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Speaker 1: Warning. The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics,
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Speaker 1: and space news throughout the known universe. Listeners have been
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Speaker 1: known to learn about astronomical phenomenon, the scientific method, and
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Speaker 1: expanded vocabulary to include terms like quasar asterism and uranus. Listen,
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Speaker 1: that's your own risk.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: When made of stars, made them stars, madies.
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Speaker 4: When made of stars.
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Speaker 2: You could be from high they would New Mexicomus, where a.
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Speaker 1: Stars?
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Speaker 4: When we are made of stars? I'm Wes Carol, joined
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Speaker 4: by my good friend doctor Sean Cruising, executive director for
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Speaker 4: Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
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Speaker 3: Hay Sean, Hey, we's good to be here.
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Speaker 4: We got a few follow up stories from stories from
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Speaker 4: weeks past, if you will, and we gonna get to
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Speaker 4: all of those stories, and I know, I guess at
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Speaker 4: the end we'll really dive into Maybe I was gonna
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Speaker 4: do this at the beginning, but we're gonna tell you
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Speaker 4: about Made of Stars Live two point zero coming up
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Speaker 4: at the end of the show.
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Speaker 3: How about that.
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Speaker 4: That's what I was gonna lead with, but I thought,
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Speaker 4: you know, maybe we're better off saving that for the end.
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Speaker 2: So we have a big night coming up because it's
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Speaker 2: made of stars live and it's a couple of other
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Speaker 2: things as well.
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Speaker 4: There you go, that's well done. So we'll get to
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Speaker 4: that a little bit later in the show. Now, one
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Speaker 4: of the things that is always fun to talk about
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Speaker 4: is when there's something to go out and stare at
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Speaker 4: in the sky. I'd say it's usually fun. I mean,
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Speaker 4: right after I had my next surgery, it wasn't fun
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Speaker 4: to have things going on in the sky.
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Speaker 3: It was rather.
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Speaker 4: Difficult to look up. I now have that range back,
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Speaker 4: so I'm happy.
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Speaker 3: To report I can.
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Speaker 4: I can look up, and it's good timing for that,
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Speaker 4: because you know, something to look at in the sky
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Speaker 4: chase lounger.
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Speaker 2: That's all I have to say. You know, you have
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Speaker 2: a little neck trouble and you want to look at
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Speaker 2: things in the sky. Chase loungers are your friend, so
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Speaker 2: so maybe you'll need it, maybe you won't. For this comment, Yep,
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Speaker 2: there is a comet, friends that might be putting on
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Speaker 2: a show. We did mention this back in February. We said, hey,
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Speaker 2: astronomers have discovered a comet, and the comet belonged to
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Speaker 2: a certain type of comet or a group of comets,
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Speaker 2: and they're known as the Cruits group, and the Cruits
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Speaker 2: Group have an interesting common characteristic which is their sungrazers.
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Speaker 2: In other words, the orbit from far out in the
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Speaker 2: Solar System brings them in a path that goes very
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Speaker 2: close to the Sun relative to other comets, and so
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Speaker 2: this in the group is known as comet maps m aps,
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Speaker 2: comet maps. It's also got a number of twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: six A one, so that's a catalog number ceed twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six A one, But it's comment maps and comet
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Speaker 2: maps belongs to that Cruits group, which included some other
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Speaker 2: very famous comments, including a very bright comment that was
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Speaker 2: visible in the United States back in nineteen sixty five.
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Speaker 2: It's called Ikea Seki. And for if you have friends
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Speaker 2: that are just really comment buffs or even amateur astronomy buffs,
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Speaker 2: they know Ikeya Seki because Ikeya Seki was one of
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Speaker 2: the brightest comments to be visible in the northern hemisphere
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Speaker 2: in modern times. So it was really a very large comet,
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Speaker 2: a very bright comet, and it graced the skies of
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Speaker 2: nineteen sixty five. Now there was another comment that wasn't
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Speaker 2: that long ago that was also a very bright Cruits
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Speaker 2: group Comet. It was called Comet love Joy and Wes,
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Speaker 2: some of your relatives down in the southern hemisphere, we're
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Speaker 2: able to enjoy that one. We didn't really see that
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Speaker 2: one from the northern hemisphere as much, but folks in
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Speaker 2: the southern hemisphere back in twenty eleven were treated to
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Speaker 2: a very very big, beautiful comment back in twenty eleven
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Speaker 2: comment Lovejoy. All right, So there are two semi modern
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Speaker 2: examples of what a cruits group Commet can do well
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Speaker 2: comment maps. The newly discovered Commet is also part of
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Speaker 2: that Cruis group, and it looks like some interesting things
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Speaker 2: are happening. According to reporting on spaceweather dot com, Comet
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Speaker 2: maps is brightening rapidly. In just the past four nights.
