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Simblifying The James Webb Telescope

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Recently, NASA shot up a massive telescope so that we can all figure out where we came from. The James Webb Telescope is the culmination of decades of work, and will do things that no other telescope has done before. It will apparently use fancy things like Infrared technology to look back 13 billion years (!) and perhaps even see if there's life on other planets. No pressure, JW! Join the Simblified gang as they launch themselves into this spacey topic, only for Chuck to annoy Srikeit with a selection of cosmic puns. Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified. A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go". Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified! You can contact the hosts on: Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

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I, V, M. Welcome to the show where four co-hosts try to decipher the world around you in simple language so that you can appear moderately smarter than when you started and that deep, sagacious voice that you heard right up top that said said yes that was that was an interesting way to is one of our co-hosts of course and marine has some interesting news. Yeah, as of yesterday, I'm COVID positive. So I had a fever last night and it was pretty bad.

It was 103 and I had a headache and miraculously this morning it's gone. So I still have a I check the thermometer. I still have a fever is 100 or so. But there's no headache.

Nothing. So yeah, I'm hoping that I've seen the worst of it. Yes. Such is your dedication that you have shown up for.

Yes. So I did not want to miss the topic today which and the co-hosts. Yes. And the co-hosts.

I mean, such is such is in dedication that he has I mean most listeners are not privy to the beautiful visuals of our show right now but such is the dedication that Arindra Shun has exhibited that he has turned up only in Baniyan. Yeah, his explanation for such is that there is no t-shirt in this room and I'm quarantining here. Yeah. So what happened was when I was found positive they basically she got caught me by the scruff of my neck and pushed out me into this room.

And forbade me to come out under any circumstances. And our machine she threw all whatever she thought was essential stuff such as my laptop charger and phone charger and things like that. So just to be clear your podcast recording Mike is more important than Sheila's eyes than clothing. Yeah.

I told you that I was getting a shit simplified. I said, you know, I have no clothes. So she is unmoved by that entry to she said that. Yeah.

So this episode is going to come out only on the 17th of January. Hopefully Narayan has recovered by then but let that not stop the interpret simplify it crowd. From sending Marin Ketwell's own messages or even profundities in Ketwell's own form. We are counting on the same audience that made Srikit's website.

So go for it. I think IBM staff will put out a couple of choice videos, give video clips of this episode as well on Twitter. So we also met from all Narayan Shunha's first weeks. Wonderful.

Oh goodness. Okay. So I generally do not know how to segue from this into the topic for the day. So let's just kick right into it.

A couple of weeks back the James Webb telescope launched into the world. Actually, exactly a couple of weeks back because it happened on Christmas and last year was the last week was when we are at the time of recording. So one of our listeners, every day's illness, he had recommended that we do an episode on this and it sounds like a fascinating thing because I've been seeing the James Webb thing on and off for the last year. So I thought, okay, this might be a nice way to culminate everything and learn a few things about it as well.

And of course, hey, just because closest link to astronomy I have is that in Big Bang Theory, the astronomer was the guy last name was Putrapali and my last name was a Palini. That's about it. Oh, nice. And Palini in Malayalam, of course, is either lizard or church depending on the UK, so read into that what you will for being.

Oh, Palini is a church, is it? Yeah, Palini is church. Okay, because in Mangalore, Palini is mosque. Anthony, who's our guest producer right now along with Vinay, also informs us that Palini is cool in Tamil.

So, wow, very much, very much profound. You can say that the simplified gang, we are all Tani. It's a dystopian movie where there are a bunch of video cassettes walking and that is a movie called Palini. Like Voli, Palini.

No, no, no, I'm fooling on. Logic was not a problem. That was not the problem, Jack. Anyway, speaking of that transition, we have done it again and forgot to introduce ourselves.

And so yes, hi, Strikit, one host of Certified, we have done it, who is the COVID positive host of Certified. We have John, who is the one who is the pediatric host of Certified. And we have Tony, who is the absolute host of Certified. So, yeah, that is the general tally of Certified.

