Speaker 1: An amazing Doctor Sky, Doctor Sky, who's in weather of
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen degrees.
Speaker 2: Doctor Sky, well, good morning, Walter, ninety nine degrees. Still
Speaker 2: as we move through time and space, it's unbelievable. I
Speaker 2: want to when this heat will end. But I chose
Speaker 2: to live here, so I guess I got to deal
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 1: It was a choice. And just like most people wherever
Speaker 1: they live, they're always surprised by their weather, as though
Speaker 1: it was a secret and sorry. The people in the
Speaker 1: Midwest are surprised at the ten feet of snow every
Speaker 1: winter and they're like, oh, absolutely, absolutely. Now. There are
Speaker 1: two big stories here that I think are Doctor Sky appropriate. However, sir,
Speaker 1: you are welcome to discuss anything you wish on the
Speaker 1: other side of midnight.
Speaker 2: This is your stage, sir, thank you for the opportunity,
Speaker 2: as we like to say Walter in our own program.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you would agree. A theater of the
Speaker 2: mine where we explored because we're not watching this in
Speaker 2: the video realm. But it's amazing. But one of the
Speaker 2: lead stories that I find fascinating and I know you
Speaker 2: would agree, is China has absolutely demonstrated a different technology
Speaker 2: from space. You know, we don't walk starline.
Speaker 1: This is amazing. I can't wait to hear what you
Speaker 1: have to say about this.
Speaker 2: This is what you're not believable, guy, is totally crazy
Speaker 2: because starlink and all the things that they're doing are
Speaker 2: absolutely amazing. As you've said to me before, it's a
Speaker 2: miracle with starlink, it really is. Now China, this goes
Speaker 2: back now Walter, to June seventeenth of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: So this is not a new discovery. What have they
Speaker 2: done from a geosynchronous satellite, which means one that's way
Speaker 2: out there, about twenty two thousand miles above the Earth,
Speaker 2: not lower Earth orbit, the Chinese geosynchronous satellite sent a
Speaker 2: two watt powered laser beam down to the Earth in
Speaker 2: the infrared, okay, not something you'd probably see. And it
Speaker 2: made it to the ground with a one gigawat you know,
Speaker 2: transmission rate of one gigabyte as its downloadable speed, which
Speaker 2: is incredible from that distance. So why are we talking
Speaker 2: about this? Is that space communications and it's not just
Speaker 2: the Chinese water that have led the way in this.
Speaker 2: It's just that what they've done is incredible. Imagine a
Speaker 2: two watt laser, tiny little powerful thing like that, minimal
Speaker 2: power and it has to do something else. This gets
Speaker 2: very technical that we'll keep it family friendly. When any
Speaker 2: signal comes down from space like this in the form
Speaker 2: of a laser, you have the Earth's atmosphere that distorts it,
Speaker 2: so it separates the beam away from it. But we
Speaker 2: got to go back to the definition of what a
Speaker 2: laser really is. Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
Speaker 2: sounds like a mouthful, right In the nineteen sixties, the
Speaker 2: US Corporation developed the first lasers macket. That's amazing, and
Speaker 2: they use what they call coherence. Now that is not
Speaker 2: the confused people. They take two beams of light and
Speaker 2: you coherent, meaning you focus them together. So the problem
Speaker 2: with the Chinese satellite, or the problem with sending a
Speaker 2: spacecraft or a light image like that, is that when
Speaker 2: it hits the atmosphere, the signal distorts itself. So through
Speaker 2: something even more complicated on the ground, it's called adaptive optics.
Speaker 2: Tell us dopes use that so they can, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of filter out the atmospheric turbulence and do this
Speaker 2: so that in the future we'll hopefully be seeing incredible communications.
Speaker 2: The Artemis two has done this. But the very first
Speaker 2: Walter laser communication from space was back in two thousand
Speaker 2: and one, believe it or not, the ESA, European Space Agency,
Speaker 2: they sent one signal of cross space to a smaller satellite.
Speaker 2: So isn't that incredible download speeds of one gigabyte you know,
Speaker 2: you know per second type of speeds the download and
Speaker 2: if we're used to getting this from our internet provider
Speaker 2: twenty two thousand miles in space, look at the future
Speaker 2: water of being able to communicate over light beams in
Speaker 2: the infrared. Amazing.
Speaker 1: And this was a almost no power.
Speaker 2: Laser absolutely wants is tiny.
Speaker 1: Tiny, and it destroyed a Starling satellite.
Speaker 2: Well, no, let me qualify this. That line the headline,
Speaker 2: see this is where some in the media get click
Speaker 2: at it right. The story indicates China smashes Starlink satellite.
