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<v Speaker 1>It's time for strange science.

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<v Speaker 2>I should never say anything about mothers and sons. You

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<v Speaker 2>get in a lot of trouble doing that.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like weird science, but strange.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, private space stations sound pretty darn cool. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>just think of the view alone. Several companies are aiming

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<v Speaker 2>to build facilities that would replace the International Space Station

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<v Speaker 2>and attract a new variety of tenants and travelers anywhere

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<v Speaker 2>from government astronauts to private research scientists and tourists.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, this potentially a money maker. You got to have

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<v Speaker 3>some sort of commercial viability for it to continue to operate.

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<v Speaker 3>Think of what you know, Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos

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<v Speaker 3>and SpaceX with Elon Musk. What they've been trying to do,

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<v Speaker 3>which is find a public facing company that are sorry,

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<v Speaker 3>private facing company that can do public things. You got

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<v Speaker 3>to make money doing it, though, and the government is

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<v Speaker 3>not necessarily the best way to make sure that you

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<v Speaker 3>have continued funds coming in, although you can milk the.

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<v Speaker 1>Government for a lot of money.

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<v Speaker 3>So if you had a way to continue to profit

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<v Speaker 3>off of this thing but also be useful. The different

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<v Speaker 3>space stations are talking, sorry, different companies are working on

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<v Speaker 3>these different space stations Axiom is a company that says

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<v Speaker 3>that they would host as many as eight people in

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<v Speaker 3>five different modules that orbit above the Earth. This is

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<v Speaker 3>a company that's based out of Houston. They said they're

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<v Speaker 3>going to start with a smaller deal that allows them

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<v Speaker 3>to stick a module onto the current International Space Station,

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<v Speaker 3>and then the company plans to first connect a power

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<v Speaker 3>module to the current one, later detach that device and

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<v Speaker 3>link it to a habitat they could build and send up.

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<v Speaker 3>Voyager Technologies has a plan for one of these things.

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<v Speaker 3>Vast is a company that says they want to put

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<v Speaker 3>together a bunch of haven stations and then a large

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<v Speaker 3>integrated flexible environment by Sierra Space. Is interesting because it's

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<v Speaker 3>like basically a giant inflatable temporary tent is what it

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<v Speaker 3>looks like that they would do in space, and Blue

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<v Speaker 3>Origin has a version of it as well. Then one

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<v Speaker 3>of the reasons they need to do that is the

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<v Speaker 3>current International Space Station is leaking. There's a small leak

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<v Speaker 3>they say has sprung up on the International Space Station

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<v Speaker 3>and it's caused an upcoming mission to be delayed by

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<v Speaker 3>NASA as they try to figure out what this is.

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<v Speaker 3>The leak was identified earlier this month. They said, it's

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<v Speaker 3>not significant, but you have to properly seal it in

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<v Speaker 3>a timely manner to make sure that those astronauts that

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<v Speaker 3>are currently on the station are safe. It's not uncommon,

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<v Speaker 3>but they got to make sure that they figure this

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<v Speaker 3>thing out because it doesn't so it doesn't get it

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<v Speaker 3>doesn't get any worse. They had one before. I think

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<v Speaker 3>it was in the Russian side. One of the other

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<v Speaker 3>capsules on the Russian side had developed a leak that

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<v Speaker 3>they were about six Did you know.

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<v Speaker 2>That otters hold hands while they sleep to avoid drifting

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<v Speaker 2>away from each other.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, it's called rafting. Isn't that nice?

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<v Speaker 1>That's a good science nugget.

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<v Speaker 3>I know.

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<v Speaker 4>Does your wife like to hold your hand?

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<v Speaker 3>No, we are in the midst of strange science. Some

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<v Speaker 3>of these stories that are just weird. Apparently, Lake Tahoe

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<v Speaker 3>has a annual clarity report. It was released this week

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<v Speaker 3>by the University of you See Davis researchers.

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<v Speaker 4>Lake Tahoe known for its clarity.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, they said the Tahoe Environmental Research Center there you

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<v Speaker 3>see Davis found the lake's average clarity last year was

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<v Speaker 3>sixty two point three feet, which is really deep. But

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<v Speaker 3>that's six feet shallower than it was just a couple

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<v Speaker 3>of years ago. The level of clarity was surpassed in

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<v Speaker 3>cloudiness only in twenty twenty one. That was wildfire year,

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<v Speaker 3>so wildfire smoke blanketed the area. In twenty seventeen, they

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<v Speaker 3>had very heavy storms and that was marked by the

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<v Speaker 3>runoff or was caused by the runoff. Clarity is measured

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<v Speaker 3>using what they say is a seci disc. Researchers lower

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<v Speaker 3>this white disk into the water to determine the depth

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<v Speaker 3>at which it disappears. And since the nineteen sixties scientists

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<v Speaker 3>began monitoring the lake then, they said average clarity has

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<v Speaker 3>declined by about forty feet since the nineteen sixties. Summer

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<v Speaker 3>clarity continues to deteriorate. They do not know exactly why,

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<v Speaker 3>trying to figure out what those particles are that.

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<v Speaker 1>Would affect clarity.

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<v Speaker 3>One theory is that its microscopic plankton too small to

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<v Speaker 3>have been tracked in some of those earlier studies. But

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<v Speaker 3>is technology gets better, they may be able to do it,

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<v Speaker 3>may be able to keep an eye on it.

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<v Speaker 2>Researchers have discovered an unusual spiky creature feeding on a

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<v Speaker 2>jelly fish like species called hydroid.

