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November 20, 2024[Overtime Q&A] Conspiracy Theories in School, Preserving History, JWST Restrictions Should they teach conspiracy theories in schools? How can we preserve history? How restricted is JWST because of its sunshield? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.
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- 00:26 Should conspiracy theories be taught in school?
- 08:13 How much does the sunshield block JWST?
- 10:19 How can we protect history?
- 14:27 Will we find ancient civilizations on other planets?
- 18:03 Why not use the proper name for the Sun and Moon?
- 18:55 Is there a Moon timezone?
- 19:56 Is the edge of the Observable Universe set by aliens?
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...more November 19, 2024[Interview] Can Anybody Stop SpaceX Now? (with Eric Berger) Will SpaceX be able to deliver Starship in time for Artemis? Will Elon and Donald cancel SLS and replace it with Falcon Heavy? Is there any chance for real competition with SpaceX? How serious is the space race with China? Finding out the answers in this interview.
🟣 Guest: Eric Berger
https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/🦄 UT Extra: Future of Space Journalism
https://patreon.com/universetoday📖 Eric Berger's New Book "Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205309521-reentry- 00:00 Intro
- 01:12 Reentry and the rise of SpaceX
- 10:24 What happens to SLS
- 20:17 The state of Starship
- 30:45 Blue Origin and other competition
- 35:29 Space race with China
- 42:11 Questions from the Patreon Community
- 53:22 Current obsessions
- 55:11 Final thoughts
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...more November 18, 2024[Interview] How The Moon's Bumpy Gravitational Field Can Help Launch Things From Its Surface Moon has a non-uniform bumpy gravitational field. We can use these anomalies to launch stuff off the surface of the Moon with electromagnetic launchers. How exactly can we do it? Finding out in this interview.
🟣 Guest: Dr. Pekka Janhunen
https://www.mpe.mpg.de/person/18090/2169📜 Launching mass from the Moon helped by lunar gravity anomalies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09616📜 Terraforming the dwarf planet: Interconnected and growable Ceres megasatellite world
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🌞 Solar Gravitational Lens with Slava Turushev:https://youtube.com/live/lqzJewjZUkk?feature=share🚀 Realistic Interstellar Travel with Andrew Higginshttps://youtu.be/SkGRVvA23qI🏡 Asteroid Habitats with Adam Frankhttps://youtu.be/Z-hH3-z56cg- 00:00 Intro
- 02:51 Electrostatic sail updates
- 07:15 Launching stuff from the Moon
- 14:46 Finding trajectories
- 18:44 Practical applications
- 30:56 Mining Ceres
- 38:32 Future of humanity
- 42:53 More interviews
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...more November 15, 2024[Space Bites] Zone of Avoidance Defied // Big Meteor Storm's Coming // Ozone Hole Shrinks Some good environmental news, the Roman Space Telescope gets its mirror, astronomers defy the zone of avoidance, and moving stars halfway across the Milky Way
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- 00:14 Good news!
- https://www.universetoday.com/169251/good-news-the-ozone-layer-hole-is-continuing-to-shrink/
- 02:41 Nancy Grace Roman gets its mirror
- https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/telescope-for-nasas-roman-mission-complete-delivered-to-goddard
- 05:01 Leonides
- https://www.universetoday.com/169124/is-an-off-year-leonid-outburst-in-the-cards-for-november/
- 06:27 Trash compactor
- https://www.universetoday.com/169229/a-trash-compactor-is-going-to-the-space-station/
- 07:43 Astronomers defy the Zone of Avoidance
- https://www.universetoday.com/169287/astronomers-defy-the-zone-of-avoidance-to-find-hundreds-of-new-galaxies/
- 10:07 Finding black holes by their light echoes
- https://www.universetoday.com/169227/using-light-echoes-to-find-black-holes/
- 11:33 Vote results
- 12:11 Life under ice on Mars
- https://www.universetoday.com/169296/how-life-could-live-under-the-ice-on-mars/
- 13:46 Stellar engine
- https://www.universetoday.com/169255/a-spider-stellar-engine-could-move-binary-stars-halfway-across-a-galaxy/
- 16:08 Habitable worlds observatory
- 17:05 More space news stories
- 17:49 New Zealand astrophotography competition
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...more November 14, 2024[Interview] Are Membrane Telescopes The Future of Space-Based Astronomy? 🦄 Support us on Patreon:
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https://www.mpe.mpg.de/person/18090/2169📜 Membrane Space Telescope: Active Surface Control with Radiative Adaptive Optics
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.07741- 00:00 Intro
- 02:27 Adaptive optics in space
- 05:17 Membrane-based telescopes
- 22:48 Taking membrane telescopes to space
- 32:54 A practical next step
- 34:02 Questions from patrons
- 36:54 Working with ELT
- 44:30 More interviews
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...more November 12, 2024[Q&A] Spin Limit of Earth, True Colours of Exoplanets, Danger from Space Samples 🦄 Support us on Patreon:
https://patreon.com/universetodayHow fast can the Earth spin before it starts tearing itself apart? Should we be worried about samples from Mars contaminating Earth? Why don't space agencies use standardized platforms for their missions to save costs?