And John, what is happening that we will be talking about today? So, just to read a quick simplified look at the James Webb telescope and what it means, how it's different from what came before it and all that. First up, we must ask the fundamental question, why is it getting a satellite of a telescope all the way up to space in the first place? And also, why name it after James Webb?

I mean, that's the, to be honest, that's the least important part of this to be honest. But did you have a more fundamental question, Strikit? I put a telescope like this in space. I mean, just a little bit more.

There is everything in Sky. Everything in Sky. So, the problem with that is that Earth is covered by an atmosphere. It's kind of annoying, but at least this is always that it keeps everything else alive.

It keeps us alive mostly. And I'm just wondering if there are two types of music. So, my name is Mina. So, when we are looking up into space, there are the atmosphere kind of like gets into way, so gets into way.

So, the best way to see space or what one website described as the ultimate mountain dock to see space is just getting the damn telescope into space itself. Scientists and space agencies have been trying to get a telescope to space. And of course, the most famous of these is the Harvard Telescope that was launched by NASA in 1990. And it has actually exceeded expectations.

Like, it's like a completely, it's spent way over time in space. Yeah, actually, there's another website which is Chandraka Beta, which is actually Chandra. Chandraka X-ray telescope is actually named out as Chandraka. So, I guess that's the closest that we can have to show the magic of the telescope.

So, I mean, there's only astronaut was OK, so he was literally, he was going to be there. And we go, there we go. Okay, so jokes about, we put up giant telescopes into space where there is no atmospheric disturbance. And one thing that all of you I am sure know that is that our eyes can perceive only a very small part of what we call what is light.

So, there is light by itself contains of a lot of things. There is visible light, of course, it's what we see with gear and all those other things. Then there is infrared, which forms a large part of the light spectrum. Then there are other things like ultraviolet X-ray and of course, the light that emanates from marine's wisdom.

So, these are the five types of lights. Now, our eyes get, our eyes and traditional telescopes can detect only the visible spectrum, but there is a lot of information packed into the others as well. So, the Hubble telescope actually is primarily for the visible spectrum and a little bit of ultraviolet. And NASA has sent up three other telescopes in the interim.

One was called the Spitzer telescope, which was to detect infrared. There is a content telescope for gamma and then there is Chandra for X-ray. These four form NASA's four great observatories. That is the term that I came across in the yesterday, but it was reading of the four great observatories.

I suppose the Grand Slam of space telescopes. So, yeah. It's like, you know, more in the context, it's the chart of the other of the space telescopes. All that, sure.

Which of you would like to take this and watch that forward waiting to happen. So, it's like, so, hopefully, the next reading of the astronaut that goes to space has to go ahead and do such a great day. Everyone goes tell the scope. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Put an in-boom is here and everything outside. Yeah.

Absolutely. So, Hubble telescope has contributed a lot to science. It's also been very integral part of public relations for NASA in some way. It keeps sending back iconic images.

NASA was smart enough to make those images available to the public almost immediately so that debate and discussion, et cetera, could happen around those. And I suppose it all coincided nicely with the internet era as well. So, these just spread more and more. Yeah.

So, I'll spread more and more. Ironically though, the Hubble telescope had the first possible start where with a lot of fanfare, it went up to space. And then when it finally sent back its first image, it was blurry, crap. Nobody could make head-of-the-end.

And there was a lot of public criticism about NASA wasting so much taxpayer money to send back images like this. And they actually had to send up. So, if anybody listening to this episode has like their mobile phone or their camera broken and they're lamenting that they need to go to a service center about 500 meters away to fix it. NASA had to spend up and other spaceship with the service crew to fix the fan camera on the Hubble telescope.

And these are about, this is a nerd's note at the show. So, yeah, they had some words with expansive servicing. Yeah, they had actually planned for about, let's say Dunswood, I could do that. So, they had about five or six services planned.

They had about five or six services planned for the life of the Hubble telescope in space, but they never expected one to happen solely. I think it happened in the year or so after the Hubble launch. But anyway, after that was fixed, it completely worked and Hubble's been setting back amazing images and episodes. I actually did not know the fact that there were regular crews going up and fixing the, fixing upgrading the Hubble's optics and the images have just gotten better.