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Speaker 2: The comment has more than doubled in brightness. So it's
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Speaker 2: still not bright. Don't want you to get the idea
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Speaker 2: that you can go out and see it now. It's
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Speaker 2: just that it's on a brightening vector that could make
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Speaker 2: it a very interesting comment by the time it passes
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Speaker 2: near the sunset surface on April fourth, which isn't all
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Speaker 2: that far away, right right around Easter weekend that at
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Speaker 2: that time on that comet could actually brighten to a
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Speaker 2: magnitude negative four, which, if you're not familiar with visual
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Speaker 2: magnitudes and amateur astronomy, that's almost as bright or around
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Speaker 2: the same brightness as the planet Venus, which, besides the
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Speaker 2: Sun and the Moon, is the brightest thing in our
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Speaker 2: night time sky. So so there you have it, right,
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Speaker 2: object almost as bright as Venus. But it's a comet.
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Speaker 2: It's one of these cruits group comics, comets that in
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Speaker 2: the past have made spectacular displays in the sky. And
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Speaker 2: all of that's happening on April fourth or around that time.
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Speaker 2: If we didn't tell you about these things, we'd be
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Speaker 2: remissing our duty as a space podcast. So check out
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Speaker 2: spaceweather dot com. Their quote about this comment says, we
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Speaker 2: can't be certain the same thing will happen with comet maps,
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Speaker 2: but it is an object worth monitoring, and that website
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Speaker 2: is helping you to monitor that comment. So check out
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Speaker 2: spaceweather dot com. Keep an eye on that website as
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Speaker 2: we move in toward April, and they'll keep updates coming
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Speaker 2: on comment maps twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 4: I didn't hear anything you said after IKEA, and I
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Speaker 4: was thinking about Swedish meatballs. Could you say all that again?
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Speaker 2: Can we do an on site at Ikea.
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Speaker 3: That would be nice. You know, we could do that
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Speaker 3: and side.
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Speaker 2: To a comment somehow and maybe they could slide us
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Speaker 2: a meatball or two.
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Speaker 3: You know, that would be fantastic.
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Speaker 4: So one of the things that is often discussed and
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Speaker 4: we talk a lot about largely when we're talking about
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Speaker 4: things like, oh, surface of Mars, things that we're looking for.
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Speaker 4: They're looking for water, they're looking for water, vapor, signs
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Speaker 4: of water, signs of ice, things like that. In planets, ultimately,
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Speaker 4: one of the things that we're always looking for is
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Speaker 4: signs of life. And of course whenever we get kind
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Speaker 4: of an exoplant it somewhere, we go, oh, well that
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Speaker 4: could be something there, And it's always that curiosity. Would
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Speaker 4: this be a good thing? Would this be a bad thing? So,
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Speaker 4: I mean, I at one time I would have said, oh,
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Speaker 4: this would be a great thing, this would be fantastic.
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Speaker 4: The older I get, the more cynical I've become, and
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Speaker 4: the more I watch sci fi movies and I go,
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Speaker 4: this is probably would be a bad thing. If there
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Speaker 4: were signes of technology on one of these exoplanets, so
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Speaker 4: if you're on that side of the fence, I guess
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Speaker 4: we have some good news.
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Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, I mean, is it one of humankind's oldest questions? Really,
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Speaker 2: Once we realized that the lights in the nighttime sky
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Speaker 2: are actually things that are far away, I think once
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Speaker 2: we realized that, we started asking this question. We've been
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Speaker 2: asking ever since, Well, are are there locations out there
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Speaker 2: in the sky far away? In our universe? Other life exists?
