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It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you good advice and bring you all the weeks news from both Mars and AFC Wimbledon. John, why is your foot never 12 inches? Um, why? Because 12 inches is infinitely precise.
It's originally defined length while a human foot is a soft, deformable biological object with no uniquely defined endpoints. There's no canonical measurement vertical and it is a length that varies with posture, load, a temperature, time of day and measurement error. Any real measurement has uncertainty. The boundary of the foot is fuzzy at the atomic scale and for a continuously varying quantity, the probability of matching one exact value is zero.
So a foot can be measured or described as 12 inches long, but in the mathematical and metrological sense, it can never be exactly 12 inches long. Did you ask chat GPT for a dad joke? No, no, that was me. I went to Reddit looking for a dad joke and there was one, it was why I had a hands never 12 inches long because then that would be a foot and then I thought to myself, well, what if a foot was exactly 12 inches long?
Actually, that would be impossible. And then I wrote that. Okay. Yeah, that's good.
It's good writing. It's so good that it reminded me of a sort of mid-level large language model. You really liked it. Yeah, I loved it.
How are you doing? I'm good. I'm good. I'm living the life.
I'm so glad that I have my chemistry degree so that I always have significant figures to fall back on as a potential dad joke. I in turn am glad I have my religion degree so that I can stare into the middle distance and contemplate the universe. Yeah, I made a TikTok recently about how somebody was asking if the self that they see in the mirror is different from the self that is like a past version of the self because of the time that takes a travel. Sure.
And then I had to remind him that the self was just a story that we tell to ourselves, not a real thing. Yeah, it's a lie that we whisper to ourselves to try to go on. Well, I don't know. I think that it's like selected for.
I think that it's I think we're biologically built up to feel itself. But maybe not actually. There are some people who say that like the self is a relatively recent phenomenon that was not around at the beginning of humanity for maybe quite a while. Right.
There are some people who say that until we can interview early humans. It will be hard to know for sure. Indeed. Indeed.
All right. Hank, let me ask you some questions from our listeners beginning with this one from Lauren who writes, Dear John and Hank, I recently had Google show me an article that tried to grab me with the title Millionaire YouTuber Hank Green. I saw that too. This is a wild article because it is pitched.
It is posed as if they interviewed me. But in fact, it is quotes from a video. It's great. It's great.
I didn't click it because I don't hate myself enough currently to fluff or that kind of click. They did get me thinking, what would you rather do click bait title slash honorific V? I would go with slightly deranged veterinarian Lauren personally. That feels like me.
Yes. Kangaroos and Kelpies. Lauren. On a journey of meaning, YouTuber Hank Green.
anxious has been John Green coming down the other side of the mountain, YouTuber John Green. I love that that Financial Times article called us, the Fault in Our Stars author and his brother, as if like, that's where we're at right now in 2025 with Hank Green answering questions on TikTok to hundreds of millions of viewers. Yeah, the question raised by that is simply, who is this article for? And do they have a better idea of the sort of state of the American vibe around us?
Yeah. I actually, John, can I tell you something weird? Sure. But we got to get back to this question because it's funny.
We certainly will. And this will help us, I'm sure. Okay. I was talking to my therapist who blissfully has no idea who I am.
Yeah. And I was talking to her about some things that had happened in my past and how I sort of carried them forward. And I think that they create some triggers for me. And I had to explain you a little bit.
And I was like, he's an author. He was very, very well known. He wrote The Fault in Our Stars. And she was like, Oh, no, did I ruin you for me?
Did I ruin it? No, it is true. For a certain segment of the American public, that is much more of a thing than all of our online work, which is so funny because as proud as I am of The Fault in Our Stars and how the movie did and everything, like, I do not think of it as the center of my professional life in any way. And certainly not the center of your professional life.
No, being the brother of the man who wrote The Fault in Our Stars is not the center of my professional life, but perhaps being your brother is. Yeah, I mean, being your brother probably is the center of my professional life. I mean, at this point, about half the time I get recognized, it's not for being your brother, it's for being you. Professional brother Hank Green.