This is astonishing photo that Hubble's shot of something called the Veil Nebula, which is some part of the universe somewhere. I'm not enough into astronomy to know these things. What exactly that means? But it's about the universe and it looks absolutely gorgeous.

One of the best photos that the Hubble took are one of the photos that in Vox's words changed everything. It was a 1995 photo called the Deep Field Photo, which is just a, and there's no polite way of saying this is a random photo. It was just pointing to nothing and everything at the same time. Because still now telescopes are focusing on one object in particular, but the director of the telescope said, no, I just wanted to focus on just everything at once.

They found that everything well at a point and that's a very rich photo in the sense that just so many images over there and so much science has been done on the basis of that one photo. It's called the NASA Deep Field Photo and it's quite interesting if anyone wants to have a look at it. So, anyway, Hubble's done a lot for humanity and it's pretty much on its last legs or last stop it's, and we need something. Last lens is nice.

So, we need something better. So, the James Webb Telescope is hardly new. It's something that I think about two decades in the making with an initial budget of one billion, it's obviously ballooned up to ten billion. You know, the problem with all these things like billion, one billion, ten billion, it feels with all these valuations of companies right now.

You would think that mankind's biggest telescope going to space to see to look at 20 billion years in the past should cost more than ten billion or there are some companies that shouldn't be worth one billion. It just feels ridiculous. This actually reminds me of the whole thing about the Indian Space Mission to Mars costing less than the movie Gravity did. You would hope that the actual explorations of space are more expensive than the movie representations of it.

Absolutely. Just to put things in perspective, this is supposed to be the apex of human astronomy, engineering, engineering, ambition, everything. And it's still valued at one fifth of the value of Y Juice. Just saying.

I don't think they had to coerce the astronaut. Just imagine if that's another bleak thought. Let's not get there. So, the James Webb Telescope.

It is named after a gentleman called James Webb who was the chairman of NASA at the time of the Apollo launch. Although this is also slightly controversial because there are reports that said Mr. Chairman was slightly homophobic during his tenure. But NASA, I bet there's a lot of debate about that.

I guess everyone is just happy that the damn telescope is up in space and not wanting to invite unnecessary controversy later. But yes, that is there. It is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble telescope. It is also going to be much, much further away.

It's going to be 1.5 million kilometers away from the Earth to put things in context. The Moon is less than 400,000 kilometers away. So if something goes wrong over there, it's very unlikely that we are going to be able to send a service crew as easily as we did the Hubble telescope. So the James Webb Telescope is also going to optimize for infrared.

And that is something that we will explore on the other side of this break because that's going to take some explanation. So, yes. Yeah, see you again. It feels like everyone's talking about two things right now.

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See you folks. Welcome back to Simplified's Look at the James Vettel slope. And when I say look, I obviously mean metaphorical look because we can't see the telescope anymore. Two days back I said the time of recording.

There was this point in the video that NASA had released. This is the last time humanity is ever going to see the James Vettel. It has not been as gone. So it's a success.

We're never going to be able to see it again. So it's gone. It's very unlikely that NASA is going to be able to send a service station or something like that in the, at least in the next decade is what they say. So that's a length of these things that we talked about.

But let's come back to the James Vettel telescope. So it is going to focus primarily on the infrared spectrum. What that means is it is optimized, just like your camera or typical camera is going to optimize for visible light as are your eyes. This telescope is going to be optimized for infrared.

Now there are, I won't get too much into the science of it one because it's a lot and two. I honestly don't understand all of it. The biggest advantage of looking at infrared is with a series of calculations, you're basically looking back in time. One of the best definitions of the telescope that I came across is that this is actually a time machine that NASA is sending up, which will be able to look back 13.5 billion years because, well, we all know that light travels.

