SpaceX Jellyfish Cloud: The Man Who Allegedly Sold a Sunrise

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What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

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   Kenji MoonfieldEast Coast families woke up before sunrise to a glowing jellyfish in the sky after a SpaceX launch to the space station.

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   Kenji MoonfieldOur guest is inmate forty-oh-four-seventeen, Wendell Gaspard, a self-taught cloud expert. Wendell, what are we looking at?

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   Wendell GaspardKenji, that's a rocket plume catching the first sunlight high up, while the ground is still dark. Pure light, no magic.

4. WG

   Wendell GaspardFor the record, a cumulus is something I once sold a man in Tampa.

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   Kenji MoonfieldSold. A cloud. To a man in Tampa.

6. WG

   Wendell GaspardAllegedly, and only the viewing rights.

7. WG

   Wendell GaspardAnyway, the jellyfish shape comes from the exhaust spreading out in thin air, which is why it has those lovely trailing tentacles.

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   Kenji MoonfieldSo it's exhaust that looks beautiful. Is that why people were filming it from their driveways in their pajamas?

9. WG

   Wendell GaspardPeople will stand in a cold driveway for anything glowing. I learned that the hard way. Allegedly.

10. WG

    Wendell GaspardFor the record, a cirrus, forty dollars a week, the dentist loved it.

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    Kenji MoonfieldA dentist paid forty dollars a week for a cirrus cloud? Wendell, is that why you're in there?

12. WG

    Wendell GaspardI'm in here for a paperwork misunderstanding about a sunrise. He said it was cloudy. I said that's the product.

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    Kenji MoonfieldI'll ask again. Did you sell the dentist the sunrise?

14. WG

    Wendell GaspardFor the record, a sunrise, Tuesday, east-facing, six forty-one. He still gets it. Nobody can prove it didn't happen.

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    Kenji MoonfieldSo this jellyfish is basically the first free sky anyone's gotten from you.

16. WG

    Wendell GaspardIt's a no-refund jellyfish, Kenji. Is it still available? Asking for a friend with a laminated chart.