ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Space Week!

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Vaughn blasts off with a week of space facts. It's time for... Fact of the Day. This week's Fact of the Day theme is space. Inspired by a recent trip I took.

To space? Not to space. Although I've said it, I'd go on one of those space trips. I would never, ever, ever, ever go. Not yet. Give it five years. I'd rather go on one of the space trips in that submarine to the Titanic. The new one that they want to do, not the one that was...

Oh yeah, because what could go wrong? With an Xbox controller. What could possibly go wrong? Both would be scary. Yuck. Why are you doing that? Today's space fact of the day, because the scale of space is going to be a common occurrence

in this week's fact of the day. Right. The scale of space, incomprehensible. Yuck. It makes me want to be genuinely sick. When you're a kid and you're looking at a diagram of the solar system, you're cutting your apple. It's actually quite hypocritical what he's doing.

It is, wildly so, isn't it? Making his apple cut. He's always poo-pooing me when I'm trying to take a little bite. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or if I need to move my microphone because I don't have an arm like his. Vaughn literally plays a game while we're on here. I haven't played the game. The band's on the Wi-Fi.

What? I can't access the game on the Wi-Fi. I have to disengage Wi-Fi. Oh, my God. Anyway, the International Space Station orbits 220 miles above Earth in kilometres, times that by 1.6. Excuse me for a moment.

I sort of feel like it's your fact of the day. You know, you times it by one point, sir. 350 kilometres straight up. Okay. So that's 10 times, because how high do commercial airlines fly? They fly 35,000 feet? Why are we doing this? Yeah.

10 kilometres up. So, you know, put that into perspective. It's 350 kilometres around the Earth. Now, to put that into perspective, if the Earth was the size of a basketball, how far off the surface of the basketball do you think the space station would be? At the Hope.

I don't know. I've got a small basketball, but imagine a standard sized basketball. Wellington. Not Wellington. What are you talking about Wellington? He's asking the questions and then poo-pooing it. If the Earth was basketball-sized, how far off that basketball would the space station be? 30 centimetres.

Your guess is 30 centimetres? A metre. It would be a metre. Two metres. Two metres. So off a standard basketball, you metre. It would be a metre. Two metres. Two metres. So off a standard basketball, you think the space station's a metre off? Nah, I think it'd be 100 metres.

100 metres off. Can I just say, you're getting further from the truth. I'm panicking. I'm panicking. To 100 metres. I'm panicking. I'm panicking too.

I have no perspective. Because you've seen the pictures, right? It's miles. Yeah. You've seen the pictures from the space station. Tell us! Seven millimetres. What? It's miles. You've seen the pictures from the stage. Tell us! Seven millimetres. What?

From a basketball. Seven millimetres. Well, they're so close. If the earth was the size of a basketball, it would be like less than your fingers' width off going around. Why did you encourage me to go higher? You made it seem like it was more, more, more. No, you said 30 centimetres, and I said 30 centimetres,

and then you said 100, then you said a metre, and then you said Washington. You're a bit of a prick for that. Like, I said a metre, and you were like, and then I went, oh, Wellington, far away, and then you were like, so I was like, okay, well, 100 metres. Basketball isn't always exactly here.

This is something that you could pick up a basketball and say, okay, so next time you pick up a basketball, say, do you know if this was the Earth, the space station would be orbiting that far off and hold your little finger against it. If the Earth is a basketball, how far away is the moon? I don't have that statistic right here. Why wouldn't you? What do you want me to know, everything?

I do. If the Earth was a basketball, how far away would the moon be? Take the string out of tape measure. Have students at the basketball and the tennis ball each take one end of the string and walk apart until the string is at its full length. It's in feet again. It's in feet again. 23 and a half feet and metres. Two metres.

7.1 metres away. 7.1. So if the earth was a basketball and the moon was a tennis ball, they'd be seven metres apart. Someone just needs to say, God, they complained about having too much info last week. No, there's not enough info. They're never happy.

We're never happy. Thank you, Tester. I'm trying to make this as simple as possible for these two, I'll say it, morons. So, okay. For Space Week. To recap for Space Week. If the Earth was the size of a basketball.

Which it's not. Which it's not. Well, scale-wise, if you held a basketball and you were on... Maybe if you were on the moon and you held a basketball at arm's length, the Earth would look the same size. Maybe. The International Space Station is...

Michael Jordan? The aliens from Space Jam. They came via the moon. So if the Earth was the size of a basketball, the International Space Station would be about your little finger's width off going around, and the moon would be seven metres away. Amazing. Okay, that's far.

Wasn't that hard just to get that moon fact, was it? I added in the moon fact. Yeah, thank you for that. And that's how good I am, just on the fly. On the fly. This week here at Fact of the Day, it's Space Week. Influenced, I'd say, by a recent trip I undertook. Okay.

