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EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Beth Johnson, Ally Pelphrey
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Get your weekly dose of all that's new in space and astronomy with Escape Velocity Space News. The sky is not the limit, as we bring you the latest scientific discoveries and rocket launches. EVSN is brought to you by the team behind CosmoQuest at the Planetary Science Institute, and features hosts Dr. Pamela L. Gay and Erik Madaus with special guest interviews by Beth Johnson and audio engineering by Ally Pelphrey. EVSN is supported through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/CosmoQuestX.
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Catch the (Alien) Rainbow
As scientists discover and explore the atmospheres of more and more planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, we are learning that if you can imagine it, it probably exists. In a new paper discussing the planet WASP-76b, researchers describe what appears to be a giant rainbow in the atmosphere of another world... a circular rainbow... and it's not caused by refracted starlight!
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Following the Water Toward Climate Change
This week’s episode is brought to you by last week’s terrible weather. While experiencing hail and thunder IRL, we also saw press release after press release and article after article discussing climate change. This one-two punch of new science and the need for a new roof means we will touch on climate change in our closer look this week. We apologize in advance; it’s not pretty out there -- unless you like storm chasing, then it’s kind of the stuff of dreams at the moment.
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Planet Formation is (Still) Not Well Understood
One of our recurring topics is “Planet formation is not well understood,” and a trio of new papers is making it clear why planet formation continues to... not be well understood. Put simply: the universe likes to create more diverse solar systems than an entire planet’s worth of sci-fi writers can imagine.
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SPECIAL SHORT: How NASA Budget Cuts Will Hurt Space Science
Earlier in March, Congress voted into place the FY2024 budgets for multiple agencies, including NASA. The agency is being asked for an overall 2% cut. Combined with inflation rates over 3%, we are looking at a fairly significant cut to the U.S. budget for space science. Dr. Pamela Gay breaks down what these cuts will affect, including people and missions, as we move forward with this already stressful fiscal year. (This episode was recorded on March 14, 2024)
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Grindavik, Iceland, and Volcanoes with Dr. Melissa Scruggs
As you know, our team loves volcanoes, and since we’ve been focused on Iceland for months, we brought in Dr. Melissa Scruggs (aka VolcanoDoc on Twitch) for a chat about Grindavik and all things volcanic in Iceland.
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Stability, Instability, Drama, and How We are Space Stuff
It is possible to buy stickers, sweatshirts, mugs, and other stuff and things emblazoned with the simple phrase, “We are star stuff”. This phrase was popularized by Carl Sagan, and it serves as a gentle reminder that all the complex atoms - by which I mean most everything heavier than helium - found their start either in the nuclear core of a star or in the nuclear explosions of a dying star or stars. But, as with so many things, the truth is much more complicated than the meme.
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Great timely details
This podcast is well researched, clearly presented and keeps me up to speed on some of the latest astronomy news and research, which can be hard to keep on top of.
Pamela Gay is Blatantly Ignorant
Unfortunately, Good Old Southern' ignorance has led this podcast to describe a world, and now an international space feud, that does not exist. People and nature are being hurt by this industry, and it is very difficult for most privileged people to see just how.
The hosts of this podcast were raised in a way that they do not see (or care about) whether their passions cause fellow humans to be left behind. The space industry DEPENDS on leaving people behind. We know that if Space scientists were interested in 'leaving no one behind', then they would be focusing all their missions down to Earth, not up to space. They would be focusing on getting edible plants spread around the globe, minimizing desertification, replenishing wildlife stocks and providing all humans with information about imminent weather emergencies before they get hurt (to name a few).
But space exploration does not mind leaving others behind. It is all about "CONQUEST ON THE FINAL FRONTIER". It is not about inclusion.
Further, the data gathered by the Daily Space team is HEAVILY BIASED towards the United States' political agenda. These are not the type of 'Socially Conscious' hosts who will notice that they are distributors of International space propaganda... their involvement in space misinformation will slowly grow until it is one day so obvious, that they will be forced to decide whether they wish to keep using the same sources, or to disassociate themselves publicly from those sources. Its a matter of time.
Also...If you think that the 2021 Film 'Don't look up' is a 'Satire about the possibility of a future asteroid impact'... you have so much re-learning to do. 'The Asteroid' is a metaphor for 'HUMAN-CAUSED CLIMATE DISASTER'.
The bad people of the 21st Century, are you.
I'm hooked!
After Pamela mentioned her new podcast on AstronomyCast, I had to give it a listen.
Just finished episode 1 and I'm hooked.
Love the short, bite-size format ❤️
Got a feeling this is going to be around for a while.