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Speaker 2: I mean, we have life here on this world. Is
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Speaker 2: their life somewhere else? And so this is just the
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Speaker 2: modern version of that question. As Wes suggested, one of
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Speaker 2: the ways that you could tell whether or not there's
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Speaker 2: life on another world is if you pick up one
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Speaker 2: of their radio stations and they're playing K pop or
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Speaker 2: something out there, I don't know, whatever that maybe Taylor
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Speaker 2: Swift has gotten that far. I don't know. Maybe it's
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Speaker 2: just nothing but classic rock, Pink Floyd, I don't really know.
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Speaker 2: But imagine radio signals that do not emanate from the Earth,
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Speaker 2: but rather emanate from the surface of another world. Well,
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Speaker 2: that would not only tell you that there was life there, probably,
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Speaker 2: but it would also tell you that that it's life
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Speaker 2: that's technologically advanced and so one of the first things
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Speaker 2: that if you're looking out there at an exoplanet and
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Speaker 2: you begin to see signs that it might have biosignatures
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Speaker 2: kemic signatures that indicate that maybe life is on that planet,
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Speaker 2: which is happening in the story we're about to tell you,
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Speaker 2: then you might also look for technological signatures. You might
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Speaker 2: you might look to see if if you can find
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Speaker 2: evidence of life that is a what's called a techno signature,
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Speaker 2: and so that is something that is something that's like
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Speaker 2: radio waves that's being generated artificially by life forms rather
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Speaker 2: than through natural processes. Okay, so swing back to Mate
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Speaker 2: of Stars episode two twenty five if you're a follower
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Speaker 2: of the show. That was back in April of last year.
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Speaker 2: April twenty twenty five, we talked about a group of
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Speaker 2: scientists from Cambridge University who were saying that there is
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Speaker 2: a sub neptune out there that's just right in terms
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Speaker 2: of its distance from its parent star. And yes, a
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Speaker 2: sub neptune is bigger than Earth, but it's not so
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Speaker 2: big that it couldn't harbor life forms. So this sub
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Speaker 2: neptune is called K two DASH eighteen B. Again catalog
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Speaker 2: numbers K two eighteen is a red dwarf star. B
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Speaker 2: means the second planet out from that red dwarf star,
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Speaker 2: that sub Neptune K two Dash eighteen B sits directly
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Speaker 2: in what's known as the potentially habitable zone of its
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Speaker 2: parents star, the red dwarf K two Dash eighteen. So
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Speaker 2: this world wouldn't exactly be life like Earth. It's what
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Speaker 2: astronomers have termed a high Sian world, and high si
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Speaker 2: in worlds mean that it's a thick hydrogen atmosphere with
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Speaker 2: a liquid ocean underneath that. So that liquid ocean then
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Speaker 2: could harbor life forms and if they've been around enough,
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Speaker 2: could be potentially technologically advanced life forms. All right, So
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Speaker 2: there's the setup. Now here's the punch. So that team
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Speaker 2: that we talked about last year from University of Cambridge,
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Speaker 2: that they proposed that this planet K two eighteen B
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Speaker 2: is a perfect example of a potentially habitable sub Neptune.
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Speaker 2: They did some follow up observations with the Very Large
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Speaker 2: Array in New Mexico and a radio telescope from South
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Speaker 2: Africa known as Meerkat, and those two radio telescopes were
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Speaker 2: pointed at the K two eighteen system for thirty three days.
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Speaker 2: Now that's long enough to be an entire year for
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Speaker 2: planet K two eighteen B. In other words, that's how
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Speaker 2: long that planet takes to orbit around that red dwarf star,
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Speaker 2: about thirty three days. So not one of our years,
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Speaker 2: but one of their years. They observe for an entire
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Speaker 2: year length on the planet K two eighteen B, thirty
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Speaker 2: three days worth of data, and in that time, no
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Speaker 2: radio signals consistent with technological origin were discovered. And so now, okay,
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Speaker 2: here's two things. First of all, Wes and I might
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Speaker 2: concur this might be a good thing, because we don't
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Speaker 2: really want to find the borg on another planet and
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Speaker 2: yell out with our radio signals, hey we're here, and
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Speaker 2: have them come visit. That just seems like a bad idea.
