Everyone knows the famous horns of Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra thanks, primarily, to its presence in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. When used, the viewer is witnessing the advancement of technology -- from bone tools to satellites seemingly floating above the big blue ball called Earth. But Kubrick's vision of the future wasn't unfounded. The ships, floating effortlessly and motionless above Earth, are simply in orbit -- a physics principle that kept the astronauts of Apollo 8 from crashing into the moon, keeps the moon from crashing into the Earth,  and keeps Earth from crashing into the Sun. But how? That's what we dive into today!

Topics Include

• It's fall, y'all!
• Third consecutive episode mentioning Rings of Power
• Bone tools, the invention of beat-downs, and imagery of satellites
• Orbits: just falling too fast (or not fast enough, depending on your perspective)
• Cannonballs and thought experiments
• Will's soon-to-be famous geography tirade
• Shutter Shades, LMFAO, and privacy screens for your computer

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