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July 20th


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1969 a grainy broadcast crackled across


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the globe as Millions watched Neil


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Armstrong step off the lunar module


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leaving Humanity's first footprints on


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the moon that's one small step for man


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one giant lead for mankind he said aign


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practice to Perfection but still


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undeniably iconic it was a historic Win


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For Humanity a high point in the space


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race


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but what if that moment was just the


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shiny public facing side of a much


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bigger story what if the moon landing


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wasn't just about exploration but about


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keeping secrets behind the cheering in


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mission control and the flag waving


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patriotism there's a Mercury tail locked


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vaults hide classified files astronauts


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mention things they're not supposed to


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and the moon itself this familiar face


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in our night sky turns out to be a total


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weirdo


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why does the moon behave so differently


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from every other Celestial body we've


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studied why is its orbit suspiciously


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perfect and the billion dooll question


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with all our technological advancements


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why haven't we been back in more than 50


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years theories abound stories of secret


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projects unexplained lights on the


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moon's far side and seismic events that


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make no geological sense could the moon


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be more than just a giant rock is is it


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possible it wasn't just found floating


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around but was placed and if that's the


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case who put it there think about a


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truth so shocking so Universe bending


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that it has to be buried deep under


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layers of classified documents a


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revelation that could completely rewrite


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what we know about Earth life and why


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we're here what if the moon holds the


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truth just sitting out there daring us


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to figure it out for decades these


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questions have been brushed off as crazy


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talk or conspiracy theories but what if


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the evidence has been there all along


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waiting for us to notice and once you do


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see it well good luck unseeing it so


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what is the moon Humanity's crowning


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achievement or the most elaborate


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mystery ever does it hold the answers


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we've been searching for or are we just


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projecting our wildest hopes and fears


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onto it what really happened on July


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20th


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1969 and what Secrets might the moon


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still be keeping the answer might change


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everything you know let's find out


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[Music]


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the moon isn't just a Shiny Rock


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lighting up the night's Sky it's


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basically Earth's behind the scenes


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manager quietly making Life as we know


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it possible without the Moon Earth would


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be a whole lot different and not in a


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good way one of the moon's most crucial


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gigs is keeping Earth's axial tilt in


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check you know that 23.5° angle that


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gives a Seasons That's not just random


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it's the moon's gravitational pool that


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keeps Earth from wobbling like a drunk


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spinning top uh hey Ralph uh yeah what


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in the heck are you talking about


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English please okay fine here's the


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simple version without the moon Earth's


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Tilt would go Haywire some places might


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be stuck in Eternal winter While others


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bake in unending summer imagine that


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chaos ecosystems collapsing agriculture


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going off the rails not great right then


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there are the tides the moon's pool


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creates them shaping Coast lines and


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keeping marine ecosystems alive and


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thriving tides are like the ocean


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circulatory system moving nutrients


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around and helping sea creatures survive


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without the moon Tides would be weak and


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the Sun's gravity alone wouldn't cut it


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entire food chains could collapse and


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that's bad news for well everyone but


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the moon's resume doesn't stop there


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it's also been slowing down Earth's spin


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for billions of years back in the day a


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single Earth Day lasted just a few hours


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imagine trying to get anything done now


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thanks to the Moon we've got 24-hour


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days a nice manageable Rhythm for life


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without it Earth's rotation would speed


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up shortening days whipping up crazy


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wind patterns and making life a lot less


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cozy and let's not forget its role as a


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Celestial flashlight for Millennia the


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moon's glow has guided Travelers


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inspired poets and helped ancient


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civilizations keep track of time sure


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it's not as flashy as as its


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gravitational effects but nights without


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the moon would be pitch black making


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life harder for nocturnal animals and


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even humans trying to navigate in the


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dark so let me get this straight the


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moon isn't just a pretty thing to gaze


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at it's like Earth's personal trainer


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and life coach it keeps everything


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stable regulates the oceans and even


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gives us light to get stuff done but


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here's the kicker doesn't all this


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Precision make you wonder if it's really


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just a lucky accident what are the odds


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of a moon so perfectly placed to do all


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this well that's a great observation


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wend the moon's alignment with Earth's


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needs is so spoton that it's hard not to


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wonder if there's more to the story


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whether it's an incredible coincidence a


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product of design or something we


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haven't even thought of yet there's no


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denying the moon's importance the moon


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doesn't just light up the night it's


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been shaping Earth's history sustaining


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life today and and setting the stage for


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the future without it Earth might still


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be here but it wouldn't be the Earth we


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know and love that kind of perfect


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partnership makes you stop and think if


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the moon is this vital could its role


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really be an


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[Music]


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accident the moon has always been there


