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In this final sermon from our Job: The Mystery of Suffering series, we explore God's unexpected response to Jobs criesa revelation not of condemnation, but of connection. Through vivid imagery, ancient wisdom, and modern reflections, we see how Job moves from despair to restoration. Can we be humbled and honored at the same time? What does it mean to suffer yet remain secure in God's love? Join us as we consider how revelation, repentance, and restoration still shape our stories today. To catch up on the latest sermons from Deep Creek, go to iTunes, Spotify ordeepcreekanglican.comand check out the website for more info about whats happening. We are a welcoming and growing multigenerational church in Doncaster East in Melbourne with refreshing faith in Jesus Christ. We think that looks like being life-giving to the believer, surprising to the world, and strengthening to the weary and doubting. Read the transcript Good morning. Today's Bible reading is Job 42:117 (page 838 in the red Bibles). Scripture Reading: Job 42:117 Then job replied to the Lord: I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted.You asked, Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.You said, Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.After the Lord had said these things to job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Im angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant job has. So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant job has.So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did what the Lord told them; and the Lord accepted jobs prayer.After job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.The Lord blessed the latter part of jobs life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter he named Jemima, the second Kezia, and the third Keren-Happuch. Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as jobs daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. After this, job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so job died, an old man and full of years. This is the word of the Lord. Now. Thanks for those beautiful prayers, Bridget, and the Bible reading, Sarah. My name is Megan. If you haven't met me before. I'm the senior minister here at Deep Creek, and if you haven't been here during this series (and I didn't want to look around to see who had or hadn't), that's okay. It's okay. You don't need to know the entirety of the book of Job to hear from the Lord this morning. Revelation Well, two days before I was born, something that has shaped my life was released for the first time. It was the radio play of Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A year later, it was published as a book. It's been extremely popular to the point that these are all the different covers as it's been republished in new editions over and over again over the past 47 years. Its a sci-fi satire comedy, and it explores ideas about infinity and leadership and just high jinks around the galaxy. And it connects me always to the book of Job. I'll tell you why. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, someone invents something called the Total Perspective Vortex. The purpose of this invention was to prove to the inventors wife that the most important thing for a human being was to never have a sense of proportion about themselves in the midst of the vast universe. So, extrapolating from the atoms in a piece of fairy cake, he invents this device which when a being is plugged into one end of it shows them as they truly are in the vast infinitude of all creation. It says that when you are put into the Vortex, you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation. And somewhere in it, a tiny little marker a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot says, You are here. Now, in the Hitchhiker's Guide universe, this invention becomes a torture device, because any being who actually experiences their smallness their minuscule insignificance in the vastness of all that exists well, they are exploded. Their brains just cannot handle it; they are destroyed as a person. The only person in the book who is not destroyed is someone described as having an ego the size of a planet. The only way to combat seeing yourself as you really are this tiny, infinitely small speck in the universe is to puff your ego up as big as it can possibly be, so that you know you really have a place. When it comes to the end of the Book of Job, I've often wondered: is God plugging Job into the Total Perspective Vortex when He comes to respond to Job? Job has been suffering unjustly, and he has these interactions with his friends who say, This is how God's world works if you're suffering, you must be a bad person. And Job is saying, I'm not! I'm a righteous person. I've always followed God. Why is this happening to me? Hes calling out to God throughout the book for God to answer his case to prove that God is a just God. Why is this happening? When God answers Job, He speaks of the vastness of all creation. Job sees this, and he replies: I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted.Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?Surely I spoke of things I did not understand things too wonderful for me to know. Its as if God has shown him the entire cosmos everything in reality and Jobs part in it: a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot with a little marker saying You are here. Will Job be destroyed by this revelation of God? Jobs worries are part of a much grander scheme. The text speaks of God coming to Job and speaking to him out of a whirlwind. (This is a picture of a place in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, that had a cyclone go through you can see it's recognizable as a house and a car and an orchard, but it's basically destroyed by the whirlwind that came through.) So when Job replies to God, we're wondering: is this what has happened? God has revealed Himself to Job will Job be utterly destroyed? Well, the first thing to say is that there is a difference between the Total Perspective Vortex and God's revelation, because against all odds the revelation has come with connection. Andy Prideaux, who was with us a couple of times through this series, has written a commentary he's been working on the Book of Job for a long time. This is from one of his articles (published in the Reformed Theological Review in 2011). He said: Before such a God, Job can only acknowledge his smallness before the majesty of his Creator who, against all odds, has reached out and spoken to his creature. The Total Perspective Vortex put someone in the midst of a vast universe isolated, insignificant, unconnected no personality at the heart of reality, just cosmos after cosmos and you. But against all odds, the Creator of the vastness that there is the being at the heart of reality has reached out here and connected with Job. Now, centuries before I was born, someone else had an experience of the total perspective of the universe. Julian of Norwich, a great saint and mystic in the 14th century, was praying and received a vision from God. I'm going to read to you what she wrote: He showed a little thing, the quantity of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand (as it seemed to me), and it was as round as any ball. I looked therein with the eye of my understanding and thought, What may this be? (Very normal, if you have a vision from God, to say, God, what is this about?) And