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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
Holy shit.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
It's crazy.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
It's crazy.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
Or you can take two and a half weeks by boat across the world's Southern Ocean.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
which is the most dangerous and kind of violent sea.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
I get seasick, so I go on a stand-up paddleboard, I get seasick, so I'm not taking the boat ride.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
So you get there, you go from San Diego, fly to LAX, you fly from LAX to either Australia or to the North Island of New Zealand, to Auckland, New Zealand.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
And that takes, you know, 14 hours, whatever flight.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
Then you get there, then you have to take another flight to get from there to Christchurch, New Zealand, which is on the South Island of New Zealand.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
New Zealand is like, is where they film The Lord of the Rings.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
It's the most, it's like Switzerland plus the tropics.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
It's an incredible, beautiful place.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
And then you get there, and the US has carved out an army base, a naval base, and a provisioning center from this place called Christchurch.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
And the reason that they're there is it's where the historic explorers like Roald Amundsen, who's the first man to reach the South Pole,
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
and Robert Scott, who's a British team, they were in a race song every bit as competitive as the Cold War space race to get to the moon first.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
This battle in 1911 and 1912 was every bit as intense geopolitically, national pride, scientifically.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
It was the last continent.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
No one had ever seen Antarctica.
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
You know when Antarctica was discovered?
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#316 Brian Keating - Brian Keating - The First Object Ever Found From Another Solar System
Antarctica was discovered after the planet Uranus was discovered.