June 8, 2026 • 23 mins
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Did Spencer Pratt really have a chance in L.A? Fraud allegations continue. Host of the ‘This Week in Space’ podcast Rod Pyle joins the show for ‘Cool Space News.’ Today, Rod talks about NASA’s moon base plans, and air leak at the International Space Station, Space X’s highly anticipated IPO, and NASA’s X-59 jet breaking sound barrier for the first time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
June eighth. Jury selection begins today for the man accused
of starting the Palisades fire. And if you go to
the Philippines and you're trying to go to ka karaoke bar,
you're not going to make it. Seven point eight magnitude
earthquake rocked the Philippines yesterday. At least thirty two people
(00:31):
have been killed, over two hundred injured.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh, And then there's a lawsuit over the weekend that
tries to stop the upcoming UFC fight to be held
on the White House line.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Lawn.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Plant is allege that the events filate Park Service regulations
because it benefits the president and his allies. The UFC
folks have suggested that they'll take the plaintiff on in
a fight, and whoever wins is going to yeah pretty much. Yeah,
(01:03):
now we'll see. Okay, a couple of stories. I want
to talk about the election in Los Angeles. This is
the primary. The final vote for mayor comes up in November.
November elections, and this has to do with three people
Nithia Rahman, a Democrat, very left wing. You've got Karen
(01:27):
Bass who is sort of I would say, a moderate
left winger, although conservatives will certainly argue with that, and
either one and we have not gotten a And then
of course Spencer Pratt, who is the MAGA. He's the
MAGA candidate. Now, mail in ballots will continue through today
(01:51):
or tomorrow. And here is what's going on. She is
moving and that's Raman if moving into second place against
incumbnent Karen Bass. So what why? What is going on? Well,
it all has to do with male in balloting and
(02:12):
the ability to change the ballots. California has some rules
allowing people to vote later than almost any other state,
allows more ways to vote, and the allegation is that
that is fraudule and I'll deal more without a few
minutes later, Pratt was substantially ahead of Raman. Karen Bass
(02:35):
had to lead the whole time. So she's gonna make
it to the general clearly because the top two that
was a sneeze. The top two candidates moved to the
general notwithstanding apology or notwithstanding the party they are with.
So you're gonna have two Democrats. You can have two Republicans,
(02:58):
and here we may have to wed Democrats probably will
because here is what happens whenever you have these votes,
any vote, whether it's city, whether it's county, whether it's statewide,
and that is that on election day, Republicans do very well.
Because Republicans tend to vote on that day, they don't
(03:20):
do as much mail in. They certainly don't do afterwards.
And California allows mail in bean ballots to continue on
beyond election day if it is postmarked election day and
I voted very late, so I had to go to
the post office to drop off my vote the day
of the election, and it's going to be counted later.
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On the other thing, if I had dropped it off,
well I did, and as long as it's postmark it
can be counted up to seven days afterwards. And therein
lies a big problem has been a dramatic shift in
Ramen's favor because those male in ballots are starting to
(04:09):
be counted. Pratt led Ramen by several thousand votes. However,
the latest update Pratt Ramen leads by three thousand votes.
I mean nothing because in the latest updated Ramen took
in nineteen thousand votes. Bass got sixteen thousand votes. Pratt
(04:34):
only received eighty four hundred votes. And this is the
reason why Republicans are yelling fraud. And there's two types
of fraud and I'm going to talk about that in
a minute that are being alleged. One is just plain
old stupid, and that is, we know fraud, and when
asked about specifics, there are no specifics. We just know
(05:00):
fraud is happening. The other argument, and this one actually
is an argument saying that the entire system the way California,
the laws and the rules in California that allow those
later votes, even to the point where if you have,
for example, put your signature on wrong, you can't change
(05:24):
that signature up to two weeks, which means it will
be it can't be before June twenty six that the
official count is published. And so the argument is that
the entire system is fraudulent. Okay, I mean I don't
agree with that. I don't think it's going to be
Dean fraudulent. But you can argue that the system is fraudulent. However,
(05:50):
arguing that specific races are fraudulent, which is being bandied about,
that is downright stupid. You know why there's no proof.