It's not instantaneous, but when you are sitting in a room and you switch on a light bulb, there is actually a very small billionth of a second delay in the light coming on and hitting your eyes, but it's so small that you obviously don't perceive it. And then as distances increase, this becomes more and more palpable. The light that you're seeing from the sun or the moon right now obviously has left the set celestial bodies a few seconds or minutes back and so on and so forth for the other planets and other things that you see, especially the stars. Those things might have left a few days or even months back.

So, NASA hopes to be able to, so that is all just visible light. Infrared however travels for a much longer distance without losing any of its, without losing strength and with a series of calculations which involve things like wavelengths and all that. NASA will be, it hopes that this telescope will be able to detect things that happened very, very far back in the past and be able to capture photography things that happen. And when I say things back in the past, I'm not talking about marine youth or something like that.

I am talking about 13.5 billion years now. We have 13.5 billion years now. Yeah, I mean, 13.5 billion years now. And essentially it hopes to capture light since the universe existed.

No pressure, James Smith telescope. Yeah. Yeah, but this reminds me of when I was moving into one of my houses in Bombay, a common friend of ours, we are giving me a small wall stand, wall hanging of sorts, which had like a very beautiful coat. So it had like the exact 1995 deep space picture.

And it was written over there and I am known to be a bit of a grammar stickler from time to time. And so she had written that the quote on the poster was that, a dearings to grammar is like watching stars in the sky. They may look, it may look pretty, but they're actually all remnants of objects long dead. Wow.

That was just a entire conversation of looking back in time to be of that. Like actually what we look at in the night sky are pretty much stars which have probably already died. Yeah, also given the temperature that's up there is also quite chilly up there in space. That's not uncommon.

That's unnecessary observation. The other things that the telescope is going to do, I mean there are a lot of reasons why it's going up there. It hopes to study every phase of cosmic history. Like I just said, it hopes to validate a lot of theories and hypotheses that astronomers have.

They've also educated guesses still now, but hopefully they'll find some proof of the including some controversial theories that Stephen Hawking had put forward on black holes and dark matter. And it also hopes to use this to detect signs of life. So infrared is fairly versatile, not just a time traveling little, we sort of spectrum, but it also is very useful to look at exoplanets and things of that nature, which basically means that this telescope can detect whether there are some kind of gases coming from very, very far away planets, exoplanets, basically in planets outside our solar system and see whether that means that there are signs of life out there. So all these things put together means that we are going to learn a lot more about ourselves, our role in the universe, evolution of life, not just on Earth, but around the world, hopefully a lot more about the big band theory.

And of course, along the way, I hope that there will be sending a lot more amazing photographs and stuff like that. The Hubble was able to send those kind of photos that they're using today's technology and with those improved optics that the James Web has, I think is going to be an interesting thing for lots of science, but also popular science and rekindling science in popular imagination. So there's a lot of writing on this, obviously, the launch happened on Christmas day after years of delays and budget overruns, but it went off without a hitch. And they were actually, it's quite fascinating.

If you've seen the, I'm sure all of you have seen some image or the other, the iconic ex of the golden shape of the James Web telescope. These are all, there are 16 hexagonal mirrors all put together. And all of these are made out of beryllium, which just goes to show that if you work hard, you can be anything that you like. I have to tell you this thing about beryllium.

You know, what is the over for beryllium? Beryllium is a metal, right? Beryllium oxide. No, it is sapphires.

Oh, man, really? No way. So it comes, beryllium basically comes coated in like a ruby of a fire. I don't remember which, but it's a precious stone.

I think ruby is a, I don't remember. Ruby the sapphires, you can check that on the, but beryllium is bloody expensive because you need gemstones. I mean, if it is coated in rubies, it will definitely be bloody literally a microwave. And it's also, these things are made out of beryllium and they are coated with gold because your gold is a, gold is a, a fantastic amount of the periodic table.

Now, best conductivity is the most expensive, this thing that everything. So it's most valuable, most ductile. Everything over the table, eight gold. Constant that show off.

Look, it's a, to its credit, the one negative thing about gold is that over the past year it's been a bad asset class. I am 1% down on my gold. Of course, of course, I get it. Yes.

