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MARLO

A lot of things have really ramped up in the last week about flying cars. So, a little bit later on the show we’re really looking–

STEVE 

So we are really that close to the Jetsons?

MARLO 

We’re getting there. It’s actually amazing what’s going on right now. 

STEVE 

Actually, it was funny, during the break. Again, during the break, you were showing me some pictures of NASA. I’m like, wow, that’s really cool. There’s the moon and what’s the celestial body over there? I’m like, and I’m trying to – it’s not round. It’s like an asteroid. I was just, this tiny little speck off in the distance. I’m like, oh, wait a minute. Scratch the screen. What’d you have for breakfast this morning?

MARLO

A bagel.  

STEVE

Okay. I’m thinking it might have been the bagel 

MARLO 

With a little cream cheese next to it, right? 

STEVE

That would’ve been the milky way

MARLO 

Yes, we are now around the moon. Orion is there. This is, I love this. Last night they were interviewing people from NASA. One of the NASA directors said the team is giddy about how well Artemis One is performing. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard the word giddy ever come out of anybody from NASA before. 

STEVE

It’s like watching an episode of the Big Bang Theory except grown-up. 

MARLO 

They said the imagery coming back from the dark side of the moon is stunning.

STEVE So were there Decepticons? 

MARLO

No Decepticons 

STEVE

Chinese?

MARLO

No Chinese. 

STEVE

Yet. 

MARLO 

Yet. So the closest they’ve been, maybe they’ve been 80 miles away from the lunar surface. So you never know.  So the next time it goes up, it will actually have astronauts, but they will also not land on the moon. And then later this decade we’ll be putting people back on the moon to start building a moon base. 

STEVE 

They were doing a story on what they were gonna deploy from the next moonshot.. And they started talking about base, how some of that technology was based off of some old technology because the old technology had worked so well. And I forget the name of the rover, but they brought up a rover that was supposed to do a 60 day mission on Mars and it’s still chugging along. 11 years later. It’s still fully functioning.  

MARLO 

Supposed to have a short lifespan as well.

STEVE 

So when you put up a solar powered anything, it really functions well. 

MARLO 

Yeah. You’re oh, I forget what they call it, the most efficient solar arrays we have on the planet right now probably operate at about 30%. So anyway, we’re getting way off the topic here again but Artemis is working like it should, Orion is now. Orion is actually the spacecraft that’s going around. So anyway things are going well with Artemis, so much so that NASA’s giddy, so let’s just hope it continues. 

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STEVE 

Wait, so we’re talking flying cars because according to you, a lot of technology has taking place, which I’m excited about, but I still have that question about batteries. Boeing tried, it didn’t work but you’re getting batteries off the ground, 

MARLO 

But you’re talking about full size, full sized aircraft too, right? Yeah. And there’s actually, there are actually, 

STEVE 

But there’s still a manufacturers that have power to weight ratio-

MARLO 

Yeah. I can’t imagine any type of long-term flight outside of an ultra light, with a wingspan of hundreds and hundreds of feet that would actually be able to – there is actually a plane and ultra light that’s been developed that will fly indefinitely. 

STEVE

I think I saw that. The wings are just huge.They called it the Gossamer, I think. 

MARLO 

The Gossamer was a human powered.vehicle. Back in the, I can’t believe I even remember this- 

STEVE 

You’re scaring me now. 

MARLO

There was a British competition. 

STEVE

Oh yeah, that’s what it was. 

MARLO 

And it was, like, launched in the fifties or the sixties and they put like a million pounds or something on it for a prize.It took until 1988 before somebody even won it. 

STEVE

Did you get the interest that went along? 

MARLO

I’m not sure. But it took 20 or 30 years before because the contest was ongoing until somebody was able to do this course. And it was the gossamer that the gossamer two as a matter of fact. So there’s, at the Smithsonian now, there’s the Kittyhawk, there is the Apollo and there’s the gossamer. Believe it or not, those are the three aircraft that they show off. 

STEVE

Speaking of Kittyhawk, did you know the Wright brothers only flew together once? 

MARLO

Yes. , 

STEVE

That’s because their father forbid them in case there was an accident.

MARLO

No, I did not know that. 

STEVE

Yeah. Interesting. They did that for their father, but they only flew together once. 

MARLO 

This is such a great show. I learned all these things. 

STEVE 

We just know way too much stupid crap. 

MARLO 

We do, too.  We’ll be the best trivia partners. I’m telling you right now. . 

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