I was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marveled how it might last, for it seemed to me it might suddenly have fallen into nought (nothing) for its littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: it lasteth and ever shall, because God loveth it. And so hath all things being by the love of God. It lasts and ever will because God loves it, and all things do so by the love of God. Julian of Norwich had an opportunity to see the total perspective of creation, and in God's vision it was as tiny as a hazelnut, and yet it was not isolated or insignificant. It was loved. It was held together by a Creator who is personally connected to it, who values it, and gives it such dignity that He would hold all things together, even small though they be. So when God reveals Himself to Job, He doesn't simply reveal Himself as so much higher (you could never understand). He reveals Himself as the One who desires to connect, who also holds all things together with great love and tenderness. At the start of chapter 38, God had just talked about all the stars in the sky He holds the storehouses of the hail and all those incredible things that humans have no power over whatsoever. He keeps going: Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens? Big. And then He says: Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food? This God who created all that is the infinite creation loves and cares for all things and is intimately involved in the lives of all things, even those that have nothing to do with human beings. And so the first step at the end of this story is revelation. The restoration at the end of the story the hundreds and thousands of sheep and, and all of that comes after this first gift of revelation to Job. And he responds: I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. My ears had heard of You, but now my eyes have seen You. Against all odds, the Creator has connected and revealed Himself as (what the psalmist says) both powerful and good. Repentance Job's response to this is important for us to explore. So the response that he gives to revelation is translated as repentance: Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know... Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes. I want us to explore the context of this repentance, which means turning around changing your mind, going the other way. Is it humility, or is it shame? Now, in the ancient Near East, honor and shame were basically the foundation for the way humans interacted and societies were formed. Someone who did well or looked good was honored in the community, and someone who had done wrong who had violated the rules of society was shamed. We see this today still: the way we speak about people, exclude people (particularly pile-ons on the internet). Canceling is a type of shaming. So when Job has lost his honored state because everything has been taken from him (including his health), we find him sitting in the dust and ashes of the rubbish heap outside of the town. He's moved from a place of honor into very obvious symbols of shame. And then his friends come and do the pile-on, and they say to him, You were honored, but actually you need to be ashamed. See how the Lord has punished you? You are not a good person. You are now debased, humiliated. You should be ashamed. Turn back to God and He will restore your honor. And so I want to ask the question: when I come to this revelation of God and Job's response, has God done this too? Has God said to this man who was honored and then living in this place of shame (which he was arguing against) is God shaming him too? Now, shame really messes us up. It can be entirely appropriate to feel shame when you have done wrong. But what we do when we feel shame is we hide, or we isolate, we shrink, or we fight. And if the response to God's revelation is to feel deep shame, that seems to me to lead nowhere. Nowhere good. That's what Adam and Eve did in the garden when God came to them, they hid. I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid, says Adam. So is that what's happening here? Well, it's important that we have the entire chapter, because otherwise we may not know: is God honoring Job or shaming him? We can see from verses 7 onwards that we need to read verse 6 in light of God honoring Job. You can be humbled and honored at the same time. And actually, if there's anything I would want us to leave with from today, it's that you can be humble you can be humbled and honored at the same time. Is that not the right way for humans to understand themselves? Humbled yet honored. And that's exactly what's happening here with Job. Because Job is repenting, but it's actually the friends with whom God is angry. After the Lord had said these things to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite (hes the one that kind of kicked it off), I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has. Now, Job is responding with repentance of some kind, but he's not being shamed by God. Actually, we have three options for what is happening when Job responds in this way (these come down to how we interpret some sparse Hebrew sentences and I dont claim great knowledge of Hebrew (I learned it but forgot most of it!), but people who do know these things tell me that the word translated despise in Job 42:6 doesnt actually have the reflexive pronoun myself. It means refuse or reject. So it could mean I reject myself, or it could mean I reject something else. Weve interpreted it and added the English myself. And repent is that word that means turn around, change your mind. It can mean repent from being a sinner, or it can mean change your mind about something youve been doing the word repent is even used of God (whos not sinning) in the Old Testament, when He changes His mind in response to the peoples response to Him. We love that about Him.) So, what are the three reasonable readings of Jobs repentance here? The first is that Job is saying, Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes. In other words, God's answer (His revelation) has shown Job his place in the world, and Job turns away from his sin which at most might be questioning God with pride, or judging God based on a very flat worldview of retributive justice (reward and punishment). Second, it could be Job meaning, I retract my case. Not himself, but his call for justice. (You see a lot of courtroom drama in Job, so it's like Job is saying, "I'm retracting or resting my case. I change my mind about my situation in light of God's ways in His world.") Thirdly (Andy Prideaux's preferred reading), Job is saying, I reject and turn away from these dust and ashes. Job has been sitting outside the town in the rubbish heap a place of shame and mourning but now that he has received God's revelation, he is changing his position. He is consoled by God and is no longer in this place. (If you were here last week, you'll know I've got a preference for the "law and order" reading of Job so number two is probably my preference. But actually all of them have some truth backed up in the Book of Job. It is possible for Job to have spoken rightly about God, but also to have said some things that overstepped and God is big enough to hold that. But it doesn't mean that Job shouldn't repent of those things. That's okay; actually that happens to us all the time. I might speak rightly about God to a point, and yet there will be things that I need to change my mind about, or actually repent of. Even from up here especially