Speaker 1: This is Spacetime Series twenty nine, Episode ninety two, for
Speaker 1: broadcast on the third of August twenty twenty six. Coming
Speaker 1: up on Spacetime, The Monster That's been let out of
Speaker 1: its cage, counting down to next week's solar eclipse, and
Speaker 1: a major setback for NASA Swift Space Telescope Rescue mission.
Speaker 1: All that and more coming up on space Time.
Speaker 2: Welcome to space Time with Stuart Gary.
Speaker 1: Astronomers have for the first time discovered a monster as
Speaker 1: super massive black hole wandering alone near the edge of
Speaker 1: a galaxy. These giants of the universe, which can be
Speaker 1: millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun,
Speaker 1: are usually found at the centers of galaxies, are reporting.
Speaker 1: The Astrophysical journal Letters claims the newly identified behemoth was
Speaker 1: only discovered as a released a flash of light while
Speaker 1: destroying and consuming a nearby star in a tidal disruption event.
Speaker 1: It's the first time scientists have detected a super massive
Speaker 1: black hole so far away from a galaxy center. The
Speaker 1: studies lead author, Robert david Stein from the Joint Space
Speaker 1: Science Institute, says the new discovery will have huge implications.
Speaker 1: Until now, the assumption was that super massive black holes
Speaker 1: always reside at the centers of their galaxies. The new
Speaker 1: discovery means astronomers will be able to better understand how
Speaker 1: galaxies and their black holes merge and how they build
Speaker 1: up over time. Theorists have predicted that wandering black holes
Speaker 1: would exist roaming along the outskirts of galaxies as a
Speaker 1: result of galaxy collisions and mergers. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: many of these black holes would be quiescent, meaning they're
Speaker 1: not swallowing material and consequently not emitting any light, literally
Speaker 1: tiptoeing around the universe undetected. This newly discovered black hole
Speaker 1: was detected by this Vicki transient facility, which searches the
Speaker 1: skies looking for transient objects. Vicki scans the entire northern
Speaker 1: sky every two days using a pair of telescopes at
Speaker 1: the Palomar Observatory in San Diego. Mind you, it's virtually
Speaker 1: impossible to check for black holes in each of the
Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of celestial events at Ziki documents every evening.
Speaker 1: So astronomers developed an artificial intelligence program which identifies a
Speaker 1: characteristic light signature that occurs when the black hole shreds
Speaker 1: a star. These title disruption events are well documented at
Speaker 1: galaxy centers, but the AI looked for similar flares elsewhere
Speaker 1: in the sky. The authors launched the artificial intelligence program
Speaker 1: back in August twenty twenty five, and made their first
Speaker 1: black hole discovery using it just three months later. In
Speaker 1: this case, the super massive black hole was located some
Speaker 1: thirty thousand light years from the galactic center. It's around
Speaker 1: four million solar masses, about the same as set us
Speaker 1: a star. The super massive black hole at the center
Speaker 1: of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. It likely ended
Speaker 1: up at its current location following a collision between two galaxies.
Speaker 1: One possibility is that a larger galaxy cannibalized a smaller
Speaker 1: one and then slowly stripped away all its stars until
Speaker 1: only the core remained. But a more intriguing second possibility
Speaker 1: is that one galaxy already had two black holes orbiting
Speaker 1: close to the center in a binary system, having already
Speaker 1: merged with another galaxy. Then if a third black hole
Speaker 1: from yet another galaxy merger enters the mixed complex, three
Speaker 1: body interactions could kick the smallest one out. Continued observations
Speaker 1: of this title disruption event but eventually favor one of
Speaker 1: these two hypotheses. Characterizing how quiesce and black holes behave
Speaker 1: is important because most black holes, including the one at
Speaker 1: the center of the Milky Way, are dormant for most
Speaker 1: of the time. In other words, you only know they're
Speaker 1: there when they start feeding. The authors in asking the
Speaker 1: Skies for more wandering black holes so they can determine
Speaker 1: just how common they really are. This is space time
Speaker 1: still to come, counting down to next week's solar eclipse
Speaker 1: and a major setback for NASA Swift Space Telescope Rescue mission.
Speaker 1: All that and more still to come on space Time. Spain, Portugal, Greenland, Iceland, Russia,
Speaker 1: and the Arctic are about to experience a total solar
Speaker 1: eclipse as the Moon's shadow sweeps across the surface of
Speaker 1: the Earth. Other parts of Europe, from the British Isles
Speaker 1: and France across to Greece, Italy and Lithuania, as well
Speaker 1: as northern Africa, will experience a partial eclipse during the event.
