Smiles an hour as the Earth spins if you look at the eastern sky next month you'll see different stars because the Earth orbits the sun at an incredible 66000 miles an hour but even that speed is nothing compared to the sun's orbital speed around the collective center the sun orbits the galaxy at an incredible 500000 miles an hour and earth and all the other planets are being dragged along with it even at 500000 miles an hour it's a long trip one Galactic Orbit of the sun is called a cosmic year how long is a cosmic year it's 225000000 Earth years since the dinosaurs died we've made less than one 3rd of the trip around the galaxy all of this incredible speed may help you understand something else you might see as you gaze at the stars of the Milky Way someone in your party maybe you will say oh look a falling star those streaks of light in the sky aren't stars they're rocks leftovers from the formation of the solar system the solar system has plenty of them and earth runs over about of 1000 rocks it day at 66000 miles an hour. Most of the meteors to give them their proper names you see tonight will be hitting us because you're sitting and the back of the bus looking out through her rear window of earth at one hour after sunset you won't be in the driver's seat of our planets until just before dawn and that's really the time to look for meteors but you'll see a few in the evening usually evening meteors move quite slowly across the sky since they've come in at a glancing angle as the earth speeds away from them next month is the Percy had meteor shower and I'll tell you all about it on tropical skies a meteor shower isn't made of random rocks it's comet debris the orbital garbage dump of the solar system's messiest inhabitants don't miss And until next week this is Pam Easterling reminding you to look up. From n.p.r. And it will be easy Chicago this is wait wait don't tell me the n.p.r. News quiz it's all right Zack Morris you're saved by the bell. Ok And here is your host at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown. Thank you 1st orchestra conductor we've ever had on our show the legendary Marin Alsop I'm going to ask her how she can get a bunch of emotionally fragile ego maniacs to do what they're told just by waving her arms because frankly that's never worked for me. But 1st we want to hear your solo save us a call the number is one AAA to wait wait that intestine Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me I've described experiment in Chicago Hey you travel Chicago out thank you yeah well you know for you far from us right now where are you I mean I don't I'm going to come around Ok. Ok I read all the restaurant real close to 0 you know far as you come on down what we know traveling with Phoebe Robinson. I'm going to hope that was a dog of some kind not something out that you're going back to the bucket of all right you're trying to get rich. You know my track of what is going on right now. That's not hard to be quieter but the new cards are going viral. All right. Here we go with a longer time 1st it's a comedian performing with Phoebe Robinson September 5th through the 7th at the Arlington Drafthouse in Arlington Virginia it's Peter de brézé. Next year contributor to c.b.s. Sunday morning it's safe to say Lee thank the co-host of the podcast nobody listens to. Although Poundstone is Adam Felber it's not just as I'm sure you anticipated you're going to play Who's Bill This Time Bill Kurtis is going to read you 3 quotations from the week's news if you can correctly identify or explain just 2 of them you'll win our prize any voice from our show you choose in your voicemail you ready to go I read it all right here is your 1st quote that is outside my part of you that was the answer that somebody gave oh about 100 times on Wednesday almost every question he was asked Who was it that was special counsel Robert Robert Mueller Yes indeed Robert Martin thank you thank you thank you know that moment of the beginning you know will be wank and the Chocolate Factory when Gene Wilder comes out in his this creaky old man and everybody is disappointed and sad and then he does a somersault and everybody cheers well imagine that but instead of the somersault he just kind of daughters around for a deal. That was Wednesday and former special counsel Robert Mueller a man facing his annual prostate exam. Which might explain why he answered certain pointed questions by just turning his head and coughing. But not. Everybody said it was boring that kind of breathless because I was you just you know something was going to happen you didn't want to miss the one moment it did and yet nothing did because liberals have been building him up for 2 years as this Clint Eastwood figure this whole Yeah tough one and no nonsense going to come in and kick ass and take names and in the end he was just like Clint Eastwood who right now is 89 years old. But he said he didn't want to testify knowing that he was in good testify but we all know you read the report because it was not every inmate who truly makes $0.96 a president in the moment Clint Eastwood says I don't want to do that I'm not going to go in there but then he