It's an allegation. It's just a straight allegation. And when
asked about specifics, and this goes all the way from
the President on down among Republicans, where's the proof, where's
(06:16):
the beef? Well, we don't actually have any, but we
know it's happening. So the allegation has already started that
fraud has taken place. And there's two allegations. Number one,
the whole system is fraudulent or at least susceptible to fraudulent,
and the other some specific races, for example, the PRAT
(06:37):
race is fraudulent. Okay. Where well, they really don't have
any proof, but it's fraudulent. Where what are the specifics, Well,
we don't have any specifics, but we know is fraudulent.
And when asked, how do you know it's fraudulent if
you don't have specifics, Well, we may not have specifics,
(06:58):
but we know it is. Okay. Here's the example. You're
being tried for a crime. It's only allegations, there is
no proof, and you're in front of the jury and
the jury says, we don't have any proof of you
committing a crime, but we know you've committed a crime.
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In our hearts. We know that's what you have done.
But wait a minute, how about our system that says
you have to look at the evidence. We don't have
to look at the evidence because we know that fraud
has taken place. Okay, let me make an example. Just
because you think if my grandmother had balls, she'd be
(07:41):
my grandfather. She does not, so therefore she is not
my grandfather. But we know she is. Even though there
are no balls, we know she's your grandfather. I mean,
do you see the problem. This is one of the
reasons that Rudy Giuliani got bounced and lost his license
(08:04):
and was disbarred is because of the allegations that were
made as to specific fraudulent voting that went on. So
he makes the allegation, goes to court to unravel the vote,
and the judge says, said, where is your proof? I
(08:27):
have it in my hotel room. And the judge says, okay,
that's what he said. We'll recess until you come back
with the proof. And so he comes back at two
o'clock and the judge once again says, okay, where's your proof? Well,
I know I had it, but I don't know where
(08:48):
it is. So all the Way to the top. Christian
Welker of NBC was interviewing the president where he said
fraud has taken place, and she said give me some
specific saying he wouldn't. It's I know the system is fraudulent.
Is there any proof of widespread fraud? That is the
(09:09):
that's really the question, widespread fraud. You got one hundred
and fifty million votes. You think you're going to find
some fraud someplace. Yeah, yeah, but it's wide spread fraud.
There was Oh my god. California Attorney General has said
(09:31):
that the monitoring of the election, the voting was absolutely crazy.
Justin Levitt, an election law expert, said that sel who
is the US attorney And he said Levitt said, well,
(09:52):
we go ahead and we conduct investigations for fraud all
the time, which you can't offer specifics. You don't have
anything to go on, and it's straight out you're investigating
something that really doesn't exist. You're just doing this. And
when asked specifically, he said, well, the US Attorney we
(10:16):
go after fraud all the time. Okay, what kind of
fraud do you go after? Well, criminal fraud, we go
after embezzlement, we go after elder fraud, where people have
been defrauded of money. How about the election fraud? Do
you have any specifics? No, we don't, but it doesn't matter.
(10:39):
Specifics don't matter when a Democrat wins. The president is
still arguing the twenty twenty election was fraud, complete utter fraud.