Find out more soon. To space? Not to space, unfortunately. Did you say find out more soon? Find out more soon. I said stay tuned. You're saying stay tuned. You've got me, Ian.

You've got me. Today's Fact of the day. This pickled my little brain. Blew my mind. Okay. The moon is not spherical. Yes, it is. No, it's not. Next fact. Yes, it is. I've seen it. Well, it's not a rugby ball, is it?

It is a rugby ball. He's going to sit here and tell us the moon's a triangle. The moon is technically known as an oblate spheroid I'm here holding This is very actually very timely I'm here I'm holding a little miniature basketball I'm squeezing it from top to bottom That's an oblate spheroid

The moon's not like that The moon is egg-shaped. Some describe it as lemon-shaped, but I'm going to go with egg-shaped. It's more of a squatty egg than it is an actual egg. But the problem is, the reason when we look and we see it's spherical, you imagine you're holding an egg upright

like it sits in the tray, and you're like, that's egg-shaped. Now turn it on its end, so you can only see it from the end. That looks round, doesn't it? Oh, yeah, it does. and you're like that's egg shaped now turn it on its end so you can only see it from the end that looks round doesn't it oh yeah it does

because you're only getting around the sort of circumference of the middle you're only seeing it from the angle you're seeing and the end that points towards the earth is a little fatter

oh yeah you know how the egg has a skinny end and a rounder end so we're looking tapered tip but how egg shaped is it because it can't be that

a little bit it's not huge but it certainly isn't spherical. So it's not shaped like an egg. It's thought because when it first formed and it was like just under this big ball of liquid molten goo and the gravity of the earth pulled it a little bit out of shape because we've got the fatter end facing us. Like a vacuum.

Yeah, I've Googled it and NASA's saying the same thing as Vaughan. I'll Google it. I hope you just didn't think I plucked this from just my own thoughts and prayers. I didn't know if you were getting it. Get this from space authorities. I didn't know if you were getting it

from your communities and message boards and Facebook groups. That you get a lot of your information from. In perfect sphere, they say. Yeah, in perfect sphere. Yeah. But I can't see like an. And you know, also it's 25% the size of Earth.

Yeah. The, like you could fit four moons across our equator. Yeah. At its equator. Some astronomers believe that that makes it close enough to our size. We could be considered a double planet rather than a planet with a satellite. Moon. An orbiting satellite.

Okay. Should we be moving to the moon? Sort of feels better than Mars. I'm in no great hurry to move to the moon. No, neither. I hope they'll be gone by then. Not until there's good Wi-Fi. Surely Starlink will be even better up there.

No, because the satellites are pointing towards Earth And they're way closer to Earth than they are the moon Are they? Yeah I sort of imagine they were in space Yeah Like right out there Right out there near the moon

Like you could be on Mars and just pick up two bars Yeah, yeah, yeah Sometimes two bars is all you need Yeah, it's all you need Oh, it depends If I'm sending a video, I'd prefer more bars But two bars, I'll send a picture It'll be fine Yeah, absolutely The all you need. Oh, it depends. If I'm sending a video, I'd prefer more bars. But two bars, I'll send a picture. It'll be fine.

Yeah, absolutely. The quality may be lower. I recently bought a new couple of outlets to mesh my Wi-Fi. Beautiful. They've done a fantastic job. Maybe we just need one of those. Or the International Space Station. Just to mesh it back.

Yeah, good. Mesh it back. We can hook it to your account because I'm on unlimited. By all means, please. I need to get another account. I'm unlimited.. By all means, please. I need to get another account. I'm unlimited. That'd be great. So today's fact of the day is that the moon is not spherical.

Play ZM's Fletch Vodden Ailey. Play ZM. This week's fact of the day is... You brat. This week's fact of the day is... Stop. You two, stop fighting. Be nice to your brother the day. Stop. You too. Stop funny.

Be nice to your brother, please. Be nice to your brother. We'll both be in trouble. I just pushed his cup over. He was being a brat. And thus turning you into a brat. Did you not listen to Brat Magandy? He did.

A brat for a brat leaves the whole world brat. That's right. Okay. Put that on a horse. And then the one who says brat hat brat. Br's right. Okay. Put that on a horse. And the one that says brat hat back. Brat. Brat.

Brat. Brat. Gandhi. Brat. Brat. Gandhi. Brat. Brat.

Gandhi. When you say put it on a horse, people don't know that we're making a horse calendar. I think the people are well aware that the demand

is going to fly out the door. With motivational quotes on horses. On horses. There's been two this morning. Can't remember what the first one was. It's Space Week here

at Fact of the Day Influenced by a recent trip I took You've been pretty coy about this recent trip He's coy, he's mysterious He's a mystery man Will you be revealing more about this mystery trip? You're damn right You silly little sausage

Stay tuned You silly little space sausage I will you big space sausage Today What? You're a big space sausage. Today. What? You're a big space sausage. Ah, you're a big space sausage.