Speaker 1: Depending on where you are, the celestial spectacular will begin
Speaker 1: around three point thirty four in the afternoon of August
Speaker 1: the twurth, with totality occurring at five four and the
Speaker 1: show ending just before eight o'clock in the evening Solar
Speaker 1: eclipses happen when the Moon passes directly between the Earth
Speaker 1: and the Sun. You see, the Moon's orbit around the
Speaker 1: Earth is inclined by five degrees compared to the Earth's
Speaker 1: orbit around the Sun, so normally the Moon appears to
Speaker 1: cross the sky slightly above or below the path of
Speaker 1: the Sun. But about every eighteen months or so, the
Speaker 1: lunar orbit places the Moon directly between the Sun and Earth,
Speaker 1: resulting in a solar eclipse. Eclipses happen because the Moon
Speaker 1: is four hundred times smaller than the Sun, but it's
Speaker 1: also four hundred times closer to the Earth, and so
Speaker 1: the two appear to be about the same size in
Speaker 1: the sky as seen from Earth, and when the Sun, Moon,
Speaker 1: and Earth line up exactly, the Earth experiences a total
Speaker 1: solar eclipse. As this occurs, the Moon begins to slowly
Speaker 1: pass in front of the Sun and the partial lunar
Speaker 1: shadow or penumber, crosses the surface of the Earth. This
Speaker 1: can last for more than an hour as more and
Speaker 1: more of the Sun is hidden by the face of
Speaker 1: the Moon. Then, just before totality occurs, the crescent Sun
Speaker 1: converges into a single, bright white diamond of sunlight as
Speaker 1: the last bit of the Sun's bright disk shines along
Speaker 1: the edge of the Moon, and the first glimpses of
Speaker 1: the fake corona create a ring around the Moon, an
Speaker 1: effect known as the diamond ring. In the last fleeting
Speaker 1: moments before totality, the diamond ring breaks up into a
Speaker 1: string of beads created by the Sun's rays shining through
Speaker 1: the low lying valleys between the mountains along the limb
Speaker 1: or edge of the Moon. Once this effect, known as
Speaker 1: Bailey's beads, comes to an end, the Moon has completely
Speaker 1: covered the entire disk of the Sun and ear in totality.
Speaker 1: During totality, the largest part of the Moon's shadow, the umbra,
Speaker 1: crosses the Earth's surface. People along the path of totality
Speaker 1: view a total eclipse, which can last up to seven
Speaker 1: minutes and thirty one seconds, but is usually far shorter.
Speaker 1: During this period, the sky goes down, stars will appear,
Speaker 1: and it will suddenly get noticeably cooler. Birds will start roosting,
Speaker 1: shadows will take on an unusual crescent shape, and you'll
Speaker 1: be able to see the Sun's tenuous outer atmosphere, The corona,
Speaker 1: glowing milky white. Often explosions on the Sun's surface, called prominences,
Speaker 1: will appear as spectacular bright pink or red clouds stretching
Speaker 1: above the lunar limb. The path of totality can be
Speaker 1: up to two hundred and seventy two kilometers wide, although
Speaker 1: it's usually a lot less, and the further away you
Speaker 1: are from the center of the path, the shorter the
Speaker 1: eclipse duration will be. Now, if you're outside the line
Speaker 1: of totality, either to the north or south of it,
Speaker 1: you'll only see a partial eclipse, in which only part
Speaker 1: of the Sun's disk will be covered by the Moon.
Speaker 1: The reason each eclipse is only visible over a small
Speaker 1: part of the Earth is because the Moon's shadow is
Speaker 1: relatively small when it falls on the Earth's surface. Now,
Speaker 1: another important factor is that, on average, the Moon orbits
Speaker 1: about three hundred and eighty four thy four hundred kilometers
Speaker 1: away from the Earth. But the Moon's orbit around the
Speaker 1: Earth is in a perfect circle, it's slightly elliptical. That
Speaker 1: means one part of the orbit may be a bit
Speaker 1: closer to the Earth, maybe three hundred and fifty seven
Speaker 1: thousand kilometers that's known as perigy. Well, another part of
Speaker 1: the orbit will be a bit further away, around four
Speaker 1: hundred and six thousand kilometers, known as apergy, and when
Speaker 1: the Moon's orbit takes it a bit further away, the
Speaker 1: Moon looks a bit smaller in the sky, and if
Speaker 1: that coincides with the solar eclipse, it doesn't cover the
Speaker 1: entire face of the Sun, so instead of a solar eclipse,
Speaker 1: the Moon's passage across the Sun creates an annulus, a
Speaker 1: ring of fire, as light from the Sun surrounds the
Speaker 1: dark Moon, resulting in an annular eclipse. Solar eclipses are
Speaker 1: accompanied by a lunar eclipse, occurring either two weeks before
Speaker 1: or after the main event. That's due to the same
Speaker 1: alignment which caused the solar eclipse, so lunar and solar
Speaker 1: eclipses occur with equal frequency, but lunar eclipses are seen
Speaker 1: over a far broader area because the Earth's shadow is
Speaker 1: far larger and therefore covers more of the lunar surface.
Speaker 1: A lunar eclipseccurs during full moon, when the Sun, Earth,
Speaker 1: and Moon a line. During this event, the Moon passes
Speaker 1: completely through the Earth's dark shadow or umbra. Even though
Speaker 1: the Earth completely blocks out sunlight from directly reaching the
Speaker 1: surface of the Moon.