Joe Biden won, and once again the question is, show
show me the beef. We don't have any, but we
know as fraudulent. See, those are the two issues, big issue,
(11:02):
that the entire system is flawed and fraudulent. You can
make that argument all there is absolutely no proof of
it at all. If there was proof, why don't you
bring it to the table. If there was proof. When
all the lawsuits were filed for the twenty twenty election
declaring fraud, sixty three judges wanted specifics and couldn't and
it couldn't be brought to into court. And so the
(11:24):
lawsuits are flying again and the same thing is going
to happen. Where's the beef, Well, there isn't any, but
we know, we know exactly what's happening, because in our
heart of hearts we know this is fraudulent. It's pretty
scary stuff. Don't get arrested, by the way, right. Don't
get on the radar screen of any authority, because if
(11:48):
they haul you into court and you haven't done it,
it doesn't matter as long as in their heart they
know you have all right. Moving on to a fun
topic I always love to do. Rod Pile, our space expert,
Cool Space News is a segment his podcast is This
Week in Space, Rod, let's start with the NASA Moon
(12:13):
base plans. How close are we to putting a base
on the Moon?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Good Morningville. We are not close. We have a lot
to do, and we have a lot to do before
last week when that new Glen rocket blew up and
that throws a monkey wrench into our plans for the
earliest landings. But a few weeks ago NASA did announce
this new plan for a Moon base, which had kind
of been in discussion but drifting a bit. And they're
(12:40):
committed to spending twenty billion over seven years, which isn't
all that much for what they're trying to do, but
it's a commitment, and basically, I mean, I look at
it as Elon Musk's coffee creamer money, but you know,
twenty billion is twenty billion.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So they've got the.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Three phase plan first to explore the surface by twenty
five ish robotic flight, then start landing cargo, then start
landing actual modules. And interestingly, some of these modules may
already be built, because we had plans for an orbiting
lunar station called the Gateway, which got canceled in that
same press conference, and it had been kind of on
(13:17):
the ins and outs for a number of years. So
it looks like they may take some of those things
and actually try and land them on the surface and
use those for the earliest habitat.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
What are they comprised of? What is it going to
look like? Yeah, two story building, it's going to look
like a bunch of tents that you would find downtown
LA for the homeless. And how many of them and interconnected?
And how are people going to live? And how are
they going to be able to grow broccoly outside? So
(13:46):
describe what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
So these will look a lot like the modules we
see on the International Space Station already, accept smaller for
the existing ones.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
For the new ones, it's anybody's guests. I don't think
there's been major work.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Done on them, but they're basically either cylindrical or roughly rectangular,
and very industrial looking.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Hopefully the interiors.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Will be a little bit more user friendly than the
space station because on the Moon, of course you do
have gravity. It's only one sixth verse, but you do
have gravity. So you want to have a sense of
a floor, maybe some side windows, ceiling, deckcre because people
are going to be living here for a long time,
whereas in the space station, because you're floating, there is
no floor, ceiling or sides. Everything is just up. So
(14:32):
I think it'll look very different in terms of assembly.
They'll be landed as far as we know so far. Anyway,
this is still very early in separate modules and then connected.
Hopefully they'll be able to do some of that robotically,
because at least the plan for today is to do
this at the south pole of.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
The Moon, and we want to be down there.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Because there's water ice, and water ice could be made
to breathe the blocks of gender and rocket fuel and
drinking water and so forth.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So that's very valuable.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
But the south pole of the Moon is w the
hardest places to get to, in a tough place to
work because if some of the coldest temperature in the
Solar system. So hopefully they'll be able to assemble those robotically.
There is one more thing You've got radiation to worry about.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
There.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
So in the International Space Station that's still under the
bulk of the Earth's magnetosphere and most of the radiation
is blocked out.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
It's equivalent to.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Maybe flying very high in a jet airliner, whereas on.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
The Moon you're getting radiation.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Straight in from the Sun and from outside the solar system.
So over time you're probably going to see them stacking dirt,
like up to maybe five or six feet of dirt
over this thing, because lunar soil is a very good
absorber of heavy radiation.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Okay, so you describe a very small facility that people
are going to be camped at. It seems pretty claustrophobic,
where there's just going to be enough room to move around,
a little bit, sleep, and obviously you have toilet facility
these I mean, how how long are people going to
be there? And it's going to be a tough way
(16:05):
to go in terms of living, just in terms of
the environment, living environment.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah, you're right, I mean it's kind of an extended
camping trip. I suspect the early deployments will.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Probably be a month to ninety days.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I'm just I'm in Rushing and DC right now finishing
a conference. A bunch of astronauts were here, and when
you spend time with them, you always reminded they're a special.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Breed of people.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
One of them was apoll of seventeen, Harrison Schmidt. He
spent three days on the Moon doing three eva's there,
and I got to tell you, man, these guys they
were tough because you know, you think this is primitive.