And his brother, professional brother John Green. Not to some macrois if we've seen brothers so professional. They really, they really went for it. They are really professionally brothers.
Depressive Dr. Pepper enthusiast John Green. Founder of the Molamola cult Hank Green. Oh, yes, of course.
Yes. No one knows about the Molamola cult. Yeah. That's just me.
Pelican fanatic and top tier Tik Toker Hank Green. Guy who has a PS5 and never plays a John Green. I play it on I play it on stream exclusively. If I'm playing FIFA, that's because I'm a professional FIFA streamer John Green.
Professional FIFA streamer John Green. Yeah. Was seen today walking the streets of New York looking confused and afraid. You know what?
My job has been lately like my actual honorific. What? Manager of a single car repair Hank Green. I've spent so much time dealing with this car.
Yeah, it's it's exhausting. I thought I bought a normal car, but they there was no one in within 100 literally with 100 miles. You could fix it. Yeah.
You bought a Hyundai Onyx 5. You know, I live in a small town and I forget that. I also own a Hyundai Onyx 5. And I bet there's somebody in Indianapolis who could fix it breaks.
Well, the battery, the battery just went dead. Oh, yeah. There was two other same problems. Me?
Not only did I have the same problem as you, I had the same problem as about 40% of Hyundai Onyx 5 owners. It's a recall that I thought had been fixed, but apparently I had not gotten the recall done. At any rate, I'm glad that you are getting it fixed. I'm sorry that it's become such a hell of a blow.
It's done. It's working now. It's it's functional. Meanwhile, the Hyundai Onyx 5 itself is like long suffering Hyundai Onyx 5 has to drive Hank Green around all day.
All right. Hank, let's answer this question from Joe who writes Dear John and Hank, what is a face? Like, obviously, I know what a face is, but why? It's not its own organ.
It's just a cluster of features that we have a name for. Is there some evolutionary benefit to having all your sensory organs squished together? A lot of animals seem to be a big fan of feces for faces. Sorry, faces.
No questions about faces. I don't know why I introduced feces in the first place. A lot of animals seem to be a big fan of faces and feces for some reason. Wouldn't we be able to get more information if everything was spread out?
I can't stop thinking about this fanfare and faces, Joe. I think that the reason is a kind of efficiency, maybe? Well, I assume that the reason the face is the face for humans and primates and stuff is that we like to look at each other. And dogs like to look at each other, raccoons like to look at each other.
Like, there's something inherently social about most mammals. And so I would think that's one of the reasons. But is there a reason why all of our sensory organs are squished together? I never thought of that, but it's true.
I can't breathe out of my, I can't like smell out of my finger. Yeah, though, sometimes you, there are things that can like smell with their feet, etc. Sure. And we do a lot of sensing with parts of our body.
They're not the face, but certainly the face is the, by far, the highest concentration of sensory things. And, you know, if you look back, you can see that that that's kind of in that way the whole time. So that's why. So, you know, worms, they like had a mouth on one end first, and then they started developing sensory organs on that end because...
No, we had to figure out what to look at. Yeah, what to look at and then like, you know, feel it with its like face tentacles or something to be like, this dirt or is it a desert food? Like, it's really sort of like all the way back. It's not even that this is particularly useful for us.
It's that all the way through. It was useful. And even if it wasn't useful, at this point, it's so ingrained, even like a fish, you know, fish have their noses. Right, it would be hard to move the face around.
There's also like, it's very complicated wiring in there. Yeah. So, just a ton of different nerves all have to go around. And you know, your body makes it happen.
Do you think it matters that it's close to the brain? Yeah, that's also part of it. You don't have to wait for the signals to travel, and then you can like do a lot of sort of very fast transmission from the sensory to the processing back to the sensory. Let me ask you a follow-up question that sensory organ related.
Are the ears part of the face? I think no. No, no, no. Like when you do, when I saw Sir Isaac Newton's death mask, which I did see in real life, it was a weird experience, you know, you get the face, you get the eyes, you get the cheeks, you get the lips, you get the nose, you do not get the ears in a death mask.
