Speaker 1: It's time for strange science.
Speaker 2: I should never say anything about mothers and sons. You
Speaker 2: get in a lot of trouble doing that.
Speaker 1: It's like weird science, but strange.
Speaker 2: Well, private space stations sound pretty darn cool. I mean,
Speaker 2: just think of the view alone. Several companies are aiming
Speaker 2: to build facilities that would replace the International Space Station
Speaker 2: and attract a new variety of tenants and travelers anywhere
Speaker 2: from government astronauts to private research scientists and tourists.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this potentially a money maker. You got to have
Speaker 3: some sort of commercial viability for it to continue to operate.
Speaker 3: Think of what you know, Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos
Speaker 3: and SpaceX with Elon Musk. What they've been trying to do,
Speaker 3: which is find a public facing company that are sorry,
Speaker 3: private facing company that can do public things. You got
Speaker 3: to make money doing it, though, and the government is
Speaker 3: not necessarily the best way to make sure that you
Speaker 3: have continued funds coming in, although you can milk the.
Speaker 1: Government for a lot of money.
Speaker 3: So if you had a way to continue to profit
Speaker 3: off of this thing but also be useful. The different
Speaker 3: space stations are talking, sorry, different companies are working on
Speaker 3: these different space stations Axiom is a company that says
Speaker 3: that they would host as many as eight people in
Speaker 3: five different modules that orbit above the Earth. This is
Speaker 3: a company that's based out of Houston. They said they're
Speaker 3: going to start with a smaller deal that allows them
Speaker 3: to stick a module onto the current International Space Station,
Speaker 3: and then the company plans to first connect a power
Speaker 3: module to the current one, later detach that device and
Speaker 3: link it to a habitat they could build and send up.
Speaker 3: Voyager Technologies has a plan for one of these things.
Speaker 3: Vast is a company that says they want to put
Speaker 3: together a bunch of haven stations and then a large
Speaker 3: integrated flexible environment by Sierra Space. Is interesting because it's
Speaker 3: like basically a giant inflatable temporary tent is what it
Speaker 3: looks like that they would do in space, and Blue
Speaker 3: Origin has a version of it as well. Then one
Speaker 3: of the reasons they need to do that is the
Speaker 3: current International Space Station is leaking. There's a small leak
Speaker 3: they say has sprung up on the International Space Station
Speaker 3: and it's caused an upcoming mission to be delayed by
Speaker 3: NASA as they try to figure out what this is.
Speaker 3: The leak was identified earlier this month. They said, it's
Speaker 3: not significant, but you have to properly seal it in
Speaker 3: a timely manner to make sure that those astronauts that
Speaker 3: are currently on the station are safe. It's not uncommon,
Speaker 3: but they got to make sure that they figure this
Speaker 3: thing out because it doesn't so it doesn't get it
Speaker 3: doesn't get any worse. They had one before. I think
Speaker 3: it was in the Russian side. One of the other
Speaker 3: capsules on the Russian side had developed a leak that
Speaker 3: they were about six Did you know.
Speaker 2: That otters hold hands while they sleep to avoid drifting
Speaker 2: away from each other.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's called rafting. Isn't that nice?
Speaker 1: That's a good science nugget.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: Does your wife like to hold your hand?
Speaker 3: No, we are in the midst of strange science. Some
Speaker 3: of these stories that are just weird. Apparently, Lake Tahoe
Speaker 3: has a annual clarity report. It was released this week
Speaker 3: by the University of you See Davis researchers.
Speaker 4: Lake Tahoe known for its clarity.
Speaker 3: Right, they said the Tahoe Environmental Research Center there you
Speaker 3: see Davis found the lake's average clarity last year was
Speaker 3: sixty two point three feet, which is really deep. But
Speaker 3: that's six feet shallower than it was just a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago. The level of clarity was surpassed in
Speaker 3: cloudiness only in twenty twenty one. That was wildfire year,
Speaker 3: so wildfire smoke blanketed the area. In twenty seventeen, they
Speaker 3: had very heavy storms and that was marked by the
Speaker 3: runoff or was caused by the runoff. Clarity is measured
Speaker 3: using what they say is a seci disc. Researchers lower
Speaker 3: this white disk into the water to determine the depth
Speaker 3: at which it disappears. And since the nineteen sixties scientists
Speaker 3: began monitoring the lake then, they said average clarity has
Speaker 3: declined by about forty feet since the nineteen sixties. Summer
Speaker 3: clarity continues to deteriorate. They do not know exactly why,
Speaker 3: trying to figure out what those particles are that.
Speaker 1: Would affect clarity.
Speaker 3: One theory is that its microscopic plankton too small to
Speaker 3: have been tracked in some of those earlier studies. But
Speaker 3: is technology gets better, they may be able to do it,
Speaker 3: may be able to keep an eye on it.
Speaker 2: Researchers have discovered an unusual spiky creature feeding on a
Speaker 2: jelly fish like species called hydroid.