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Speaker 2: Stephen Hawking agreed with us. Okay, So that's first. Second,
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Speaker 2: it is also another part of this research project that
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Speaker 2: the team had to develop all kinds of filters for
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Speaker 2: radio interference coming from the area around exoplanets, and that
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Speaker 2: really helped them narrow down whether or not technological radio
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Speaker 2: signatures were coming from this planet. But also the technique
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Speaker 2: is now in place that as even larger radio telescopes
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Speaker 2: come online like the kilometer array, the square kilometer array,
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Speaker 2: or the next generation very large array. These are radio
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Speaker 2: telescopes that are currently in the design and construction phase.
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Speaker 2: When those new radio telescopes come on line, and of
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Speaker 2: course obviously they have more powerful detection capabilities, we have
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Speaker 2: the filtering process in place that makes it easier to
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Speaker 2: check exoplanets for technological signatures. So even though we didn't
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Speaker 2: hit gold with finding techno signatures on this exoplanet, all
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Speaker 2: of the procedures to go through the data are now
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Speaker 2: in place that might help us more quickly do it
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Speaker 2: once these larger radio systems are online. So a couple
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Speaker 2: of wins there. Number One, we developed some great techniques.
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Speaker 2: Number Two, we're not about to be invaded by a
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Speaker 2: borglike species, at least not from K two eighteen B.
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Speaker 4: That's a good qualifier there to make sure, because we
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Speaker 4: don't really know what.
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Speaker 3: Else is out there, you know. I mean, you have
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Speaker 3: to always keep that in mind. You never know.
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Speaker 2: The news just gets stranger every day, so I got
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Speaker 2: to be careful about how far I'm willing to commit.
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Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure now that no borglike species is going
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Speaker 2: to come from K to eighteen B.
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Speaker 4: We did have a former president who recently said that
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Speaker 4: you know they're out there, right, I mean we kind
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Speaker 4: of had that, so it's kind.
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Speaker 2: Of saw he said, like I want to follow up
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Speaker 2: with that. But yeah, so, I mean he hasn't returned
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Speaker 2: to our calls.
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Speaker 4: We probably have an equal chance of getting a return
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Speaker 4: radio wave coming back to us from somewhere else. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean that's probably about as likely a chance of happening.
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Speaker 4: But you know, more made of stars right after this.
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Speaker 4: So you mentioned classic rock earlier.
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Speaker 3: I think this next.
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Speaker 4: Story would probably be, uh, it would be a fail
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Speaker 4: for me if I didn't reference one of my all
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Speaker 4: time favorite movies and a song from that movie. And
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Speaker 4: I think it was the Great Survivor who once said
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Speaker 4: in the song Burning Heart in Rocky four, two worlds collide,
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Speaker 4: rival nations. Now, there's no rival nations in this story,
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Speaker 4: but something about two worlds colliding is kind of a
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Speaker 4: cool story.
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Speaker 2: It is one might harken back to the actual science
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Speaker 2: fiction movie from the nineteen fifties called When Worlds Collide.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but no, I went straight to Rocky four because.
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Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with a movie that involves you know,
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Speaker 4: our hero, the one that we needed to end a
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Speaker 4: Cold War, and this comes on the heels of just
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Speaker 4: in the previous movie ending Racism.
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Speaker 3: So he did those two things in.
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Speaker 4: This illustrious career that was Rocky Balboa. And even though
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Speaker 4: he's not a real person, the Philadelphia Eagles worship him.
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Speaker 4: So you know, it's kind of a portant that those
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Speaker 4: things happened for Rocky Balboa. Yo, Adrian And of course
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Speaker 4: I had to work a little shot in at Eagles fans,
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Speaker 4: But anyway, and Phillies fans, and you know, anyway.
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Speaker 2: I mean anytime you anytime you can just you know,
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Speaker 2: place yourself in the NFC North. That's fine.
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Speaker 3: East.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, it is East. What is in North? Oh? No,
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Speaker 2: I know who's in North?
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Speaker 3: There? You go?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, the East.
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Speaker 4: It's all good. So and yeah, and there's been some
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Speaker 4: it's weird. You know, we don't this isn't a football show,
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Speaker 4: but it just we had this weird like we're in
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Speaker 4: this free agency period and then in the middle of
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Speaker 4: the free agency stuff that one of the Giants co
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Speaker 4: owners has been kind of forced to hand over his
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Speaker 4: stakes to his children because of some things in the news,
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Speaker 4: and it was just so it's a weird time in football.
