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Sep 13, 2026

Amy GramourNARRATOR
5:06
The stars shone brilliantly and unwinkingly through the atmosphere.
Amy GramourNARRATOR
5:10
In Observatory Number One on Earth's moon, Raj Everett, his eye at the eyepiece of the spotter scope, said triumphantly, "There she blew, Willie.
Amy GramourNARRATOR
5:20
And now, as soon as the films are developed, we'll know the score on that old planet Mars." He straightened up.
Amy GramourNARRATOR
5:26
There'd be no more to see now, and he and Willie Sanger shook hands solemnly.

1 HR 35 MINS LATER

Tom WeissNARRATOR
100:46
That was routine.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
100:48
I got a picture of the old man, with never an idea we'd be using it.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
100:52
To tell you the truth, I'd carried my notes around with me for a day or so before it occurred to me that it wouldn't do any harm to put a call in to the Yerkes Observatory up in Wisconsin.
Tom WeissNARRATOR
101:03
So I did, and they confirmed McElvane's star.
speaker_0NARRATOR
5:19
You beat it with a team that knows where it should land.
speaker_0NARRATOR
5:23
That evening, Annie wrote, Observatory, telescope, fire trail, beacon, TNT, lake, shard.
speaker_0NARRATOR
5:31
The village slept.
speaker_0NARRATOR
5:33
Above the hill, only quiet stars remained.
Mercer McLeodVOICE_ACTOR
8:10
We have located a series of cycles of civilizations comparable to our own, all of which, without exception, were destroyed by fire at the very height of their culture.
Mercer McLeodVOICE_ACTOR
8:20
But is there any scientific theory behind this which would explain it? Well, the University Observatory finished their calculations two months ago.
Mercer McLeodVOICE_ACTOR
8:28
And tomorrow there will be an eclipse of beta so that the planet will become dark.
Mercer McLeodVOICE_ACTOR
8:33
That eclipse comes every 2049 years.
Alan LaddVOICE_ACTOR
5:01
What about it?
speaker_2VOICE_ACTOR
5:02
That's the Williams Observatory.
speaker_2VOICE_ACTOR
5:04
They look at stars up there.
speaker_2VOICE_ACTOR
5:06
They're astronomers.
Russell ColletteHOST
1:19
We loved you.
Russell ColletteHOST
1:20
Okay, Matt, you've moved from Perth Observatory, you're now the That Astronomy Guy, and people can follow you on social media.
Matt WoodsGUEST
1:27
Yeah, you can follow me on Facebook, That Astronomy Guy as well.
Matt WoodsGUEST
1:30
So I'm still a volunteer at the observatory, but yeah, moved on to be a communications and marketing officer at City of Swans.
Paul LitherlandHOST
2:09
I loved it.
Paul LitherlandHOST
2:09
And the team were absolutely perfect, really great, made it very enjoyable.
Matt WoodsGUEST
2:12
And everyone who runs the tours up at the Observatory, they're all volunteers as well.
Matt WoodsGUEST
2:16
So they're doing it on their volunteer time.
MeesockGUEST
18:01
This way.
MeesockGUEST
18:04
[footsteps]Welcome to Misoc's Observatory.
MeesockGUEST
18:15
Here we can view any point in history, and it's not a simulation, it's the real deal.
MeesockGUEST
18:21
I wanna take you somewhere.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
55:49
In Chicago, two astronomers spiked guesses that the disks might be meteors.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
55:56
Dr. Gerard Kuiper, director of the University of Chicago Observatory, said flatly that they couldn't be meteors.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
56:05
They're probably man-made, he told the AP.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
56:10
Dr. Oliver Lee, director of Northwestern's Observatory, agreed with Kuiper.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
56:17
The Army, Navy, and Air Force are working secretly on all sorts of things, he said.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
56:24
Remember the A-bomb secrecy and the radar signals to the moon.
Eric GustafsonHOST
51:18
The watch itself has the Frederic Piguet caliber 71, which is about 2.4 millimeters thin with a reworked Lemania calendar works on top of it that was adapted by Pratt.
Eric GustafsonHOST
51:28
This was also the introduction of the Observatoire handset.
Eric GustafsonHOST
51:31
The cases are 38 millimeters.
Eric GustafsonHOST
51:33
The reference one was 39.

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Eric GustafsonHOST
61:55
There are just a handful made.
Eric GustafsonHOST
61:56
It was a total commercial flop.
Eric GustafsonHOST
61:58
The handset's no longer Observatoire.
Eric GustafsonHOST
62:00
It's one of these, actually, these two together, really, they don't fit in the canon.
speaker_5NARRATOR
39:14
The stars shone brilliantly and unwinkingly through the atmosphere.
speaker_5NARRATOR
39:20
In Observatory No. 1 on Earth's moon, Rog Everett, his eye at the eyepiece of the spotterscope, said triumphantly, Dar she blew, Willie, and now, as soon as the films are developed, we'll know the score on that old planet Mars.
speaker_5NARRATOR
39:38
He straightened up.
speaker_5NARRATOR
39:39
There'd be no more to see now.
Joel ParkinGUEST
37:31
We could, could, we could find out they have some information.
Joel ParkinGUEST
37:33
But as far as analysis and theological, um, consideration of this pr- this issue, I haven't seen anything coming out of the Vatican, uh, Observatory.
Joel ParkinGUEST
37:42
Uh, from what I can tell, um, most of the Vati- Vatican astronomers are, are, you know, doing good scientific research.
Joel ParkinGUEST
37:47
They're priests, but they're also, you know, very credible scientists, and they're doing work on meteors and that kind of thing, and they're, they're, they're bonafide astronomers.

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