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for us hasn't it lining up our nights


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guiding Sailors across vast oceans and


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inspiring countless love songs and


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terrible poetry but have you ever


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stopped to wonder where it came from


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mainstream science thinks it has the


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answer the giant impact


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hypothesis this Theory cooked up in the


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1970s tells a story straight out of a


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cosmic action movie billions of years


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ago in the chaotic anything goes days of


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the early solar system a a marized


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protoplanet called theia slammed into


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young Earth Boom the Collision blasted


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massive chunks of Earth's crust into


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orbit forming a fiery ring of debris


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over time gravity did its thing and


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turned that mess into the moon we know


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today yeah uh-huh on the surface the


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theory checks a lot of boxes the moon's


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composition is a close match to Earth's


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crust suggesting they share a common


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origin it doesn't have much of an iron


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core which makes sense if Thea knocked


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the heavier elements elsewhere in the


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moon's slow drift away from Earth well


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that fits with the whole chaotic


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Collision Vibe wait hold up so Thea just


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strolled in and nailed Earth at the


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exact perfect angle not too steep where


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we'd get Planet Billiards and not too


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shallow where it just bounces off and


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then all the debris decides to behave


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and form a stable Moon instead of


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scattering all over the place yeah sure


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totally sounds like a normal Tuesday in


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space you're not wrong it is an


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astonishing set of circumstances but


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science is all about evidence and for


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now this hypothesis fits a lot of what


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we


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know stop being a toddler thanks to


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advances in computer modeling the giant


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impact hypothesis has stuck around


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simulations suggest this kind of


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collision could create a mooniz


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satellite with earthlike traits it even


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explains the moon's low density in lack


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of volatile compounds which would have


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burned off In the Heat of the cosmic


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fireworks show the biggest evidence


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Isotopes lunar rocks brought back by the


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Apollo missions have isotopic


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fingerprints almost identical to Earth's


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crust if the moon had come from some


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other corner of the solar system its


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isotopic signature would be different so


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far no dice but even with all this the


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theory doesn't tie everything up neatly


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with a bow take the moon's orbit it's


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suspiciously perfect the moon's size and


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distance from Earth allow for total


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solar eclipses or nearly total solar


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eclipses where it covers the Sun so


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precisely it's like a cosmic Bullseye


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coincidence or something else we don't


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believe in


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coincidences then there's its orbit


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itself almost perfectly circular most


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moons have orbits that are more let's


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say wonky adding the fact that the Moon


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is huge compared to Earth Earth it's a


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giant among planetary satellites and you


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start to wonder if this whole impact


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story is just the opening act could the


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moon's origin be something far stranger


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maybe even deliberate the Apollo


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missions didn't just give us rocks and


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cool photos they also raised some


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unsettling questions what did those


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astronauts found something too weird or


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too big to share could the moon be


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artificial something designed the


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anunaki obviously all these lingering


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questions couldn't just be ignored NASA


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eventually started making plans to go


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back to the Moon not just to visit but


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to stick around and figure out what's


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really going on exactly so why haven't


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we gone back yet wait wait I see that


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look we actually made plans didn't we we


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sure did


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[Music]


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the year was 1959 the cold war between


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the United States and the Soviet Union


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was in full swing and the space race was


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turning into the ultimate Flex for


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Global dominance Sputnik had already


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shocked the world in 1957 and the


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Soviets were pulling ahead in space


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exploration the stakes couldn't have


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been higher whoever controlled space


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controlled the ultimate High Ground both


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militarily and symbolically amid this


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frenzy the United States quietly


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launched a top secret initiative called


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project Horizon which was a plan to


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establish a permanent Mann outpost on


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the Moon by


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1966 at first glance project Horizon


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looked like a bold but fairly


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predictable move and America First


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Response to Soviet


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progress but dig a little deeper and


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things get weird this wasn't just about


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beating the Soviets to the Moon


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Declassified documents reveal an


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ambitious en cryptic Mission we're


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talking fully operational lunar base


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equipped with military grade Tech


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excavation tools and wait for it nuclear


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weapons the plan involved launching


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hundreds of rockets to Ferry supplies


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living quarters and advanced gear to the


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Moon they envisioned a dozen people


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living and working there for extended


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periods officially it was all about


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controlling the moon and using it as as


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a forward base for exploration or


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potentially something far stranger the


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urgency was intense the moon wasn't just


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about bragging rights it was seen as the


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key to Humanity's future but behind


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closed doors there were Whispers of an


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even more pressing


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reason some insiders believed that the


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US wasn't just racing the Soviets they


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were racing time why because according


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to some the moon wasn't just an empty


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unclean for


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it was already occupied let me get this


