Ep 613 - Solar System Part 1 (feat. Nate Marshall)

27:56Shane Gillis:So maybe that was like the outer, outer reaches. I don't – oh, yeah, you know what? It probably was because they weren't even – yeah, they had got to like the outer reaches of that. Maybe they're in Salt Lake. but because the corona of the sun that goes off the body extends for 3.5 million miles at a million degrees and then thins out into the solar wind that we talked, extends all the way out to Pluto and beyond. So technically speaking, the whole solar system is located inside of the sun. And I'm going to get pushback because they're going to say, dude, that's the fuck you can't include fucking solar winds.

28:27Shane Gillis:But it's like, hey, man, I didn't write the rules. The girls did. This is girl rules. Girl rules. Sorry, I didn't make them. actually used to live now if you really want to take away their vote you can amend the solar winds no it does not extend to all the thing alright so we covered the surface and the corona I think pretty well but what about the core the churning powerhouse of the sun the core is where yeah I mean dude like the surface is cool and all the corona's pretty cool you know paradoxical whatever the core I don't think I've ever heard shit about the core bro you if you want to cover your ears I don't blame you it's freaky You'll never look at the sun again the same way.

29:06Shane Gillis:So the core makes up the innermost 25 % of the sun's radius. So 25 % of the sun's size is the radius, not obviously including solar winds and all that stuff. But don't let that fool you. 25 % of the sun is still enormous. The core alone is roughly twice the diameter of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. So it's massive. So you have this massive ball. It's 15 million degrees Celsius. And again, we've already established the corona is 1.3 million degrees. the core is five to 15 times hotter than that and like we said every step up the temperature ladder changes what matter fundamentally is so once you get into the core you're you're like you're just complete you're you're beyond what any physical matter on earth is basically you're you turn into plasma and the pressure this is fucked up if you think about it the pressure of the core it's 250 billion times earth's atmospheric pressure and pressure is not gravity it doesn't mean you weigh like 250 billion times more.

30:05Shane Gillis:It's like if you were, you know when you're underwater when like submarines go thousands of feet and they get crushed? Yeah. Dude, like, if you did like a couple hundred thousand times bigger, you're crushed. It's 250 billion times atmospheric pressure. It'd be like being like 10 billion feet underwater. Like it's unfathomable how much it grows. It's crushing, it's containing an explosion, which the core essentially is. The core's explosion is equivalent to 90 trillion nuclear warheads going off every second. Already for 4 billion years, slated for another roughly 4.5 billion years more. Every second you look at the sun, it's 90 trillion nuclear warheads just going.

30:48We're just looking at it like, damn, it's a pretty day out there.

30:52Shane Gillis:Dude, it's insane. So, okay, 250 billion times Earth's atmospheric pressure. and again it's being crunched down by gravity the sun contains 333 000 times the mass of earth and all of that mass is gravitationally attracted to its own center i don't really know that's how gravity works so if you have a big ball like earth or the sun all like it's like the weight so you have like you're standing on france all of france from the surface down to like all the shit underneath it is pressing on the core then you have china that's also somehow pressing into the core as well and every place is just crunching down on the core so the the core of the the sun is just fucking massive amounts of gravity containing this never-ending explosion that just kind of repowers itself over and over so every layer of the sun is sitting top on the on top of the layer below it is i mean it's the most extreme pile on ever just all the way down the core like we say and the temperature so it's the temperature by the way so we're saying about like like the, you know, 15 million degrees changing what matter fundamentally is.

31:59Shane Gillis:It's from two things. It's from the temperature and it's from the pressure. So the temperature gets the particles moving fast enough to overcome the repulsion. Because you have like, say, you have a hydrogen nucleus. It seems another hydrogen nucleus. So it's just sitting there like this. They're repelled like magnets. Like think about two magnets. You can't get them to touch each other. You're sitting there like, you know, I can't do it. so the heat gets the particles moving so fast that the electrons since it's plasma the electrons fall away now we have the soup the electrons are just floating here and there there's no order to any of these things and the neutrons are just going like this and then they get hot enough they get fast enough and they get close enough to each other to overcome the repulsion that's love so like dude if you threw a magnet so fast it is love it's true it's like if you threw the magnet so fast, which I've actually seen one of my boys do this one time, you throw the magnet fast enough, it would just go, it would actually connect.