Living in two hundred and twenty cubic feet for that
number of days on the moon is really primitive. But
you know that's how they downselect these people. Over time,
(16:52):
as it gets better, more scientists and more technicians to
be able to go out there, and it'll be a
little easier. But for the first ten years it's going
to be compacts, you're right, and very very science driven.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Okay, rod air leak on the space station and so
a couple of things. How dangerous was it and how
did they fix it with either, for example, a tutsi
roll or duct tape.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Well you almost could, So you know, it's important to
know this leak's been going on for seven years. So
the space stations as finished twenty six years old. This
is the Russian module, the Vestia module. It was actually built.
It started nineteen eighty two, completed in eighty five to
be flown as a Russian space station, and then the
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Soviet Union collapsed. We said, okay, we'll take it and
put it on the ISS. We don't want you giving
it to evil people or anything, so we want it.
So it became part of the International Space Station. And
again that's been a service twenty six years now. So
this crack appeared about seven years ago. It's weird. It
comes and goes in severity. This is another one of
those periods of time where apparently the structure flex that
(18:03):
opened up a bit bigger leaks, so they sent there
were seven people up there right now. Five of them
went and took refuge in the SpaceX screw Dragon capsule,
which is their getaway car if they need it, and
then the two Russian cosmonauts went over into their module.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And tried to fix it.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Now, the problem is you got cabinets and electronics and
wires and all this stuff bolted to the wall, so
you have to train it behind that stuff and then
steal it with epoxy. But every time something docks with
the space station or every time, and the dozens of
times they have to do it every year they have
to move it to get out of the way of
an errant satellite or something. That whole big structure flexes.
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And the concern is that if this is metal fatigue,
it could really open up and just suddenly let the
air out at some point, which could be calamitous. So
that's why they're so careful about it and take these precautions.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm assuming that there are plans and they practice and
they are dealing with this from literally the inception and
number two question on this one, the Russians collapsed. Russia
collapsed where the Soviet Union did? Did they finish their
portion of it or just hand it over the United
(19:23):
States for completion.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
That's a really good point. It was a little bit
of both. I think this particular module and the second
one they provided were pretty much finished.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But they've been sitting in.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Mothballs for a long time, and NASA had different standards
than Soviet Union slash now Russia did and do, so
they had to have a meeting of the mines in
the middle. What's amazing is that since the invasion of
Ukraine and earlier of the CRIMEA. Things with the space
station between Russia and the US have continued to go
really well. On the ground, it's a total mess. We
(19:56):
hate each other, but up there they're working together, they're
getting along, and even on the ground, the two Michigan
controls really work well together. The question now is how
long do we keep the space station. There's a lot
of people when I do talks and stuff that will say, well,
why can't we keep it up there as a private
hotel or something. It was really purpose built just for research,
and it's really old, and the astronauts at this point
(20:19):
spend almost sixty percent of their time just keeping it going.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
So it's time to bring it down.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All it's past its lifespan, isn't it is proposed lifespan?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, yeah, well passed, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And then bringing it down means they just stop using
their thrusters that keep it up, and then this thing
just falls to the Earth because of gravity and entering
the atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Do I have that right kind of? I mean, you
don't want another skylab where it was out of control
and we couldn't get up there in time to aim
at exactly where we want it, So Actually, they've given
SpaceX a contract to build a thruster module that would
dock with it and push it down at the time
that we choose, because you want this to re enter
and come down over this big empty patch of the
Pacific Ocean, which is a spacecraft graveyard. We used it
(21:08):
for years, so that it doesn't end up somewhere in burbank.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Is there an official date to bring this thing down
or they're just going to keep it going as long
as they can.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
They're talking between twenty thirty and twenty thirty two. I
think unless this leak gets worse or another one appears,
they'll probably push it out to twenty twenty thirty two,
maybe twenty thirty four.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
But at that point the.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Hope is this three companies have been contracted, with a
fourth coming in behind them, most of interestingly located in
Long Beach, who are building private space station.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
NASA's giving them some money.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
One or two of them will dock with the ISS
first and then on dock before that's brought down, and
eventually the whole operation they're hoping to turn over to
private contractors with three or four space stations.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
All right, Rod, as always, thanks for the information. And
you can go to the podcast and get a whole
lot more information this week in space that Rod hosts.