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Speaker 4: I'll just say that from my standpoint, anytime I can
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Speaker 4: take a shot at the Eagles.
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Speaker 3: In the midst of all that going on, you know
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Speaker 3: you gotta do it.
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Speaker 2: So, but like to apologize to all the Chicago Bears
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Speaker 2: fans who are listening. I know you guys are in
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Speaker 2: the NFC North. I get it. Yeah, Lions packers, I know,
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Speaker 2: the whole Yeah, I get it.
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Speaker 4: So I'll try to get this back on track. Some
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Speaker 4: evidence of planets colliding. Now, this isn't you know. This
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Speaker 4: is a thing that happens sometimes, right, Planets collide sometimes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, not very often, as it turns out, I mean,
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Speaker 2: but it does happen, we say it differently, not very
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Speaker 2: often that we get to actually see it take place,
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Speaker 2: that's happening in real time. I mean, there are those
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Speaker 2: divisional rivals in the NFC East that take place, which
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Speaker 2: is like world's colliding, and we get to see those
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Speaker 2: occasionally on Sunday afternoons. However, this is actually two planets
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Speaker 2: running into each other that were captured with telescopes, which
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Speaker 2: is pretty amazing. There's a researcher by the name of
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Speaker 2: Andy Xanadacus who was calling through some old radio telescope
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Speaker 2: data from twenty twenty. Now, first of all, you maybe
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Speaker 2: you're just bored on a Saturday afternoon, or maybe you're
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Speaker 2: just that kind of geek like I'm gonna go thumb
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Speaker 2: through my old data from twenty from six years ago.
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Speaker 2: I forgot about it. Let me go look at Okay, anyway,
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Speaker 2: this is what astronomers do. So combing through data from
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty when Andy actually found a star that was
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Speaker 2: typically considered to be kind of a boring object, but
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Speaker 2: it was acting strangely, and the star was named Guaya
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Speaker 2: twenty ehk. Gaya twenty ehk. Now, wait a minute before
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Speaker 2: you think it's you know, Guya, and it's like some
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Speaker 2: movie about avatars or something. It's it's not really that.
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Speaker 2: Guya is a telescope. So there's a telescope by the
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Speaker 2: name of Gaya. So this is in the Gaya catalog
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Speaker 2: of objects. Gaya twenty ehk is an object in that catalog. Okay.
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Speaker 2: So the star nam Guya twenty ehk is about eleven
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Speaker 2: hundred light years from Earth. It's near the constellation of
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Speaker 2: Puppa's southern hemisphere constellation. It was a stable main sequence
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Speaker 2: star much like our son, except in this data set
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Speaker 2: that Andy stumbled back onto. The star began to flicker wildly,
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Speaker 2: and they hadn't noticed this before. So Andy found that
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Speaker 2: the cause of the flickering had nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: the star itself, but had to do with huge quantities
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Speaker 2: of rocks and dust seemingly out of nowhere. We're passing
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Speaker 2: in front of the distant star as the material as
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Speaker 2: the material orbited around the star system, kind of dimming
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Speaker 2: the light that reached the Earth in patches. Now, this
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Speaker 2: is from a story in Physics dot org fizz dot org,
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Speaker 2: which is the publication of the American Physical Society. It's
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Speaker 2: a really interesting story because they were able to narrow
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Speaker 2: down that a bunch of rocky debris suddenly appeared in
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Speaker 2: front of this otherwise normal star that they'd been observing
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Speaker 2: for years. So they were able to say, well, wait
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Speaker 2: a minute, something changed. What's going on here? This star
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Speaker 2: that acts normally all of a sudden is varying wildly,
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Speaker 2: and then they figure out that it's debris. The only
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Speaker 2: explanation that made any sense was that a catastrophic collision
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Speaker 2: between two planets had taken place during the actual observation period. Now,
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Speaker 2: let's not forget this thing's eleven thousand light years from Earth.
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Speaker 2: So really the collision happened eleven thousand years ago in
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Speaker 2: a galaxy that's somewhat far away. It's probably in our
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Speaker 2: own galaxy, on a distant part of our own galaxy.