goes in there you write up the bad guys there was none of that there would have been like a little squint and instead of his not nice what we got like Sam The eagle from the mouth thanks. I mean you know God He also reminds me of those what are those the Easter Island had what do they call their names Lola what we're talking about I want to know what yeah but we were going to read about were reported with my. It was a perfectly nice visit with an aging relative that's exactly right. All right Travis Here's your next quote I will disprove that doubt is the doomed stows and like glue studs that with somebody taking office as the new British prime minister who is enemy of all gloomy sisters. Johnson Yes Boris Johnson you work you want. Imagine what it would be like to have your formally powerful and serious country taken over by an incompetent womanizer with terrible hair. Hard to do it is not what. Would happen in Britain this week when Boris Johnson became prime minister look how far the Empire has fallen they are so broken the good news is they're ripe to be colonized. Time to pay back India. That's happened where people who work clowns are now in charge of everything Yes and I wish they were actual clowns because those people at least have time to go off script I would support Johnson if you don't know of London during the 2012 Olympics during which he tried to do it zip line stunt to promote it and famously got stuck dangling from a rope remember those 50 feet above the ground maybe that's why he was finally elected to handle Grex and he knows what it's like to be just stuck there not being able to get out looking like an idiot yes Mr Stink blow but he struck me and maybe because just because I'm reading the Harry Potter series for the 1st time with my children he. Super slither and. Back. I'm just going to say this and you may not get this yet they will he's not so much later on as he's Peter Pettigrew was. Like you said yeah you got our whole theater down the nerd hole right except he somehow got stopped while transforming back from a rat you. Have All right your last quote is from the governor of Puerto Rico. I have not resign him that was an official statement made just one day before he did what. Do you regret you did exactly the same thing I financial crisis in this terrible hurricane with the one thing he could not survive with his own texts in the leak to messages the governor mocked his enemies and disaster victims he made fun of fact people in the disabled which is all bad but then he went after Puerto Rican icon Ricky Martin. And a fat farm will not really did and in the end as you probably saw tens of thousands of people took to the streets of San Juan to demand his ouster led by Ricky Martin Yeah Wanda Yeah yeah it's some you. Really want and this can lead there was somebody could write musicals from Puerto Rico Yeah I know my. Friends are trying to defend himself said he was just blowing off steam in the text that really shouldn't be taken seriously which is what all of us would say if the terrible terrible things we email our friends ever got out oh my lord even the protesters who mass in the streets were like marching while still erasing all their emails but how would you guys fare if all the private messages you had sent your friends your yes my heart I'd be even more on employable. I don't you know it's possible but it's amazing because one of the only good part is this scandal has shown that Puerto Rico is so full of corruption racism and misandry me that maybe now President Trump will recognize it thank you. Then have to travel soon or quit he'll be welcome in Puerto Rico he got to fight for me as a winner and Gonzales is trying to say thank you thank you thank you. We want to remind everybody they can join us most weeks right here at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago Illinois for tickets and. More information just stroll your web surfer over to w.b. Easy dot org Or you can find a link at our website wait wait dot npr dot org Right now panel it is time for you to answer some questions about this week's news p.d. The owners of a giant replica of Noah's Ark and Kentucky have filed a lawsuit against them for failing to cover damage caused to the ark by what water exactly right I am going to work you're going to work on the $510.00 foot long replica ark is part of Kentucky's nowheres Ark Encounter theme park the perfect vacation getaway for families who find Knott's Berry Farm to be a little too racy. The owners say they were inspired to build a replica when God's voice told them to gather up 2 of every animal and charge them $75.00 each for a mission to clear. The park opened in 2016 but was forced to close for a few days right then when the ark and its surrounding area was damaged by and I quote slightly above average rain. Apparently they skipped the part of the Book of Genesis where. I'm going to know Peter what other thing experiences they offered at this point you know his ark adventure I don't have I can't say that I've been anything so I can't say that I did if I did I just believe this is a Creationist a place where you're not like the primary creationist museum which is elsewhere so it doesn't have the 2 figures of a unicorn on a nearby hillside going to welcome me to God for all time I should have made a waterpark for that's true I. Think you stand no. Man's Land. Bring him back from the new movie. You. Coming up on the yellow jersey with more Wait Wait Don't Tell me from n.p.r. 