Speaker 2: What they really mean is the record, not destroying the
Speaker 2: satellite in space. So the Chinese to qualify it, they
Speaker 2: did not aim this weapon. If they want to call
Speaker 2: it a weapon in space like a weapon, it's not.
Speaker 2: It's a communication device. So it didn't destroy a Starlink satellite.
Speaker 2: It just broke a record. But I'm sure Elon has
Speaker 2: probably got some things that he's going to come out with.
Speaker 2: So the commonality of this Walter, I think in the
Speaker 2: future we're going to be able to see over long distances.
Speaker 2: And here's one for the record. The Psyche spacecraft that's
Speaker 2: actually now going towards this asteroid. It's going to look
Speaker 2: and kind of orbit it. It's probably the core of
Speaker 2: an old planet solid metal. Could make somebody if you
Speaker 2: could tow it back to Earth a quadrillion there. But
Speaker 2: here's what happened. The longest distance of any of these
Speaker 2: laser communication links has been done with the Psyche. It
Speaker 2: did it ready for this one three hundred and seven
Speaker 2: million miles away in December of twenty twenty four. It
Speaker 2: sent a signal. So looks bright to communicate in space
Speaker 2: with minimal power and this great technology.
Speaker 1: You know, when we go over the ancient stone cutting,
Speaker 1: the pyramids, other major monoliths, they over and over again,
Speaker 1: see the only way this could have been cut this
Speaker 1: precisely is with a laser. Absolutely, it's reported repeatedly, and
Speaker 1: I started to think, well, maybe a laser is not
Speaker 1: so hard. Maybe the ancients had lasers and they didn't
Speaker 1: think it was a big deal. Is that possible.
Speaker 2: Anything's possible, Walter. But let's go back to the things
Speaker 2: that you talk about so deeply, and I appreciate hearing
Speaker 2: you and the stuff and the information you bring to
Speaker 2: the audience. What about cattle mutilations that have taken place
Speaker 2: over time? I mean, that was a really big story.
Speaker 2: I don't hear much about it now, but they say
Speaker 2: that the exhumed bodies of the cattle were cut with
Speaker 2: such precision that somebody with a regular knife couldn't have
Speaker 2: done that. So who knows. You know, the mysteries of
Speaker 2: the universe continue. But going back in time, there maybe
Speaker 2: there were some space visitors that came and introduced to
Speaker 2: us some kind of plasma cutter or something off this planet.
Speaker 2: It's just amazing to ponder those mysteries.
Speaker 1: What are some of the other stories you've been working
Speaker 1: with last week? Next week? What do you got going
Speaker 1: on well.
Speaker 2: This past week? And people can go again to the
Speaker 2: WABC website for the podcast for the Doctor's Sky Experience,
Speaker 2: I was honored to have a gentleman who was a
Speaker 2: co discoverer. Here's an interesting one of an asteroid called
Speaker 2: a p office. If you go back into the mythology
Speaker 2: of this. It's actually named for an Egyptian war god.
Speaker 2: And what's Apophus. It's an asteroid Walter that's about twelve
Speaker 2: hundred feet in diameter, and everybody's on Earth. Everybody on
Speaker 2: Earth is going to hear a lot about this. Marked
Speaker 2: the date of April thirteenth, twenty twenty nine. It's going
Speaker 2: to pass right within or closer than what we talked
Speaker 2: about a moment ago, the geosynchronous satellite orbit. And it's
Speaker 2: that big. Not to alarm people, but doctor David Holan,
Speaker 2: one of the co discoverers, he was in Hawaii and
Speaker 2: he was experienced La Lah the almost hurricane, a hurricane
Speaker 2: that passed. But the importance of that is we don't
Speaker 2: really know all the details about this, and changes could happen. Again,
Speaker 2: I'm out of my league if I talk about anything
Speaker 2: with accuracy here, because nobody knows when and how this
Speaker 2: asteroid will react. But if it were to hit the Earth,
Speaker 2: which is a you know, hopefully not never to have happened,
Speaker 2: a twelve hundred foot in diameter object, it would create
Speaker 2: such an incredible blast. And as you know, astronomers have
Speaker 2: done calculations on this of what this would mean and
Speaker 2: we're talking about maybe twelve hundred megatons of released energy
Speaker 2: if it actually struck the ocean or it struck the ground.