32:53Shane Gillis:However, the connection is nuclear, it's like particle fusion. So it's what powers nuclear bombs. And the pressure, so it's like the temperature gets them moving fast enough to overcome the repulsion, but then the pressure gets them close enough for the strong nuclear force to grab them together. So, and this is the core is the only place in the solar system where both conditions are met at once. which is why fusion only happens in the center of stars and nowhere else. It really is. When people do atomic bombs, they're harnessing the power of the stars. Yeah. That's crazy. It's the power of the stars.

33:27Yeah.

33:28Shane Gillis:And here, yeah. So, and the cool part is the same gravity. That's kind of bad ass that people were just harnessing the power of stars on the planet. I didn't mean to cut you off. It's cool. It's certainly, it's terrifying. It's terrifying, but it's really scary. We did kind of do that though. I know. I mean, shout out to us, obviously. But yeah, the same crushing gravity is what keeps the whole system stable. The fusion at the core, and we'll get into exactly what fusion is, is nuclear fusion, is constantly trying to blow the sun apart. So, and again, like we said, 90 trillion nuclear bombs per second exploding.

34:00Shane Gillis:Gravity is just hugging around it. Just, no, brother, just holding it all together. And these two forces, these two massive forces have been pretty much perfectly balanced for 4.6 billion years, like we said. Turns out we get another$5 billion in the bank. So we're chilling on the sun for$5 billion more years. The sun's at a controlled explosion that gravity won't let escape and fusion won't let collapse in on itself. So the fusion also is pushing out against gravity, wanting to just fucking crunch it all in. I wonder if it'll be like signs. I mean, obviously we won't be here for, you know, 400 billion years from now, will the sun like feel or look different?

34:35You know what I mean? Because we've lived it. We've experienced it for such a short period of time. We don't even.

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36:50Shane Gillis:Also, guys, I have some new tour dates coming up. I'm actually kind of pumped to announce them. They'll be summer and pretty much winter. Pretty cute, pretty cute. But the big one right now, Toronto sold out. Thank you, guys. Canada, you guys rule. And then the Riviera Theater, Chicago, Illinois. I'm going to check right now, guys. I think tickets are almost gone. I'm not just saying that. But we're a week out. And I believe last time I checked, I was at like 90 % sold. So, yeah. So, I'm looking right now. It's making me click to make sure I'm not a robot. Whatever. There's not a lot of tickets left, guys.

37:25Shane Gillis:I can say that for a fact. So, get them if you want to come. It's going to be a close one. So, that's it. Chicago. And that is, sorry, I should say the date for that. That is going to be May 16th, I believe. I don't know. So, yeah, May 16th. It's being microphones, being a piece of shit. So, come on and come on. We'll get into fusion because, again, we kind of touched on it, but how it happens is really cool. So, like, you know, what actually happens to these, you know, molecules or, like, hydrogen particles at 15 million degrees. So, again, at a few thousand degrees, molecules break apart into atoms at around 10 ,000 degrees Celsius.

38:01Shane Gillis:Atoms, this is when it becomes plasma. atoms themselves start to break down like we said electrons get stripped away because it's like you have remember the science thing you have a nucleus which is like a i think a proton and a neutron and then it's circled by electrons okay and luckily hydrogen has no proton no hydrogen has no neutrons or something so it's just a proton that's why they have like the proton collider thing that's what they're trying to replicate that you ever hear of the higgs boson particle collider no they have these things underground and they're trying to get particle fusion they try to shoot them at such speeds that they can overcome that natural resistance and actually collide.

38:34Shane Gillis:That sounds scary as shit to just fuck around with. These girls are out of control right now, man. This girl's out of control. And the mountain blows up. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's actually pretty freaky. But at 10 ,000 degrees Celsius, matter stops becoming matter in any recognizable sense that we know and becomes plasma, which we said is a soup of free electrons and bare atomic nuclei. So it's like the nucleus not surrounded by the electrons that are spinning around it. Again, this is a fourth state of matter between solid, liquid, and gas. So that's at 10 ,000 degrees Celsius. The core is 15 million degrees.