from up here.) The second interpretation (retracting his case) means Job is now changing his mind about his place in the world and his reading of what's happened to him. His previously flat worldview has been opened up God is bigger, and His ways are bigger. And I trust His justice and His good purposes. But it is also true that he's now going to turn away from this place of shame and mourning. Restoration And so we see that next. So there's restoration happening for Job at each point. But the pattern of revelation, repentance and restoration happens for the friends as well. So God, in speaking to the friends, basically says: I am angry with you. You didn't speak rightly. You shamed him, and that was not right. And you attributed to Me things that were not true. So now... now you repent. See, this is a different kind of repenting they are actually using the mechanism given in the Old Testament for dealing with sin: sacrifice. And God says, Take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job. (So their repenting is actually contributing to the honoring of this man they are making up for it; they are participating in restitution at this point. Not just dealing with God, but coming to the person that they've actually wronged.) And so they are honoring Job by enabling Job to act as a high priest for them. We know that Job had functioned in that way for his family members at the start of the book. God says, My servant Job will pray for you a great honor and I will accept his prayer. (Job has spoken very strong words to God very strong and yet God honors him.) He has been in the dust heap; he has suffered and lost; he has looked like someone who should have no place in society. And yet God honors him: I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You will be restored. So the restoration for Job begins with his friends making restitution and honoring him. That reverses his place in society and his sense of honor but not by forgetting what's happened. You get nervous in verse 10, because it says, After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. And you're like, But he's just been through this whole thing it's awful. He lost his children! This is terrible how do you just turn it around? Is this a fairy tale? (You had to put that there so that he could go home for this moment.) All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. (His house had been destroyed, but now it is there.) They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. Everything that he had been through was real and acknowledged. Nothing actually had been restored to him at this point in terms of family. In other words, this is an acknowledgment that you can be honoured in the midst of your suffering. He is scarred, and they come and comfort and console him exactly what should have happened in the first place. And they gave him these symbols of honor. And now the restoration (the reversal) is completed. The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the former part. And we see he gets all the sheep and the cows and the things and the sons, and then the excellent daughters. (I'm smiling at Jemima in the foyer now.) This, too, is a picture of honor. In Ancient Near Eastern culture, it's already an honor to have a son; but to have daughters that are not only beautiful, but in your abundance and honoring of them you include them in the inheritance, is a full picture of true and ultimate honor. The whole family, from generation to generation, are held with dignity and respect by God and the community. Lessons from Job's Story I want us to finish with four things to learn from this story of Job: The first is that we can suffer with confidence in the good purposes of God. This has been Job's question the entire time, and when God reveals Himself to Job as both powerful and good, it starts to change that confidence it grows his faith, even though the suffering has not yet been reversed. Ultimately, of course, we have the promise of God that our perseverance will be rewarded. Let me read to you from James chapter 5, beginning at verse 7: Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near. Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door! Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. The writers in the New Testament knew that the picture of Job's restoration was not a promise to every Christian person that things would ultimately turn out for their physical and financial well-being. James himself, who wrote that, was martyred killed for his faith. They followed the most honored Son of God, who died on a cross before His resurrection. We've just heard of the Christian girls camp in Texas, where many girls have died because of flash flooding. And we think of the parents who will have wondered how sending your child to a camp like that could result in such tragedy. But the promise of God is that you can suffer even the most terrible loss (and I am a fraud to speak of it, not having suffered in that way) but you can suffer with confidence in the good purposes of God and His promise of restoration at the resurrection. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near. Job is a picture of the promise of restoration when the Lord Jesus returns, and we can suffer (when that comes) with confidence in the good purposes of a powerful and loving God. And we can be humble without fear of being lost or destroyed. If the answer to the Total Perspective Vortex was to puff up your ego to get self-esteem as big as you possibly could so that you could have a place in this universe that was not insignificant well, perhaps we too have wondered if that is the way we ought to live in this world. That if someone says that we are wrong, if God calls us to change our ways, if we need to serve, if people do not recognize us or elect us as something, we will not be destroyed. Actually, we can be humble truly humble and sacrifice, knowing that we are held in love. We can be wrong and say that to a friend or family member, and we will not lose ourselves. God holds us. You can be humbled and honored at the same time. And we can do small things with great dignity. We never have to think we are a minuscule dot on a minuscule dot "you are here," isolated and insignificant. We are held, just as all things are, in love. And it is all small in relation to God. And so the smallest thing that He calls you or me to do has great dignity, as He holds all small things in His power and love. And finally, we can do risky things with freedom and courage. Pain and suffering shrinks your world. It shrinks what you're willing to do; it shrinks what you can do; it shrinks what you're willing to risk because you need as much control as possible. But with a God who says, I am wild and free and vast and transcendent, and yet I connect with you, and My good purposes cannot be thwarted, then even in suffering, even in pain, you can have courage and freedom to do risky, big things for Him. Maybe you have found that something has started to shrink your world, and maybe you felt the only way out of it is for you to be elevated or built up in your self-esteem or in your recognition. Job is calling you to let go to turn away from your self-focused and flat reading and shrunken, painful world and to allow the great God, full of freedom and full of wildness (like the Holy Spirit that blows and moves wherever it will) to give you courage to try things, to step out, to be wrong, to repent, because no purposes of the good and loving God can be thwarted. Amen.