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Speaker 2: But that light signal or that light information took eleven
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Speaker 2: thousand years to reach us and happened to fall during
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Speaker 2: the window of time when Gaya was observing the star.
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Speaker 2: And so this Guya data then actually revealed the catastrophic
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Speaker 2: collision between two planets in real time as it arrived
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Speaker 2: here at the Earth. Okay, so a quote from Xanadacus
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Speaker 2: says this quote, it's incredible that various telescopes caught this
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Speaker 2: impact in real time time. Continue with a quote. There
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Speaker 2: are only a few other planetary collisions of any kind
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Speaker 2: on record, and none that bears so many similarities to
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Speaker 2: the impact that created the Earth and the Moon system.
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Speaker 2: If we can observe more moments like this elsewhere in
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Speaker 2: the galaxy, it will teach us lots about the formation
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Speaker 2: of our world. Unquote Andy Xanadacus. So there you have it, friends,
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Speaker 2: that's a recap from the researcher saying, look, we caught
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Speaker 2: something that is first of all, very rare. Second of all,
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Speaker 2: we caught it in great detail. And third it's so
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Speaker 2: much like what probably happened in our own Solar system
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Speaker 2: that led to the formation of our own world and
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Speaker 2: the giant moon that orbits around it, which we also
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Speaker 2: think was created in such a planetary collision. So we're
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Speaker 2: gonna be watching for more evidence coming from the system.
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Speaker 2: I know that Gaya twenty ehk will now be observed
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Speaker 2: more closely than ever, and they're gonna be looking for
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Speaker 2: more consequences or circumstances around this what is now recent
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Speaker 2: to us catastrophic collision between two.
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Speaker 4: Planets more made of stars. Right after this follow up story,
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Speaker 4: we've been talking about Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket, the Stairway
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Speaker 4: to seven, and we've been waiting and waiting and waiting
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Speaker 4: for this thing to launch because it hasn't been that long.
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Speaker 4: I mean, has it been you know James web waiting.
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Speaker 4: It hasn't been decades of waiting and dropping. No, it
22:55
Speaker 4: was just a few delays and finally we have a
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Speaker 4: successful launch.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: First of all, Firefly Aerospace is a pretty cool company.
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Speaker 2: They're the ones that put the blue Ghost on the
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Speaker 2: surface of the Moon, right, So that's that's already pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: The second thing we noticed about them is that they
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Speaker 2: named their missions cool things. Right, So they had they
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Speaker 2: had a disaster last April. That was the same Alpha rocket.
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Speaker 2: It failed to deliver a Locky Martin payload to orbit
23:27
Speaker 2: after an anomalous occurrence happened during its second stage separation.
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Speaker 2: But that but that, you know, so it's sad, right,
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Speaker 2: it didn't work, But that mission was called Message in
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Speaker 2: a Booster, so that made that one cool. And then
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Speaker 2: you know, back in September, they had another Alpha first
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Speaker 2: stage have a disaster, disastrous explosion on the test on
23:53
Speaker 2: the launch stand during pre launched tests. But the mission
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Speaker 2: had a cool name, was called Stairway to seven. It
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Speaker 2: would have been the seventh launch of the Alpha booster.
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Speaker 2: So you know what's this story about. Well, it's just
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Speaker 2: an excuse for us to say Stairway to seven again,
24:09
Speaker 2: that's right.
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Speaker 4: Any references, any opportunity to bring plus, it's sticking with
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Speaker 4: our classic rock theme.
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Speaker 2: It's very much in the classic rock theme. Message in
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Speaker 2: a booster, Stairway to seven, all these things. Way to go,
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Speaker 2: Firefly Aerospace. We'd like to congratulate Firefly Aerospace because they
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Speaker 2: actually had a successful launch of their rocket. So this
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Speaker 2: is the Alpha rocket reaches orbit on the first launch
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Speaker 2: since the explosive accidents last year. Congratulations to Firefly Aerospace,
24:37
Speaker 2: and they are proving and vetting their Alpha rocket system,
24:41
Speaker 2: and we wish them the best of success, not only
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Speaker 2: because they named their missions cool things, but that's partly why.
