Episode 30: We're Just Standing Outside the Aliens' Planet with a Boombox | E1 & E2 of Another Life
Photo by Casey Horner on Unsplash
Photo by Andy Holmes on Unsplash
Photo by Alexander Andrews on Unsplash
Well … this episode ended up being a bit of a mess for reasons that are explained therein. But you know what? It kind of fits because we’re covering episodes 1 and 2 of Another Life, and this show is a lot of a mess. We’re joined by our longtime podcast friend Space Nicole for the ride.
In this episode we discuss the whole gamut of crazy science:
How dark matter isn’t a scary cloud
How pigeons navigate with but don’t produce infrasound
Why space helmets don’t have a retractable visor
And more!
But mostly, we’re still confused why Niko didn’t tell her crew that she killed a man because he was trying to murder her and not simply because “it had to be done.”
Articles
Effects of Space
Muscle atrophy fact sheet from NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/64249main_ffs_factsheets_hbp_atrophy.pdf
Muscle atrophy fact sheed from the Smithsonian: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/staying-shape-space
Long duration space missions make your spine weak: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190109170647.htm
Bedsores, they're bad: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bed-sores/symptoms-causes/syc-20355893
Infrasound and Pigeons
Infrasound and homing pigeons: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00679906
Dark Matter
Finding dark matter with gravitational lensing:
https://www.universetoday.com/128483/dwarf-dark-matter-galaxy-hides-einstein-ring
Microlensing
What is microlensing:
https://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/exoplanets/microlensing.html
Rogue Planets
Rogue planets can totally have moons (but they're mostly gas giants): https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-10-11/rogue-planets-moons-life-gas-giants-jupiter-solar-system/10334026
Bizarre Rogue “Planet” with Incredible Auroras Puzzles Scientists
Sending Music to Space
Beaming “Across the Universe” into Space: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/across_universe.html
Beaming a message to Luyten’s star: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/259287-scientist-beam-message-luytens-star-hopes-finding-intelligent-life
What Are the Contents of the Golden Record? https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record
Just for Caitlin, how radios work:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/radio/indext.html (This is literally what Space Nicole sent me, cut and pasted.)
Electrolysis
Science Corner