Speaker 3: The Moon is still visible.
Speaker 1: During a total lunar eclipse, you'll see the Moon gradually
Speaker 1: get darker than take on a rusty or blood red
Speaker 1: color as the light from the Sun refracts through Earth's
Speaker 1: atmosphere and undergoes rarely scattering, leaving only the longer red
Speaker 1: wavelengths as all the Earth's sunsets and sunrises happen at
Speaker 1: once to indirectly reflect on the lunar surface. A total
Speaker 1: lunar eclipse and also look yellow, orange, or even browning
Speaker 1: color depending on how different types of dust, particles, and
Speaker 1: clouds in Earth's atmosphere allow different wavelengths of light to
Speaker 1: reach the lunar surface. During next week's event, science teams
Speaker 1: will be chasing the Moon's shadow with one of NASA's
Speaker 1: high altitude WB fifty seven research jets and with scientific balloons.
Speaker 1: They'll investigate the Sun's dynamics the temporary darkening of our
Speaker 1: skies affects the atmosphere. A squeed of four cameras mounted
Speaker 1: in the nosecone will take high resolution images of the
Speaker 1: Sun's corona in different wavelengths of visible and infrared light.
Speaker 1: The cameras will capture at least twenty images per second.
Speaker 1: Recording structures, outflows, and rapid changes in the corona during
Speaker 1: the total eclipse. These images will allow scientists to learn
Speaker 1: more about the formation of prominences, better understand the corona
Speaker 1: and how it gets heated to nearly a million degrees,
Speaker 1: and the relationship between material and the corona and in
Speaker 1: the Solar wind, a continuous stream of charged particles flowing
Speaker 1: out from the Sun and bathing the Earth and rest
Speaker 1: of the Solar System. By chasing the Moon's shadow, the
Speaker 1: jet will extend how long cameras can observe the corona.
Speaker 1: See On the ground, the longest anyone will be able
Speaker 1: to see the corona is two minutes in eighteen seconds,
Speaker 1: but by flying along the eclipse path of totality, the
Speaker 1: WB fifty seven's view of the corona can last nearly
Speaker 1: three minutes. NASS WB fifty seven will flight fifty thousand
Speaker 1: feet that's above any clouds that might obscure the view
Speaker 1: of the Krona from the ground. The altitude will also
Speaker 1: allow cameras to observe some of the infrared wavelengths that
Speaker 1: get absorbed by the lower atmosphere before reaching the ground.
Speaker 1: The crone has only been observed at those wavelengths a
Speaker 1: few times before. The key instrument is called a multi
Speaker 1: spectral able in imager. It was developed by the Southwest
Speaker 1: Research Institooting Boulder, Colorado, and was also used during the
Speaker 1: April twenty twenty four solar eclipse, where it provided valuable
Speaker 1: observations this report from MESSATV.
Speaker 4: For most people, a total solar eclipse lasts just a
Speaker 4: few minutes, but NASA's pilots find a way to make
Speaker 4: it last longer by trying to outrun the Moon's shadow
Speaker 4: with an airplane.
Speaker 5: The truth is it's actually chasing us. We get out
Speaker 5: in front of it and let it overtake us. Once
Speaker 5: we're in totality, then we'll advance to artles to max
Speaker 5: and try and stay in totality for as long as
Speaker 5: we can.
Speaker 4: Making that happen takes extreme precision. Scientists calculate exactly where
Speaker 4: the airplane needs to be at each moment.
Speaker 5: We do a lot of missions where being in the
Speaker 5: right point and time and space are critical, and this
Speaker 5: is one of them.
Speaker 4: On eclipse Day, the WB fifty seven aircraft climbs more
Speaker 4: than fifty thousand feet into the stratosphere that's above most
Speaker 4: of Earth's atmosphere where clouds, dust, and water vapor could
Speaker 4: obscure the view.
Speaker 6: Viewing an eclipse from fifty thousand feet provides a really
Speaker 6: clear shot of the Sun, and that allows the scientists
Speaker 6: to have confidence of the data that they're seeing is
Speaker 6: on the Sun rather than distortions from the atmosphere.
Speaker 4: When the Moon's shadow arrives, it engulfs the aircraft.
Speaker 5: It's weird. Right where you're at is dark, but everywhere
Speaker 5: you see is twilight, and the temperature of the cockpit drops,
Speaker 5: so it's very noticeable.
Speaker 4: As the eclipse unfolds. The pilot keeps the aircraft on
Speaker 4: course while the sensor operator fine tunes the cameras, capturing
Speaker 4: every second of data.
Speaker 6: You're very, very, very busy, and it's very high pressure
Speaker 6: because of course there's no du overse. You only get
Speaker 6: one opportunity to get all these instruments trained on the
Speaker 6: rate spot.
Speaker 4: For the aircraft crew, it's a chance to witness one
Speaker 4: of nature's most spectacular events while helping scientists better understand
Speaker 4: our son.