39:09Shane Gillis:So you're so far past plasma that the nuclei, the proton and neutron, in the case of hydrogen, just the proton, like we said, themselves are being slammed into each other hard enough to fuse. And like we said, it's because the electrons are stripped away from the heat, leaving the protons. again not being possibly charged would still repel each other like magnets the repulsion between these protons is called the Kaloon barrier in case you're wondering so that's the barrier that keeps protons from kind of slamming but now like we said the heat has the protons going so fast they overcome the repulsion and so then as they do this they just fucking boom slam into each other these are two hydrogen nuclei colliding and merging transforming in a flash in a nuclear you know a miniature nuclear explosion transforming to form helium in the process so that you have a hydrogen a hydrogen which by the way two hydrogen one hydrogen i think is heavier than a helium okay but when the two come together which you would think oh the helium is going to be heavier the helium is lighter than these two guys that just crash together so because the helium is fundamentally lighter and the loss of weight right so you have say a hydrogen weighs one pound or They don't, but let's say for the sake of numbers, two hydrogen nucleuses weigh one pound each.

40:23Shane Gillis:They slam. Now they weigh like collectively, I don't know, whatever the fuck it is. They've lost 0.7 % of their mass. They get smaller though. Yeah, they're lighter than those. So you start off with two things weighing something. They collide. You have the leftover. The helium is like the ash of a cigarette. It's like a leftover component of this nuclear reaction. That tiny little bit of weight that's lost is then transferred into the energy that basically becomes light. So those particles colliding in the 15 million degrees. In the core. In the core is what generates the sun's light. But it's happening over and over and over and over and over and over.

40:58Shane Gillis:Just boom, boom, boom, boom. Every second. And there's this light blinding flashes of gamma rays, which you don't want to fucking. I know you think you're tough, but you do not want a gamma ray at all. Put me on the gamma ray. You do not want to get it. It's that little, the hydrogen nuclei. This is important. colliding and merging, transforming to helium, which is like kind of the body of the sun. Yeah. Boom, white flash. But that just like infinitesimal part of the mass that's lost becomes a force, becomes a gamma ray, which is like really weird to think. Like if you took a tiny bit of weight of this thing, single, you know, I don't know what it weighs, probably fucking not even like 0.1 pounds.

41:41Shane Gillis:That would become an intense burst of light energy. this is what you know it's trying to think of how to explain this so so the fusion of two particles again which is because of heat and pressure transmutes the hydrogen into helium we already we already said that and it loses that little bit of weight that just becomes light pure energy and here's how i try to think of it so it's like when the protons collide in nuclear fusion they turn into helium which we said is the byproduct of the reaction and the reaction is a massive explosion of energy relative to the size of the tiny bit of weight that was lost.

42:17Shane Gillis:So like, think of it this way. If you multiply something's mass, right? I'm just, this is how I kind of figured it out. If you multiply something's mass by the speed of light and then multiply that number by the speed of light again, you'll see how much energy has been converted in the process. So this is just think like, you know, E for energy, M for mass, and let's do C for the speed of light and square that you get, I think it's like E equals MC squared. Whoa. Oh dude, that's crazy. That's Einstein's theory actually. But that's what, I had no idea that's what E equals MC squared is. It's just accounting for how much mass converts, how much the tiniest amount of mass converts to like light energy basically.

42:56Shane Gillis:Okay. It's Einstein's theory of special relativity. It's a crazy case of parallel thinking honestly. But I just, I was like, oh yeah, that's how that works. So going back to the sun. The dude's sitting there by himself and just figuring that all out. for the first time. Yeah, he's just being like, I'm him. He's definitely him. I think, though, there was a guy who figured out, what is it, magnetism and electricity are part of the same thing. Yeah. And that came first, which was also like, what the fuck? Yeah, yeah. And I think that, they say that's what kind of helped Einstein be like, oh, okay, and he kind of piggybacked off that.

43:35Shane Gillis:He basically alley-ooped Einstein. That's not Tesla, right? No, no, I forget the guy's name. I mean, the guy who discovered electromagnetism, another beast. That was a big one, dude. That was crazy to somehow be like, no, they're the same thing because it's like electricity and magnetism. You can't have one without the other. The one produces electricity and the other one produces magnetism. And it's a self-sustaining field. The thing that I've noticed, this is a little sidetrack, but like we're talking, you're talking this. Because we're talking about how beast these guys are. I've kind of, I don't know if it's Instagram or what the internet has.

44:07I always picture like smart dudes. I didn't even see you doing it. I was just smart dudes and dorks. And like now you're starting to see like sometimes like nerds are kind of just cool, you know, smart people. They used to be cool. Einstein was cool. Yeah. He used to like, I see stuff that he seemed like he was kind of him back in the day. Like he wasn't like, well, you know what it was though?

