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[Interview] How Much Water Will A Human Colony on Moon or Mars Need Jun 06, 2024

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How much water will a proper Moon base need? Where can we get it from? How can we manage and maintain the water? How will this approach work on Mars and beyond? Finding out the answers with Dr Jeffrey Lee.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Jeffrey Lee
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dX5MnbUAAAAJ&hl=en

📜 Water Management Considerations for a Self-Sustaining Moonbase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14100

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00:00 Intro
01:56 How much water do humans need
05:10 Additional water requirements
09:32 Extracting water from the regolith
15:49 Managing the water
23:38 What comes next
26:16 Going to Mars
32:07 Current obsessions
41:21 Final thoughts

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[Q&A] Life on the Moon, Lagrange Points Around Lagrange Points, JWST Time Cost Jun 04, 2024

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How would they get a 14-meter mirror to space? Are we sure there's no life on the Moon? Can there be Lagrange points around Lagrange points? How much mass does Earth gain and lose to space? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.

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00:00 Start
00:26 [Andoria] Are we sure there's no life on the Moon?
06:53 [Vulcan] 14-meter space telescope. How?
10:53 [Risa] Why are there plumes on Enceladus?
14:59 [Aeturen] Is there a telescope planned to directly image exoplanets?
18:47 [Vendikar] Lagrange points around Lagrange points?
22:37 [Remus] Can you grind your own glass for a telescope?
25:12 [Janus] How much mass does Earth gain/lose?
28:11 [Cait] How much does time on JWST cost?
28:46 [Betazed] Can Earth remain habitable when the Sun expands?
33:01 [Cheleb] Does Hawking radiation travel faster than light?
34:12 [Nimbus] Did JWST find a Dyson sphere?
38:27 [Belos] How to keep up with space news?

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[Interview] Leaping Robot for Lunar Lava Tubes Jun 03, 2024

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Lava tubes are one of the most interesting places on the Moon. They can be a great place for a potential lunar base, but they also can be a time capsule that can tell us about the entire history of the Moon. And there's a very interesting mission in development that could explore lava tubes. It's called Lunar Leaper.

Guest: Dr Anna Mittelholz

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00:00 Intro
03:08 Lava tubes
07:31 Lunar Leaper
13:11 Hopping on the Moon
24:04 Going inside a lava tube
27:28 Mars lava tubes
30:44 Mars magnetosphere
36:45 Why don't they just ... crash things into Mars
39:34 Current obsessions
45:15 Final thoughts

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[Space Bites] Starship Flight 4 Update // Giant Stars Disappearing // Volcanoes on Venus May 31, 2024

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Starship is ready for its 4th flight, Webb finds the most distant galaxy ever seen, a new way to detect Hawking Radiation, and fresh volcanoes on Venus.

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00:00 Intro
00:14 Starship Flight 4 Coming Soon
01:55 Starliner might finally fly humans to space
02:47 James Webb sees the most the distant galaxy
04:58 New way to measure black hole rotation
- https://www.universetoday.com/167127/a-new-way-to-measure-the-rotation-of-black-holes/
06:44 Possible way to see Hawking radiation
- https://www.universetoday.com/167112/merging-black-holes-could-give-astronomers-a-way-to-detect-hawking-radiation/
08:32 Giant stars disappearing
- https://www.universetoday.com/167171/hundreds-of-massive-stars-have-simply-disappeared/
10:42 Vote results
11:18 China's about to land on the Moon
13:07 Sorry, Spock! Vulcan is not a planet
- https://www.universetoday.com/167161/sorry-spock-but-vulcan-isnt-a-planet-after-all/
14:28 Volcanos on Venus
- https://www.universetoday.com/167156/volcanoes-were-erupting-on-venus-in-the-1990s/
15:39 Akatsuki lost connection
16:32 Cool images and videos
18:10 Newsletter
19:15 Missions to Venus

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[Q&A] Danger from Solar Storms, Observing Planet X, Pink Auroras May 28, 2024

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Where can we observe the effects of dark matter? How did all satellites survive the recent solar storms? Why auroras can show different colours? If we found Planet X, could we even observe it? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.