Speaker 5: I'm sitting in the best seat in the house. It's
Speaker 5: pretty excited.
Speaker 1: And in that report from Massa TV, we heard from
Speaker 1: WB fifty seven Parlot, Tom Parnett, and WB fifty seven
Speaker 1: censor equipment operator carry CLAM. Meanwhile, a NASA funded nationwide
Speaker 1: eclipse ballooning project by Angelo de Jardines from Montana State
Speaker 1: University will be sending students from several American universities to
Speaker 1: Iceland and Spain to launch scientific balloons before, during, and
Speaker 1: after the eclipse in order to better understand how an
Speaker 1: eclipse affects the atmosphere. In Iceland, two teams will launch
Speaker 1: eighty balloons starting eighteen hours before the eclipse until eight
Speaker 1: hours after the event in order to study how the
Speaker 1: eclipse affects Earth's boundary layer. That's the part of the
Speaker 1: atmosphere that touches the ground.
Speaker 7: You see.
Speaker 1: The thickness of the boundary layer changes depending on factors
Speaker 1: such as surface temperature and a humidity. Previous balloon flights
Speaker 1: during solar eclipses in Octo twenty twenty three and April
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four showed that the boundary layer either collapsed
Speaker 1: or decreased in thickness in locations with clear skies.
Speaker 3: But not where there were cloudy skies.
Speaker 1: Scientists want to see if that will be any different
Speaker 1: in Iceland next week changes in the boundary layer are
Speaker 1: driven by the day nights cycle. However, in Iceland in August,
Speaker 1: the days are long and the nights are short, so
Speaker 1: the nighttime influences might not be as strong as in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three or twenty four. Meanwhile, in Spain, three
Speaker 1: balloon teams launch a total of six balloons with threendre
Speaker 1: and sixty degree cameras in order to image the eclipse
Speaker 1: shatter from above. These balloons will also include instruments designed
Speaker 1: to measure levels of ozone in the atmosphere, which requires
Speaker 1: sunlight to form. Previous balloon experiments in April twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four showed that ozone decreases during totality, and scientists want
Speaker 1: to determine if there are any differences with this eclipse,
Speaker 1: especially as it's happening much later in the day and
Speaker 1: during a different season.
Speaker 8: Teams of students from across the United States have a
Speaker 8: unique vantage point of total solar eclipses thanks to scientific balloons.
Speaker 2: The Nationwide Eclipse Fluting Project is a NASA mission like
Speaker 2: adventure and collecting data from balloons that go high up
Speaker 2: into the atmosphere.
Speaker 8: Started in twenty fourteen, the project engages college students and
Speaker 8: high schoolers in one of two distinct paths.
Speaker 2: One is the engineering track that has mostly engineering students
Speaker 2: that get to tinker on different payloads, and the other
Speaker 2: track is an atmospheric science track where they'll actually be
Speaker 2: launching weather sensors to study the impact of the eclipse.
Speaker 8: Atmospheric science teams launch helium filled weather balloons the same
Speaker 8: as those used by the National Weather Service every hour
Speaker 8: for hours before and after an eclipse. Engineering teams fly
Speaker 8: larger balloons laden with cameras and experiments. They build themselves
Speaker 8: one hundred thousand feet up into the stratosphere. From there,
Speaker 8: they study a variety of things such as incoming cosmic
Speaker 8: radiation and ozone levels, as well as offering dramatic views
Speaker 8: of the Moon's shadow on our planet.
Speaker 2: The project is really a unique one in that it's
Speaker 2: both an education but also doing amazing science that's both
Speaker 2: about the eclipse itself and also the atmospheric response of
Speaker 2: the eclipse.
Speaker 8: Student balloon teams made a historic first during the twenty
Speaker 8: nineteen eclipse. They measured eclipse driven atmospheric gravity waves in
Speaker 8: Earth's stratosphere, or large ripples in the air caused by
Speaker 8: the temporary cooling due to the drop in sunlight.
Speaker 2: What excites me the most about this project is thinking
Speaker 2: about the experiences that the students have that fell remember forever.
Speaker 1: And in that report from Messa TV, we had from
Speaker 1: Nationwide Eclipse Blue and project principal investigator Angela Deja Deen
Speaker 1: and this is space time still to come. NASA's Swift
Speaker 1: Space Telescope rescue mission suffers a major setback. Later in
Speaker 1: the science report form of Biden Administration CHAEF Health Advisor
Speaker 1: Anthony found faces the US Senate and pleads the Fifth
Speaker 1: all that and more still to come on space time.
Speaker 1: NASA's Link mission to try and save the Swift Space
Speaker 1: telescope has suffered a major setback with a sudden loss
Speaker 1: of attitude control, putting the rescue craft into an uncontrollable spin.