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Speaker 4: And I forgot to mention this in the previous story,
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Speaker 4: but I had used Rocky references, and you actually had
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Speaker 4: to reference rocks and Rocky terrains, so I just thought
24:58
Speaker 4: it kind of all fit altogether with So we're rolling
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Speaker 4: through this, we can figure out a way to work
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Speaker 4: in Hearts on Fire, maybe from Rocky four in one
25:09
Speaker 4: of these stories. All right, they're a thirteen hundred pound
25:12
Speaker 4: NASA satellite crashes back to Earth in the place it's
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Speaker 4: supposed to crash back to Earth in the.
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Speaker 2: Ocean, right in the eye of the tiger mind. There
25:20
Speaker 2: you go, that's where it came in. Oh no, I'm
25:24
Speaker 2: somewhere over the somewhere over the Indian Ocean. Yeah, in
25:27
Speaker 2: the eastern Pacific anyway. Yeah, So this thirteen hundred pound
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Speaker 2: NASA satellite came back with kind of an uncontrolled reentry.
25:35
Speaker 2: We don't like that to happen, because you know, bad
25:38
Speaker 2: things can happen when heavy spacecrafts are coming in an
25:41
Speaker 2: uncontrolled manner. However, the Van Allen probe A did enter
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Speaker 2: the atmosphere on Wednesday, yesterday, six thirty seven am, as
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Speaker 2: we're recording the show yesterday. And the good news is
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Speaker 2: it landed in a place where no one was anywhere near,
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Speaker 2: somewhere out over the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Speaker 4: If they were, though, and they were maybe in a
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Speaker 4: boat and it crashed, there would have been hearts on fire,
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Speaker 4: just saying, just saying.
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Speaker 2: That could have been the end of a three hour tour.
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Speaker 4: We've definitely been the end of I don't care how
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Speaker 4: many clothes you packed.
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Speaker 1: Howls.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, anyway, So yeah, safely into the ocean. That's
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Speaker 4: where it's supposed to go, that's the plan.
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Speaker 2: How did Jajah Gabor get out there? I don't know
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Speaker 2: if she ended up out there at some plan.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the fact that the globetrotters were able to
26:39
Speaker 4: just come and go, I don't really understand how that
26:41
Speaker 4: works either.
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Speaker 2: But well, anyway, if there's a Van Allen probe A,
26:47
Speaker 2: there must be a Van Allen pro B there actually is.
26:50
Speaker 2: The two launched. The two vehicles launched as a spacecraft
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Speaker 2: duo back in August of twenty twelve, so the twin
26:58
Speaker 2: Van Allen pro B is still up there. Both spacecraft
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Speaker 2: were deactivated in twenty nineteen, but because of its relative positioning,
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Speaker 2: the Van Allen Probe B is not expected to re
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Speaker 2: enter before the year of twenty thirty, so NASA will
27:14
Speaker 2: have to keep an eye on that one, but right
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Speaker 2: now not really a threat for re entry, and Van
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Speaker 2: Allen Probe a safely down somewhere over the Pacific, just
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Speaker 2: outside of Gilligan's Island.
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Speaker 4: Which is also the island featured in the Huey Lewis
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Speaker 4: and the News Stuck with You video. So that's a
27:35
Speaker 4: fun bit of trivia. You probably didn't know, but I
27:37
Speaker 4: did not know same island, which was appropriate for the song.
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Speaker 3: It just kind of fit with it, didn't it. I
27:42
Speaker 3: don't know that Huey Lewis counts as classic rock. I
27:45
Speaker 3: mean it's you know, definitely. I mean I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Letn't break out the harmonica. We'll see how it goes,
27:52
Speaker 3: all right. So coming up, we have.