Today is about the smell of space. Oh. The different haromas you would smell in space. Because smell, like sound. Pear and jasmine. What a wonderful combination. Oh, it's got to be sweet. It's got to be French pear, I reckon.

So in space, if you'll both just shut your faces for a moment, I will explain to you. Wow. In a vacuum. Someone's got their period. Remember that? Time of the month is it, love? Oh, gosh.

You say remember that. I bet people will still say it all the time. Oh, really? It's not your echo chamber of left-wing libtards. Right, Oh, gosh. You say remember that. I bet people will still say it all the time. Oh, really? Just not your echo chamber of left-wing libtards. Right, right, right. Us here at the alt-right, not afraid to say it. Yeah, wow. Not afraid to say it. Call out a woman for her moods on a period.

And a man, too. That's wild. It's been nice working with you. It's been nice. Anyway, we're having fun here. The smell doesn't work in a vacuum like sound. Sound doesn't travel in a vacuum. Even if you farted in your own suit.

In your suit, you're not in the vacuum. You're in a pressurised environment. Chamber. But in space, it doesn't. But when you've been out on a spacewalk and you go back into the International Space Station. Oh, what do you smell like? You can smell the environment you've just been in. It would be like being outside when there's a fire and you go back into the International Space Station. Oh, what do you smell like? You can smell the environment you've just been in. It would be like being outside when

there's a fire and you go inside, you couldn't smell it outside, but then you get inside and you can smell smoke on your clothes. Like when you worked in a kitchen and you can smell the oil on your clothes. Yeah. So they've done some, because basically fragrance is just basically a mix of chemicals and it's how your olfactory senses,

it's the smell senses, the aroma, perception senses, breaks it down. So what they do is they get a mix of these exact chemicals and then they put them together and they're like,

this is what space smells like. The Milky Way. Yep. Smells of rum, raspberries, and booze. What? What?

The Milky Way, you know, if you look up into the sky and you can see the Milky Way, they've broken down what it's made of and it's packed full of a chemical known as ethyl formate, which has a couple of intriguing properties.

It's responsible for giving raspberries their flavour. Yum. And rum its smell. I quite like the smell of rum. It's a nice smell. More than I like its impact on me. A nice spicy rum. Do you think the Milky Way could have just sucked up a pirate ship back in the day,

and that's why it smells like that. On its way back from a raspberry plantation. Nope, I don't think so. I think you're being ridiculous. Explain that. Explain that. I think you're being ridiculous. Someone's on there, Perry.

Who's been to the Milky Way here? Not Vaughan. I'll tell you that right now. NASA reached out to Omega Ingredients to recreate the odour for training simulations. It brings back atmospheric samples of the moon, for example. Yeah. They did the smell of the moon, they said, and they compared it to gunpowder. And that all checks out because things found on the moon, no atmosphere,

but just the space of the moon, the chemical formula. Like space rock or dust from the moon landing and sniff it? Give that a sniff. I never thought about if that sniffed, because I just imagine you sniff pumice. It doesn't really have a smell. Once you leave the galaxy, apparently there's dark pockets of the universe.

Some smell like sweet sugar. And the other of a rotten egg stench of sulphur, as that's quite present in the galaxy. Rotorua vibes. Rotorua. Sweet sugar. Oh. And the other, a rotten egg stench of sulfur, as that's quite present in the galaxy. Right. Rotorua vibes. Rotorua.

And if you went for a spacewalk in the International Space Station and you come back in, often you would smell burnt or fried steak. Yum. It could smell like cooked meat. Oh, yum. With an egg. A fried egg as well. Or a red wine jus sort of situation with a grat egg as well or a red wine jus sort of situation

with a gratin more of a red wine jus lovely potato gratin wow and then you get back to the international space so you can get inside and then you can't

have a cooked steak you can't have a dehydrated milk pouch moolied up yogurt pouch yeah so today's

fact of the day good fact of the day by the way liked this yeah really good from you thank you is that the Milky Way smells of rum Nugget pouch. Yeah. So today's fact of the day. Good fact of the day, by the way. Liked this. Yeah, really good from you. Thank you. Is that the Milky Way smells of rum, raspberries and booze.

Today's fact of the day. It's space week here, fact of the day. Loving it. Influenced by a recent trip I took. Find out more soon. I like that. The space soon. I like that. The space facts. Today's fact.

How much gravity do you think there is on the International Space Station? 42%. Of Earth's gravity. I don't know how gravity works. I don't feel confident enough to be like, here's a concise sentence to explain how gravity works. You see them floating around, so obviously there's less than Earth. 50% of Earth's gravity? Yeah.

