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Steve Cates is with us. Well, also known as Dr. Sky.
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And one good friend, one smart guy. And give us
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an update. What's going to tickle our minds today, Steve Cates?
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Well, I got a lot, John. Good Sunday morning to
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you and the listeners. How about this? A Russian satellite
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is confirmed to stalking another satellite. What's that all about?
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Russian satellite called Cosmos 2612 has closed in, John. on
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a surveillance satellite that's U.S. registered. It's called ICI-X36. This
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is an imaging satellite that the Ukrainians have used to
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be able to detect Russian activity. So this particular Cosmos 2612, John,
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has come probably within 100 feet of this particular satellite
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to allegedly spy on it. But this is not the
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first time that this has happened. In 2020, Another Russian
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satellite called Cosmos 2542 actually came very close to one
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of our so-called secret satellites, USA 245. So this is
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quite an interesting thing, because the satellite that's being spied on,
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the one that we just talked about, the first one,
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it uses, John, something called synthetic imaging radar. What is that?
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It's radar that penetrates deep below the Earth. So the
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Ukrainians have been using this to fight against Russia. That's
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an interesting story of proof that we're now having the
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prelude to some surveillance in outer space by satellites.
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Well, you know, the Space Force that President Trump has
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launched has some interesting... I hear there's some very interesting
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aircraft up there, or craft, not aircraft, because aircraft is
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for air. Craft is, I guess, for space. And with
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some interesting weapons... and I hear that we're doing a
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good job protecting America and the free world.
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Absolutely, John, and it's been identified by the Secretary of
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the Air Force and others, even Raging Kane, our general
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who heads, of course, the entire military, that apparently America
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has some sort of weapons in space. But, John, here's
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a great story. We shift gears. Japan's Martian moon exploration mission.
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You and I love to talk about Mars. So it
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was launched last week. And what it is, John, it's
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a spacecraft headed to one of the moons of Mars
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called Phobos.
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Is that the one that supposedly shot down the other probe? Yes.
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And this is an interesting continuation of the story, John,
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because nobody really knows what the nature of Phobos and
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the other moon called Deimos. And Phobos is only 12
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miles in diameter, John. And it has a crater... on
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it called Stinkney that's about nine miles across. So whatever
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that means, how this little moon was formed, but why
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is this an important news story? This is the first time, John,
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when this spacecraft reaches this particular moon in August of 2027,
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it will then deploy a little rover down to the
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surface to scoop up some material and bring it back
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to Earth maybe sometime after 2030. So the first time, John,
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that we're going to actually get something from that area
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of Mars and the strangest moon, because over the next
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few million years, that Phobos, John, is going to literally
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run in and crash onto the surface of Mars.
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Only if the Martians allow us to get it.
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Absolutely, John. And we end off with the mystery of
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the week. And this has been in the news, John,
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but it needs further clarification. The question is, how does
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the new Tesla Roadster, a so-called flying car, actually work?
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And this is fascinating. The new Tesla Roadster does not
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truly fly, John. Instead, it uses high-pressure cold gas thrusters,
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a large tank or two made out of composite materials.
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And what happens on this, John, it also has the
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capability to fire those little so-called rockets with air. And
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it also has the capability, as many saw when they
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saw the demonstration of this car upside down, I thought
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it was fake, I thought it was AI, but it
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was real. It also has the ability to have vacuum
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suction in the form of some two Gs of force
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to hold something upside down. But the real truth, John,
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is it's only something that can hop and jump and
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move forward, but not fly, as we saw in Back
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to the Future, when the classic line of the doc,
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as many people remember the great trilogy of those movies,
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he said to his partner in the car, and I quote,
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where we're going, they don't need roads. So lots of
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mystery around this Tesla car. I wonder, John, how much
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that thing would cost. But how could you use it
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in traffic? And if many people have them, you might
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have some mid-air collisions, you think?
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Well, you know, I think of flying cars. I think
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of the Jetsons 50 years ago, 60 years ago.
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Well, if we can perfect that. There's other companies out there, John,
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that are perfecting the true drone-type technology for cars. But again,
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who's going to manage the skyways instead of the roadways?
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That's another subject for another time.
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Well, the FAA has not done a good job lately,
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even with aircraft.
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I would totally agree with you, John, as we conclude
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Sunday morning here with many of the things that people
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probably don't hear about. And we try to bring them
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together to open our minds about great mysteries and current
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events that we thought are important.
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Steve Cates, otherwise known as Dr. Sky. Thank you so
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much for coming on. And I listened to you at, uh, uh,
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midnight to 2 AM on, uh, Saturday morning and midnight
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to 2 a.m. Sunday morning. And thank you so much,
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and we'll talk again soon.
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Thank you, John. Have a good Sunday, and thanks to
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the listeners.