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Wine club God or you. From n.p.r. To be easy squiz I'm Bill Kurtis We're playing this week with Petey the Abruzzi face Aly and Adam Felber her. Be. Here we're getting here almost at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago Peter Sagal thank you so. Much thank you thank you for the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Bluff the Listener game call one AAA Wait wait to play our game in the air Hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell me. John you'll be from New Brunswick New Jersey New Brunswick New Jersey artist want to be sure and see what do you do there I'm going to come up once in your working out or go L'Oreal the skincare products company that would be I'm going to ask you a question and I and I want you to tell me the truth so I see ads especially for skincare products and you lean magazines and there are many aging is going to make you look like this supermodel or maybe that supermodel and it's going to solve all your problems and so on and so forth. Are any of those claims true I mean only it will. If you buy organic products that are. Right thank you. Glad to know you heard from a scientist Well welcome to our show John you're going to play the game in which you must try to tell truth from fiction what is John's topic I'm just here for the chafing. Not so much casual fans a Tour de France is French for tour of friends. But not all of the stars of that bike race are on the bikes Our panelists are going to tell you about an unsung hero somebody who works in the background of that great race pick the real one and you'll win our prize weight waiter of your choice on your voicemail you ready to play yes sir all right 1st let's hear from faith Saley old black and white photos of Tour de France writer show them smoking cigarettes on their bikes their lean Gallic cheeks inhaling the smoke they believed opened the longs it was only 2002 when the tour officially outlawed cigarettes within 100 meters of the route but do you think this has stopped too long from smoking Oh no no my friends this is France . And Tour de da bear his job his Met take is official cigarette extinguisher of the Tour de France he's a stone cold man in a break who stalks the crowd looking for smokers when he sees a lit cigarette he casually places them with spit and douses the burning stick with the sizzle as he swans by earning him the nickname the league club magic Mr Magic Fingers. And you can't miss him to travel with the tour he rides his 964 pujo motor scooter a contraption that so chill rich the cli loud it warns smokers he's coming and therefore leaves a wake of hastily cast off cigarettes didn't I sell. Writes his work every night with a nice person oh and a single gal was called he says nothing call on with the lethal smoke as long as it's a way from Zico us. The official security guard which thank you thank you thank you back story will sure help or comes from Adam Felber the cycling world was stunned last week by the revelation that the venerable Tour de France is the loser is in fact for the past 10 years Tour officials have paid an actor to come in last as a means of encouraging slower racers who may be thinking of giving up now if this sounds like evidence of an overall waning everyone gets a trophy nanny state culture run amok let me assure you that's exactly what this is . It's a good job says New Zealand actor Leon Kreiss who has just exposes this year's 8 loser quote You don't have to train as hard you can have a pint or 2 each night and you make friends with a lot of wonderful funny people whose only scene is being hopeless white because when it comes to cycling but now that the jig is up Grace knows that the gig is over and we can all rest assured that next year's last place finisher will be a real loser for his part Grace expects to return to acting and maybe someday the cycling fund to see if I can improve on that or I'd be just doing what I did this year but for free and with more training and no drinking in fact never mind my going drive thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you that story of the wind beneath the Tour de France as wings comes from Peterborough one of the great traditions of the Tour de France as fans writing encouraging messages for cyclists on the road stuff like gold lance writing the Gallo you don't even need those training wheels found. I'm not but many fans write bad words or draw profane pictures which the tour doesn't want showing up on the t.v. Broadcast it's hard enough to. The people watching their bikes up the hills. So the tour has hired 2 men whose sole job is to drive the course every day and paint over those 30 messages they are called officially a racers says one quote people draw genitals I have no idea why. Because it's funny. Most of the race are just paint