FULL EPISODE: To the Moon and Beyond - April 2, 2026
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What are the historic firsts of the Artemis II mission?
Hello and welcome in. Happy Thursday. You're going to learn such important stuff on tonight's program. We'll teach you things that are very important to your life. For example, humanity just launched a spacecraft capable of flying further than we've ever gone before with people inside of it. And of course, the toilet broke. That's right. We've pushed humanity to its limits technologically, spiritually, and now urinarily. So in 10 minutes time, did a deep space toilet breakdown affect some astronauts' ability to deal with nature when it called?
How did the Artemis II toilet problem affect the mission?
Or were they able to repair it? That's what we're going to find out. Then after that, why is Google warning us of an upcoming security apocalypse? It all has to do with quantum computers. What are those? What's going on? We'll tell you that and other stories from the tech industry halfway through the hour. Lots more to cover on the show tonight. Let's dive in.
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Three Americans and one Canadian slapped on their swimming trunks, sorry, spacesuits or launch suits, and the Artemis rocket they boarded. Boom, we're going to the moon. And just like that, we're joined by astrobiologist and professor Sarah Rugheimer from the University of Edinburgh. Sarah, welcome in. We're going to the moon. Are you excited?
Yeah, I am excited. It took me a while to get there, though.
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We've never done it before. It was completely faked back in the 60s. I'm kidding. I don't believe that. But why are we excited? The average person might think, oh, we've been there. We've done that. Why are we going back to the moon? I am not the average person, mostly because I'm a weirdo, but also because I'm excited. What makes you so excited about this mission?
So I again had the same thoughts as you at the beginning or maybe other people. I was like, okay, we've already done this. I have a magical device that's in my phone, you know, my phone. Why is this so hard? And I really then started looking into it and got excited as I realized, look, A, landing on the moon is still really hard. And that's because there's no atmosphere. It's actually in some ways easier to land on Mars, right? Because we can break with Mars's atmosphere. But why I'm most excited is this does mean more human exploration in space.
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And I think that's cool. And I want to go to Mars. I want to see humans on Mars in my lifetime. And if we're going to get humans on Mars, we first need to go to our nearest little minor body, the moon, first.
Someone was talking to me about this last night and they were saying like, okay, we've been to the moon before. We stepped foot. We left a bunch of garbage. I think there's an American flag up there somewhere. But now we're taking steps towards establishing a presence on the moon.
Yes, a base.
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A base. Why is that so different from setting foot? What would this base even do if we built it?
Yeah, so I think there's multiple stages to this. There's going to be this like a docking kind of orbiter station that we can have around the moon. And this can help launch things, say, to Mars and have people go down to the moon more easily from that. So there's a whole... system that the Artemis missions are trying to accomplish over the next dozen Artemis missions. And this is just one step in it. So these astronauts are not setting foot on the moon.
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They're just going further than humans have ever been in space. So they're going on the far side of the moon and even further than we'd gone before and coming back and testing all sorts of systems, testing this Orion capsule and testing The life support systems, making sure all that is good for hopefully humans landing in Artemis 4, I believe it is now. And so there's a lot of components to do human spaceflight safely. And, you know, it's been over 50 years since we've sent humans this far.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:26
2
What are the historic firsts of the Artemis II mission?
0:26–0:59
3
How did the Artemis II toilet problem affect the mission?
0:59–1:23
4
What are the implications of SpaceX's upcoming IPO?
1:23–1:55
5
What health risks are associated with a new fungus spreading from cats to humans?
1:55–2:48
6
What tips can help improve your sleep quality?
2:48–3:14
7
How is Gen Z's dating behavior affecting their workplace skills?
3:14–3:48
8
What does research say about letting cats roam outdoors?
3:48–1:20:39
Speakers
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