Speaker 2: But that's something even more bizarre. And if we go
Speaker 2: back to the sixty five million year ago event, which
Speaker 2: we know as the Chi Salube which hit off the Yucatan,
Speaker 2: that one had one hundred million megatons, of course, and
Speaker 2: we saw what happened. But it was an honor to
Speaker 2: speak with him. And this weekend we're going to delve
Speaker 2: into the mystery of earthquakes because we have a young
Speaker 2: lady who's I've been trying to get her to be
Speaker 2: on the show, but she'd been so busy. Why because
Speaker 2: she's one of the chief spokespersons for the United States
Speaker 2: Geologic Survey, talking about isn't it amazing While there's so
Speaker 2: many incidences of earthquakes all over the world, something's happening,
Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll get some answers as to what's really
Speaker 2: going on there. But don't forget when you look in
Speaker 2: the skies. We always like to give everybody a tip
Speaker 2: on what's happening. If you look in the southeast sky,
Speaker 2: more toward the eastern portion of the country, right now
Speaker 2: and soon to rise in the west. An object that
Speaker 2: you'll see with the naked eye that you're looking at there,
Speaker 2: which is most amazing. It's the planet Saturn and it's
Speaker 2: eight hundred and thirteen million miles away from your eyes.
Speaker 2: So if you have a telescope in there and you
Speaker 2: know the opportunity to use it, you're going to be
Speaker 2: able to see the beautiful ring system of Saturn and
Speaker 2: light as we talked about before, would still take an incredible, oh,
Speaker 2: probably an hour, maybe seventy two minutes if you jumped
Speaker 2: on a light beam which is six hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: million miles an hour, or conveniently, Walter, eleven million miles
Speaker 2: a minute. That's a heck of a lot faster than
Speaker 2: most people have ever traveled. That's amazing, It.
Speaker 1: Is amazing, and we'll be able to see that. With
Speaker 1: a traditional telescope, we'll be able to see Saturn.
Speaker 2: You can see it with the naked eye, but obviously
Speaker 2: the telescope can through the ring system. And it's amazing.
Speaker 2: I mean, we do this in public events all over
Speaker 2: the place for maybe the last thirty years, and Walter,
Speaker 2: it's so amazing. People look at me and they say, ah,
Speaker 2: that's not real. You know, you must have put like
Speaker 2: a slide at the front of the telescope. But it's amazing, Walter,
Speaker 2: the mysteries that we talk about, as you talk about,
Speaker 2: it's just incredible because in our busy daytime lives, many
Speaker 2: of us don't have the opportunity, do not have the
Speaker 2: opportunity to expand. And obviously what you do, of course
Speaker 2: taking us to the break of dawn Monday through Friday,
Speaker 2: and what we try to do on the weekend as
Speaker 2: to what open people's minds on mysteries, give them the
Speaker 2: opportunity to learn something new all the time, and some
Speaker 2: of those things are just literally mind boggling.
Speaker 1: Doctor Sky, tell us exactly what time you're on the air.
Speaker 2: Friday's midnight to two am Saturday morning, Eastern daylight time,
Speaker 2: and then Saturday midnight to two am Sunday Eastern daylighttime.
Speaker 2: The Doctor's gun experience, and if you'd like to send
Speaker 2: me an email, it's just DRSK why of course at
Speaker 2: WABC Radio dot com. And what an opportunity won't there
Speaker 2: and want an honor to be able to sit behind
Speaker 2: the microphone and share with people these different mysteries and
Speaker 2: you know we could do shows well, just like yourself.
Speaker 2: There's never a lack of topics to talk about. So
Speaker 2: it's amazing to share these mysteries. Look, you do and
Speaker 2: many of the other people here on this great station.
Speaker 1: Yes, but you do it best, Doctor Sky, you very kind.
Speaker 1: Now I listened to you to hear. Oh that's how
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do it. Okay, I got it. And
Speaker 1: it's funny your voice and the time you're on. I
Speaker 1: always envision the same, the same picture, the same tableau,
Speaker 1: which is a magnificent, pristine eighteen wheeler with a gentleman
Speaker 1: who is well suited, nice uniform, really good coffee, fly in,
Speaker 1: fly in at eighty miles an hour route eighty east
Speaker 1: to west, and just listening to you. And if he
Speaker 1: blinks up, you can see that sky and if he
Speaker 1: looks ahead, it's not quite as dark as it could
Speaker 1: be because of the brilliance of the heavens. So doctor Sky,
Speaker 1: thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Oh it's a pleasure. And those that are driving the
Speaker 2: eighteen wheelers and all people that work through at midnight
Speaker 2: into the daylight, it's an amazing audience like you have,
Speaker 2: Walter and carrying the Torch here on talk radio seventy
Speaker 2: seven WABC. An honor to be with you, and honor
Speaker 2: to be on this station and the great listeners