Soviet Moon Dust - Objectivity 209 

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Keith is a Firefly fan!

"I've no idea what that was about." "Alright, you'll find out." Keith is not only a browncoat; he knows the commenters are too!

"Two by two..." Keith is a man who knows his audience. Bravo

Keith you just made my day! You can't stop the signal!

2 by 2 hands of blue. Classic.

Just when you think you can't love Keith any more he casually throws out the "two by two hands of blue" quote.

As someone who was born in Communist Poland, I always thought that the Luna programme was every bit as cool as Apollo.

One small object for Objectivity, one giant thrill for the viewers.

Holy crap. Keith just made my day

When I was a kid I saw a much bigger heap of Soviet moon dust when the Soviet Cosmos space exhibition came to Melbourne. It was a long time ago but I still remember the fortified glass display case it was in.

Brandy's not a Firefly fan... tsk tsk. But I think I speak for most everyone when I say that Keith, my man, you are the bee's knees! 😊💙💙

FIREFLY! Good on ya, Keith! ...Brady, I am disappoint...

Keith is correct. Firefly references are EXACTLY what we want.

Keith rocks the Firefly reference!

Keith quoting _Firefly_ is my new favorite thing in the 'verse!

2:10 That container is a beautiful object on its own

Bonus points to Keith for the Firefly reference :)

So cool that Keith is a Firefly fan.

2 by 2 hands of blue! Love me a Firefly reference!

Shiny. I'm a little sad there wasn't any pictures of Soviet letterhead in this episode.

Firefly reference for the win!

I have been waiting for that two by two hands of blue reference, thank you Keith

You can't take the sky from me!

“Two by two, hands of blue.” Browncoats unite!

Keith just became 1000x cooler.

Scientists shuffling about nervously "Oye, you got any moon dust I can have? *sniff* Come on man, just a few grains, I need it!"

Keith! *Squeee!* Loved that! Also, those are pretty grains of moon dust.

Honestly, I can't say that the moon dust sample beats the Genesis Rock and Storage lab. They're pretty cool, but I didn't think Keith had quite pulled it off... *until I saw that presentation box!* Now that is lovely! Also, Keith referencing Firefly! OK, OK, this was as good as the last episode!

2:30 love it. Don’t hear that reference very often

"largely non-destrictive" had a prof that would laugh whenever he saw this. INAA analysis doesn't change the mass of the sample, so its called non-destructive, but the isotope signature gets completely destroyed.

I just marathon every single episode of objectivity ever uploaded this is one of the best channels I've stumbled upon keep up the great work Brady and Keith

Oky I'm even more impressed with Keith Moore. :)

I always knew Keith is cooler than he let’s on and now it’s certain! “Two by two....” Outstanding! Like a leaf on the wind!

Soviet Moon Dust will now be the name of a drug in my sci-fi screenplay.

Keith attains legend status!

4:13 I REMEMBER THAT GUY! He appeared in Top gear in the challenge to see which professor could do the best burnout (and he won)!

THe one thing I didn't think I'd hear, a Firefly reference. Shame on Brady for not being a fan!

Nice to see this kind of exchange between the academies! Reminds me that Moscow museum of cosmonautics has a sample on display of a few specs of dust from both Apollo 11 and from Luna 16. (One little thing regarding mentions of Russia, it's always good to remember that Soviet Union consisted of a lot of nations, not only Russia).

Great episode. Love the letters at the end. Interesting how this process goes as people want things and what tests they wanted to do.

Knowing what the late great Professor Pillinger FRS went through to get Beagle 2 successfully to Mars, makes this paper trail look like an application for a library card! Credit to the man, his dreams and his perseverance were truly out of this world.

I just really love how much solemn reverence the respective governments have for the samples. These little specs of the moon are so awesome that even the governments are geeking out about them.

The label on top of the transport container says "Academy Of Sciences USSR". The Chang'e 5 mission returned rock and dust from the Moon back in December of 2020.

Dude you make the best videos on YT, I just watched a 10 year old Periodic Video... please keep it up!

We got a gorram Browncoat in The Royal Society! I have a faint hope for the future rekindling! You can't stop the signal.

2×2...way to go Mr Moore

I really just want the Brady and Keith aftershow, where you chat over a pint after recording

Keith is a browncoat! ^^

Hi sir Another interesting topic... These moon dust/grains are so small... Nice to watch.. Thanks for the video..🙏👍😊

9:03 I think that is the exact face Brady has made every time he has thought of a new great idea for something like the Hello Internet wax cylinder episode or the HI sneakers.