Speaker 1: Link is on a mission to run the vous with
Speaker 1: Swift and boost the orbiting observatory back up to a
Speaker 1: higher altitude. Launched in two thousand and four, Swift was
Speaker 1: designed to survey the skies looking for short lived events
Speaker 1: like gamma ray bursts. Although they're the most powerful explosions
Speaker 1: in the universe, gamma ray bursts only last a few
Speaker 1: seconds before fading away. Swift acts like an early warning system,
Speaker 1: detecting the burst first and then quickly messaging astronomers to
Speaker 1: turn their telescopes towards the location of the blast. However,
Speaker 1: recent space weather events like solar flares and chronal mass
Speaker 1: ejections have blasted charged particles from the Sun towards the Earth,
Speaker 1: causing our planet's atmosphere to wobble like a jelly blubber,
Speaker 1: expanding one way, contracting another. As Swift travels through the
Speaker 1: expanded part of the atmosphere, a process called atmospheric drag
Speaker 1: slows the spacecraft down, decaying its orbit. The thing is,
Speaker 1: engineers weren't expecting the impact of the current space where
Speaker 1: the cycle it'd be as big as it is, and
Speaker 1: so the probe wasn't equipped with the repulsion system in
Speaker 1: order to boost itself back up into its intended six
Speaker 1: hundred kilometre high orbit. Without help, Swift will fall back
Speaker 1: into its atmosphere and burn up in a matter of months.
Speaker 1: The Link spacecraft was launched last month on a Pegasus
Speaker 1: rocket with the aim of catching up to and then
Speaker 1: locking onto Swift using its three robotic arms, and then
Speaker 1: firing its onboard engine to boost the telescope back up
Speaker 1: to its original orbit. However, mission manager say Links now
Speaker 1: started experiencing attitude control problems, causing the spacecraft to spin
Speaker 1: uncontrollably and sporadically losing communication with mission managers. Preliminary investigations
Speaker 1: suggest that two of Link's three reaction wheels, which control
Speaker 1: the spacecraft's attitude and orientation in space, have stopped working,
Speaker 1: and there's also some loss of functionality with its cold
Speaker 1: gas thruster system, but neither LINKS operator, Catalyst, or NASA
Speaker 1: at giving up hope, at least not yet. Mission managers
Speaker 1: are working on the plant to stop Link spin using
Speaker 1: the spacecraft's electric propulsion thrusters, and once they've re established
Speaker 1: a stable attitude and better understand the spacecraft's status, they'll
Speaker 1: then uplink a new set of guidance, navigation, and control
Speaker 1: commands to accommodate the spacecraft's new configuration. They'll then evaluate
Speaker 1: revised plans to approach and capture Swift, depending on the
Speaker 1: safety of the approach and Link's health. And needless to say,
Speaker 1: we'll keep you informed. This is space time, and time
Speaker 1: that to take a brief look at some of the
Speaker 1: other stories making news in Science this week with the
Speaker 1: Science Report. The former Biden administration National Institutes of Health
Speaker 1: Chief Advisor Anthony Fauci has faced a United States Senate
Speaker 1: Homeland Security Committee hearing, accused of repeatedly lying to the
Speaker 1: American public about the causes and origins of the deadly
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen pandemic. Is part of his interaction with Senator
Speaker 1: to Josh Harley.
Speaker 9: Well, nothing says honesty like taking the fifth hun dark.
Speaker 3: Let's try something.
Speaker 1: What day of the week is it today?
Speaker 10: On the divisive Council? I respectfully declined to answer, based
Speaker 10: upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
Speaker 9: What color tiere you wearing?
Speaker 10: On the advisive Council? I respectfully declined to answer based
Speaker 10: upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution?
Speaker 9: What color is the carpet in front of you?
Speaker 10: On the advisive Council? I respect declined to answer based
Speaker 10: upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
Speaker 9: Let's just get one thing straight. You don't have any
Speaker 9: rights under the Fifth Amendment because you've been pardoned, as
Speaker 9: you very well know, as a Supreme Court has been
Speaker 9: clear for a century and more. Brown versus Walker eighteen
Speaker 9: ninety six. When he has been pardoned, he may not
Speaker 9: stand upon his privilege. You know that your lawyer are
Speaker 9: sitting behind you now, shifting nervously in their chairs. They
Speaker 9: know it. This isn't about the constitution, This isn't about
Speaker 9: the law. This is about contempt, contempt for this body,
Speaker 9: and contempt for the American people.
Speaker 1: With the threat of real jail time now hanging over
Speaker 1: his head like the proverbial sort of Democles, Fauci pleaded
Speaker 1: the fifth and no less than one hundred and eleven
Speaker 1: occasions in order not to incriminate himself. However, statements he
Speaker 1: wrote in his personal diary have already done that for him.
Speaker 1: Fauci's diary confirms that he was funding gain of function
Speaker 1: research into the Corona bat virus at China's Wuhan Institute
Speaker 1: of Virology, and that ten scientists from his own team
Speaker 1: supported the lably hypothesis that is, a biologically engineered COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen virus escape from the Chinese lab and quickly spread globally.