44:28Shane Gillis:Those early physicists and those type of guys, they would look at this outer space shit and be like, they took almost like a religious perspective. They'd be like, God, God's mysteries are so tight. Now scientists are like cold and objective and they're like, they talk like robots. Yeah. They lost all their swag. They lost their swag when they stopped being like, this is so beautiful, dude. How do I fit into this beautiful tapestry? Now they're like, well, the forces are impersonal and cold and dark. And they turn on the guy who tries to go back to that other shit. They go like, no, that's not what we do now.

45:00We can't write peer review papers on that. I know.

45:03Shane Gillis:How can you quantify that? It's like, dude, shut the fuck up, dude. That's why Einstein got pussy and you didn't. So Michael Faraday What the hell Huh I think it's Ernest Mach What Did he Maybe he was I don't know But either way We'll leave that Like comment below Figure that out So going back to the sun That is a good point Why Einstein was the man I do think they just lost Their respect for You know Yeah They took it They stopped taking a poetic view towards nature. They just started being like, yeah, yeah, it's fucking bunch of math. It's just math. Going back to the sun. So nuclear, nuclear fusion is constantly happening at the core.

45:49Shane Gillis:Hydrogen nuclei slamming, fusing gamma burst. And this is what sunlight is. And then leftover helium, the body of the sun. So the sun, by the way, through fusion is converting 4 million tons of mass into energy gamma rays every single second. And this isn't like burning a log. This is physically, you know, that's like you burn it and it's light. This is physically converting mass into like traveling light beams. You know, a fire is just kind of like, oh, it's like a candle. It just kind of hovers. That's more of a chemical reaction. This is fundamentally taking mass and going, poof, light beam flying out.

46:27Shane Gillis:So in gamma rays too, by the way, here's a cool thing too. The gamma rays don't just blast out of the reaction and hit us. because if they did, we'd be fucked. Like we would be, gamma rays are, in terms of energy rays, like gamma, X rays, all that shit, they're the king daddy of energy rays. They have no mass, no charge. It's just pure energy moving at the speed of light. So, and you think, okay, what the fuck's the big deal about that? So, okay, so let's just get into this thing first. The gamma ray, well, let's just say if it hit you, you're fucked. Like a gamma ray goes, a UV ray hits your skin and it gets trapped and you get a little sunburn maybe, but your body's like, okay, let's kind of repair that.

47:07Shane Gillis:A gamma ray would go right through you. Like it would be a hole in my body? It wouldn't be a hole, but it would pass through you, but it would sever anything it touched in terms of like your DNA cells. So it goes through you and just severs your DNA. So if you got hit with a full body dose of gamma, all your DNA strands would just be severed. Like that. Do you just like vaporize? Huh? Do you vape? That sounds like you vaporize. You don't vaporize. You would just be there. Like nothing happened, but all of a sudden you'd be like, ugh, like all your body's natural intelligence just goes offline and you become what's called a walking ghost and you just slowly die.

47:41Shane Gillis:Like you die in like two minutes. Damn. Because your body, all your bodily processes are just like, what the fuck was that? They just stop working. Their lines of DNA just shred. Your DNA is what's telling all your cells what to do. Yeah. That just goes down and then you go, ugh, I don't feel so good. Two minutes later, fucking toast. So that's what's happening in the sun's core. Now, here's the cool part. I wonder if we have those kind of weapons. the gamma would fuck dude that would suck getting hit with gamma so the core you would think like okay so that light hits the core the hydrogen you know or hydrogen hits each other turns into gamma the hydrogen turns into helium that's like the energy process the energy exchange or whatever that gamma those gamma rays produced by the uh particle fusion it gets trapped in the sun's core It just, it can't get out.