All those, all those physical and chemical properties have been under because of the, because the actual tool comes in the market. Yeah. What is gold price? That is the main thing.

Yeah. If you kick gold, you know what sound it makes. Oh, yeah. Oh, well played.

Unnecessary. Anyway, so the telescope has a lot of instrumentation and very sophisticated sort of things. The idea is that it's going, so one, the sensor sizes have, I think, about 16 times or something, or six times larger than that of the James, where telescope is going to receive a lot of infrared and then reflect that onto a much smaller mirror. And hence the images are likely to be more high less, etc.

So it's quite an engineering model. In fact, it's quite a sprawling telescope. It's on a base that's a size of a tennis coat. Now to get the stamp thing of the space, yeah, it's very difficult to get something that's up to space.

So they actually had to, and this is, they actually had to design it in such a way that it could be flapped almost like sort of like an origami of sort so that it could fit inside the rocket. And then it could be shot up into space. And then it's, as we, as we record, it's actually slowly unfolding in space. It's actually not a complete working telescope in space just yet.

Various parts of it are unfolding. As of now, everything seems to be absolutely fine. And there's no, there's no issue. But it's just amazing the amount of technology that's gone behind just getting the damn thing to space.

They said that there are 300 possible points at which there are 300 possible things that could go wrong. But they've just tried tested rehearse the so many times that they're pretty confident that it's all going to work out well. So yes, that is a little bit about the James, but here's another interesting thing, which I did not know, it's not like the telescope just randomly floats up into space and like a tourist clicks everything and sends it back to earth. There are actually, so you actually have to get in touch with NASA, like various researchers have to get in touch with NASA.

And they have to subscribe to like time slots. So yeah, so maybe in a particular location is going to be great for observing, you know, one planet or one phenomenon or something like that. So apparently, and she came to love this because this is this kind of reminded me of how stocks are subscribed over subscribed. He's actually subscribed to for a fair number of fair amount of months.

And only after that can NASA allow the telescope to do something random, which led to the field photo that we were talking about a while after that. Yeah, for six months after launch, it's already like, oh, it's already subscribed all the time. So it's kind of fascinating. Yeah, it's kind of fascinating how the operations of these things happen.

Just imagine being a project manager coordinating for researchers around all of them wanting time on this. That this actually makes sense because there's a, I mean, I remember again, from the Big Bank here itself, like they were a couple of references that they were that Rajesh Kupar used to talk about was about booking time on the HST, right? So there are people who used to there's a system where you have to like go through a set of booking for I can almost imagine the booking for that. I mean, I doubt it'll be a simple Google form.

I wonder if we could book time and I'll just do a bit of ID. I mean, of course, simplified. I'll see. Maybe we can like imagine how freaky it would be if that we like book time on the James Webb telescope and looking into some deeps galaxy somewhere and like a cloud suddenly forms with the word simplified.

So then we can totally conclude there is no intelligent life. Like that would be an amazing conclusion to all of civilization. So it's actually quite hot up where the telescope is going to be. It's actually 50 degrees Celsius up there, which is not very amenable for infrared, which prefers much, much, I mean, which works better in much, much lower temperatures so that tennis field size things are not talking about.

They're actually sun shields. So basically the telescope has its back to the sun and there are five shields which have a sun, that SPF factor, you know, which you find on your way. Actually, actually the SPF factor of the James Webb telescope's machines is 1 million. Just to put this in context, your average sunscreen has somewhere between 30 to 50.

So as a result of which the temperature on the as of the telescope is 50 degrees Celsius. On the other side, it's like some minus 200, 300 degrees. Yeah, I read it. Yeah, I read it.

I think that's minus 200 degrees. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So that's how effective that thing is. And I for one, like, why are we wasting this technology? So honestly, have you seen Bombay in summer can we have a few of those things installed over here so that we can reduce our EC course is what I want to ask. But yeah, I think that's broadly about it.

There is, I mean, there's lots, lots. So one, there's a lot of science, which I don't understand enough to propone on the show. And two, it's still very much done. You know, I mean, in fact, one major component is going to go live tomorrow at the time of recording, which is to be recording on the 8th of Jan and 9th of Jan, one more of the competences being launched or is going live.