[Matt & Gaby are away this week, so please enjoy this Encore Presentation of one of our most popular episodes.] What The IF... you could see the TRUE SCALE of the Universe? We imagine entering the notorious torture device from he dastardly mind of the great Douglas Adams. Tune in to find out how it feels, and bring a BIG EGO and a hunger for fairy cake because this is a mind expanding adventure if you have a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny HUMAN MIND. Don't Panic! ---- Got an IF of your own? Want to have us consider your idea for a show topic? Send YOUR IF to us! Email us at feedback@whattheif.com and let us know what's in your imagination. No idea is too small, or too big! --- Want to support the show? Click a rating or add a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app! itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1250517051?mt=2&ls=1 Don't miss an episode! Subscribe at WhatTheIF.com Keep On IFFin', Philip, Matt & Gaby

Mthr. Barbara preaches on Genesis 1:26-28, Exodus 19:3-6, and Jeremiah 31:31-33.

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How Zaphod copes with being the most important being in the universe - and how it is true - sort of. A very delayed passenger space flight - leading to some answers from Zaniwhoop. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/simon-r-anthony/message

The continued reading of Douglas Adam's brilliant work,The HHGttG, the Restaurant at the end of the universe bit. Still no food though, just an office flying to the Total Perspective Vortex --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/simon-r-anthony/message

“The universe was born, not in an implicitly chaotic big bang, but as the first moment of a fine-tuned and ongoing big breath.” Jude Currivan, today's guest on Quantum Revolution We have been conditioned to believe that the Universe began with a big bang - an explosion that initiated chaos, disruption and, ultimately, lined up a series of random, chaotic events that eventually led to the creation of life on Earth. This assumption forces us to believe that not only is life a serendipitous and random event resulting from the birth of the Universe, we ourselves are simply accidental aspects of this cosmic event. In her new book, The Story of Gaia, Dr. Currivan shares scientific breakthroughs which detail the 13.8-billion-year story of our universe and Gaia, where everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose. Evolution is not driven by random occurrences and mutations, but by profoundly resonant and harmonic interplays of forces and influences, each intelligently informed and guided. The universe is created from meaningful information, which accumulates to form our reality. To learn more about Dr. Jude Currivan and her work, please visit https://www.wholeworld-view.org/ To purchase Dr. Currivan's latest book, The Story of Gaia, you can find it at all major retailers and on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Story-Gaia-Evolutionary-Journey-Conscious/dp/164411531X/ If you'd like to learn how you can take back control over the story you tell about who you are and remember your unique, vital and irreplaceable role in the Cosmic Plan, please visit https://www.quantumalignmentsystem.com/ Thank you for joining us for Quantum Revolution. For more information and transcripts (beginning with season 6) please go to https://quantumrevolutionpodcast.com/  Timestamps (00:00-03:00) Introduction and Preamble by Karen Curry Parker (03:51-06:52) The Universal Alphabet (06:53–10:01) The Big Bang Theory vs. The Big Breath Theory (10:02–11:39 ) David Walker and Split Second Timing (11:40-17:02) An Incredibly Intelligent, Informationally Guided, and Underpinned Journey of Ongoing Emergence. (17:03-18:46) Karen's Dog and the Mind of the Cosmos (18:57-22:19) How Do We Change or Create from a Different Place? (22:20-26:26) Unity Is Not Uniformity. Unity Is Expressed in Radical Diversity. (26:27-29:40) The Total Perspective Vortex and Zaphod Beeblebrox (29:41-30:56) The Story of Gaia Reads You (30:57-32:20) Closing (32:21-35:24) Postamble by Karen Curry Parker and Outro

This week, TV's Kevin & Daddy host enter the Total Perspective Vortex, reappraise Avatar, marvel at how there will actually be a Community movie, uninstall Octopath Traveler, and FINALLY arrive at the titular Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe! Also: Douglas ruins his own joke1

What The IF... you could see the TRUE SCALE of the Universe? We imagine entering the notorious torture device from he dastardly mind of the great Douglas Adams. Tune in to find out how it feels, and bring a BIG EGO and a hunger for fairy cake because this is a mind expanding adventure if you have a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny HUMAN MIND. Don't Panic! ---- Got an IF of your own? Want to have us consider your idea for a show topic? Send YOUR IF to us! Email us at feedback@whattheif.com and let us know what's in your imagination. No idea is too small, or too big! --- Want to support the show? Click a rating or add a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app! itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1250517051?mt=2&ls=1 Don't miss an episode! Subscribe at WhatTheIF.com Keep On IFFin', Philip, Matt & Gaby

Our measurement of time isn’t up to scratch. We can’t define a second or an hour or even a day by referring to the length of time it takes the Earth to spin on its axis, because that duration isn’t constant. But even caesium atomic clocks, with an accuracy of 1 second in 100 million years, are no longer accurate enough. Time needs a new definition.In the pod this week are New Scientist journalists Rowan Hooper, Valerie Jamieson and Clare Wilson. They discuss a new, more precise way of defining a second, a method that will now be considered by the Time Lords in charge of these things, and ask what benefits we could get with a new kind of atomic clock.The team also explores the findings that mindfulness, used the world over to improve mental health, could sometimes have the opposite effect, leaving some people more anxious and depressed. They celebrate the toughest creatures in the world, the eight-legged tardigrades, and consider how we might use their powers to our own ends, and also discuss the worrying news that Greenland has passed a tipping point and is set to lose all of its ice. In the Total Perspective Vortex, the team marvel at the speed of the fastest star ever seen.To find out more, subscribe at newscientist.com/podcasts.