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straight they wanted to build a lunar


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Clubhouse stock it with nukes and call


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it a day that feels a little extra even


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for Cold War paranoia and don't tell me


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this is just about beating the Soviets


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this smells fishy even to me well it's


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not really paranoia if the other guy


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really is trying to outpace you the Cold


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War was all about going big or going


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home but yeah the scale of project


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Horizon does seem over the top even for


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that era makes you wonder if they were


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worried about more than just the Soviets


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or maybe they knew something we don't


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like what or who was already up there


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come on Ralph you're dying to say it oh


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no nice try I'll save my theories for


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later but let's just agree this project


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raises way more questions than it


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answers to understand just how gutsy


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project Horizon was think about the


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timeline there wasn't some far-off


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future of humanity plan they wanted to


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build a functioning moon base within 7


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years of kicking things off 7 years and


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this was the late 1950s we didn't even


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have rockets capable of carrying the


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payloads needed for such a feet building


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this was like trying to construct a


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skyscraper in the middle of the Sahara


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desert with tools you hadn't invented


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yet still the Project's Architects were


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undeterred they even included


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contingency for deploying nuclear


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weapons on the moon officially these


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were for defense but defense against


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what the documents are suspiciously


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vague then just as suddenly as it


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appeared project Horizon was sheld


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officially it was too expensive and


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impractical but let's be real since when


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has the US government been shy about


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blowing a budget especially during the


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Cold War the whole thing smelled off


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rumors began swirling whispers about


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classified findings strange anomalies


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and unsettling discoveries on the moon


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got louder some parts of the plan feel


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especially odd for instance why bring


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heavy duty excavation tools for


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tunneling wiper poles shielding


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structures bu deep beneath the lunar


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surface Way Beyond what's needed for


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basic solar radiation protection and


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then there's the kicker why were there


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classified conting gencies for


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unexpected discoveries the abrupt


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cancellation of project Horizon has


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fueled Decades of speculation the


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official reasons budget issues and


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Technical hurdles are convenient but


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they don't explain the Eerie breadcrumbs


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left behind because maybe project


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Horizon wasn't canceled because it was


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too hard or too expensive maybe it was


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abandoned because they found something


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up there something that spooked them it


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was abandoned because the Mo's Mysteries


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were already being explored not by the


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Soviets and not by the Americans but by


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someone else who had beaten us


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[Music]


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there the moon calm and mysterious has


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fascinated Humanity for thousands of


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years but what if its Secrets go Way


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Beyond the craters we see in its silvery


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glow what if the Hidden Side of the Moon


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holds Mysteries so profound and so


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unsettling that governments have looked


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for answers using methods that are


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anything but traditional this is the


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story of psychic experiments unexplained


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Moon Oddities and the people whose


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encounters left them rattled to the


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[Music]


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core Engle swan wasn't your average guy


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born in 1933 and Teller ride Colorado he


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grew up in a family that balanced brains


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with


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creativity after extent in the US Army


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during the Korean War Swan set out to be


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a painter but life threw him a curveball


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when he started showing off some serious


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strange psychic abilities by the 1970s


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Swan's reputation had grown enough to


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catch the attention of researchers at


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Stanford Research Institute he ended up


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helping create what we now call remote


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viewing basically using psychic skills


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to see places or things you can't


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physically reach Swan's Talent was so


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impressive that even the CIA got curious


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and brought him into classified programs


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like the infamous Stargate project but


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of all the wild stuff Swan claimed to


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have done one story stands out his


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supposed remote viewing of the Moon in


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his 1998 book penetration the question


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of extraterrestrial and human telepathy


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Swan said he didn't exactly volunteer


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for the cosmic gig he wrote about being


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approached by shadowy government types


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who wanted him to psychically scope out


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the moon what he allegedly saw well


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let's just say it wasn't craters and


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dust Swan described massive structures


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on the moon's Far Side geometric


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buildings Dome shaped complexes in


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towering spires he also claimed to see


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lights zipping across the surface lights


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that didn't seem random but deliberate


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like someone was driving them oh and


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then there were the humanoid entities


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whoa Swan said these beings were very


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aware of his presence in the feeling of


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being watched was straight up terrifying


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as if his mind had wandered somewhere it


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really wasn't supposed to be so Swan


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psychically crashes the moon party and


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instead of being friendly the locals are


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like who invited this guy makes you


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wonder why we still call it just a


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lifeless rock well if what he's saying


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is true then we're talking about


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intelligence Way Beyond what we


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understand and it's pretty clear they


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don't want company fact or fiction the


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implications are enormous Swan's claims


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stirred up plenty of controversy critics


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chalked it up to a vivid imagination but