75% of Earth's gravity. No, you wouldn't float around that much. You'd just be a bit more buoyant. Well, it's actually 90% of Earth's gravity. Suck it. Suck it. But you're right. They float around, and how does that work if it's zero gravity?

Yeah. It's because they are falling. Oh. Like a skydiver free-falling. Yep. They're falling, they're orbiting, so they're falling and moving sideways at a rate that it gives the appearance of zero gravity

even though it's 90% of Earth's gravity. Ooh, that must feel horrid. Does it just feel like, you know when a plane does a southern turn and you can actually feel the Gs, and you try to lift your leg and you can't? Yes. Like T-Via? Gs are what you feel in the acceleration to a point. Right.

So when they take off from Earth and they're in the spaceship and they're like stuck to their seat and getting up there. Place don't explode. Place don't explode. Yeah. But then to dock with the International Space Station, they've got to be going the same speed as it. So they did all the hard work leaving Earth and once they're on explode, place on explode. Yeah. But then to dock with the International Space Station, they've got to be going the same speed as it. So they did all the hard work leaving Earth,

and once they're on it, they can't feel the acceleration, and the constant speed just feels like constant speed to them. Like how we can't feel the Earth spinning. So it's like when skydivers are free-falling, and they can just spin around, and it gives the appearance they're weightless, but everything's moving around them, whereas these guys are insider.

You know if they want to replicate zero gravity, they take you up in that big plane, and then they just dive that plane down? It's effectively that way. And the International Space Station moves sideways and falls towards Earth, and the horizon curves away beneath it at the same rate. So it means it's orbiting around, given the appearance of zero gravity, but it's got 90% of Earth's gravity in there.

So today's fact of the day is that the International Space Station is not zero gravity. We've all got Belgian biscuits. Belgian biscuit made me very salivary. Same. Salivary. Very salivary. Is that in or out?

It made me very salivary. Same. I'm full of saliva. Good. I like it. Better of a majora. It made me very salivary. Same. I'm full of saliva. Good. I like it. Better than a dry mouth. Well, it's some space week here at Fact of the Day. I've been loving this.

So much more than calendar week. This has been inspired as well. Inspired by a recent trip that you've taken. Mysterious. A mysterious recent trip. And I believe we will find out more about this next week. Yep. Okay.

Well, today's fact of the day is about the stars. Okay. The stars. The stars. Is it in honour of the full moon, the solstice, and Matariki coming up? I hadn't thought of any of those, but that is a happy coincidence that I'm willing to say, yeah, absolutely. That's what I was thinking of when I was sent this fact by Niamh. Do you want to know how many stars are estimated to exist?

Niamh Gayford. Niamh Gayford. Clark. What is Niamh Gayford Ardern? Niamh Aroha Ardern Gayford. No, not the old prime minister's daughter. There are one set. The old prime minister. Former. Former prime minister. old Prime Minister's daughter. There are one... Don't call her the old Prime Minister.

Former. You say former. Former Prime Minister. Former Prime Minister's daughter. There are one septillion stars. Septillion. That is one followed by 24 zeros. And that's just stars. That's not planets. That's just the stars that planets go around. Here I was trying to become

a billionaire. You need to become a septillionaire. Yeah, is so much. Well, our closest star is, of course, the sun. And Stanford University did some recent calculations that says every second our sun loses 4.7 million tonnes of mass as energy. We're getting small. It's eventually going to burn itself out.

But it's a long way away. How often does it lose that? Every second. 4.7 million times. That's a lot of weight to lose. How's it doing it? Oh my God, shredding keto. Sun's on keto.

It's keto. It's HIIT classes. Intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting. It's everything. OZN pick. OZN pick. It's not taking on any mass because it's not hungry because of OZPAC

how long have we got? oh we've got ages we'll put it this way we'll have destroyed this earth well before it destroyed oh thank god because I was like

we're going to have to shunt the earth towards a new star nah if we all just went like that it was two massive rockets on each side

yeah be so loud yeah it would be but you know move us towards a new star I've got earplugs. Yep. Yeah. Easy to go to sleep too because the sun's gone out so it's dark.

It'll be so cold. It'll be noisy and dark. It'll be a lifelong sleep, I think, if that happens. It will be. It will be the long sleep. So today's fact of the day is our sun is losing 4.7 million tonnes of mass as energy every second. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Yeah. Oh, I just heard your tummy go.

Yeah, that was my tum-tums. That was my tum-tum-tums. Hey guys, I reckon that was the most fun I've ever had on a show. Ah, not for me. Vaughan? Um, nowhere even close. No, nowhere even close. Nowhere even close.

You haven't been here long, have you? No, I haven't. No. Well, if you were listening and you had fun, why don't you give us a little review and a rating?