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- Episode 14: Harbingers of Cataclysm
Centuries ago, the work of Edmond Halley demonstrated to the world that comets were not evil omens as many superstitious Europeans believed but celestial bodies in outer space. Even so, comets and asteroids could pose a direct threat to all life on Earth. The real question is whether humanity has the tools to meet that threat?
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PHOTO CAPTION: Comet Lovejoy near the constellation Ursa Major
NASA/MSFC/Jacobs Technology/ESSSA/Aaron KingeryREFERENCES:
'Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas'
by Alan Cook'The Day the Mesozoic Died: How the Story of the Dinosaurs' Demise was Uncovered'
by Sean B. Carrolhttp://nautil.us/issue/32/space/the-day-the-mesozoic-died'Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756-1827) and the origins of modern meteorite research'
by Ursula B. Marvin'Asteroid Apocalypse? Why Scientists Worry About 2036 'Planet Buster'. Newsweek.com
by Michio Kakuhttps://www.newsweek.com/asteroid-apocalypse-why-scientists-worry-about-2036-planet-buster-63395'Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission', NASA.gov
https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/dartMUSIC:
"Shores of Avalon" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Infinite Perspective" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Ossuary 1: A Begining" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Ossuary 6: Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/1 hr 1 min - 1 hr 27 min
- After Talk for Episode 13 w/Alex Roland PhD
Professor Alex Roland discusses how he became a historian for NASA, the financial costs of the U.S. shuttle program, the concept of "buying in", and the enormous challenges of manned space travel.
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MUSIC:
"Slow Burn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/49 min - Episode 13: The Legend of Icarus
The space shuttle was a marvel of American ingenuity that ushered in a new era for the American space program. But the world would soon learn that reusable spacecraft were far from being perfect machines. Is the story of the U.S. shuttle program a tale of triumph for human space exploration? Or is the tale of a modern day Icarus?
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PHOTO CAPTION: Computer generated simulation depicting the American space shuttle's thermal tiles displacing heat upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
REFERENCES:
'After Apollo?: Richard Nixon and the American Space Program'
by John M. Logsdon'Accountability in the Public Sector: Lessons from the Challenger', Public Administration Review
by Barbara S. Romzek and Melvin J. Dubnick'Remembering Roger Boisjoly: He Tried to Stop Shuttle Challenger Launch', NPR.org
by Howard Berkes'For Parts, NASA Boldly Goes... on Ebay', The New York Times
by William J. Broad'Pentagon Chief Assails Article on Shuttle Trip', The New York Times
by Alex S. Jones'Prepared Statement of Dr. Michael D. Griffin: "The Future of Human Space Flight"
House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyMUSIC:
"Heavy Heart" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Ossuary 6: Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Shores of Avalon" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Pepper's Theme" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Ossuary 1: A Begining" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Thunderbird" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Ossuary 1: A Begining" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/1 hr 14 min - After Talk for Episode 12 w/ Guest Konnor Blunt
An after talk discussion with Konner Blunt from the Blunt Report on Halloween celebrations around the world, weather control, S.E.T.I. research, anthropomorphizing extraterrestrials, sleep paralysis, and UFOs.
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MUSIC:
"Slow Burn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Special Guest: Konner Blunt.
1 hr 15 min - Episode 12: The UFO Enigma
In the late 1940s, the United States military began to take an interest in reports of unidentified flying objects or U.F.O.s which included multiple projects designed to investigate and evaluate the sightings. Despite the fact that many UFO sightings were cases of mistaken identity that could easily be explained away, a minority of them proved extremely perplexing to the U.S. government, leading some high level officials to consider the possibility that the Earth was being visited by extraterrestrials... and at the center of it all, there was one astronomer named J. Allen Hynek who struggled to bring his scientific expertise to bear on the mystery.
