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Episode 48: Welcome to 2019 : New Horizons, Stranger Things & Tattoos in Games
Season 1, Ep. 48
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Happy new year, welcome to the first episode of the year; we hope everyone is safe and enjoying themselves. This week we are bringing you stories about the new horizon project with pictures of MU69 or as it has been dubbed, the Ultimate Thule. This could be the perfect piece of real estate for those wanting to avoid those door to door sales people. We discuss the distances to it, the distance the New Horizons travels near the Ultimate Thule, the fact it travels in what is low earth orbit, also the lunar distance just for a laugh.
Next up is a discussion about the new season of Stranger Things, and we don’t mean the crazy movie named Mad Max Fury Road either. Which Buck says was an ok movie but not a ‘Mad Max’ movie by any stretch of the imagination. We have a laugh of at the poster and the atomic wedgie of one of the kids, ah the eighties and bad fashion, thank goodness it is over. Also once again it appears that Hollywood is copying Australia instead of creating origional IP. It appears that ‘Stranger Things’ is copying the movie and series ‘Puberty Blues’ folks; that’s right you heard it here first.
Then we talk about tattoos and gaming with the recent lawsuit regarding LeBron James and his appearance in various video games. We then wonder about who owns the artwork on your body. Also the levels of insanity, with people selling advertising on themselves by getting tattoos for organisations such as Golden Palace. Some of these people are all kinds of crazy with where they get these tattoos. Once again, happy new year and keep listening as we approach our first birthday in a few weeks.
EPISODE NOTES:
New Horizons space program
Stranger Things Season 3
- https://au.ign.com/articles/2019/01/01/stranger-things-season-3-release-date-premiere-netflix
Tattoos and Game development
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/style/tattoos-video-games.html
Games currently playing
Buck
– Red Dead Redemption 2 - https://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption2/
Professor
– Bandersnatch - https://www.netflix.com/title/80988062
DJ
– Injustice 2 - https://www.injustice.com/
Other topics discussed
First picture of Ultima Thule
More news about the New Horizons program
- https://spacenews.com/new-horizons-ready-for-ultima-thule-flyby/
How far is the Moon?
- https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-distance/en/
Deep Space Network
- https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
Moons of Jupiter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Jupiter
Space events that occurred in January
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_3
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_4
Mars Polar Lander
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