I talk about how reading about a photo recently taken of some planets orbiting a star 300 lightyears away got me thinking about the relative importance of current events on our little blue planet. You can follow me on social media: https://twitter.com/seniorgeek49 https://www.instagram.com/seniorgeek49/ https://www.facebook.com/garyf37 Here's where I'm getting my information on COVID-19: http://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america Here's information on the photo of the exoplanets I mention in this episode: https://www.planetary.org/the-downlink/missions-to-mars-exoplanets-pic.html Here's information on the Total Perspective Vortex from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex If you like the show, please give it a 5 star rating on whatever app or site you use to listen to it. And tell your friends and family about it! Thanks! If you REALLY like it please kick a couple of bucks my way on my Patreon page, https://www.patreon.com/SeniorGeek If this podcast doesn't show up in your favorite app you can add it! Find the "Add podcast as URL" or equivalent then copy and paste this RSS link: https://anchor.fm/s/afe7720/podcast/rss If you have an iOS device and use the link above to add the podcast to Apple's Podcasts app it will really help. If for whatever reason you can't do that I completely understand. You can still help by telling all your friends and family about what a great podcast it is. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gary-fisher/message

This week we delve into the world of fanedits; recuts of original works to give them a whole new interpretation. We start with Bateman Begins: An American Psycho (2009) which blends several Christian Bale movies together to jarring effect. Next up is two Darren Aronofsky stories about performing arts spliced into one with Memories Alone (2013). Finally, we watch an edit that came from Nerdwriter1’s critique of Passengers (2016), which takes a single source and improves on a significant narrative issue by reordering the footage. (SPOILERS for Passengers)Also: Batman Begins (2005) + American Psycho (2000) + The Machinist (2004) + The Dark Knight (2008). Christian rants. The green apple splatters. Men in the Cities. Jennifer Jason Leigh. The Wrestler (2008) + Black Swan (2010). Marisa Tomei. Baby Bucky. Rushing or dragging? Dennis Haysbert. Event Horizon (1997). Nice guy. Masters of Sex (2013). The Total Perspective Vortex. We play a game of “Mash Me Up”. Topher Grace’s Star Wars: Always.

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they clear the T section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Tri-D Tri-D is Adams' allusion to some sort of 3D TV, and is distinct from Five-D, the sub-etha, the Sense-o-Tape, the Hall of Informational Illusions and whatever other technology he created to show things to characters. Triganic Pu The Triganic Pu is a form of galactic currency. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles across each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. Trillian Trillian is a beautiful astrophysicist, with the real name Tricia McMillan. She's played by Susan Sheridan in the radio series, and by Zooey Deschanel in the film. She manages to convince the masters of Krikkit not to destroy the universe, and she learned how to maneuver around Hyde Park Corner on a moped. On an Earth that was never destroyed by the Vogons, Tricia McMillan attempts to get a job with the NBS network in New York, as an anchor on the US/AM breakfast show. She regrets going back for her bag when first meeting Zaphod at that famous party in Islington. She failed the screen test for the network because she decided not to go back for her bag, thus not bringing her contact lenses which she needed to read the script and autocue. When taken to the planet Rupert by the Grebulons, she films the encounter and figures she must have faked it as part of an elabourate nervous breakdown or halicination. Trin Tragula “Have some sense of proportion” Trin Tragula's wife would often say, so he built the Total Perspective Vortex, just to show her. And in one end he plugged the whole of reality, as extrapolated from a fairy cake, and in the other end he plugged his wife, where the shock annihilated her brain. Turlingdrome Turlingdrome. It's a swear word. We don't have a definition but it appears to be a derogatory term for a person, possibly a stupid person. There's a creative design firm in Cincinnati who've chosen Turlingdrome as their name, which sounds like it might be a bit like calling your company Shithead. Links Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Hickman on Twitter Follow Mark on Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Find more shows from the Outpost 15 of the Worst Business Names in History

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they clear the T section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Tri-D Tri-D is Adams' allusion to some sort of 3D TV, and is distinct from Five-D, the sub-etha, the Sense-o-Tape, the Hall of Informational Illusions and whatever other technology he created to show things to characters. Triganic Pu The Triganic Pu is a form of galactic currency. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles across each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. Trillian Trillian is a beautiful astrophysicist, with the real name Tricia McMillan. She's played by Susan Sheridan in the radio series, and by Zooey Deschanel in the film. She manages to convince the masters of Krikkit not to destroy the universe, and she learned how to maneuver around Hyde Park Corner on a moped. On an Earth that was never destroyed by the Vogons, Tricia McMillan attempts to get a job with the NBS network in New York, as an anchor on the US/AM breakfast show. She regrets going back for her bag when first meeting Zaphod at that famous party in Islington. She failed the screen test for the network because she decided not to go back for her bag, thus not bringing her contact lenses which she needed to read the script and autocue. When taken to the planet Rupert by the Grebulons, she films the encounter and figures she must have faked it as part of an elabourate nervous breakdown or halicination. Trin Tragula “Have some sense of proportion” Trin Tragula's wife would often say, so he built the Total Perspective Vortex, just to show her. And in one end he plugged the whole of reality, as extrapolated from a fairy cake, and in the other end he plugged his wife, where the shock annihilated her brain. Turlingdrome Turlingdrome. It's a swear word. We don't have a definition but it appears to be a derogatory term for a person, possibly a stupid person. There's a creative design firm in Cincinnati who've chosen Turlingdrome as their name, which sounds like it might be a bit like calling your company Shithead.

