Conversations With Joe

The race to the moon was always more about dueling superpowers than the spirit of exploration. And because of that, enormous risks and creative leaps were made to reach their goal. For that and many other reasons, the Apollo program was one of the most insane ventures ever undertaken, and here are 10 reasons why.

Here's the full film, In Event Of Moon Disaster, which features the Nixon deep fake:

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Nothing like a good paradox to melt your brain. So today we're going to look at some of the most interesting and mind-blowing paradoxes and thought experiments.

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There's no shortage of battery storage solutions these days, but one of the most interesting (and one with massive potential) is the liquid metal battery - a battery that you literally melt. So let's talk about how it works, the pros and cons, and how they stack up against Tesla's lithium-ion battery packs.

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With Artemis 1 stacking right now and the first launch planned by the end of the year, the moon is getting more attention than we have seen since the 1960s. The plan this time is to stay in a permanent moon colony, supported by mining operations on the lunar surface. But what could we mine there? And why will it be necessary for our future moon ambitions as well as interplanetary travel?

There's gold in them there craters. Let's take a look.

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Carl Sagan is an absolute legend and a hero, and his book Contact and the movie it's based on is phenomenal. HOWEVER... we examined the central conceit of the story - that aliens pick up our radio signals and return a message with instructions to build a machine - and look at the stars inside the 100 light-year bubble around Earth where our radio waves have traveled. And the potential of this happening... Well, it isn't good.

Sorry Carl.

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Up to 70% of amputees claim to feel pain in their missing limbs, and we're still not completely sure why. Some of the theories range from nerve damage to crossed wires in the brain to a redrawing of the mind's map. And some new therapies involving simple mirror illusions and cutting edge technology are helping amputees live less painful lives. And it's also making us question the very nature of reality.

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On June 15 of 2009, the body of a middle-aged man was found on Rosses Point Beach in County Sligo, Ireland. He had no identification on him, no passport, even the tags had been removed from his clothes. Over the following days, as authorities reviewed his activity with security camera footage, they found that he went to great pains to dispose of his personal effects without anybody seeing. This was a man who wanted to disappear completely. And he was almost successful. But one random thing went wrong and turned him into one of the biggest internet mysteries of all time.

Who was Peter Bergmann?

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How did a crazed serial attacker in 1830s London become an urban legend, then a fictional anti-hero, then the inspiration for Batman? It's a fascinating mystery that has never been solved. So let's talk about Spring-Heeled Jack, the first urban legend.

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On December 2nd, 1984 the city of Bhopal India suffered a gas leak from the Union Carbide plant that killed tens of thousands of people and is still crippling the local population more than 35 years later. It's a story of economic inequality, corporate negligence, and human resilience.

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