[Q&A] Fuel for Comet Tails, Detecting a Voyager's Crash, Driving Into Lava Tubes

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Why don't comets run out of "tail fuel"? If Voyager crashes into something, can we tell it apart from a regular failure? What are the chances we will drive into a lava tube? Will satellite communication become dominant at some point? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show.

🦄 More Q&A in the Overtime Audio:
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  • 00:00 Start
  • 00:37 How can comets leave tails for thousands of years without running out?
  • 02:57 Can we detect a hit to a Voyager?
  • 04:20 How possible would it be to drive into a lava tube on the moon?
  • 05:44 More Space Bites from website authors?
  • 09:52 Does Moon getting farther away impact tides on Earth?
  • 11:34 Will satellite communications overtake traditional on-ground ones?
  • 16:01 Can we protect a Moon colony with an artificial magnetic field?

📺 VIDEO VERSION
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