over the images but they also let their artistic side show according to The Wall Street Journal one of the racers times larger renderings of the male anatomy into butterflies or Alice I by the way now you know the back story of everyone you meet who has the butterfly tattoo. All right thanks to the beautiful moments happening now in France it is helped along by one of these 3 people is this and takes the cigarettes out of the mouths of the people who might dare to smoke them near the riders from Adam Felber Leon Grice the man whose job it is is to write and come in last so nobody else has to or from t.v. The stories of the guy who go along the course in a race the obscene messages that people might have left for the writers and they don't appear on t.v. Which of these is the real story of the Tour de France has little helper I don't really wish that all of them but I'm going to go to number 3 you know never 3 that's painting a stroke a thank you thank you alright then to bring in the real answer you somebody who knows a lot about the Tour de France the most inappropriate graffiti be out on the road or the fact you thank you thank you thank you for that was Joshua Robinson he is the European sports reporter for The Wall Street Journal they have to do Congratulations you got it right he was sorry thank you for being honest and you want to emphasize the voice of anyone you might choose congratulations thank you for I want to thank you thank you thank you. And now the thing it's called Not My Job Juilliard your own damn orchestra directed to have her with us thank you what Eunice is like yourself I love it you know where my dentist and. So I was born with the job and really hated the piano hated it I retired when I was 6 you. Know with that because you hear well how much time doing that now that nobody but they tricked me into playing violin and I you know for every kid there is a there is a right you must trick and pride of the playing the violin like you are some candy inside this odd wooden object. Was very close because they said architectural image of summer camp and you know with sailing and you and horseback riding somehow horses got to tell you you might have to play and when you have the every day time running. While you are 7 years those only for pleasure the my. What the other activity is like weeping no no if yes we think that the only sport we are allowed to do is ping pong. And so I am awesome at playing part of. It is it true we read that you decided at some point you wanted to be a conductor Well what happened was that after practicing for 5 hours for you know what I was pretty good so I got into Juilliard right after that but I played in the orchestra which I loved and they got some complaints that somebody was trying to lead the whole orchestra from the back of the 2nd violins. And so when it's actually brought you in the take you're going to complain about it broke my you know how do you try to conduct the orchestra from the 2nd violin I think the problem was I was having a really good time yeah I like the timpani guy was really cute back there and I was just having fun and you know I was just was busy and then luckily my dad took me to a concert and I I saw the conductor he came out and he started talking to me talking to the audience talking to me I thought and you know he was really excited and then he started jumping around and conducting and I thought Oh. Nobody's yelling at this guy I could do that but. He's doing the yelling it's exactly and he was sweating and spitting and that was Leonard Bernstein Oh. Why so the usual interest and I should say somewhat famously you became I guess what student isn't good enough to work one of his proteges I didn't luckily I mean that was a highlight of conductor like I'm thinking of The Karate Kid You know like is there a lot of work with the swish of the arm. There was a lot of that yes there was no. I mean yes I think the set Maestro bring something to me so I got a little taste of most of the oxygen I guess what's really under the question is that every kid who goes to see a concert thinks he or she can be a conductor right the actual the actual movement that you make forgive me look simple so what is it that goes into conducting Oh my God And these questions you said they were going to be easy people I was talking about Frank. But listen you know it's true it is a lot of it I think about who we are as human beings that creates a different sound and elicits a different response it's all about body language and said Next thing not only that and I say this because I've I'm privileged enough to work something I notice most people can't see this because of the conductor has their back to the audience but because music is playing you cannot shout instructions you must indicate what you'd like a musician to do through facial expressions you have to have a wide range of dirty looks really or encouraging looks or my remark already just looks like you're not really going to play it that way are you comfortable playing at the wrong moment you know when you have to kind of anticipate like preventive conducting I call it you know like I mean I don't do that. Well