Speaker 4: In recent years.
Speaker 2: Similar specimens have been recorded in that area of the
Speaker 2: Yellow Sea, just off the east coast of China, but
Speaker 2: never identified until now. Researchers have confirmed all ten creatures
Speaker 2: belong to a new species of sea slug. This is
Speaker 2: according Have you gotten your peer review journal named zoo
Speaker 2: keys yet?
Speaker 1: No, I haven't.
Speaker 2: It just came out yesterday, so it might not get
Speaker 2: here till sat Well, with Juneteenth, you might not get
Speaker 2: it until Monday.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 2: It is called the Quingdao sea slug. It's about an
Speaker 2: inch and a half long, which researchers call large for
Speaker 2: a sea slug.
Speaker 1: Lucky.
Speaker 2: The body is translucent yellow to dark brown with numerous
Speaker 2: scattered orange to brown spots and white blotches.
Speaker 4: Sounds like it's got to get to a.
Speaker 3: Nucner wide, pale pink foot and four or five oral
Speaker 3: tentacles they call it oral.
Speaker 4: What are those sensory appendages?
Speaker 2: They use it for staging like thing tentacles like an octopus,
Speaker 2: like coming out of its mouth or around its mouth?
Speaker 4: Are they in the mouth? Where are they?
Speaker 3: Imagine the whiskers that we have. Yeah, we're actually made
Speaker 3: of skin and not. Oh interesting, And then they could
Speaker 3: push stuff into your mouth, so you didn't have to
Speaker 3: use your hands.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, like that woman that I saw at
Speaker 2: the theater, the way she was eating that popcorn. Yes,
Speaker 2: she could just use her oral tentacles.
Speaker 3: They said that this quing Dow sea slug is the
Speaker 3: first species in the pseudo Bornella genus that's been discovered
Speaker 3: in almost one hundred years.
Speaker 2: I think we could use that for space wars like creatures.
Speaker 3: The thing is that's been done in other space, which
Speaker 3: has Yeah, have you ever seen Predator?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Not one moment of the movie Predator No? Or Predator Too?
Speaker 4: No? Why would I see Predator two?
Speaker 1: About predator versus Alien?
Speaker 4: No? So what is the predator?
Speaker 1: Is it alien? Then?
Speaker 4: Why is it alien versus predator?
Speaker 1: It's a different creature.
Speaker 2: But oh so predator and Predator too or is different
Speaker 2: than Predator versus Alien. They're talking about a different type
Speaker 2: of predator. No, the predators the same all the time.
Speaker 2: And it's also an alien. Well did you ever see
Speaker 2: the movie Alien? Did you ever see the movie Aliens?
Speaker 2: I'm you ever seeing the movie Alien? So I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to drill down on what the predator is. And
Speaker 2: if you say the Predator is an alien? Then why
Speaker 2: would they call the movie editor versus Alien. Isn't that
Speaker 2: like alien versus alien, as like a name a nomen.
Speaker 1: Et versus the Gremlins?
Speaker 4: So what does the predator look like?
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna it has oral tentacles that it does
Speaker 3: like claws and fangs and everything.
Speaker 4: Oh fascinating.
Speaker 1: No, No it's not. You're just saying words now.
Speaker 2: I'm googling predator. It looks like a man. It's got legs,
Speaker 2: it's upright. What do you think aliens look like?
Speaker 4: Predator's very scary.
Speaker 2: And those are not the type of oral tentacles I'm
Speaker 2: talking about the way that I'm talking about for space Wars,
Speaker 2: they would be like octopus tentacles.
Speaker 3: I want to see how long you were going to
Speaker 3: go with that, because this is, uh fascinating. There is
Speaker 3: a a new study that was published in the journal
Speaker 3: Science about buildings that are coded in cement based paint
Speaker 3: that can wet, and the sweating paint can keep the
Speaker 3: buildings that much cooler. Keeping cool when temperatures rise is
Speaker 3: often the largest cost of a building of any size.
Speaker 1: I mean a building like this size.
Speaker 3: We've got six floors in this building, a couple hundred
Speaker 3: thousand square feet, probably tens of thousands of square feet,
Speaker 3: I'm assuming, and it costs a lot to keep this
Speaker 3: place cool, especially in the summer. In the San Fernando Valley,
Speaker 3: about twenty percent of all the electricity used in the
Speaker 3: world goes to fans and air conditioning systems. And they
Speaker 3: said that they want to have this paint that will
Speaker 3: take advantage of the passive cooling process, in which an
Speaker 3: object loses heat through the emission of infrared radiation. Paints
Speaker 3: are frequently limited to dry, sunny climates, and the coatings
Speaker 3: can't do their job if there's too much outside ambient
Speaker 3: moisture or cloud coverage. So on this they're saying that
Speaker 3: they would actually be able to have a paint that
Speaker 3: sweat and release some of that energy, poling down the building,
Speaker 3: making everything cooler and cheaper.