George Lucas created Star Wars, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, Marvel.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know there's comics, literature. All back to our first episode, first part of this episode.
Speaker 1:Jules Verne.
Speaker 2:With Jules Verne. You know like it's. If anything, it brings creativity.
Speaker 1:It does. Yeah, it does indeed it is mystical. Yes, it does indeed it is mystical.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:It is, I mean, when you actually think about, even like in ancient times. I mean, you studied ancient civilizations, specifically Greek and Roman yeah. All the gods and that are based on, you know, the stars, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think people were already looking up a lot sooner than we appreciated, yeah, the stories that they come up with and the ways in order to explain things. You know, at one point, once upon a time, you know, we naively thought that everything revolved around us, because we're.
Speaker 2:Earth and we're human and that's kind of how we think about things. And then discovering that, and you've got Galileo with his telescopes and stuff, like you know, pioneers of that, of that era. Like it's bought so much, I guess, rich knowledge to the world. Yeah, space and it's, it's just beyond our reach, you know. I wonder what the first person thought.
Speaker 1:I wonder what's out there our stars just pinholes in the curtain of night yeah, you know, like, yeah, someone was like shit.
Speaker 2:We need to, we need to go up there and investigate. Yeah, mad yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is a completely fascinating subject the idea of space. And I say, the one person who gets me really excited about space is Brian Cox.
Speaker 2:Yeah, neil deGrasse Tyson.
Speaker 1:I just like the way he speaks yeah.
Speaker 2:He just makes everything sound calm. He's a calming man, he is ASMR. Calm, yeah, he's a calming man, he is ASMR calm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there is. I think there's there's a. Brian Cox was on an episode of the Last Leg and he got asked a question about you know what, when he got asked about you know how do you know the Big Bang is real and he does get really angry and he sits there and goes because you can see it very cool, yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2:And he sits there and goes because you can see it Very cool, yeah, brilliant. Anyway, if you enjoyed this episode of Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter, we have plenty of others, not just on space, but we do have some sci-fi related ones. We talk about film, music, anything, technology, everything. We sometimes have a few games every now and then.
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