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the T section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Tea and Douglas What JB said about kettles isn't entirely inaccurate, according to an American friend of Mark's, who also has a lovely story to tell about Douglas Adams. Thor Thor is a thunder god. Arthur picks a fight with him over Trillian at an airborne party. Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother, but is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. Total Perspective Vortex When you are put into the Total Perspective Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says “You are here.” The man who invented it did so basically in order to annoy his wife who used to complain about him not having enough perspective. Towels You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal; you can wave it in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. Towel day events If you're in the Cambridge on the 25th May, you can go on a Douglas Adams walk hear a talk by the two remaining members of Adams' sketh cgroup See some Towel Day standup Find more info at towelday.org. Transtellar Cruise Lines Transtellar Cruise Lines ran a liner that kept a ship in stasis for 900 years while awaiting a compliment of lemon-soaked paper napkins. Fact-fans – or pedants, as they're more commonly known – wil know that an alternative version of the company name is Trans-Stellar Space Lines. Links Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Mark on Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Find more shows from the Outpost A Plan for the Improvement of Spelling in the English Language

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they traverse the T section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Tea and Douglas What JB said about kettles isn't entirely inaccurate, according to an American friend of Mark's, who also has a lovely story to tell about Douglas Adams. Thor Thor is a thunder god. Arthur picks a fight with him over Trillian at an airborne party. Time Traveller’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother, but is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner’s Time Traveller’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. Total Perspective Vortex When you are put into the Total Perspective Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says “You are here.” The man who invented it did so basically in order to annoy his wife who used to complain about him not having enough perspective. Towels You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal; you can wave it in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course you can dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. Towel day events If you're in the Cambridge on the 25th May, you can go on a Douglas Adams walk hear a talk by the two remaining members of Adams' sketh cgroup See some Towel Day standup Find more info at http://towelday.org. Transtellar Cruise Lines Transtellar Cruise Lines ran a liner that kept a ship in stasis for 900 years while awaiting a compliment of lemon-soaked paper napkins. Fact-fans -- or pedants, as they're more commonly known -- wil know that an alternative version of the company name is Trans-Stellar Space Lines.

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they continue traversing the P section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Philip Pope Philip Pope recorded a character voice in the Starship Titanic video game, wrote the Krikkit song and voiced one of the masters of Krikkit in the radio series. He's also partly-responsible - along with Richard Curtis - for a pitch-perfect BeeGees parody. Photon-ajuitar The photon-ajuitar is a musical instrument, with a keyboard. Pikka birds Pikka birds live on Lamuella, and they're very distracting to Perfectly Normal Beasts. Pintleton Alpha On Pintleton Alpha can be found the Resettlement Advice Centre, which Arthur visits in Mostly Harmless to try and find a home that's a bit like Earth. Pizpot Gargravarr Pizpot Gargravarr is the custodian of the Total Perspective Vortex. Or at least, his mind is. His body is probably off having a far better time of it, going to parties and that sort of thing. Playbeing Playbeing is a magazine, devoted in roughly equal parts to galactic politics, rock music, and gynaecology. Poghril Poghril is an impoverished planet in the Pansel system, whose entire population got wiped out through food poisoning, apart from one man who ate the 239,000 fried eggs that had appeared thanks to a trip with the Improbability Drive. He later died of cholesterol poisoning. They were already a pretty pesimistic race to begin with, having a popular riddle that goes “Why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena-offal?” to which the other would reply “I don't know either; wretched, isn't it?” Links Follow Danny on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Mark on Twitter Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Find more shows from the Outpost The Heebeegeebee's Meaningless Songs - YouTube Pointy Birds Poem Frank Sinatra Has a Cold - Gay Talese - Best Profile of Sinatra

Join Mark, Jon and Danny as they continue traversing the P section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Philip Pope Philip Pope recorded a character voice in the Starship Titanic video game, wrote the Krikkit song and voiced one of the masters of Krikkit in the radio series. He's also partly-responsible - along with Richard Curtis - for a pitch-perfect BeeGees parody. Photon-ajuitar The photon-ajuitar is a musical instrument, with a keyboard. Pikka birds Pikka birds live on Lamuella, and they're very distracting to Perfectly Normal Beasts. Pintleton Alpha On Pintleton Alpha can be found the Resettlement Advice Centre, which Arthur visits in Mostly Harmless to try and find a home that's a bit like Earth. Pizpot Gargravarr Pizpot Gargravarr is the custodian of the Total Perspective Vortex. Or at least, his mind is. His body is probably off having a far better time of it, going to parties and that sort of thing. Playbeing Playbeing is a magazine, devoted in roughly equal parts to galactic politics, rock music, and gynaecology. Poghril Poghril is an impoverished planet in the Pansel system, whose entire population got wiped out through food poisoning, apart from one man who ate the 239,000 fried eggs that had appeared thanks to a trip with the Improbability Drive. He later died of cholesterol poisoning. They were already a pretty pesimistic race to begin with, having a popular riddle that goes "Why is life like hanging upside down with your head in a bucket of hyena-offal?" to which the other would reply "I don't know either; wretched, isn't it?"