So we'll talk again next time we have either a
major leak where that would be entertaining, but you know,
get that all right, Take care Rod? All right. Oh
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June eighth. Jury selection begins today for the man accused
of starting the Palisades fire. And if you go to
the Philippines and you're trying to go to ka karaoke bar,
you're not going to make it. Seven point eight magnitude
earthquake rocked the Philippines yesterday. At least thirty two people
(00:31):
have been killed, over two hundred injured.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Oh, And then there's a lawsuit over the weekend that
tries to stop the upcoming UFC fight to be held
on the White House line.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Lawn.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Plant is allege that the events filate Park Service regulations
because it benefits the president and his allies. The UFC
folks have suggested that they'll take the plaintiff on in
a fight, and whoever wins is going to yeah pretty much. Yeah,
(01:03):
now we'll see. Okay, a couple of stories. I want
to talk about the election in Los Angeles. This is
the primary. The final vote for mayor comes up in November.
November elections, and this has to do with three people
Nithia Rahman, a Democrat, very left wing. You've got Karen
(01:27):
Bass who is sort of I would say, a moderate
left winger, although conservatives will certainly argue with that, and
either one and we have not gotten a And then
of course Spencer Pratt, who is the MAGA. He's the
MAGA candidate. Now, mail in ballots will continue through today
(01:51):
or tomorrow. And here is what's going on. She is
moving and that's Raman if moving into second place against
incumbnent Karen Bass. So what why? What is going on? Well,
it all has to do with male in balloting and
(02:12):
the ability to change the ballots. California has some rules
allowing people to vote later than almost any other state,
allows more ways to vote, and the allegation is that
that is fraudule and I'll deal more without a few
minutes later, Pratt was substantially ahead of Raman. Karen Bass
(02:35):
had to lead the whole time. So she's gonna make
it to the general clearly because the top two that
was a sneeze. The top two candidates moved to the
general notwithstanding apology or notwithstanding the party they are with.
So you're gonna have two Democrats. You can have two Republicans,
(02:58):
and here we may have to wed Democrats probably will
because here is what happens whenever you have these votes,
any vote, whether it's city, whether it's county, whether it's statewide,
and that is that on election day, Republicans do very well.
Because Republicans tend to vote on that day, they don't
(03:20):
do as much mail in. They certainly don't do afterwards.
And California allows mail in bean ballots to continue on
beyond election day if it is postmarked election day and
I voted very late, so I had to go to
the post office to drop off my vote the day
of the election, and it's going to be counted later.
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On the other thing, if I had dropped it off,
well I did, and as long as it's postmark it
can be counted up to seven days afterwards. And therein
lies a big problem has been a dramatic shift in
Ramen's favor because those male in ballots are starting to
(04:09):
be counted. Pratt led Ramen by several thousand votes. However,
the latest update Pratt Ramen leads by three thousand votes.
I mean nothing because in the latest updated Ramen took
in nineteen thousand votes. Bass got sixteen thousand votes. Pratt
(04:34):
only received eighty four hundred votes. And this is the
reason why Republicans are yelling fraud. And there's two types
of fraud and I'm going to talk about that in
a minute that are being alleged. One is just plain
old stupid, and that is, we know fraud, and when
asked about specifics, there are no specifics. We just know
(05:00):
fraud is happening. The other argument, and this one actually
is an argument saying that the entire system the way California,
the laws and the rules in California that allow those
later votes, even to the point where if you have,
for example, put your signature on wrong, you can't change
(05:24):
that signature up to two weeks, which means it will
be it can't be before June twenty six that the
official count is published. And so the argument is that
the entire system is fraudulent. Okay, I mean I don't
agree with that. I don't think it's going to be
Dean fraudulent. But you can argue that the system is fraudulent. However,
(05:50):
arguing that specific races are fraudulent, which is being bandied about,
that is downright stupid. You know why there's no proof.