Look at those, James!

Plllleeeeasssse Brady, can we see Keith's personal fossil collection, the one he mentioned years ago???

I am from Slovakia. Does anyone know what happend to Czechoslovakia samples? 5:26

How is it possible you have never watched Firefly? This must be fixed!

Awesome!!!

1:23 Oh yeah, I remember that mission in Kerbal Space Program!

Are there any grains from earth on the moon?

2:29 Nerdgasm.

If I had a sample of Moon rock I'd buy the biggest shadow box I could find, put the sample right at the bottom where people can see it and in the biggest font that would fit write "THIS IS A PIECE OF THE MOON!" with a little arrow pointed to the sample.

definitely a suitable follow-up to the previous film! But was this one also held for four years?

4:12 Jack Nicholson in the Colin Pillinger biopic.

9:02 Brady affirms with James his plans with the moon rocks.

It's extraordinary, if you actually think about the journey that these grains of moon dust have been on, that humans conveyed pieces of the moon to earth. It's a little like something from a fairytale.

Is very interesting that the samples where taken even at a depth of 2 meters at 5:06 time. Now on Mars we can not get to more than 30cm . Why they do not use the same tech to drill to mars???

In Austria in Graz 15 years ago i saw a watch with moonrocks

What a lovely object. It does indeed seem more special that NASA's chunks (which are still immensely impressive and interesting) :)

I see freakin' SOVIET MOON DUST, I immediately click

Nice idea to set a piece of the moon in a watch but it would have to be an Omega speedmaster for obvious reasons.

It'd be funny if Soviets decided to mess with them and just scooped it all up from some kid's sandbox or something.

I think that if I had a grain of moon sand/dirt from one of the missions then I would put in a 1 meter squared frame with an attached magnifying glass on a chain and I would put it on a wall without any obstacle below it so peoples can get near to it.[/long sentence]

3:05 - "hmm, no hiss..."

It cracks me up how excited you are about grains of sand. Meanwhile, back here in the US we have boxes and boxes of big rocks. How can that possibly top what the US has?

India is going to the moon tomorrow (22 July 2019). Hope they bring back some more samples from moon.

Blue Gloves, Brady.... They are blue....

Keith saw the moon landing? He doesn't look old enough 😳

i think they were gold gloves !

Hope i can walk on moon in the future so that i can do an actual moonwalk

Honest question: who was more efficient at obtaining lunar samples on a $/kg basis, the Americans or the Soviets? I doubt we can never know for certain because I can't imagine the Soviets kept accurate cost records that would go public (no Senate oversight committee to bother them). If you take just the cost of the actual equipment used on the missions, I'd guess the Americans were more efficient. But if you take the total cost (including all the R&D and training time) it has to be the Soviet method. (I'm discounting all the time/money the Soviets invested in their own manned mission program that ultimately failed).

LOL @ Watch!

Purple!

USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 🧪 says on the 📦 box

So, could you use the Luna samples and compare the chemistry to NASA?

I recently discovered at my local planetarium that they sell actual samples from the moon. They are very thin but "quite" large. And "quite" cheap (35€ each). But that's a moon rock ! I'll buy me one for my birthday.

I have touched large piece of moonrock a few weeks ago.

anyone else thinking they'd eat their 1mm moon grain?

Bruh. Keith watches firefly.

Haaand Saaand Australiaaaaan

BLURPLE gloves

I wonder what the soviets thought about the moon landings. Were they a little salty that all they had was some moon dust while the Americans had so much rock? Not to mention a flag there!

Какой контейнер! ААааах!

soviets was cool but they didnt find petrified wood so the americans was much cooler.

You can touch a moon rock at NASM in Washington DC.

Conspiracy theorist: We have no physical evidence that man landed on the Moon. The Soviets did it all with unmanned probes! fun fact #1: Apollo returned 1000x more rock/soil samples than the Russians 1/3 kg. They geo-chemically match the Soviet samples and independently collected lunar meteorites. fun fact #2: The very latest technologically advanced plans on the drawing board for lunar sample return robots would require over 1,500 flights to match the haul collected by the Apollo astronauts!

I only counted 25, I'm calling the police!

More proof Americans’s never landed on the moon. I was the Russians.