Marin Alsop is a pleasure to talk to you but we have in fact asked you. To play a game we're calling your good conductor but are you a superconducting. Pretty good we have heard I have seen at musical conducting but what do you know about the other kind of conducting conducting electricity we're going to ask you 3 questions about that other kind of conducting if you get 2 right you win a prize for one of our listeners the voice of anyone they might like on their voicemail Bill who is Marin Alsop playful Lucinda Watson of Chattanooga Tennessee who was this month's winner of our smart speaker quiz you could be a letter to just ask you are smart speaker to open the wait wait Quintus All right ready to do this here we go Maestro lightning rods were all the rage after they were invented in the late 18th century so much so that they turned up where a attached to race horses hoping they'd give them an extra kick on to someone's enemies or see on top of ladies hats because they looked cool. Oh look see. We got that horse back you have got it on the wall so it fly over there like it would hit the cannon ball blow up your enemy or ladies hats because they look stylish. Yeah but that would hurt wouldn't it the ladies that could be that could be really dangerous Well ladies have already made sacrifices for fashion . We're going to have Yeah Ok We're going to have going to happen you're all right and God Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You got them all to work together like Ok All right next question electric fences are excellent conductors of course but they're not just for farm someone once seriously suggested using an electrified fence for which of these uses a surrounding and mixed martial arts fighters at the 1st u.f.c. Bout to be keeping the political press from harassing senators or c. Managing the line which gets quite extraordinary at Franklin's barbecue in Austin Texas. Ok I'm going to go with the barbecue because the electric and the barbecue it sounds kind of No it wasn't a barbecue it was a mixed martial arts but I just want to say that I'm glad that you made us some barbecue I got this last one right you win your last question is about superconductors these are the remarkable materials that conduct electricity with almost no resistance very useful in industry and science in 2010 a group of Japanese scientists made an incredible discovery about superconductors How did it happen was that a one of them was picking out Ham at the grocery store freezer section noticed it was colder than the frozen chicken that led to the discovery that ham makes an excellent superconductor. Be an incompetent lab assistant made contact with 2 electrical leads in the current path through his body with excellent efficiency without harming him so he now works as a professional superconductor. $54.00 c. The scientists got drunk gunk to a superconductor in booze and discovered that red wine increased its conduct to be 62 percent. All right were gone with c. I'm trusting them big Thank god haven't they all got drunk and they were like oh I want to all these bruises they tried on the bruises on the superconductor and they . Amazing results Redwine increases productivity of the substance they were using 62 percent Belhumeur and also. Thank you thank you the director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra You can see her this summer at the Ravinia music festival outside of Chicago dates and more at Marin Alsop dot com Marin Alsop thank you so much for a guy like you was thank. You . In just a minute Bill talks to his bracket We'll be back in a minute with more of what we don't tell me from and p. 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Restaurant it was a local warming it's migration it's possible that. Social media became obsessed had New York found a strange and inconvenient way to patch potholes was horrible to a parallel superior dimension which in and out was available everywhere. And how to survive more than 3 minutes without being eaten I mean that's a pretty good burger Who cares if it's street meat why did we discover well and why Petey put out on Amber Alert. Anyway. An investigative reporter spent for this 16 year old Queens resident who had picked up 3 In and Out Burger is on a trip to San Diego people love him so much they fly to California they get burgers they bring him home somehow she kept them in pristine condition the whole way back didn't eat them but when she got home she was rushing to catch a bus the bags were still open and one of them fell to the ground did a burglar steal what. Ok and burglar no one would think what happened was like a lot of people or things that come to New York and thought it could finally be a star so it ran away and will be appearing with Andy Cohen next Monday night on Watch What we found on the street model. Adam online dating may actually now become a thing of the past because there's a new kind of matchmaking where you try to get a date by simply asking your friends to do what for you find you a date yes. But using what technique. On their dating apps. It's like put your profile like and by the way I have a friend not yet I know I'm not at all