Episode – 0426 : The Carrington Event Podcast Transcript On September 1 and 2 of 1859, people all over the world were treated to something quite rare. Auroras were seen […]
Episode – 0425 : The Fermi Paradox
Episode – 0425 : The Fermi Paradox Podcast Transcript In a previous episode, I spoke about the Drake equation and the odds of there being intelligent extraterrestrial life. Many people […]
Episode – 0420 : The Planet Mercury
Episode – 0420 : The Planet Mercury Podcast Transcript The planet Mercury is the smallest, fastest, and most pot-marked planet in our solar system. It is in many ways, unlike […]
Episode – 0415 : Starfish Prime
Episode – 0415 : Starfish Prime Podcast Transcript In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States detonated nuclear bombs on land, on the water, underground, underwater, and in the atmosphere. […]
Episode – 0394 : How Do Satellites Work?
Episode – 0394 : How Do Satellites Work? Podcast Transcript Somewhere over your head, right this moment is an artificial satellite. Many of them actually. They beam television and radio […]
Episode – 0362 : 10 Ways You Can Know That the Earth is a Sphere
Episode – 0362 : 10 Ways You Can Know That the Earth is a Sphere Podcast Transcript One of the saddest things in the modern world is that with all […]
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Episode – 0356 : Did We Already Find Life On Mars?
Episode – 0356 : Did We Already Find Life On Mars? Transcript On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 became the first robotic lander to land on Mars. On September 3, […]
Episode – 0348 : How and What Do Astronauts Eat in Space?
Episode – 0348 : How and What Do Astronauts Eat in Space? Transcript When the space race first began, scientists didn’t even know if it was possible for humans to […]
Episode – 0342 : The Drake Equation
Episode – 0342 : The Drake Equation Transcript In 1961, at the Green Bank observatory in West Virginia, a small conference was held for astrophysicists. The meeting was organized by […]
Episode – 0339 : Apollo–Soyuz: The End of the Space Race
Episode – 0339 : Apollo–Soyuz: The End of the Space Race Transcript The space race officially began on October 4, 1957, at 7:28 PM Moscow Time. That was when Sputnik […]
Episode – 0309 : The South Atlantic Anomaly
Episode – 0309 : The South Atlantic Anomaly Transcript For years people believed that there was a part of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and planes would disappear called the […]
Episode – 0245 : The Mercury 13
Episode – 0245 : The Mercury 13 Transcript In the late 1950s, NASA recruited military test pilots to become the very first American Astronauts. They underwent an extensive battery of […]
Episode – 0233 : A History of Mars Exploration
Episode – 0233 : A History of Mars Exploration Transcript Ever since humans looked up at the stars they noticed that a few of them were different from the others. […]
Episode – 0228 : Space Junk
Episode – 0228 : Space Junk Transcript In 1957, Sputnik was launched into orbit as the world’s first artificial satellite. Today, 64 years later, there are more than 1,000,000 objects […]
Episode – 0208 : Operation Plumbbob
Episode – 0208 : Operation Plumbbob Transcript In 1957 the United States embarked on its most controversial series of nuclear tests. These tests took place on US soil in the […]
Episode – 0205 : Cosmos 954
Episode – 0205 : Cosmos 954 Transcript According to the old adage, what goes up must come down. Unless you are talking about a satellite, which can go up and […]
Episode – 0185 : The Golden Record
Episode – 0185 : The Golden Record Transcript In the 1970s NASA embarked on a mission it had never attempted before. Due to a fortunate alignment of planets, they were […]
Episode – 0166 : What’s the Deal With Dark Matter?
Episode – 0166 : What’s the Deal With Dark Matter? Transcript Over the last several centuries, there have been many unsolved questions that scientists have put their minds to solving.Most […]
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Episode – 0165 : The Speech Richard Nixon Never Gave
Episode – 0165 : The Speech Richard Nixon Never Gave Transcript The Apollo 11 mission to land humans on the moon was one of the most complex things ever undertaken […]
Episode – 0127 : Really Big Telescopes
Episode – 0127 : Really Big Telescopes Transcript Since the dawn of time, humans have looked up at the night sky to watch the stars. …and then nothing happened for […]