48:30Shane Gillis:It goes, bounces around. Guess how long it bounces around for? I guess. A million years. 17 ,000. Okay. 17 ,000. You should have went low. For record, just go low. Next time, next time. No, but so if those escaped, we'd be toast. Yeah. Somehow, and the sun's already kind of nuts right now, but the energy it produces, it holds it inside of itself and just kind of, it bounces around on a weird 10 ,000 to 17 ,000 year journey inside of the core where it's slowly degraded into like lesser and lesser forms of energy, basically. So it's like gamma all the way to where it's like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

49:07Shane Gillis:Now it comes out as UV light. As soon as it escapes the core and hits the, you know, basically surface of the sun, it takes eight seconds to get to Earth. So it bounces around for, let's say, 17 ,000 years, and then it gets to the sun's surface, and it's eight seconds, hits you right in your fucking face. Get a little tan. as uv and you get a little tan you know white boys like me a little crispy but so yeah it's pretty uh it's pretty crazy man al it's like every every time you stand in the sunlight the light hitting you 17 000 years old and has been stepped down it kind of is set up for black people originally so white people might be from yakub but it was it's kind of just like held in the sun and then shot out at like the perfect shit that we need for here for plants and people and you know all that other stuff that's fire pretty beautiful yeah pretty beautiful pure gamma dude don't want no parts of that you don't want that dude you just you just don't you don't want anything literally like we said just malfunctions everything gets you fucked up um but yeah dude and then like we said before the sun this is actually kind of cool too um the sun somehow sun basically self-regulates so like we said before the you know the outward pressure of a fusion is kind of trying to explode the sun just out into the into the solar system but the size of the sun itself is kind of crunching it down in on itself yeah so here's the thing when fusion speeds up the sun expands so the sun it's like okay the thing is starting to explode but the sun expanding expands the core too which then naturally cools the core down and so like we said the heat is what gets the particles moving faster yeah so when the core expands the particles slow down ever so slightly so fusion slows down so the sun contracts again because everything cools down so it's like breathing it's it's literally self-regulating yeah so it's just it's expanding it's been doing this every for four billion years keeping itself in perfect balance making the light just perfect for us pretty fucking wild however so it's doing this all the time but then within that kind of like breathing kind of thing every 11 years it's on it's on a it's been on a cycle like this forever every 11 years it has a solar flares cycle so we're in a period of high solar flares right now so every like we said that's from just electromagnetic fields just twisting twisting twisting and snap and they go and shoot out so it's like you have there it's always solar flaring but every 11 years it's like high solar flares and then every 11 year next 11 years like low solar flares okay so we're in high times right now we're not we're in high How long is it supposed to last?

51:46The high times.

51:47Shane Gillis:I don't know where we're at in it, but we're probably, just say we're at the middle, we got like five more years of solar flares. And apparently the flares do have, I should have researched this, I did not, but they do have like a measurable effect on like people's like thinking and stuff like that. So they can like, they can get you. It might be why we're all a little crazy right now. We're in heavy solar flare. Hopefully, you know, we're on time for, I've said it before, I think 2030 onwards is going to be chill. That's my prediction now. if i check solar flares right now and it lines up with that i'm just gonna run with that so yeah that's another mystery it's like okay the sun is a self-regulating it's it's it has like rhythms and stuff that it does um and also like we said obviously it's held a perfect balance for 4.6 billion years um with like really no room to mess up like if it if it got like just a few degrees cooler or hotter i mean life on earth is fucking toast so it's like it doesn't have a huge window of error if the sun goes off just a little bit we're fucked we're cooked so brings me to the next question is the sun conscious i was for real i was sitting here whole and then i was sitting here holding and saying something about that because i was literally i have that thought sometimes whether or not like planets and like shit in the solar system is a higher form of life that we just don't understand yet i don't know i mean if life is exist on earth and grows out of earth.

53:08What the fuck is earth? That's what I'm saying.

53:11Shane Gillis:What's the sun, dude? I don't know. What's the sun? Dude, my thing is that, so if your brain produces consciousness, your brain is just a bunch of like electrical sparks flying around in like water and tissue. Why can't the sun, dude? You have electromagnetic fields. You have water. You have heat. I mean, the sun doesn't have water, but you know what I'm saying. There's like water on the planets. You have heat. You have electromagnetic fields. I mean, dude, why not, dude? I don't know. I don't know. So then the people, there's people that say that consciousness, this is like the idealist or like pan psychics.

53:41Shane Gillis:They say that consciousness is like a field, just like gravity or electromagnetism. It's just present. And then we just, you know, pick up on it. Just like gravity crushes us. There's like a field for consciousness. You have the right stuff. You tap into the field. I could be the sun. The sun could be conscious. I don't know. However, I think regardless of how you feel about it, something like a religious reverence is due for the sun. After I learned about it, I was like, dude, I got back to sun gods, dude, or at least just look at it and get stoked. I ever since I look at like, dude, I got into just how like the sun puts out these like whatever it is radiation.