And only after a period of three months or something will the telescope actually start beaming images and data back down to it. So it's a long, long way for a long, long way to go. But overall, it's pretty exciting. And like I said, it opens up.

We will be able to look back at the past, answer some questions, answer some questions, maybe even come up with some completely new questions. So yes, all in all pretty, pretty exciting. And yeah, so in this actually one thing that I actually was speaking to another friend who was like, I mean, we were having a deeper conversation about just the kind of projects that people undertake and how money is wasted. And then one of the conversations revolved around how effectively NASA is a great waste of money.

Effectively NASA is a great way of my opinion. No, not effectively, but like how NASA itself is a great waste of money. And that's where like one of the counterpoints that kind of I said, and I read a bit about afterwards, I mean, it's when the first one is what this would make was sent out and all that it was just like, oh, let's see what's out there. But the process of doing all of this actually eventually led to what is one of the most useful things for global communications and global life today, satellites.

Yeah. And what the HST saw, I mean, it may at this point seem like a gigantic, I mean, a gigantic high school experiment of sorts just seem better to see space and seeing like deeper into space and stuff. But you never know when you might be able to see something or even forget the actual effectiveness of the mission, the process of building the telescope itself and launching it and making it a success, whether it is using those gold-related beryllium plates to kind of like have a better view of different, think of the different spectrum of light and stuff like that. Yeah.

The itself has so many applications and uses of developing stuff. So as such, it is a real that the benefits you may not be evident right now, but there are several, and it is part of the entire process. And in that thing, of part of the entire process, there are things that actually come time turns and comes back in a perfect circle to the James of telescope itself, because it is named after James Webb, the NASA administrator, whose greatest achievement or whose greatest like the most notable point of his career was actually Apollo 1. Now Apollo 1, there was a fire in the capsule and a couple of astronauts died on earth itself, right?

And he handled the entire, he handled the press and after all of that. And he was one of the people who was responsible for saying no, we will do Apollo 2, we're not going to scrap the program after this, and we're going to keep going. The whole point is that you will have setbacks, you will have all of these, you will have like cost overruns, you will have all kinds of problems in trying to explore something new, but you would have never had Apollo 11 and Neil Armstrong in the, to the moon. And they are by now leading to technological advances like the James of telescope.

Have you abandoned Apollo 1 system? So it's actually very appletive. Yeah, so this is actually, yeah, so it's actually a nod to administration rather than engineering ingenuity, which you can argue is as important, if not more important. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it requires, I mean, daring and bold administration actually leads to prevent us things just as much as engineering and scientifically.

So shout out to admin and HR all admin. Yeah, like, like, like, I completely agree with what you're saying, I think Nikola Tesla could have used with a little bit of admin and he might have been the greatest inventor or to be popularly known as the greatest inventor of all time, rather than the other guy who had good PR going for him. Yeah, yeah. Who got this?

Count on a counter, a potter's full of NDS two praise administration. Who gets the administration? Oh, yeah, one third of NPI is administration. So, I mean, so yeah, right now, so I mean, if you see the list of technologies that have the consumer technologies that have spind off as a result of NASA's experiments, even if it's like we don't have private rockets right now, but everything from GPS technologies to the material that is on the soul of a Nike shoe originally has some origin in space research, etc.

So, yes, absolutely. You're right. Absolutely. So we may or may not understand where we are coming from with the James but there's no doubt that there's going to be some consumer tech in the next 10, 15, 20 years.

That's going to come on as a result of this. I mean, closer to home, I mean, from even the rocket technology that ABC of the column was working on led to the development and the super lightweight materials that he was working with carbon fiber materials that he was working with led to the development of super lightweight prosthetics for people to use. And those prosthetics are enabling people like earlier, they used to have to log around that 20 kilo jack foot foot. And now they're able to use carbon fiber super lightweight prosthetics.