Yeah. And I think a death mask is the definitive determinant of the face. If it's not part of the mask, it's not the face. I'm wondering if there are any animals that have that do have like special face ears, but I'm not finding anything.
I mean, you definitely have animals that have their eyes closer to their ears because their eyes are sort of on the side, they're sort of seen out the side of their head. Right. Some animals that don't really have their eyes on their face. They have faces, but no eyes on the face.
Their eyes are off their face. And their eyes left the face. And then there are some animals that don't have faces like a flounder. Right?
Right. That's not a face. Really? That's just the side of your body.
It's more of a silhouette than a face. Trees. Trees are not animals, but also he's going to fight for it. He's going to fight for trees being animals.
We're working on the new taxonomy from scratch, everybody. We're just going to put trees in animals. Yeah. I think we should put trees in animals.
I think that we've been underestimating trees this whole time. Did you know that plants evolved multi-cellularity separately from animals, which is why they are a separate thing? Didn't we only develop cells with organelles once? Yes.
I'm pretty sure. Yeah. So there's just the just the prokaryotes and the eukaryotes and all the eukaryotes together. Yeah.
But that's interesting because that means first off, it means the trees are animals. But secondly, it means that we develop multi-cellularity more than once, but we only developed mitochondria once. Yeah. That was a separate event from the from the.
Oh, yes. Well, I don't know much about organelles. All I know is that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell because that's what's left. That's what's left from high school biology.
You know, I got to do the mitochondria again because look, when we first found mitochondria powerhouse of the cell, very exciting. I have the issue of Scientific American that introduces the term the powerhouse of the cell. Well, exactly say the powerhouse of the cell, but they use the word powerhouse. But that's by far the only very tippy tippy top of the iceberg of how amazing and revolutionary mitochondria were and how unlikely they were to occur and how revolutionary they were to the ability of animals to exist.
I think you should make that video. God knows you've made every other one. We very easily, very easily could be a planet without movable multi-cell your life, you know, without life, you know, without life, they can like move itself around. But instead we're not we're at planet.
We got, we got, you know, we're planning with like sick and work trees and oak trees and other animals. All right. I got another question for you. It's from Katie writes here, John and Hank, why does an MRI have to be so loud?
Seems like they should be able to take pictures of my brain without all that clicking and clacking. Your plugs are great. Kate. So, MRIs basically use magnets to image your body.
The way that they do that is they turn all of your individual cells into little antenna. In particular, they turn atoms in your body into little radio transmitters and the magnets get all the atoms like certain kinds of atoms pointed in a particular direction. And then they turn the magnet off. And then when they flop back into random directions, that produces a little radio signal, which they can then interpret as an image, which is wild.
But they have to do that like a lot many times per second. So they're turning the magnet on and off a lot. And for whatever reason that introduces vibrations into the machine and those vibrations are the thing that you are hearing. But then isn't there also a thing where like if you have metal on, it'll like, it's real bad.
Well, it's a big magnet. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it makes sense. It's a huge, it's essentially the way to think about it as a huge magnet that causes vibration. Yeah.
And exactly, like honestly, exactly why the vibration occurs to me is I was not able to understand it well enough to explain it. Okay. Well, that makes me feel better. There are explanations out there.
People have tried to explain. So I've had a bunch of MRIs over the years with the meningitis and the orbital cellulitis and what not. You've had some MRIs I assume because of cancer? I don't know that I have.
I've had PET CT scans. Oh, those sounds even more. I have had an MRI. My favorite part of the MRI is when they tell you that they'll play any music you'd like to hear such so ridiculous.
And then you're like, all right, I'd like to listen to the mountain goats. They're my favorite band and very, very faintly underneath the sound of what was generously described as the clicking and clacking. Yeah, very, very faintly. Occasionally you will hear a single word of John Darnell emerge from the ether.
And other than that, it's just clicking and clacking and of a very loud variety. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. There's, I don't know how to really describe it.
I wouldn't call it clicking and clapping. There's like banging. It's banging. It's a loud, you know what it is?