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<v Speaker 4>In recent years.

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<v Speaker 2>Similar specimens have been recorded in that area of the

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<v Speaker 2>Yellow Sea, just off the east coast of China, but

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<v Speaker 2>never identified until now. Researchers have confirmed all ten creatures

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<v Speaker 2>belong to a new species of sea slug. This is

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<v Speaker 2>according Have you gotten your peer review journal named zoo

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<v Speaker 2>keys yet?

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<v Speaker 1>No, I haven't.

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<v Speaker 2>It just came out yesterday, so it might not get

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<v Speaker 2>here till sat Well, with Juneteenth, you might not get

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<v Speaker 2>it until Monday.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a good point.

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<v Speaker 2>It is called the Quingdao sea slug. It's about an

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<v Speaker 2>inch and a half long, which researchers call large for

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<v Speaker 2>a sea slug.

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<v Speaker 1>Lucky.

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<v Speaker 2>The body is translucent yellow to dark brown with numerous

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<v Speaker 2>scattered orange to brown spots and white blotches.

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<v Speaker 4>Sounds like it's got to get to a.

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<v Speaker 3>Nucner wide, pale pink foot and four or five oral

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<v Speaker 3>tentacles they call it oral.

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<v Speaker 4>What are those sensory appendages?

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<v Speaker 2>They use it for staging like thing tentacles like an octopus,

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<v Speaker 2>like coming out of its mouth or around its mouth?

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<v Speaker 4>Are they in the mouth? Where are they?

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<v Speaker 3>Imagine the whiskers that we have. Yeah, we're actually made

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<v Speaker 3>of skin and not. Oh interesting, And then they could

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<v Speaker 3>push stuff into your mouth, so you didn't have to

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<v Speaker 3>use your hands.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh, like that woman that I saw at

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<v Speaker 2>the theater, the way she was eating that popcorn. Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>she could just use her oral tentacles.

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<v Speaker 3>They said that this quing Dow sea slug is the

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<v Speaker 3>first species in the pseudo Bornella genus that's been discovered

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<v Speaker 3>in almost one hundred years.

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<v Speaker 2>I think we could use that for space wars like creatures.

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<v Speaker 3>The thing is that's been done in other space, which

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<v Speaker 3>has Yeah, have you ever seen Predator?

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<v Speaker 4>No?

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<v Speaker 3>Not one moment of the movie Predator No? Or Predator Too?

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<v Speaker 4>No? Why would I see Predator two?

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<v Speaker 1>About predator versus Alien?

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<v Speaker 4>No? So what is the predator?

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<v Speaker 1>Is it alien? Then?

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<v Speaker 4>Why is it alien versus predator?

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<v Speaker 1>It's a different creature.

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<v Speaker 2>But oh so predator and Predator too or is different

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<v Speaker 2>than Predator versus Alien. They're talking about a different type

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<v Speaker 2>of predator. No, the predators the same all the time.

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<v Speaker 2>And it's also an alien. Well did you ever see

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<v Speaker 2>the movie Alien? Did you ever see the movie Aliens?

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<v Speaker 2>I'm you ever seeing the movie Alien? So I'm just

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<v Speaker 2>trying to drill down on what the predator is. And

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<v Speaker 2>if you say the Predator is an alien? Then why

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<v Speaker 2>would they call the movie editor versus Alien. Isn't that

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<v Speaker 2>like alien versus alien, as like a name a nomen.

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<v Speaker 1>Et versus the Gremlins?

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<v Speaker 4>So what does the predator look like?

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not gonna it has oral tentacles that it does

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<v Speaker 3>like claws and fangs and everything.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh fascinating.

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<v Speaker 1>No, No it's not. You're just saying words now.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm googling predator. It looks like a man. It's got legs,

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<v Speaker 2>it's upright. What do you think aliens look like?

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<v Speaker 4>Predator's very scary.

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<v Speaker 2>And those are not the type of oral tentacles I'm

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<v Speaker 2>talking about the way that I'm talking about for space Wars,

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<v Speaker 2>they would be like octopus tentacles.

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<v Speaker 3>I want to see how long you were going to

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<v Speaker 3>go with that, because this is, uh fascinating. There is

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<v Speaker 3>a a new study that was published in the journal

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<v Speaker 3>Science about buildings that are coded in cement based paint

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<v Speaker 3>that can wet, and the sweating paint can keep the

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<v Speaker 3>buildings that much cooler. Keeping cool when temperatures rise is

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<v Speaker 3>often the largest cost of a building of any size.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean a building like this size.

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<v Speaker 3>We've got six floors in this building, a couple hundred

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<v Speaker 3>thousand square feet, probably tens of thousands of square feet,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm assuming, and it costs a lot to keep this

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<v Speaker 3>place cool, especially in the summer. In the San Fernando Valley,

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<v Speaker 3>about twenty percent of all the electricity used in the

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<v Speaker 3>world goes to fans and air conditioning systems. And they

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<v Speaker 3>said that they want to have this paint that will

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<v Speaker 3>take advantage of the passive cooling process, in which an

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<v Speaker 3>object loses heat through the emission of infrared radiation. Paints

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<v Speaker 3>are frequently limited to dry, sunny climates, and the coatings

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<v Speaker 3>can't do their job if there's too much outside ambient

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<v Speaker 3>moisture or cloud coverage. So on this they're saying that

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<v Speaker 3>they would actually be able to have a paint that

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<v Speaker 3>sweat and release some of that energy, poling down the building,

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<v Speaker 3>making everything cooler and cheaper.