This Week in Science – The Kickass Science Podcast

22 April, 2020 – Episode 770 – Is there life beyond Earth?


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Interview w/ Kevin Peter Hand on Alien Oceans & Life Beyond Earth, Life Value, FOX Experiment, Toxo Zoos, Evolution Stinks, Cool Bird Beaks, Indoor CO2, Hungry Robots, Two Comfort Bugs, Spider Pain Venom, Amazonian Agriculture, Food Waste, And Much More…
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The day the earth-day stood still…
as humans everywhere in the world limit their activities
As economies are paused
As plain and train and automobile traffic is slowed
And oil futures fell to negative numbers…
As the human world suffers and death continues to haunt the public spaces
As we wait for a vaccine that will allow us to resume our human-y ways
Earth Day happened
And while we were not able to celebrate Earth Day as we have in days past
It was, in many ways, the best earth day yet.
It may not be the sort of celebration we would have thought of
But if every Earth Day, humans just stopped everything they were doing
Let the planet catch its breath for a day
It would be a sincere gesture of thanks for a planet we often take for granted
Speaking of things we might often take for granted…
It’s time for
This Week in Science
Coming up next…
Let’s start with an interview!
On this 50th Earth Day, our guest, Kevin Peter Hand, is an astrobiologist and planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he has served as deputy chief scientist for solar system exploration and is leading an effort to land a spacecraft on the surface of Europa. He has helped lead expeditions to the glaciers of Kilimanjaro,
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