It's a raccoon that's inside that machine that is desperate to get out. That's what it sounds like to me. Yeah. But like a big one that really likes heavy metal music and has a bunch of chains on him.
Yes. Yes. A chained up raccoon that loves heavy metal music and is desperately trying to get out of an MRI. Turn off the, yeah, hates the mountain goats.
So then the next time I did it, I was like, all right, we won't pick the mountain goats. We'll pick something loud, something aggressive, something that. So I think I picked the California based rapper, Remble and even Remble, even Remble. Nobody can fight.
Yeah. No, no, no, no, we should do we should create a specific MRI band. That's like just to sound good in the MRI. It's just like a bunch of banging.
So like fits in. Yeah, it's just, it just tries to create a little bit of rhythm of the banging. That's not like going for the MRI. I'm going to say to the MRI tech, hey, I'm going to create a new band on Spotify.
It's just going to be MRI noises. And I'm going to say, hey, yeah, can you look at my favorite band? They're called something that has the initials MRI. So like mouse relay intercept and then go in there and say, oh yeah, play mouse relay intercept for me.
It's got to be MRI noises. Yeah. The tech is going to be so pleased. And that's all I want, John.
All you want to do is do medical stuff. I just want the people doing the work to have a slightly nicer day for having dealt with me. You want to feel like you did a good job and they were used by your presence. Yeah.
I always feel like I'm slightly on stage when I'm getting an MRI, like when I'm going in and going out, like I feel like I'm going to be extra charming and funny so that the people will be like, now that's a good patient. Well, I mean, I'll tell you what, getting the PET CT scan is wild, because they know immediately what's going on in there, but they don't get to tell you. Mm. Mm.
And so I was trying to realize. You're trying to read your eyes and they're looking at your eyes and you're like, you know things that you're not allowed to tell me. I'm just glad that MRIs exist even if they're very loud. I do find them reasonably stressful, but I think that stress might be alleviated by Hank Green's exciting new million dollar idea, mouse relay intercept.
Yeah, we're really going to turn to the market on MRI. People are going to enjoy it at the end and they're going to go home and they're going to be like, you know, I didn't get enough of that. It's my dream sleep podcast. It's just MRI.
It's just bang, bang, clank, clank. I mean, you could make music. Maybe we just hire like George Watsky to rap to it. I don't know if it's always the same set of noises though.
I don't know if there's any consistency to it, but we'll have to do some more research. We're in the discovery phase of this million dollar idea. We're not in the execution phase yet. It's not like Hank's hit new projects on Darya that provides white noise for charity.
It's something entirely new and different. I'm always working on something new and different. Which reminds me that today's podcast is brought to you by Mouse Relay Intercept. Mouse Relay Intercept did they hit new band from TikTok's Hank Green.
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All right. I got another question for you from Tom who writes, Dear John and Hank, if all humans on earth joined in a collective movement and used all available resources to build a one-to-one replica of the city of ancient Rome in a 24-hour period, would that be possible? Thanks, Tom. You know, there's only one way to find out.
Could we build Rome in a day and would it be like the World Cup or the Olympics a chance for the world to come together despite its problems? You know, I think we could but I don't think we could do it in one place. There's like a logistical problem to like there'd be any of the roads to get the thing to a thing. That's my feeling is there's only so many people needed to build the Colosseum, right?
Right. And I think getting the Colosseum built in a day is possible if you have eight billion people. I'm not sure that it's possible in a physical space because you can't bring all eight billion to bear. Yeah, yeah, you can't put all the eight billion people in you can't bring all eight billion rocks into the place faster.
Yeah, that's the rule for the Colosseum, by the way. There has to be one rock per person. That's how they designed it back in the day. They figured out how many people there were and took one rock for each person and then they built a Colosseum with it.
Yeah, I don't think it's even close to possible because I think just the milling of the stone would take right because that's part of it. Yeah, you can't say infinite number of mills. I think some of some of it would take 24 hours. You can't say like, Hey, we've got all the rocks ready.