Speaker 1: Over more than ten thousand pages, the diary, retrieved from
Speaker 1: government computer servers in recent months, exposes Fauci's deepest thoughts
Speaker 1: and darkest secrets, his obsession with the media, his infatuation
Speaker 1: with his own growing fame and perceived importance, and his
Speaker 1: schoolgirl like becited giddiness with celebrities. But more importantly, Fauci's
Speaker 1: diary entries confirmed that he knew, or at least suspected
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen didn't originate in the local wet markets despired
Speaker 1: him continuously and vigorously pushing that line publicly. Fauci's January
Speaker 1: twenty twenty diary entry states categorically in his own words,
Speaker 1: that we know the market was not the source. About
Speaker 1: a week later, he referenced the conference call in which
Speaker 1: several top infectious disease experts all thought the coronavirus might
Speaker 1: not have originated in nature. He even writes the possibility
Speaker 1: of a lablique as the likely source of the virus,
Speaker 1: but kept that opinion to himself as millions of people died.
Speaker 1: In fact, Fauchi's notes show that he deliberately covered up
Speaker 1: evidence supporting this labla hypothesis. Fauci's diary entries also confirm
Speaker 1: that he personally recommended lockdowns and closing schools politicians and
Speaker 1: their advisors during the pandemic. Something he publicly strenuously denied doing.
Speaker 1: These included California Governor Gavin Newsom's chief of staff, Anna Leary,
Speaker 1: New York City Mayor Build the Blasio, and Mark Gaily,
Speaker 1: the deputy director of Community Health for the La County
Speaker 1: Department of Health Services. Earlier testimony by doctor Richard Ebright,
Speaker 1: a professor of Biologier Rutgers, says Fauchi will have to
Speaker 1: answer way his own advisors told him was a lab origin,
Speaker 1: and yet he publicly went against that. Why Fauchi pleaded
Speaker 1: the fifth of the hearing makes no sense, as he's
Speaker 1: already been given an autopen pardon by President Joe Biden
Speaker 1: for his actions during the pandemic, raising questions about what
Speaker 1: he's been up to since that time. Unusually, that pardon
Speaker 1: goes all the way back to twenty fourteen. That's the
Speaker 1: same year he began funding gain of function research into
Speaker 1: the SARS via In China, The World Health Organization says
Speaker 1: over seven point one million people have now been killed
Speaker 1: by the COVID nineteen coronavirus since it was first detected
Speaker 1: among workers at China's Wihan Institute of Virology back in
Speaker 1: September twenty nineteen, The Lancet Medical Journal estimates the true
Speaker 1: global death toll is likely to be more than eighteen
Speaker 1: million and with over three quarters of a billion confirmed
Speaker 1: cases globally. A new studi is warning that antimicrobial resistance
Speaker 1: in children is rising globally. The findings, reported in the
Speaker 1: Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests the level of
Speaker 1: superbug resistance will worsen over the next decade, threatening the
Speaker 1: effectiveness of life saving antibiotics. The findings, led by the
Speaker 1: Murdoch Children's Research Institute in collaboration with the University of Sydney,
Speaker 1: analyze more than one hundred and six thousand infection samples
Speaker 1: from kids up to the age of eighteen across eighty
Speaker 1: two countries, discovering that resistance has increased in every region
Speaker 1: between two thousand and four and twenty twenty two. New
Speaker 1: aerial imaging surveys of the southwestern Amazon have revealed four
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two earthwork patterns in the ground, which
Speaker 1: scientists say may represent the footprint of an ancient civilization.
Speaker 1: The findings, reported in the journal Nature, show earthworks were
Speaker 1: found in an area previously inhabited by the ancient ariculture.
Speaker 1: The authors extrapolated their findings with existing satellite evidence to
Speaker 1: suggests that this region may have as many as thirty
Speaker 1: thousand earthworks that could have supported between one and a
Speaker 1: quarter and three million people between the years one hundred
Speaker 1: and three hundred. They say this small area appears to
Speaker 1: have more earthworks than previously predicted for the entire Amazon Basin.