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Speaker 4: Made of Stars Live to point zero, and that is
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Speaker 4: sandwiched right in between two cool events. I mean one
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Speaker 4: is a regular event, the other is a brand new
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Speaker 4: event for you guys at the Coca Cola Space sign Center.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I would say this quickly about Made of
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Speaker 2: Stars Live. If you're listening to the show for more
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Speaker 2: than once, then maybe you think we're funny. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: it's possible you've tolerated more than one of these shows. Therefore,
28:28
Speaker 2: you might be in that group, that small group of
28:30
Speaker 2: people who actually think we're funny. We think we're funny,
28:32
Speaker 2: by the way, but we like other people who also
28:35
Speaker 2: like space, like to hear what's going on in the
28:37
Speaker 2: space news, and might actually think that we have somewhat
28:41
Speaker 2: of a sense of humor. If you're one of those
28:43
Speaker 2: folks and you're anywhere near the Columbus, Georgia region, on Saturday,
28:47
Speaker 2: March the twenty eighth, there there will be a live
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Speaker 2: version of Made of Stars where you can actually come
28:53
Speaker 2: into what we might call the studio audience in our
28:57
Speaker 2: planetarium here the Otmosphere Theater at Columbus State University's Coca
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Speaker 2: Cola Space Science Center. The event Made of Stars Live two,
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Speaker 2: a sequel it's a sequel. Made of Stars Live two
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Speaker 2: is sponsored by the Department of Earthen Space Sciences here
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Speaker 2: at Columbus State University. Might refer to their taste, you know,
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Speaker 2: but it's whatever they've decided to do a second one.
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Speaker 2: So you know, we're gonna do it. We're gonna be live,
29:24
Speaker 2: and we're gonna have a good time. We will have
29:26
Speaker 2: fun that night, friends, So if you like the show,
29:28
Speaker 2: come on down and join us from Madive Stars Live two,
29:32
Speaker 2: the sequel, we promised to try to be even more
29:34
Speaker 2: creative and fun than we were the first time, because
29:36
Speaker 2: the first time we were just trying to figure out
29:38
Speaker 2: how we would do a star a Mat of Stars
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Speaker 2: podcast Live. I think it went okay, Wes, what do
29:42
Speaker 2: you think?
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Speaker 3: I think we did great. We were winging it and
29:44
Speaker 3: it just I think it came out well. And now
29:46
Speaker 3: that we know what to expect, you just never know
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Speaker 3: what's gonna happen.
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Speaker 2: I mean there was talk of aliens and government conspiracies
29:55
Speaker 2: in all manner of things that Made of Stars Live one.
29:59
Speaker 2: Who knows what kinds of stories are going to end
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Speaker 2: up Made of Stars Live too, So if you want
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Speaker 2: to find out in real time, come down and join
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Speaker 2: us on the night of March the twenty eighth. It's
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Speaker 2: a Saturday evening, seven pm, Columbus State University's Coca Cola
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Speaker 2: Space Science Center. Let me just tell you that's not
30:18
Speaker 2: the only thing going on. We're going to be debuting
30:20
Speaker 2: a brand new show in the planetarium that night. It's
30:24
Speaker 2: a great show for kids. It's called Dinosaurs a Survival Story,
30:28
Speaker 2: and we'll begin that at five pm, and we're going
30:31
Speaker 2: to be doing rotations of that show from five to seven.
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Speaker 2: You could come down and check out that show with
30:37
Speaker 2: the kids, then jump into a Mate of Stars Live,
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Speaker 2: and then right after Made of Stars Live, ending right
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Speaker 2: about eight pm. We're going to be having our Astronomy
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Speaker 2: Night that night here at the Space Science Center, where
30:48
Speaker 2: doctor Rosa Williams will take you on a live tour
30:50
Speaker 2: of the nighttime sky in the Virtual Sky under the planetarium,
30:53
Speaker 2: and then right afterwards, telescopes set up outside viewing the Moon,
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Speaker 2: which is a great object for kids, as well as
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Speaker 2: the planet Jupiter, which is absolutely putting on a show
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Speaker 2: right now in the nighttime sky. It's in a really
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Speaker 2: great observing position, and all of the other objects that
31:10
Speaker 2: can be seen with telescopes from the Coca Cola Space
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Speaker 2: Science Center, So Friends Dinosaurs a Survival Story starting at five,
31:19
Speaker 2: Nade of Stars Live starting at seven, and Astronomy Night
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Speaker 2: at eight. All of these are either low cost or
31:26
Speaker 2: free events. If you want more information on all of
31:29
Speaker 2: these events, check out the website for the Coca Cola
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Speaker 2: Space Science Center www dot cc s SC dot org.
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Speaker 2: Charlie Charlie SamSam Charlie dot org find out all of
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Speaker 2: the information for all of the events for the night
31:43
Speaker 2: night of March the twenty eighth.
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