Now, let's go like getting the rocks is part of it. I okay, if you could say, get all the rocks ready, get everything ready, get all the building materials ready, get all the have all the mosaics made and the paint made and then all you have to actually do is build Rome in one day, maybe because also what you would need to do is train a bunch of people to be good at building. So they'd have to be have built like working on a bunch of stuff beforehand. So they like, in fact, what they would have done is build the thing and then taking it apart.
And then go, everybody just rebuild the thing in the order that we had it up for a second. It's like when you're the first time you do a Lego set, it takes a lot longer than if you get destroy the Lego and have to do it a second time. I think it's worth it. You know, I think what I think is worth it.
I think this is a great use of human attention. I don't know what we're going to do in the future. Yeah. But maybe build Rome again.
Well, here's what I'll say about building Rome again as a human project. You could do worse. Right. Like you could do worse than having people from all over the world have to come together and each other own part of Rome that they can be proud of and that they can share with others.
It's a little bit like the Venice Biennale, which is a biennial art exhibition thing where every country has its own pavilion. And then like you go around and you walk almost like EPCOT, but with contemporary art pieces, you walk and see everybody's pavilion and it's very interesting. And I feel like that's the vibe that we're going for here is like each community takes on a tiny part of Rome in a day and accomplishes that part. And then as a world we build Rome in a day, it's sort of beautiful to me.
And it's nice because there is the saying. Yeah, it would be the ultimate refutation of a famous saying. I assume that's why we would build Rome. That's the whole reason.
Is to be like impossible things are possible. And then we'd be like, okay, everybody take Rome apart. Do you want to know something very embarrassing about me? Yeah.
Everybody knew Lordrop. Great. In college. Yeah.
The first songs I ever wrote. Yeah. Was called Rome Didn't fall in a day. Oh, well, why is that embarrassing?
That's true. No, yeah. In some ways, it's still doing it. In some ways it is still falling.
There's still an emperor of Rome. He's from Chicago. Well, I mean, a little bit. I actually think that the link is more to the Eastern Roman Empire.
The link is more to Turkey and that part of the world. But there is also sort of an emperor of Rome who is from Chicago. Both these things can be true at the same time because for sure, it was very influential. In some ways it didn't fall until 1914.
In some ways it hasn't fallen. In other ways it fell, you know, in the six, whatever. Yeah. The point is that Rome didn't fall in a day.
And that might be a cliche observation, but you were like 19 years old. And that's a good point. Well, but it was it was about the it was a very angsty song about the sort of fall of America. Oh, that's kind of a good point.
But proof prophetic. Oh, man. Posting through it. We're posting through it.
That's right. That'll be the last the last thing will be a post America won't fall the same way Rome didn't fall. It'll just decline in importance until eventually we have an emperor God King from Chicago. Right.
Instead of one from New York. Is he from New York? Oh, yeah. Born in bread, baby.
Never. Yeah. All right. Moving on.
This next question comes from Ella who asks, during a John on traffic lights, the lit part is surrounded by this almost cylindrical shape. It's like there's a circle surrounding it, but it doesn't go all the way around. Why is there a gap at the bottom of the light sheath? I have attached a photo for reference.
Thank you for the all that you do under my under my umber Ella Ella Ella a a oh, it's a it's a Rihanna joke. It's under my umber Ella Ella. Yeah. Yeah.
That was embarrassing. That was actually way worse than your we didn't build Roman a day thing. Rome didn't fall on a day. John, I know the answer to this.
So I do know the answer is it does have anything to do with like the history of the yeah, lights. No, it has to do with physics. You got to keep it covered because otherwise the wood will rot. So my initial thought actually was that maybe it was so that they could easily change the light bulbs.
Oh, you could reach a hand up there and unscrew the light bulb and pull it out, which I still think might be part of the reason, but it's not the reason. You know the reason? I have a guess what's your guess? Something to do with keeping the light off of it so you don't light up the ones that aren't on.
Yeah. So it's to keep the light off of the light above it and also to keep the light focused out and down because that is where people actually need to see the light is below the light and out from the light. So the idea is that it keeps the light a little bit in your direction. You need the gap there because otherwise it's going to block the light if you're right underneath it.