Speaker 1: Paleontologist in our Back Queensland of on Earth the spectacular
Speaker 1: new fossil discovery displaying a Cretaceous era marine food web
Speaker 1: involving a giant mercisore, a large hexiosaur, and a flying
Speaker 1: reptile known as a pterosaur. This amazing one hundred million
Speaker 1: year old snapshot depicts life and death at its most
Speaker 1: brutal during the age of the dinosaur. The finds, reported
Speaker 1: in the journal gond Wonder Research, use neutron scattering to
Speaker 1: image what is a complicated find showing the remains of
Speaker 1: a dolphin like marine reptile called an ixiosaur, which contained
Speaker 1: the preserved remains of its last meal fish, cephalopods, and
Speaker 1: fragments of the lower jaw of a pterosaur, and the
Speaker 1: ixiosaur itself appears to have been attacked and preyed upon
Speaker 1: by an even larger reptile amosasaur, an enormous marine apex predator,
Speaker 1: possibly the giant philos or Chronosaurus Queenslandicus, which could reach
Speaker 1: lengths of ten meters thirty three feet. The ixiosaur vertebrae
Speaker 1: were split, ribs were missing, and numerous sperons displayed large
Speaker 1: crushing bite marks. One vertebrae even preserved a rib jammed
Speaker 1: against a broken margin strolling in, suggesting forceful jaw processing
Speaker 1: rather than simply post mortem damage. A fossils were uncovered
Speaker 1: at the Aremanga Sea dig site near Richmond. So called
Speaker 1: paranormal psychic Dolly Anderson has won the Australian Skeptics twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six Ben Spoon Award as the most shocky practitioner
Speaker 1: of the Adamson claims to be able to talk to
Speaker 1: the ghosts of murdered children and their killers. She beat
Speaker 1: a colorful clutch of equally illustrious runners up, including the
Speaker 1: Perth Vivacious Living Center, which charged people to diagnose and
Speaker 1: treat their illnesses using an unregistered dodgy body scanning device
Speaker 1: from Russia, which apparently could scan a bunch of non
Speaker 1: existent frequencies. There was also Monica and Lisa Smith, who
Speaker 1: was selling orgone energy devices that claimed to protect you
Speaker 1: and your home from electromagnetic frequency radiation. Then there were
Speaker 1: David the Medium and Chezi Danya, who claimed to be
Speaker 1: able to talk to the dead. Past winners for displaying
Speaker 1: their own lack of scientific understanding include the Australian Broadcasting
Speaker 1: Corporation for demonstrating new lows in journalistic standards with their
Speaker 1: ever faithful motto never let the facts get in the
Speaker 1: way of a good story. There was the University of
Speaker 1: Woollongong for proving you don't need to be smart, or
Speaker 1: right or even scientifically accurate in order to get a doctorate,
Speaker 1: Adelaide Psychic and Dankbar for her discovery the Colossus of Rhodes,
Speaker 1: which created something of a media frenzy till it was
Speaker 1: shown to be nothing more than modern builder's rubble. The
Speaker 1: ABC wanted again for their television show Second Opinion, which
Speaker 1: promoted so much unscientific quackery it really should have sought
Speaker 1: a few more opinions. Southern Cross University was also a
Speaker 1: past winner, offering a degree course in naturopathy. Former csirochif
Speaker 1: Flowry Marshall was also a past winner, receiving his Bentz
Speaker 1: Spoon for supporting water divining, and the ABC one yet
Speaker 1: another ben Spoon for spending lots and lots of taxpayers
Speaker 1: money on psychic investigators. Then there was racing car driver
Speaker 1: Peter Brock, who was highly tarted energy polarizer generated more
Speaker 1: heat in the murdering media than what it did energy
Speaker 1: in his car, and the Special Broadcasting Service SPS once
Speaker 1: won a bent Spoon for their TV program Medicine or
Speaker 1: myth Or, promoting alternative medical treatments as if they actually
Speaker 1: had some scientific credibility. There was Melbourne's Metropolitan Board of Works,
Speaker 1: who hired a US psychic archaeologist to de take a
Speaker 1: non existent electromagnetic photo field. The ABC won another Benz Spoon,
Speaker 1: this time for their television show The New Inventors, which
Speaker 1: seriously considered the pseudoscientific benefits of so called anti bio
Speaker 1: water conditioning system. The ABC that's one point four billion
Speaker 1: dollars annually of taxpayer money. But of course, one of
Speaker 1: the ben spurn winning stars of the past is Paleo
Speaker 1: Pete Evans is promotion of the bio charger, which claims
Speaker 1: to restore health, vigor, stamina, coordination, and mental clarity. Evans
Speaker 1: also won a ben Spurn for his paleo diet, which
Speaker 1: included the promoting burn broth as a formula replacement for babies,
Speaker 1: and his campaigns against fluoridation vaccination skeptics. Tenmendum says, You'll
Speaker 1: always find people out there with claims that fly in
Speaker 1: the face of science, the face of reason, the face
Speaker 1: of logic, simple common sense.
Speaker 7: It's one of the least sought after awards in the
Speaker 7: austrain world. It's given every year by strained skeptics, been
Speaker 7: given the scenes nineteen eighty one, and it's for the
Speaker 7: most preposterous piece of paranormal pursudo scientific people.
Speaker 3: Are you've rehearsed that, I have rehearsed that.
Speaker 7: It's very hard to say three times after drink, but
Speaker 7: basically it means anyone who's making ridiculous claims in the
Speaker 7: pseudo scientific or paranormal world, sometimes silly, sometimes quite serious
Speaker 7: is up for the running. And this year for the
Speaker 7: twenty twenty sixth award, there are quite a few candidates.
Speaker 7: People changing for a particular medical equipment gear that doesn't
Speaker 7: really do a lot all going energy machines which don't
Speaker 7: really do a lot, couple of people talking to the dead,
Speaker 7: which don't really do a lot. The person was in
Speaker 7: that last field, actually, but it was a particularly noteworthy
Speaker 7: person called Dolly Adamson. She was the winner of the
Speaker 7: twenty twenty sixth Bent Spoon Award. The Ben's spinnerward is
Speaker 7: obviously on a pluck that may have a gopher wood
Speaker 7: from Noah's Ark Bent Buggy Regella. So this lovely award
Speaker 7: went to Dolly Adamson of Kinds and Paranormal in Victoria.