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00:00 Start
00:24 [Andoria] Where can we observe dark matter?
08:02 [Vulcan] How good are MOND theories?
11:21 [Risa] Why did we survive all the recent solar storms so well?
15:23 [Aeturen] Can we even see Planet X if it actually exists?
20:43 [Vendikar] Can multiple scientists use JWST at the same time?
24:23 [Remus] Can neutrinos be dark matter?
28:15 [Janus] Why some auroras are pink and not green?
29:50 [Cait] What is the Drake equation?
32:58 [Betazed] Falling into a black hole

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[Interview] NASA Funded This Crazy Project To Search For Life On Mars May 26, 2024

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NASA selected the Agnostic Life Finder (ALF) for Phase 1 in 2024. It will be studying a possibility to search for existing and past life on Mars alongside the in situ resource utilization process. How will this device work and what potential implications could it have? Finding out with Dr Jan Spacek.

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00:00 Intro
02:23 The NIAC Proposal for ALF
17:25 Life as we don't know it
23:31 What's next for the NIAC project
27:45 The Morning Star mission to Venus
35:37 IMPRESS mission to Mars
43:55 Europa and Enceladus
50:19 Finding life
53:50 Current obsessions
55:33 Final thoughts

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[Space Bites] GIANT New Space Telescope Proposal // ExoVenus Found // China's Space Aquarium May 24, 2024

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A proposal for a giant new space telescope, a Venus-sized world in a star’s habitable zone, Vera Rubin gets its camera, and the first data release from Euclid.

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00:00 Intro
00:14 SALTUS: Giant 14m space telescope proposal
- https://www.universetoday.com/167083/astronomers-propose-a-14-meter-infrared-space-telescope/
03:32 New ExoVenus planet found
- https://www.universetoday.com/167096/a-new-venus-sized-world-found-in-the-habitable-zone-of-its-star/
05:07 Massive Protoplanetary disk
- https://www.universetoday.com/167038/this-is-the-largest-planet-forming-disk-ever-seen/
06:24 Voyager-1's Back for Real
- https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/05/22/voyager-1-resumes-sending-science-data-from-two-instruments/
07:27 China's space aquarium
- https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-05-19/Aquatic-antics-Fish-exhibit-disorientation-in-China-Space-Station-1tJt4wprXMY/p.html
09:11 Vote results
10:27 More Evidence for Gravitational Wave Background
- https://www.universetoday.com/167058/more-evidence-for-the-gravitational-wave-background-of-the-universe/
13:09 Vera Rubin Got Its Camera
- https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2413/
14:25 Euclid data release
- https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_celebrates_first_science_with_sparkling_cosmic_views
16:23 More space news
17:32 ExoVenus

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[Interview] Getting To Enceladus and Europa Under Tough NASA Budget May 21, 2024

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Getting to Enceladus is cool. However, it's not yet possible because there isn't enough budget for it. How can we make missions like that happen despite the budget limitations? Finding out the answers with Dr Manasvi Lingam.

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00:00 Intro
02:17 Why Enceladus
03:46 How can NASA cut costs
08:24 Mission profile
15:06 The science
24:23 Alternative approaches
31:21 Practical demonstration
37:44 Out of the box ideas
52:57 Current obsessions
58:41 Final thoughts

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[Space Bites] Mars Methane Mystery // BepiColombo In Trouble // Crazy Auroras May 17, 2024

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A new answer for Mars methane, BepiColumbo is having thruster problems, three of the oldest stars in the Universe found nearby, and the best auroras in decades.

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00:00 Intro
00:14 Mars Methane Mystery
- https://www.universetoday.com/167003/new-answers-for-mars-methane-mystery/
02:50 BepiColombo in Trouble
- https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Glitch_on_BepiColombo_work_ongoing_to_restore_spacecraft_to_full_thrust
04:40 Oldest Stars in the Universe
- https://www.universetoday.com/167001/three-of-the-oldest-stars-in-the-universe-found-circling-the-milky-way/
06:19 Crazy Auroras
- https://www.universetoday.com/166955/what-a-weekend-spectacular-aurora-photos-from-around-the-world/
07:35 Vote results
08:14 Supermassive Black Holes' Origin
- https://www.universetoday.com/166947/supermassive-black-holes-got-started-from-massive-cosmic-seeds/
10:12 Bright star mystery
- https://www.universetoday.com/167007/a-star-became-1000-times-brighter-and-now-astronomers-know-why/
11:36 Amazing Hubble images
12:59 More space news
13:57 How to see an aurora

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[Interview] Here's Why GAIA Is My Absolute Favourite Telescope May 13, 2024

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How exactly does Gaia operate? What should we expect from it in the near future? When and why will it come to an end? And what comes after Gaia? Finding out the answers with Dr Berry Holl.

👉 Gaia Black Hole 3 discovery seminar at the Department of astronomy Geneva
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