I'll give you a heads up here on Slide 3 you can see that I'm going to yes power park read something about yes you can do it's thing where you ask your friends to create a Powerpoint slide deck all about you that's great helping you move used to be the worst thing you could ask a friend to do you know Mark. It's a new dating trend that gives you the opportunity to say to sentence Hey can you will pop up powerpoint to help me get lucky. The event is called Take my friend dot p.p.t. . Over the office around His know that and it gives your friends a chance to picture the other singles at this big presentation using Powerpoint Wow It combines all the fun of a work meeting with friends name is Ted you can say thank you for coming to my tech talk exactly about. Right so it's so well Oh Ok so do people and it didn't know then yes now I get it I mean you go to this event if you're a seller or a buyer it's sort of exactly like any other kind of business presentation right like an investment thing or a sales pitch you come in you're a buyer you sit down in the sellers come up and say that let me introduce you to my friend Ted and they show you a power point including and this was a real one such such a such positive points you know it's of course will be a little bit of pointed list with a star wipe you know has any unit washer and dryer. Are there cons listed to you want to feel like you're getting the whole package you know let's say No that's not what you're seeing right now so some don't see it as a fact it's like it's a fix me up or can I move in you know you know give me some you know I mean all that stuff that you know I mean that's terror of someone's like pitching you know potential dangers like a real rehab opportunity my own Dairy Queen to sort of tender loving care of them and to abuse my. This one's a tear down but at a great price exactly. Thanks coming up it's Lightning Fill In The Blank but 1st it's the game where you have to listen for the rhyme if you'd like to play on air call a leave a message at one AAA Wait Wait that's 18948924 or click the contact us link on our website wait wait at npr dot org There you can find out about attending our weekly live shows right here at the Chase Bank Auditorium in Chicago and I'm coming shows August 29th and 30th at Wolf Trap outside of Washington d.c. And September 12th at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark New Jersey hi you're on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Hello I'm Austin Texas what do you do there in Austin I don't accept it I'm not you're an x. Ray tech in a hospital Yeah Ok I know you probably get this question a lot and I apologize but I'm genuinely interested what is the weirdest thing you've found inside a human being. I don't know appropriate for complex radio. Saying more. Welcome to the show will serve you you are going to play the game in which you must of course complete the rhyme Bill Kurtis is going to read for you 3 Do that 2 times out of 3 you'll win our prize are ready to play I'm ready here we go here's your 1st limerick and I heard leaves along the slimy trail I'm a farmer but on a small scale a cream from their slime seems to turn back the time and that's why I'm milking me. Yeah there you know yes as if. As if I looked wasn't gross enough they're now milking snail nickels. To get. To the cereals have noble. Stock on that all things considered. You know we're talking about snail mucus creams that are being used as cosmetics. People pay hundreds of dollars for this although for half the cost. Apparently snail Smart is a more surprising agent with many benefits college in production heels acne scars and more people complimenting your wet sticky face. The handsome Did someone just sneeze on you in the subway. Here is your next limerick but for gossip they are powder kegs with vibrations of sound lots of blues goes around there is chatter amongst all of the. Yes examiner's the nasty. Talking to each other the biggest by vibrating their shells an incredible discovery and an efficient way to put whisk egg yolks for baking. It is believed that these vibrations of egg to egg act as a warning call if the threat is detected and it's not safe to hatch but also can trick the mama bird into thinking her cell phone is going off. It seems tracks like creatures got no wild don't eat eggs well apparently I'm just telling what the cycling cardless were then and all scientists know is that they noticed that when I say I see gull say makes a distinct distress call which they do a warning call the eggs start vibrating in a distinct way as if they're trying telling each other to stay low you know but maybe it's also like that kind of communication you have with your siblings when you're sort of like do you think this. It's not a good day to talk to mom but I should say this only applies to wild fertile eggs in the nest Don't worry about the eggs in the fridge talking about you the 2nd you close the door. Here is your last letter for my baby on the changer and wiper but false alerts and I'm a griper sometimes when there is stink it's less full than you'd think so I get text alerts. Tampers has created a new line of electronic