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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining us now Kevin Sirelli, the host of iHeartMedia's daily
podcasts Hello Future with Kevin Sirelli. Kevin, welcome in, Thanks
for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, thanks for being It's a great day. We didn't
get hit by an asteroid.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Speaking of asteroids, You're right, did I see correctly that
this thing was only three hundred miles away and we
dodged a bullet and nobody even knew about it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Uh? Yeah, nobody knew about it. Not good. So yesterday
I interviewed this astronaut who spent six months aboard the ISS,
the International Space Station. Now he leads up the Asteroid Institute.
So the first thing is, I'm glad we have an
asteroid institute. I learned that yesterday. Second thing is there's
millions of asteroids in our Solar system that come in
(00:41):
all shapes and sizes, everything from the size of a
scooter to a dinosaur killer that's, you know, a couple
of miles in diameter. So I mean we now. The
good news is, which should make everybody feel good, is
the small ones are really hard to track, like the
one that was zoomed by Antarctica. But the good news
(01:02):
is the big ones because of our telescopes now, like
James Webb and the Ruben, we can we can see
the big ones, and we can track those ones a
couple of years out, and we have the technology to
jolt them off their trajectory. Lord forbid we would ever
see something that could make us end up like the dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, I got it, it was. My next question is these
things are out there. They're like you know, kidney stones.
When you get them and you go through lift the trips,
it breaks them down into multiple different ways. I mean,
they're always flying through space. And how have we never
really been hit by a bad one?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well question? The good well we have, I mean, don't
the dinosaurs would disagree with you. But the good news
is our atmosphere that actually protects us because if they're
super small like the like the kidney stone analogy, which
is a great analogy by the way, it evaporates when
it gets into our atmosphere. So our planet literally has
(01:55):
a way to protect us on its own. But the
other good news is that we actually have demonstrated, as
a country the capabilities to move them off their trajectory.
So there's some conversation about this asteroid that has a
four percent chance of hitting the Moon in twenty thirty
two about whether or not to send a nuclear bomb
against it to jault its trajectory. That's one actual scenario
(02:19):
that we could deploy. The second one is lasering it,
and the third one is actually flying like a comic
kazi robotic satellite right into it, which is candidly the
cheapest way to do it and also demonstrates a high
rate of success because all you really have to do
is just give it a little love tap, like you're
on driving down the freeway, and you just bump it
(02:40):
off of its trajectory and you save mankind, or in
this case, you saved the moon.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I saw him again. I'm familiar with how they worked.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I guess it's a great movie. It's a great movie.
Well they actually used real footage in that movie, which
people don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, I mean, it's just fascinating and hopefully you get
the government back up and running here with a shutdown.
I got to think that NASA's got some folks that
are sitting on the sidelines right now.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, you know, and listen, I mean a lot of people.
Obviously that's a political issue and whatnot with NASA, but
the shutdown comes at a time for NASA when there
from Sean Duffy, the acting Administrator of NASA, is putting
a lot of emphasis on Artemis to get us back
to the Moon. It also comes at a really big
resurgence of the space industry as a whole. NASA is
(03:23):
losing some of its clout because we live in a country,
a capitalist society, where the private sector is picking up
so much of the innovation that was started decades ago
by NASA, which I would argue is a great thing. Yeah,
and the space industry as a whole is going to
be worth a trillion dollars by twenty thirty two.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Incredible. Well, Kevin, I really appreciate you. Thank you for
your insight this morning. Good great to catch up with you.
Check him out Iheart's daily podcast, Hello Future with Kevin Sirilli.
Joining us now Kevin Sirelli, the host of iHeartMedia's daily
podcasts Hello Future with Kevin Sirelli. Kevin, welcome in, Thanks
for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, thanks for being It's a great day. We didn't
get hit by an asteroid.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Speaking of asteroids, You're right, did I see correctly that
this thing was only three hundred miles away and we
dodged a bullet and nobody even knew about it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Uh? Yeah, nobody knew about it. Not good. So yesterday
I interviewed this astronaut who spent six months aboard the ISS,
the International Space Station. Now he leads up the Asteroid Institute.
So the first thing is, I'm glad we have an
asteroid institute. I learned that yesterday. Second thing is there's
millions of asteroids in our Solar system that come in
(00:41):
all shapes and sizes, everything from the size of a
scooter to a dinosaur killer that's, you know, a couple
of miles in diameter. So I mean we now. The
good news is, which should make everybody feel good, is
the small ones are really hard to track, like the
one that was zoomed by Antarctica. But the good news
(01:02):
is the big ones because of our telescopes now, like
James Webb and the Ruben, we can we can see
the big ones, and we can track those ones a
couple of years out, and we have the technology to
jolt them off their trajectory. Lord forbid we would ever
see something that could make us end up like the dinosaurs.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Well, I got it, it was. My next question is these
things are out there. They're like you know, kidney stones.
When you get them and you go through lift the trips,
it breaks them down into multiple different ways. I mean,
they're always flying through space. And how have we never
really been hit by a bad one?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well question? The good well we have, I mean, don't
the dinosaurs would disagree with you. But the good news
is our atmosphere that actually protects us because if they're
super small like the like the kidney stone analogy, which
is a great analogy by the way, it evaporates when
it gets into our atmosphere. So our planet literally has
(01:55):
a way to protect us on its own. But the
other good news is that we actually have demonstrated, as
a country the capabilities to move them off their trajectory.
So there's some conversation about this asteroid that has a
four percent chance of hitting the Moon in twenty thirty
two about whether or not to send a nuclear bomb
against it to jault its trajectory. That's one actual scenario
(02:19):
that we could deploy. The second one is lasering it,
and the third one is actually flying like a comic
kazi robotic satellite right into it, which is candidly the
cheapest way to do it and also demonstrates a high
rate of success because all you really have to do
is just give it a little love tap, like you're
on driving down the freeway, and you just bump it
(02:40):
off of its trajectory and you save mankind, or in
this case, you saved the moon.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I saw him again. I'm familiar with how they worked.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I guess it's a great movie. It's a great movie.
Well they actually used real footage in that movie, which
people don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, I mean, it's just fascinating and hopefully you get
the government back up and running here with a shutdown.
I got to think that NASA's got some folks that
are sitting on the sidelines right now.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, you know, and listen, I mean a lot of people.
Obviously that's a political issue and whatnot with NASA, but
the shutdown comes at a time for NASA when there
from Sean Duffy, the acting Administrator of NASA, is putting
a lot of emphasis on Artemis to get us back
to the Moon. It also comes at a really big
resurgence of the space industry as a whole. NASA is
(03:23):
losing some of its clout because we live in a country,
a capitalist society, where the private sector is picking up
so much of the innovation that was started decades ago
by NASA, which I would argue is a great thing. Yeah,
and the space industry as a whole is going to
be worth a trillion dollars by twenty thirty two.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Incredible. Well, Kevin, I really appreciate you. Thank you for
your insight this morning. Good great to catch up with you.
Check him out Iheart's daily podcast, Hello Future with Kevin Sirilli.
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