It's an allegation. It's just a straight allegation. And when
asked about specifics, and this goes all the way from
the President on down among Republicans, where's the proof, where's
(06:16):
the beef? Well, we don't actually have any, but we
know it's happening. So the allegation has already started that
fraud has taken place. And there's two allegations. Number one,
the whole system is fraudulent or at least susceptible to fraudulent,
and the other some specific races, for example, the PRAT
(06:37):
race is fraudulent. Okay. Where well, they really don't have
any proof, but it's fraudulent. Where what are the specifics, Well,
we don't have any specifics, but we know is fraudulent.
And when asked, how do you know it's fraudulent if
you don't have specifics, Well, we may not have specifics,
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but we know it is. Okay. Here's the example. You're
being tried for a crime. It's only allegations, there is
no proof, and you're in front of the jury and
the jury says, we don't have any proof of you
committing a crime, but we know you've committed a crime.
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In our hearts. We know that's what you have done.
But wait a minute, how about our system that says
you have to look at the evidence. We don't have
to look at the evidence because we know that fraud
has taken place. Okay, let me make an example. Just
because you think if my grandmother had balls, she'd be
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my grandfather. She does not, so therefore she is not
my grandfather. But we know she is. Even though there
are no balls, we know she's your grandfather. I mean,
do you see the problem. This is one of the
reasons that Rudy Giuliani got bounced and lost his license
(08:04):
and was disbarred is because of the allegations that were
made as to specific fraudulent voting that went on. So
he makes the allegation, goes to court to unravel the vote,
and the judge says, said, where is your proof? I
(08:27):
have it in my hotel room. And the judge says, okay,
that's what he said. We'll recess until you come back
with the proof. And so he comes back at two
o'clock and the judge once again says, okay, where's your proof? Well,
I know I had it, but I don't know where
(08:48):
it is. So all the Way to the top. Christian
Welker of NBC was interviewing the president where he said
fraud has taken place, and she said give me some
specific saying he wouldn't. It's I know the system is fraudulent.
Is there any proof of widespread fraud? That is the
(09:09):
that's really the question, widespread fraud. You got one hundred
and fifty million votes. You think you're going to find
some fraud someplace. Yeah, yeah, but it's wide spread fraud.
There was Oh my god. California Attorney General has said
(09:31):
that the monitoring of the election, the voting was absolutely crazy.
Justin Levitt, an election law expert, said that sel who
is the US attorney And he said Levitt said, well,
(09:52):
we go ahead and we conduct investigations for fraud all
the time, which you can't offer specifics. You don't have
anything to go on, and it's straight out you're investigating
something that really doesn't exist. You're just doing this. And
when asked specifically, he said, well, the US Attorney we
(10:16):
go after fraud all the time. Okay, what kind of
fraud do you go after? Well, criminal fraud, we go
after embezzlement, we go after elder fraud, where people have
been defrauded of money. How about the election fraud? Do
you have any specifics? No, we don't, but it doesn't matter.
(10:39):
Specifics don't matter when a Democrat wins. The president is
still arguing the twenty twenty election was fraud, complete utter fraud.
Joe Biden won, and once again the question is, show
show me the beef. We don't have any, but we
know as fraudulent. See, those are the two issues, big issue,
(11:02):
that the entire system is flawed and fraudulent. You can
make that argument all there is absolutely no proof of
it at all. If there was proof, why don't you
bring it to the table. If there was proof. When
all the lawsuits were filed for the twenty twenty election
declaring fraud, sixty three judges wanted specifics and couldn't and
it couldn't be brought to into court. And so the
(11:24):
lawsuits are flying again and the same thing is going
to happen. Where's the beef, Well, there isn't any, but
we know, we know exactly what's happening, because in our
heart of hearts we know this is fraudulent. It's pretty
scary stuff. Don't get arrested, by the way, right. Don't
get on the radar screen of any authority, because if
(11:48):
they haul you into court and you haven't done it,
it doesn't matter as long as in their heart they
know you have all right. Moving on to a fun
topic I always love to do. Rod Pile, our space expert,
Cool Space News is a segment his podcast is This
Week in Space, Rod, let's start with the NASA Moon
(12:13):
base plans. How close are we to putting a base
on the Moon?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Good Morningville. We are not close. We have a lot
to do, and we have a lot to do before
last week when that new Glen rocket blew up and
that throws a monkey wrench into our plans for the
earliest landings. But a few weeks ago NASA did announce
this new plan for a Moon base, which had kind
of been in discussion but drifting a bit. And they're
(12:40):
committed to spending twenty billion over seven years, which isn't
all that much for what they're trying to do, but
it's a commitment, and basically, I mean, I look at
it as Elon Musk's coffee creamer money, but you know,
twenty billion is twenty billion.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So they've got the.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Three phase plan first to explore the surface by twenty
five ish robotic flight, then start landing cargo, then start
landing actual modules. And interestingly, some of these modules may
already be built, because we had plans for an orbiting
lunar station called the Gateway, which got canceled in that
same press conference, and it had been kind of on
(13:17):
the ins and outs for a number of years. So
it looks like they may take some of those things
and actually try and land them on the surface and
use those for the earliest habitat.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
What are they comprised of? What is it going to
look like? Yeah, two story building, it's going to look
like a bunch of tents that you would find downtown
LA for the homeless. And how many of them and interconnected?