You'll be able to see as much of it. Yeah, yeah, you definitely need the gap there because if you're close up, you can't see the light and also it focuses the light outwards. So it serves multiple purposes, but it's a good technology and we should keep it. We should keep it.
That's my opinion. I wish it were more whimsical. Should we add a little bit of whimsy to every traffic light, like put a little Garfield statue somewhere on each one? Can you imagine the scandal when it came out?
The creator of Garfield was good friends with the Secretary of Transportation. It's absolutely reeks of corruption. Jim Davis getting like two cents every time a traffic gets installed. And why?
We used the same orange as Garfield. Garfield owned that orange and so we had to pay for it. So we think we might as well put them on there too. Yeah, that's how Garfield becomes a billionaires with the traffic light hustle.
Oh man, I would do it. I think traffic lights are actually doing a wonderful job. They're doing pretty good. In caramel Indiana, just to the north of me, they've gotten rid of most traffic lights and replaced them with roundabouts.
Yes, because it makes it more. And in some cases, very, very weirdly, like not in a European way, but very structure. Here is the roundabout two blocks later, another roundabout. And then that happens for like 80 blocks.
It makes you think of a map. One straight line. Yeah, Google Maps gets so confused. When you use Google Maps, it's like in 200 feet, take the second exit on the round 200 feet, take the second and 200 feet, take the second.
It just keeps going like that. And all you're doing is driving in a straight line. I, for one, like the I don't mind a roundabout. I don't want to be critical of caramel.
I know I have a lot of fans and friends in caramel. But first off, it's named after Carmel, California, I assume. Oh, is it? I thought I was caramel because it's so car oriented.
And I think that's late. I figured it was named after the candy. No, that's caramel or caramel, depending on your pronunciation. But it has an extra A.
But you know how people are. You know how people are. That's true. There's a k-row, Illinois.
Why not a caramel Indiana with an x-ray? Anyway, that's not the point. The point is I like the occasional traffic light. Okay.
And there's a specific moment I like about a traffic light that I want to tell you about. It's called the all red. And it's a relatively recent innovation. Okay.
And what traffic engineers noticed is that a huge percentage of injury producing accidents that happened at traffic lights happened because there was a moment, the very moment that one light turned red, the other light turned green. And if they just instituted a one second all red, they would see traffic injuries go down. And indeed, that proved to be the case. Have people adjusted?
Have they like realized that the all red is there? And they're like, Oh, now I can just go, I can go deeper into the running the red light? I don't know. It's a good question.
Probably not. I'd actually wait, you're not point being, I love the all red, because it's a moment where we are all just a moment. One breath, where we are all stopped. And it's okay.
What I'm hearing is I can go one second before the light turns green. No, that is incorrect. That is a good way. I know when the lights turn green, I know it.
I can feel it on my bones. I never should have told Hank or indeed the world about the all red. It's a huge mistake. Alright, before we get to the all important news from Mars and A.S.E.
Wimbledon, we just need to answer this one last question from Linea who writes Dear Mostly Hank, but it's about John. This summer, I started listening to the pod for the first time. I began with several of the first episodes, since Kiptrana eventually began regularly listening to the presently released episodes. So maybe I missed something.
The podcast is fantastic, but I'm very confused about this one occurrence or deal canon event that keeps being referenced throughout the years that I have no context for. What happened to John Green in 2014? Oh, no. And then she ludicrously lost.
And then very clearly she writes Linea. And I've done it completely. Like I always do. Linea, I apologize.
Hank, should we save this question for the first question of next week? Yeah, maybe maybe our first episode of Dear Hanging John of the New Year. Yeah, should just be the 2014 spectacular. But nothing happened to you in 2014.
You put on a movie premiere. Other than that, it was very boring for you. Not the case. I don't know, man.
But there's so much that happened. This is literally what I was talking to my therapist about in 2014. Yeah, you're trying to explain to your therapist all the lore of 2014 in a single hour, which is not impossible. I was like, so have you heard of Copypasta?