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some supporters couldn't ignore how his


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descriptions matched up with later


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satellite imagery could Swan have


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actually tapped into something on the


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moon's hidden side or was his mind just


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playing tricks while Swan's claims were


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mindblowing another figure stepped into


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the spotlight this time from the


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military with allegations that might be


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even harder to shrug off meet Sergeant


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Carl wolf an Air Force technician


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stationed at Langley Air Force Base in


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the


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1960s Wolf's job was all about


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processing images from lunar missions a


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pretty routine gig until it wasn't one


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day he got called in to fix a broken


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piece of equipment at another facility


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what happened next turned his world


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upside down while wolf was working on


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the issue a fellow technician casually


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showed him some high resolution images


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of the moon's far side but these weren't


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just your standard craters and rocks


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wolf claimed the images revealed massive


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structures artificial ones nothing like


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the natural lunar features he was used


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to seeing then came the kicker according


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to Wolf the technician admitted that


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NASA had discovered these structures


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during the Apollo missions but had


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slapped a big fat classified sticker on


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the whole thing for decades wolf kept


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quiet worried about what might happen if


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he spoke up but in the late 1990s he


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finally decided to break a silence


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sharing his story in interviews here's


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the wild part Wolf's descriptions of


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those artificial structures eerily lined


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up with Swan's earlier accounts


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coincidence m


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but I don't really believe in those it


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sure adds another twist to the already


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Tangled mystery of the Moon even the


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astronauts who walked on the moon


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haven't escaped some eyebrow raising


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claims during the Apollo 11 Mission Neil


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Armstrong and Buzz Aldren allegedly saw


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some things that rattled them reports


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mentioned lights or objects moving in


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ways that just didn't line up with what


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you'd expect from a lifeless lunar


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landscape some stories even suggests


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they felt like they were being watched


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creepy right the details are fuzzy but


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here's what's not they Vibe during the


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postm mission press conference instead


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of looking triumphant like guys who just


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done the most incredible thing in human


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history they seem subdued almost haunted


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it's a a beginning


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of a new age


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naturally this has kept the rumor mill


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spinning for decades did they stumble


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onto something extraordinary up there


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and if they did why the wall of Silence


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oh sure Ralph nothing says totally


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normal moon mission like returning to


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Earth looking like you've seen a ghost


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but hey maybe they were just jetlagged


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it's more than just their demeanor when


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you start seeing similar patterns across


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different accounts swans wolves and now


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the APLE crew it becomes harder to just


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write them off the tricky part is


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figuring out where the truth ends and


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speculation begins especially when the


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implications are this


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big from Swan's remote viewing to Wolf's


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claims of hidden structures and the


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Apollo crew Eerie postm Mission Vibes a


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pattern seems to emerge one that


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Whispers of intelligence Purp


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and maybe even designed these stories


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push back against the comfortable notion


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that the Moon is just a big empty Rock


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in the sky what if the moon's Mysteries


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go Way Beyond its craters right down to


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what it actually is because not only are


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there alleged bases on the far side of


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the moon but the moon itself may not be


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a natural occurrence allegedly it's


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engineered


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[Music]


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the moon a constant presence in our


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night sky has already proven to be way


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more mysterious than most of us ever


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imagined it's not just a glowing orb up


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there it's played a massive role in


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shaping life on Earth and has been woven


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into the fabric of human history but the


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deeper we dig the stranger and frankly


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more fascinating the story gets so far


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we've looked at how the moon keeps Earth


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in check the strange theories about its


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Origins and even the Bold borderline


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sci-fi ambitious of project Horizon then


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there are the unsettling claims from


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Engle Swan Sant wolf and the Apollo 11


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crew stories that make you wonder if the


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moon is hiding Secrets far beyond its


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craters and dust could it really be a


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lifeless rock or is there more going on


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than meets the eye the pieces of the


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puzzle are starting to come together but


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the biggest mysteries are still ahead


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what about those wild origin theories


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could ancient myths like the Zulu


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people's account actually hold some


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truth and what about the most


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mind-blowing idea of all that the moon


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might have been engineered we'll dive


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into all that and more in part two that


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will be released on Thursday until then


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remember the moon May light up our


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nights but its deepest Mysteries are


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still waiting to be uncovered thanks for


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joining me on this deep dive into the


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moon's enigmatic story I Ralph that's


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wend and this is has been Divergent


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history if you enjoyed this episode


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please hit subscribe share your thoughts


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in the comments below and maybe even


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send in a theory of your own you never


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know where the next video might take us


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I'll see you in part two on Thursday


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where the mystery only deepens until


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then stay curious stay kind and know


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that you are truly appreciated see you


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soon


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