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REFERENCES:
*'The UFO Phenomenon' *
by George Constable, Time Life Books Inc.'The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs'
by Mark O'Connell'Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base'
by Annie Jacobsen'Glowing Auras and 'Black Money': The Pentagon's Mysterious U.F.O. Program', New York Times
by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumbenthal, and Leslie Kean*'Maj. Gen. John A. Samford's Statement on "Flying Saucers" *(7/31/1952)
U.S. National Archives'Two Pilots Saw a UFO. Why Did the Air Force Destroy the Report?', History.com
by Greg DaughertyMUSIC:
"Shores of Avalon" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Ossuary 1: A Begining" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Tenebroud Brothers Carnival: Act Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Waltz of the Carnies" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Thunderbird" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/1 hr 7 min - After Talk for Episode 11 w/guest Beth Gordon
Guest Beth Gordon chats about her wildly popular Instagram account (Spacewhippet), space museums around the country, the significance of Apollo 11, and the future of human space travel.
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MUSIC:
"Slow Burn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Special Guest: Spacewhippet.
1 hr 25 min - Episode 11: One Small Step: 50 Years Later
Half a century ago this week, Apollo 11 set out to land on the moon. It was the culmination of hundreds of thousands of brilliant engineers working to make science fiction into science fact. But who were the three men who went on the journey? What did they experience during their epic journey to an alien world? And what significance does their historic mission have for humanity 50 years later?
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REFERENCES:
*"What You Didn't Know About the Apollo 11 Mission" *
by Charles Fishmanhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-you-didnt-know-about-apollo-11-mission-fifty-years-ago-180972165/'The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space'
by Eugene Cernan and Don Davis'Somebody Else is on the Moon'
by George H. LeonardSergei Korolev: the Rocket Genius Behind Yuri Gagarin
(2011) Guardian articleby Robin McKie'NOVA: To the Moon' (1997) PBS documentary
'The Engines that Came in From the Cold' (2001) documentary
'CuriousDroid' Youtube Channel
MUSIC:
"Shores of Avalon" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Heavy Heart" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Thunderbird" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Ossuary 1: A Begining" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Crossing the Divide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/1 hr 34 min - After Talk for Episode 10 w/Guest Michael Tremmel PhD
Michael Tremmel has a Bachelors Degree in physics and math from Northwestern University as well as a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Washington. He has written several publications in astrophysics journals about supermassive black holes and galaxy evolution. In this episode, he talks about popular misconceptions about black holes as well as the fabric of space-time itself.
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https://mtremmel.github.io/?fbclid=IwAR28u5BxUtzszdCv924Xm4gMKExL-VngRHkzwH20kJDuS6p6LUxDmfFnRccFor listener questions and comments, email us here:
MUSIC:
"Slow Burn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Special Guest: Michael Tremmel.
55 min - Episode 10: Black Holes: Windows to Oblivion
A European patent clerk with an overactive imagination revealed to the world the very fabric of space and time. But decades later, the discovery of black holes would reveal far more challenging facts about the nature of our universe: gaping holes in the very fabric of reality itself. Within the depths of black holes, we might find the keys to a comprehensive and unifiying understanding of quantum mechanics and General Relativity... or we might find a window to oblivion.
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PHOTO CAPTION: X-ray emissions as captured by the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
REFERENCES:
"The Curious History of Relativity: How Einstein's Theory of Gravity was Lost and Then Found Again" by Jean Eisenstaedt
"Cygnus X-1" StarDate.org
http://blackholes.stardate.org/objects/factsheet-Cygnus-X-1.html"Case Study: John Michell and Black Holes" amnh.org
https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons/case-study-john-michell-and-black-holesMUSIC:
"Ossuary 6 - Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Heavy Heart" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Perspectives" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Americana" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Ossuary 1: A Begining" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Ossuary 5: Rest" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/1 hr 1 min
About Universe University
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Universe University takes listeners on a cosmic adventure through outer space: from the history of human spaceflight and astronomy to the cutting edge theoretical physics. It is an entertaining and…
informative exploration of how human beings have sought and found answers to some of our most profound questions about the universe... as well as a look at those questions that are still unanswered.