First off, I need to do this. Do you know? I've got to do this case. Yeah.
Yeah. How familiar are you with Wizard Rock? Stop me if you've heard this term. Doctor Who Lock.
Yeah. Doctor Who Lock. What was the what was the one that the main one? Super Who Lock?
Super Who Lock. Yeah, Supernatural, Doctor Who and Sherlock. Yeah, locked into an eternal battle. But when I got back on Tumblr a couple years ago, which is a hell of a turn of events, by the way, and I really love Tumblr now.
I have no interest in any other social medium. And I love spending time on this. Yes, you win. I feel like Tumblr is going great.
It's finally established itself as a fun place to hang out and with essentially no help from the company, just by people deciding not to be like, they were like, we want a space that's sort of good faith. Yeah, what if it wasn't bad? What if there was a not bad place? It's kind of become that weirdly anyway.
Point being, we will make a special all time, once and for all, what happened in 2014 episode at the beginning of the year? Well, I'm actually nervous. Let's do it. All right.
Let's try. We'll see how it goes. If it doesn't happen, it's because me and John, our brother, our brother is spraying. We decided to preserve it rather than make that episode of daring it now.
I think that we'll figure it out. I think we'll figure it out. So listen, what's the news from AFC Wimbledon? The news from AFC Wimbledon is that the losses have turned into ties, which is better than losses, but worse than winning.
At this point, I think going into the January transfer window sort of vibe, I don't know that AFC Wimbledon is necessarily going to be looking to strengthen because I don't know that they necessarily believe they can get to the playoffs. 10th place after 19 games, almost halfway through the season, 27 points, it feels like hopefully not a relegation season, but also not like much else. And I mean, look, the goal was always not to get relegated. So that on its own would be a huge win.
But most recently, AFC Wimbledon drew nil, nil before that we drew 3-3. So definitely some good points on the board, as they say. As they say in soccer, any goal was a goal. They do say that.
They don't really say that, but they could because any goal is a goal. And we scored three of them against Huddersfield. It's just they also scored three against us. So it's a lot of goals.
A lot of goals. Six goal thriller, as they say. And meanwhile, the AFC Wimbledon versus Mansfield Town game was a sleepy affair with not only no goals, but no meaningful shots on target that I can remember. Yeah, they did a lot better against them than they did against Town's Field Man.
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if Town's Field Man were in fact a lower level English football. Yeah. All right. Hank, what's the news for Mars?
Oh, God, it's not. So NASA has lost the Maven Orbiter. What? Maven has been studying Mars' atmosphere since 2013.
And its main mission lasted for one year. So that was the goal. So look, it's done a lot more than the goal. The Orbiter has since been collecting more data, serving as a communication link also to rovers like Curiosity Perseverance.
So if they're not oriented right to talk to us directly, it can talk to us through Maven. But Maven, disappeared. It went quiet on December 4th. NASA was able to make re-contact with it briefly on December 6th.
But that contact suggests that they think that the Maven spacecraft is rotating strangely and that its orbital trajectory has changed, which neither of those things is good. So it's not good because one, that makes it harder to re-establish contact if we're not sure how it's rotating. Yeah. Two, it's rotating.
And that's not supposed to be what's happening. Oh, no. And they don't know what caused this? Did it get hit by a little space rock?
More likely, and I'm going off vibes here. So that's possible. But more likely, something went wrong. And it's something vented out the side of it.
It's an old spacecraft. It's been up there for a long time. Things can go wrong or something got stuck on or tried to do something and wasn't able to do it correctly. And maybe, I don't know, if these things are even able to adjust their orbits after this much time, but maybe it tried to adjust its orbit and did that incorrectly or something.
Well, God's be to a real one. God's be to a real one. Great job, Maven. Probably out of commission permanently.
Because once it's been out of touch for this long, very hard to guess at where it might be at this point. Oof. Well, my condolences, Hank. That's a big loss.
Yeah. Good work, Maven. Good work, Maven. If you would like to send us questions, you could do that.
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