Speaker 3: Very formal, doesn't it. Paranormal sounds like it.
Speaker 1: It does organization obviously, the kitchen table in the back,
Speaker 1: and I.
Speaker 7: Think it is. Yeah, it does sound like a law firm.
Speaker 7: But anyway, she's a lady who's been promoting the fact
Speaker 7: that she can talk to the dead. There are a
Speaker 7: number of people who come out here and claim they
Speaker 7: can talk to the dead, And basically what the dead
Speaker 7: say is the mostly name stuff you've ever heard, nothing
Speaker 7: like I buried the money under the floorboards as dead.
Speaker 7: They was forgive you, and they say it was always
Speaker 7: You're always one of my favorites. And you know, I'm
Speaker 7: really nice up here, down there, wherever they are, and
Speaker 7: don't do a way about me something you can just
Speaker 7: make up and say to anybody, which I think they
Speaker 7: do anyway. Dolly specializes in high profile dead children. Australians
Speaker 7: will know some of these cases of kids they went missing,
Speaker 7: the Beaumont children, three of them disappeared in an Adelaide
Speaker 7: beach in nineteen sixty six. William Terrell a little child
Speaker 7: who disappeared in New South Wales. And isn't it it is?
Speaker 7: It's not just entertainment. It's the pretty low low blow
Speaker 7: that they're doing. They also talk to their killers. Shea
Speaker 7: to claim either to get messages from their killers as well,
Speaker 7: which is even worse right, this.
Speaker 3: Is what they call actually identify themselves.
Speaker 7: It's exploitation, insulting to the grieving families, their friends. It's
Speaker 7: referred to as grief vampires, people who come to people
Speaker 7: who are who are mourning, especially in little kids cases,
Speaker 7: and they just take advantage of it and say that
Speaker 7: I can speak to the your child. She only deals
Speaker 7: with famous people, famous cases. He doesn't. And there with
Speaker 7: the ord kid down the road who's disappeared to be
Speaker 7: someone as a high profile owner Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger,
Speaker 7: Malon Munroe, Nancy Guthrie, who went on even tried to
Speaker 7: Harold Holstrain, Prime Minister. Joan of Art is a good
Speaker 7: one and the crew of the Maris left Kelly Ned
Speaker 7: Kelly's the other one. Yeah, so the passengers of the
Speaker 7: Malaysian Airlines flight there mate three seventy that disappeared in
Speaker 7: the indianaceans. I mean, that would have been handy to
Speaker 7: have to know where they are. But one of the
Speaker 7: best ones that she's spoken to was someone who's well
Speaker 7: known in the Australian media, a sovereign citizen by the
Speaker 7: name of Desi Freeman who some police were investigating him,
Speaker 7: so he shot two of them, killed them and they
Speaker 7: went on the run. Dolly got in touch with Desie
Speaker 7: and was saying, you know how you know where are
Speaker 7: you in trouble is he was still alive. He was
Speaker 7: shot later, but she was talking to a dead person
Speaker 7: who wasn't dead. Some of the people who've got the
Speaker 7: awards in the past are quite fun things, the UFO
Speaker 7: fanatics and psychic dentists and that sort of stuff, but
Speaker 7: some of them are quite serious and she's definitely in
Speaker 7: that area. So she was a very well deserved winner
Speaker 7: of the twenty twenty sixth Ben Spoon Award.
Speaker 3: You actually get in touch with these people and to
Speaker 3: know that won the award and know they do know.
Speaker 7: Some of them react very quickly. Pete Evan, he's one
Speaker 7: of twice the famous chef and the new ager. He
Speaker 7: was quite dismissive. Loss Coulter, the journalist who is now
Speaker 7: a UFO fan boy, he was pretty upset.
Speaker 3: He's become very famous in the States for all that too.
Speaker 7: Now he has he's got regular programs and he's positioned
Speaker 7: himself as a leading commentator of a field in which
Speaker 7: there has no new evidence to talk about.
Speaker 3: See it is. This is where you can end up
Speaker 3: if you win a Walkley Award.
Speaker 7: That's right. He's the award winning journalists who was several
Speaker 7: times Walkley Award being the top award for journalists in Australia,
Speaker 7: and he's one of the couple of times at least, and.
Speaker 3: That Australian talent in terms.
Speaker 7: Of people don't like pulling journalists out of to highlight
Speaker 7: them because other journalists don't like covering that.
Speaker 1: That's because they're all scared that they're about to be
Speaker 1: named themselves.
Speaker 7: The same probably, but there are people out there who
Speaker 7: are health practitioners who can actually hurt people. There's some
Speaker 7: news is out there unfortunately, so but we keep sort
Speaker 7: of pointing them out.
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