And how are people going to live? And how are
they going to be able to grow broccoly outside? So
(13:46):
describe what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
So these will look a lot like the modules we
see on the International Space Station already, accept smaller for
the existing ones.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
For the new ones, it's anybody's guests. I don't think
there's been major work.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Done on them, but they're basically either cylindrical or roughly rectangular,
and very industrial looking.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Hopefully the interiors.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Will be a little bit more user friendly than the
space station because on the Moon, of course you do
have gravity. It's only one sixth verse, but you do
have gravity. So you want to have a sense of
a floor, maybe some side windows, ceiling, deckcre because people
are going to be living here for a long time,
whereas in the space station, because you're floating, there is
no floor, ceiling or sides. Everything is just up. So
(14:32):
I think it'll look very different in terms of assembly.
They'll be landed as far as we know so far. Anyway,
this is still very early in separate modules and then connected.
Hopefully they'll be able to do some of that robotically,
because at least the plan for today is to do
this at the south pole of.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
The Moon, and we want to be down there.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Because there's water ice, and water ice could be made
to breathe the blocks of gender and rocket fuel and
drinking water and so forth.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
So that's very valuable.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
But the south pole of the Moon is w the
hardest places to get to, in a tough place to
work because if some of the coldest temperature in the
Solar system. So hopefully they'll be able to assemble those robotically.
There is one more thing You've got radiation to worry about.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
There.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
So in the International Space Station that's still under the
bulk of the Earth's magnetosphere and most of the radiation
is blocked out.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
It's equivalent to.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Maybe flying very high in a jet airliner, whereas on.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
The Moon you're getting radiation.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Straight in from the Sun and from outside the solar system.
So over time you're probably going to see them stacking dirt,
like up to maybe five or six feet of dirt
over this thing, because lunar soil is a very good
absorber of heavy radiation.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Okay, so you describe a very small facility that people
are going to be camped at. It seems pretty claustrophobic,
where there's just going to be enough room to move around,
a little bit, sleep, and obviously you have toilet facility
these I mean, how how long are people going to
be there? And it's going to be a tough way
(16:05):
to go in terms of living, just in terms of
the environment, living environment.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah, you're right, I mean it's kind of an extended
camping trip. I suspect the early deployments will.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Probably be a month to ninety days.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I'm just I'm in Rushing and DC right now finishing
a conference. A bunch of astronauts were here, and when
you spend time with them, you always reminded they're a special.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Breed of people.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
One of them was apoll of seventeen, Harrison Schmidt. He
spent three days on the Moon doing three eva's there,
and I got to tell you, man, these guys they
were tough because you know, you think this is primitive.
Living in two hundred and twenty cubic feet for that
number of days on the moon is really primitive. But
you know that's how they downselect these people. Over time,
(16:52):
as it gets better, more scientists and more technicians to
be able to go out there, and it'll be a
little easier. But for the first ten years it's going
to be compacts, you're right, and very very science driven.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Okay, rod air leak on the space station and so
a couple of things. How dangerous was it and how
did they fix it with either, for example, a tutsi
roll or duct tape.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Well you almost could, So you know, it's important to
know this leak's been going on for seven years. So
the space stations as finished twenty six years old. This
is the Russian module, the Vestia module. It was actually built.