smart diapers which send data to your phone alerting you when the diaper is dry using Wi Fi exactly what you. Do That's a strong signal to have the past hurt for your we thank you God I can't let you know I call you baby doing let you know if the diaper is dry and wet very wet and you'd be better off putting her up for adoption. Think of it as a nappy app. That's called You're no swell this is and I speak to you as a fellow parent this is supposed to help you avoid the we've all seen it we've all done it post find out even you wouldn't do that but the idea is like it'll just tell you it's like you know I see I don't have to do any of those gross things my phone tells me that my baby has just one herself wherever she is I have no idea I'm starting to. Feel how did Serena do on our quiz perfect 3 other graduation right thank you for my thank you thank you. Now it's time for our final game Lightning Fill In The Blank each of our players want to have 60 seconds in which to answer as many fill in the blank questions as he or she can each correct answer now worth 2 points Phil can you give us the score p.d. And add them each of 3 faith as to oh my gosh All right Faith you are in 3rd place so you're up 1st film a blank on Wednesday. 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Legislated an opportune time my freezer model again your shopping center column from your outlets may be exchanged and the a.t.m. G.t.s. Your island your network. Greetings I'm Pam East and I'm the star 90 welcome to tropical skies Mars has disappeared from our early evenings guys where you circle to the other side of the sun from the red planet but Jupiter and Saturn are still high above the southern horizon and they're easy to fog since they're so bright. Look below them and the fish hook tail of Scorpius the scorpion and 2 fist to it to the right of due south you'll see the crux the Southern Cross the cross is close to the southwestern horizon now and will soon disappear but this week the Southern Cross is a good starting point for your examination of our go lactic home the Milky Way arcs up from the Southern Cross and the Southwest passes through the tail of the scorpion and flows across the eastern sky to disappear in the north east being low the bright star Dan and the Milky Way is easy to find on Guam all you have to do is get away from the streetlights if it's relatively cloud free which of course isn't a given during rainy season you should see a band of clouds that doesn't seem to move those clouds are the uncountable stars of the Milky Way though you and the stars appear stationary as you contemplate them you're actually moving quite rapidly in several different directions at once the star slowly rise above the eastern horizon because the Earth is spinning beneath them here on Guam you move at a 1006 miles an hour as the earth spins and you'll see different stars because the Earth orbits the sun at an incredible 66000 miles an hour. But even that speed is nothing compared to the sun's orbital speed around the Kalac ticks center the sun orbits the galaxy at an incredible 500000 miles an hour and earth and all the other planets are being dragged along with it even at 500000 miles an hour it's a long trip one Galactic Orbit of the sun is called a cosmic year how long is a cosmic year it's 225000000 workers died we've made less than one 3rd of the trip around the galaxy all this incredible speed may help you understand something else you might see as you gaze at the stars of the Milky Way someone in your party maybe you will say oh look a falling star and those streaks of light in the sky aren't stars there are rocks left overs from the formation of the solar system the solar system has plenty of them and earth runs over about of 1000 rocks a day at 66000 miles an hour. Most of the meteors to give them their proper names you see tonight will be hitting us because you're sitting in the back of the bus looking out the rear rear window of earth at one hour after sunset you won't be in the driver's seat of our planets and told just before dawn and that's really the time to look for meteors but you'll see a few in the evening usually evening meteors move quite slowly across the sky since they've come in at a glancing angle as the earth speeds away from them next month is the Percy and meteor shower and I'll tell you all about it on tropical skies a meteor shower isn't made of random rocks it's comet debris the orbital garbage dump of the solar system's messiest inhabitants don't miss it and until next week this is Pam Easterling reminding here to look up the universe awaits you. This is Freakonomics radio show that explores the hidden side of everything here's your host Stephen Dubner if you've ever read Freakonomics The Namesake book of this you may recall the controversial link to legalized abortion in the fall of crying in the us starting in the early 1990. 3 Can I mix radio the story behind the research and evidence for the theory and I remember it like yesterday and I have the craziest idea I mean it's like totally absurd The challenge is to its legitimacy I don't mind standards to my word but I hate it when the challenge is take the.