What You Need to Know with Geoff Plitt

Russia and China Building a Lunar Moon Base?! (And More SCIENCE and TECH News)


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This is cool. Perseverance, NASA's most advanced geological rover, has landed on Mars and beamed back its first pictures. Out of habit, NASA scientists immediately responded back "please send nudes".

Check this out. Russia and China are about to sign a deal to build the first moon base together, snubbing the US. Sure, authoritarian governments setting up a moon base, what could go wrong? How long before some free-thinking Chinese astronaut blurts "Xi looks like Winnie the Pooh" and ends up in moon-jail? Or before a rebellious cosmonaut says "Putin sucks" and gets pushed out of a moon-window "by accident"?
In Cupertino news, Apple is looking for engineers to help build the next-generation cellular connectivity known as "6G". One thing's for sure, this will create a ton of new jobs-- mostly QAnon "research" jobs to fabricate new lies about diseases caused by 6G. Or as QAnon calls it, 666G.
Listen up, vegans. Candy company Nestle has created a new vegan KitKat bar that has no milk. It's perfect for that person in your life who wants their chocolate to taste like powdered broccoli. It kills two birds with one stone, because they also wanted to try making a product without sales or customers.
Finally, scientists have cloned an endangered species of ferret, from a sample of one that died 33 years ago. I have obtained exclusive footage of a reaction from the experiment's main investor. "Gooooooooood". Apparently the ferret behaves just like the one from 1988 it was cloned from-- it loves cassette tapes, parachute pants, and buying shares of IBM.

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What You Need to Know with Geoff PlittBy Geoff Plitt