It started nineteen eighty two, completed in eighty five to
be flown as a Russian space station, and then the
(17:40):
Soviet Union collapsed. We said, okay, we'll take it and
put it on the ISS. We don't want you giving
it to evil people or anything, so we want it.
So it became part of the International Space Station. And
again that's been a service twenty six years now. So
this crack appeared about seven years ago. It's weird. It
comes and goes in severity. This is another one of
those periods of time where apparently the structure flex that
(18:03):
opened up a bit bigger leaks, so they sent there
were seven people up there right now. Five of them
went and took refuge in the SpaceX screw Dragon capsule,
which is their getaway car if they need it, and
then the two Russian cosmonauts went over into their module.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And tried to fix it.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
Now, the problem is you got cabinets and electronics and
wires and all this stuff bolted to the wall, so
you have to train it behind that stuff and then
steal it with epoxy. But every time something docks with
the space station or every time, and the dozens of
times they have to do it every year they have
to move it to get out of the way of
an errant satellite or something. That whole big structure flexes.
(18:47):
And the concern is that if this is metal fatigue,
it could really open up and just suddenly let the
air out at some point, which could be calamitous. So
that's why they're so careful about it and take these precautions.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I'm assuming that there are plans and they practice and
they are dealing with this from literally the inception and
number two question on this one, the Russians collapsed. Russia
collapsed where the Soviet Union did? Did they finish their
portion of it or just hand it over the United
(19:23):
States for completion.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
That's a really good point. It was a little bit
of both. I think this particular module and the second
one they provided were pretty much finished.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
But they've been sitting in.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Mothballs for a long time, and NASA had different standards
than Soviet Union slash now Russia did and do, so
they had to have a meeting of the mines in
the middle. What's amazing is that since the invasion of
Ukraine and earlier of the CRIMEA. Things with the space
station between Russia and the US have continued to go
really well. On the ground, it's a total mess. We
(19:56):
hate each other, but up there they're working together, they're
getting along, and even on the ground, the two Michigan
controls really work well together. The question now is how
long do we keep the space station. There's a lot
of people when I do talks and stuff that will say, well,
why can't we keep it up there as a private
hotel or something. It was really purpose built just for research,
and it's really old, and the astronauts at this point
(20:19):
spend almost sixty percent of their time just keeping it going.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
So it's time to bring it down.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All it's past its lifespan, isn't it is proposed lifespan?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, yeah, well passed, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And then bringing it down means they just stop using
their thrusters that keep it up, and then this thing
just falls to the Earth because of gravity and entering
the atmosphere.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Do I have that right kind of? I mean, you
don't want another skylab where it was out of control
and we couldn't get up there in time to aim
at exactly where we want it, So Actually, they've given
SpaceX a contract to build a thruster module that would
dock with it and push it down at the time
that we choose, because you want this to re enter
and come down over this big empty patch of the
Pacific Ocean, which is a spacecraft graveyard. We used it
(21:08):
for years, so that it doesn't end up somewhere in burbank.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Is there an official date to bring this thing down
or they're just going to keep it going as long
as they can.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
They're talking between twenty thirty and twenty thirty two. I
think unless this leak gets worse or another one appears,
they'll probably push it out to twenty twenty thirty two,
maybe twenty thirty four.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
But at that point the.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Hope is this three companies have been contracted, with a
fourth coming in behind them, most of interestingly located in
Long Beach, who are building private space station.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
NASA's giving them some money.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
One or two of them will dock with the ISS
first and then on dock before that's brought down, and
eventually the whole operation they're hoping to turn over to
private contractors with three or four space stations.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
All right, Rod, as always, thanks for the information. And
you can go to the podcast and get a whole
lot more information this week in space that Rod hosts.
So we'll talk again next time we have either a
major leak where that would be entertaining, but you know,
get that all right, Take care Rod? All right. Oh
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