00:00 Start
01:05 How fast can the Earth spin not to tear apart?05:19 Is bringing samples from space objects dangerous?09:56 Can we make space probes standard?14:34 Why is it so hard to go to other star systems?19:01 What happens to time dilation in an Alcubierre drive?21:32 Can our Oort cloud exchange material with Alpha Cen?24:05 How would true colour images of exoplanets look like?26:19 Are goofy thumbnails the zeitgeist of science channels?29:41 Electromagnetic mass drivers on the Moon?33:31 How long can satellites stay in orbit?36:09 Why we don't expect life around M dwarf stars?📺 VIDEO VERSION
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...more November 08, 2024[Space Bites] Satellite Survives Orbital Hit // Starship Flight 6 Date // Webb Finds a Steam World Another Starship flight is right around the corner, how to make space telescopes insanely thin, a black hole feeding faster than it should, and plans to build your own radio telescope
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- 00:13 Starship IFT-6 Launch Date
- 03:27 Satellite surviving a collision
- 05:12 Ultra-thin space telescopes
- 07:42 Aftermath of a neutron star collision
- 09:48 Steam world
- 11:25 Vote results
- 11:58 Black hole that's eating too fast
- 13:33 The end for Skylon?
- 15:39 Build your own telescope
- 17:16 Guide to Space
- 17:59 Questions for the interviews
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...more November 05, 2024[Q&A] How Loud Was The Big Bang? Does Planet Spin Matter? Can Black Holes Revert to Stars? 🦄 Support us on Patreon:
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00:27 [Alaris] How loud was the Big Bang?04:06 [Ardena] Can black holes become neutron stars again?07:35 [Asuria] Why send missions to Europa, not Enceladus?12:17 [Belote] Will humans feel weird on a planet spinning opposite to Earth?13:33 [Belsa] Did we see globular clusters gain or lose stars?15:40 [Cartego] What would a Moon or Mars cars look like?19:03 [Chulak] Can Ganymede and Titan be considered planets?21:51 [Dakara] How loud would the Sun be?22:40 [Edora] Can we use lasers for solar sails?27:30 [Goronak] How does mass cross the event horizon?30:28 [Hadante] How do we predict the lifetime of stars?33:45 [Hebridan] Could we send mass to space to change our orbit and stop global warming?📺 VIDEO VERSION
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...more November 01, 2024[Space Bites] Is Sgr A* Image Wrong? // New Voyager-1 Problems // Another Sub-Surface Ocean Is this Event Horizon image accurate? Webb scans Vega for planets, another problem with Voyager 1, and a supernova space dandelion.
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- 00:13 Retake for the Sgr A image?
- https://www.universetoday.com/169025/the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-photo-might-need-a-retake/
- 02:32 Scanning Vega for planets
- https://www.universetoday.com/169041/webb-scans-vega-for-planets/
- 04:20 "Alien signal" decoded
- https://www.universetoday.com/169047/remember-that-alien-signal-sent-by-the-exomars-orbiter-last-year-its-just-been-decoded/
- 06:00 NASA's solar sail damaged
- https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-solar-sail-spacecraft-damaged-spinning
- 07:47 New problems for Voyager-1
- https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/10/28/after-pause-nasas-voyager-1-communicating-with-mission-team/
- 09:48 Vote results
- 10:28 Sub-surface ocean on Miranda
- https://www.universetoday.com/169058/theres-another-ocean-moon-candidate-uranus-tiny-moon-miranda/
- 12:23 Titan's icy crust
- https://www.universetoday.com/169048/titan-may-have-a-methane-crust-10-km-thick/
- 14:08 Space Dandelion
- https://www.universetoday.com/169031/this-ancient-supernova-remnant-looks-like-a-stellar-dandelion/
- 16:04 The Guide to Space
- 16:45 Remote telescope testing
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...more October 29, 2024[Q&A] Europa Sample Return, Imaging Auroras, Winds of Titan How hard can it be to retrieve a sample from Europa? How strong are the winds on Titan? What are the differences between different types of time dilation? Will Starship have landing legs? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.
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- 00:29 [Alaris] What are the weird rocket noises?
- 04:54 [Ardena] Could we be forever trapped on Earth because of its spin?
- 08:29 [Asuria] How to take pictures of auroras?
- 11:54 [Belote] How big is the Solar System?
- 15:16 [Cartego] How hard would it be to do a sample return from Europa?
- 21:37 [Chulak] Why worry about contaminating space probes?
- 25:25 [Dakara] What are the plans to explore lava tubes on Moon/Mars?
- 28:36 [Edora] How strong are the winds on Titan?
- 30:32 [Goronak] Will there be legs of Starships that go to Moon and Mars?
- 31:51 [Hadante] What are the chances of Europa Clipper finding plumes and sampling them?
- 34:20 [Hebridan] Any news on Starshot?
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