So these technologies have like wide ranging, I mean, technological progress should not be discounted just because it's not immediately utilitarian. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, there's a lot riding on this and we at Simplified will be keeping keen eye on the James, because we won't be, I mean, metaphorical light because we won't be able to see it anymore.

There are a few like a final random observations and points that I wanted to make it just put up over here. So it's an interesting story actually about the So even NASA were putting plans for the telescope together, they realized that it's going to be super expensive and they were very scared about how the administration was going to react to like, oh, there's a lot of construction machinery tools, et cetera. So they put the final figure together, like shit, this is actually going to pass muster. And they sent it to the NASA head and he next to his head came and said the plans are approved, but tell me which spectrum do you plan to cover.

The scientists were actually very tense about the plans getting approved and surprised that he's approved so quickly. Like, have you actually gone through the documents or all the infrastructure and everything that you said, yes, yes, yes, but please spectrum of light do you plan to cover? Again, the incredible scientists asked, did you infer a thread? So the, as you also know, there are lots of Indians working at NASA and they tend to bring their food along with them.

And one of the Americans who was, you know, they used to eating plant food, they had some of the regular homemade food that we'd be having and they said, wow, mites this outstanding, like what Indian preparation is what amazing Royal Indian experiments are there. What amazing Royal Indian food is this? The Indian just shut them and said, this is mere curry. So have you seen any, I think we need a break.

So have you seen the 2013 Hindi movie about three friends who wanted to observe the outer solar system, the outer solar system. So we call Kyper Che. Kyper. So one of our ardent listeners on simplified at trend crusher on Twitter, he and I were playing a history game and he asked me, Chuck, who did Hitler hate?

And then I said, Jupiter, she get you look very, very down. You look like a good user medication or two. So can I interest you in Asteroid? Right.

Just a couple more. There's a sage who was asked his opinion, a sage like a very wisely rastafarian sage who was asked his opinion on the links of various genres of music. And he was especially critical of pop music for being too short. And of course, she gets off our favorite genre progressive rock for being too long.

So this sage would famously said pop seem a second, prog, sema, sensory. He was also not too founder. For sprouts. So he would always find meals with sprouts very long.

So you would also say alpha for sensory. Okay, enough for now. I can actually see your muscles through the because you're wearing a secret. So I can actually say bus arms wrong.

And finally, let's end with the basketball observation. Especially for you because I know you're a big fan of the NBA. So there's an NBA team called the Celtics, okay? And they managed to sign up the best basketball player in the world right now.

And to fill said best basketball player in the world's position at the Golden State Warriors, his former teammate, a guy whose first name is Damien had to step up. But he was the interesting thing. So there's Golden State Warriors new sponsor. He's an Indian farmer company, the same guys who make Manforce condoms and pregga news.

So that's one small step for Maine and one giant league for mankind. That's about it. So maybe back with another episode on the James Store Telesco. Wow.

So I thought I thought I thought I thought I thought of one. Even when they had to replace the HST with the James Store Telesco because it couldn't see the brightest star in the sky, which the NASA astronomer replied, are you serious? We have made CK say a bad joke on every time. I think it's the logical conclusion of this episode.

So gentlemen, can we call this a day? Yes. I like the last one. I like your life.

So now, So now, Can you assume that in? Thank you. Everyone who's listening to this, you can send your death threats to me and your get well-sewn messages in mandated in at least five-color based WhatsApp forwards to nothing. Those are, I actually, you know, I could experience the COVID virus fleeing in large numbers when they heard trucks dreadful.

Is this all it takes? Is this all it takes? In which case, I didn't have to do the third wave. There are some Twitter for people who are destroying the third wave and there's already virus.

If they honestly speaking, if once or what is going to kill this virus, oh boy, yes, Twitter, well, it's place to take this one. And these also will join forces. So, we are in your safe modana. Stay safe, guys.

Stay safe. Stay explore right? Stay, sorry. Stay explore, stay explore.

Stay explore again. Stay, stay simplified. And stay week. Stay in for a ride, it seems like the bads mean off of the hull.

Bye everyone. See you guys. See you later. Bye bye.

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