54:18Shane Gillis:And our eyes are designed to actually see radiation. Like if our eyes weren't designed, we couldn't pick up on light. Basically, we have like light sensors in our eyes. And I just like I was here typing and I was like, wait, so do we see light or does light let us see? and I was just like getting all wrapped up on if we even see light in the first place. And I took a knee by my computer. I was like, dude, just chill. Go outside. It's fucked up. It's a dumb. This is dumb as shit, but it's a cart in the show Invincible. There's a whole scene where they go into this room and you can't see anything because of because they're exactly what you're talking about.

54:55It's like they have a certain kind of light on in the room that our eyes aren't made. Really? To be able to pick up on. And then they like give him a needle that injects. In the show, they give him a needle that injects something that makes his eyes be able to see this new type of light. It's kind of what you're saying. No, exactly.

55:11Shane Gillis:Well, there's also a ton of, yeah, like infrared wavelengths that we can't see. Yeah. So there could be shit like going on. We'll never be able to see it. It was bugging me out, dude. But here's the thing, too. It's like, you know, people back in the day would look up at the sun. This is, you know, the rest of the solar system. and look at the sun and all the planets and just be like, dude, these are gods. They like really, truly thought they're like, oh shit. They'd be like just kicking around in the morning and they'd just see like Venus and be like, oh shit, there's the fucking horny god. Yeah.

55:42Shane Gillis:There's my baby. There's my baby. Horny guys in the sky. So even the terms, so we're going to get into kind of the, try to get somewhat into the etymology of the planets. So the term sun, there's like stuff went back and forth being like, yeah, actually the sun in the English language has no connection to the gods. Like, you know, Mercury, Venus, all those are like easily traceable. So they're claiming the sun has no connection in the English language to the gods. But then I, you know, I started doing a little digging and it's, it actually, it does actually. So it's like, so this, the term sun in English can be traced back through the proto-Indo-European language family to a relation with the Norse deity soul, which is actually latin for the so that did have a sun god in rome actually became the official god of uh like it was some of the late roman empires it was like the it was called the undefeated sun yeah it was a minor god in the roman pantheon and during the fall of rome some people were like we call sun god is our god because actually julius caesar called venus the horny god to be he claimed to be descended from the horny god which is pretty sick and everyone had to be like Yeah, dude, for sure.

56:52Shane Gillis:He's definitely not. You're the horniest guy. So the actual term sun in English, it can be traced back to the Norse deity Sol, also called Sula. Sol back then was a goddess, literally the sun itself, which would race across the sky being chased by a hungry wolf. You know the hungry wolf's name? Skull. Skull. And the hungry wolf was trying to eat the sun, which is why they thought the sun went across. And at Ragnarok, the apocalypse, Skull would catch and eat Sol. And during eclipses, it was thought that Skull got himself a little bite of her, but the chase continued. And actually, Sunday, believe it or not, is actually named after this ancient sun babe.

57:27Shane Gillis:Huh. So pretty sick. Pretty sick. So that, you know, my friends and haters, is the deal with the sun. And it would be crazy. I almost skipped over the sun. I almost skipped over the sun, but... Oh, man. Just think all the nuclear fusion going on in there, the perfect balance of light being trapped, honed to perfection, released. I just thought it was fucking sick. It hits us. It feels good when it hits us. It feels fucking awesome. It powers your body, dude. If you don't get enough sun, you don't produce tests. That's why I fucking do ride my blanket at tank top all the time. So from the sun now, we move on to Mercury.

58:00Shane Gillis:And, you know, Mercury is the... Actually, we'll slide to the Patreon. Let's slide to the page. Yeah, let's slide to the page. We're at an hour. Oh, yeah, we're good. Guys, thank you for joining me for the series into the planets, but we have to slide to the Patreon. We have places to be where... I promise you that wasn't planned. I just, God damn, that was, you know, what the hell? I've been doing this for a while. Exactly an hour on the sun. Who would have thought? Nate, thank you. Sean, thank you. We're sliding into the Patreon. We're going to do Mercury and Venus. If you don't want to join, don't join.

58:31Shane Gillis:Whatever. I don't care. Watch new episodes of Matt and Shane's secret podcast on Spotify. Do it.

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