We open up with some extended housekeeping which will excite any Global Zionist Conspiracy theorist. We explain our long hiatus, technical problems, and adventures with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard; we digress about the crash of 2008, Icelandic bankers, and German poo; and we speculate about doing episodes on profanity, on law, and on rabbis. We also celebrate Tzvi’s new job at Proggio! Then, remarking on how we’re the anti-religious religious guys, we smoothly transition into our main topic (brought to you by Holy Madness community member Yonadav!): BURNING QUESTIONS. … a topic which makes Meir-Simchah insecure and defensive because the fire of his burning questions has faded. Instead he has hypotheses. Tzvi then discusses growing up in black hat Brooklyn and how teenagers who asked theological questions were considered troubled… which was true, but not for the reasons their rabbis and parents thought. Questions burn, Tzvi suggests, when they hang your sense of self in the balances; and in contrast with Meir-Simchah, when Tzvi found he was no longer burned by his questions, he felt like he’d gotten somewhere in life. (Did he?) We then stumble over a proof that the Torah was authored by God. Turns out Meir-Simchah’s burning questions in high school were the cutting-edge of the post-modernism against which the “Intellectual Dark Web” has mobilized (we mention metaphor-meister Eric Weinstein, Jordan Peterson, and Bari Weiss). Tzvi remarks that both Social Justice Warriors and the Intellectual Dark Web religify politics converting what could be essentially pragmatic or philosophic matters into burning questions where the self hangs in the balance. Masculinity pops up. These strange appetizers flow into a meaty dialectic. What’s with the weird opposition of Culture vs. Technology, Philosophers vs. Technologists, Ends vs. Means, The Meaning of Life vs. cancer drugs… Not to mention, the Spirituality of Doing Science vs. AI Takeover Dystopias, and Arnold Schwarzenegger vs. Tzvi’s impersonation of Mr. Universe. Then suddenly Meir-Simchah appears to be a closet Marxist! Tzvi reviews Neil Postman’s Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, and quotes a section in which Postman reviews—and mocks—a New York Times article by Daniel Goleman. This leads into a discussion of how, lately, some public intellectuals try to convert moral questions into technological questions, whether the Talmud does that (it doesn’t), the Naturalistic Fallacy (cf. the Is-Ought Problem), and gay pigeons in Hume's Guillotine (no gay pigeons were harmed in the production of this episode… cisgender pigeons however are Nazis according to Antifa). What’s the difference between Maimonides’ scientific meditations and the Total Perspective Vortex in Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide? Knowing how the world is created for you. If you enjoy the show, there are many ways you can support the show. Please check our previous episodes and subscribe via this site, iTunes, whichever podcast app you like best, etc. Please spread the Holy Madness to your family, friends, and community members! And if you're up for some discussion, join us on our Facebook page "Holy Madness - The Show" and Facebook discussion group "Holy Madness - The Discussion Group". If you would like to contribute some of the money you have for tzadaka or charity, as the saying runs, "no flour, no Torah; no Torah, no flour," please pitch in on our PATREON at www.patreon.com/holymadness. And, finally, as we were saying about live shows... Tzvi and Meir-Simchah do travel down from their mountain periodically, so if you have a synagogue, church, campus, and/or coffee shop in your area where you would like to host us, please get in touch!

Mark Steadman, Jon Hickman and Danny Smith continue their mission to discuss everything in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy canon , in alphabetical order. Fortillian Bantoburn O'Perfluous The BarBot of the Starship Titanic, played by Dermot Crowley (from Luther, among other things). In the game, he mixes your character a bizarre cocktail that ends up helping to fix the ship. Here, Danny runs the team through some working class cocktails. Frastra Where they say “life begins at 40,000 degrees”. This planet has fire storms, and an equable temperature is between 40,000 and 40,004 degrees. Mark asks the question of the kind of lifeforms one might expect to find on Frastra, bearing in mind that the tardigrade can only hack it up to 148.9℃. Frogstar Frogstar World B is quite staggeringly nasty, and is where Zaphod is dragged to before being put in the Total Perspective Vortex (to which we'll come in a later episode). This planet gives us a bit of a continuity headache, as our characters happen upon it in very different ways, depending on whether you've read the book or listened to the second radio series. Frood A frood is a really amazingly together guy. And that's about all the time there is for this segment. Fuolornis Fire Dragon The team discusses the sexiness - or complete lack thereof - of flying bescaled fire-breathing lizards. And Dire Straits. Gag Halfrunt Gag Halfrunt is Zaphod and Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz's private brain-care specialist, and the man who employed Jeltz to destroy the Earth. He's played by Stephen Moore in the radio series and is the man who utters the immortal words “ah, Zaphod's just this guy, y'know?” which is one of very few Hitchhiker's catchphrases. Danny helps Mark understand how wrong he is to like this character, given that he is quite a bit evil. Hypothetical Slartibartfast Vote on your favourite actor to play Slarti in a hypothetical new Netflix series of the Hitchhiker's Guide. Get in touch Share some of your thoughts on our casting choices or on Gag, by emailing feedback@btlpodcast.com. Follow @ iamsteadman, @ probablydrunk and @ jonhickman on Twitter. Links Fuolornis Fire Dragon by TheDraconicBard on DeviantArt Fuolornis Fire Dragon Wood Marquetry Kit art

Death’s Doings - Richard Dagley, 1827. Erik and Potatowire discuss Alan Watts’s book The Wisdom of Insecurity, looking at what is real, the challenge of being present, the origins of the self, the origins of true moral action, and its consequences for society. Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity Alan Watts Platonic Theory of Forms Eames Lounge Chair Ouroboros Total Perspective Vortex Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Next episode’s book for discussion: Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning

A quick tour of our solar system Limits of Humanity: The observable universe goes on for light years & we'll only ever see 0.00000000001% of it (Kurzgesagt, Devour) Powers of Ten: The classic video from 1977 that explains the scale of space (YouTube) Riding Light: Travel with a beam of light in real time through our solar system (Vimeo, Alphonse Swinehart) A beautiful planet (IMAX) The Total Perspective Vortex: The machine from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that makes you feel so insignificant it will crush your soul (Hitchhiker Wiki) We need different types of telescopes to 'see' the different types of waves in the universe: radio, infrared, visible, X-ray, gamma (NASA) Telescope to seek Earthlike planet in Alpha Centauri system (The New York Times) The BoldlyGo Institute: Private space exploration (Boldy Go) Pluto is 7.5 billion km from Earth (Space.com) Live tracking: Where is Halley's comet now? (The Sky Live) Live tracking: Where are the Voyager probes now? (NASA) Voyager 1 is travelling at about 17 km per second (Wikipedia) It's believed that Voyager 1 is either in interstellar space or pretty close to it - that's the furthest we've sent anything (Wikipedia) NASA's 'eyes': Cool website where you can track all sorts of space things (NASA) The Deep Space Network: Live tracking of probes & stuff by telescopes on Earth (NASA) In about 30,000 years, Voyager 1 will have passed through the Oort Cloud & in 40,000 years it will pass within 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445 (Wikipedia) What is the Kuiper Belt? A belt of icy bodies beyond Neptune (Cosmos, Swinburne University) What is the Oort Cloud? A hypothesised belt of icy bodies in the far reaches of the solar system (Cosmos, Swinburne University) It would take about 6 months to drive to the Moon at 95 km/hour (Science Focus) Apollo 11 took 3 days, 3 hours & 49 minutes to reach the Moon (Reference.com) What if Apollo 11 failed? President Nixon had a speech ready (Space.com) A moon is any natural satellite orbiting another body - planets, dwarf planets, asteroids & Kuiper Belt objects can all have moons (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Earth's moon's name is the Moon (caps M), it's also sometimes called 'Luna' (Wikipedia) Earth potentially has 18,000 moons, depending on your definition (Space.com) A star is a big exploding ball of gas - the Sun (caps S) is the name of Earth's star (Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University) When to capitalise the 'E' on Earth (Grammarist) The 'controversial' 2006 definition of a planet states: "a planet is a body that orbits the Sun, is massive enough for its own gravity to make it round & has 'cleared its neighbourhood' of smaller objects around its orbit" (Wikipedia) Pluto was stripped of its planet status in 2006 (New Scientist) Formation & evolution of the solar system (Wikipedia) How are planets formed? (Phys.org) Planets form in zones: The terrestrial (rocky) planets closer to the sun & the jovian (gassy) planets further out (LASP, University of Colorado) Order of the 8 planets in our solar system (Space.com) How was the Earth formed? (Space.com) What is a gravity well? (Qualitative Reasoning Group, Northwestern University) Where did Earth get its water? (Cosmos) Where did Earth's water come from? (livescience) What is the Goldilocks Zone & why does it matter in the search for ET? (ABC, Australia) What is Neptune made of? It's an icy, slushy, gassy planet with a rocky core (Space.com) Basics of orbital mechanics (NASA) What are Kepler's Laws? They describe the motion of planets across the sky (HyperPhysics, Georgia State University) An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun (Wikipedia) 5 ways to find an exoplanet (NASA) If Planet 9 is out there, it tilts our solar system (The New York Times) What is Jupiter made of? It's very gassy, mostly hydrogen & helium, & we don't know if it has a solid core (Space.com) The Juno probe aims to unlock the secrets of Jupiter - it's currently orbiting & will crash into it in February 2018 (NASA) Juno has had a glitch, but is mostly ok (The New York Times) What is Mercury made of? It's a dense little nugget with a neglible atmosphere (Space.com) What is Venus made of? It's a hot, rocky planet (Space.com) Was Venus the first habitable planet in our solar system? (The Guardian) Venus spins very slowly, in the wrong direction (The New York Times) "Venus's climate is strongly driven by the most powerful greenhouse effect found in the solar system" (European Space Agency) Carbon dioxide absorbs & re-emits infrared radiation (Center for Science Education) Predator's infrared vision (YouTube) What is Mars made of? It's very dusty & rocky, with a thin atmosphere (Space.com) NASA confirms evidence that liquid water flows on today's Mars (NASA) They reckon Mars was warm & wet about 4 billion years ago (NASA) Exploration of Mercury: We've only sent 2 probes, 1 in 1973 & 2004, but there's another set to launch in 2017 called 'BepiColombo' (Wikipedia) List of solar system probes: We've been busy (Wikipedia) How the atmosphere affects our planet (Softpedia) The gas giants (Wikipedia) What is Saturn made of? It's pretty gassy, mostly hydrogen & helium (Space.com) How long do footprints last on the Moon? Potentially as long as the Moon (Space.com) Origin of Jupiter & Saturn: New theories on formation of gas giants (The Daily Galaxy) The case for Saturn being able to float on water (Universe Today) The case against Saturn being able to float on water (Wired) Planets & dwarf planets can have moons, & there are currently 182 identified in our solar system (Wikipedia) Mecury & Venus don't have moons (Windows 2 The Universe) Mars' moons are Phobos & Deimos; Jupiter has 67 moons, including the 4 that Galileo discovered; Saturn has 62; Uranus has 27; Neptune has 14, NB: Some moons are still awaiting official 'moon status' confirmation (NASA) Galileo made his own telescope & discovered 4 of Jupiter's moons in 1610, which got him into trouble with the Catholic Church (BBC) Saturn has some very cool moons, including the beautiful Enceladus with its icy gesyers (Space.com) Our moon is pretty big by moon standards (Windows 2 The Universe) How the Moon formed: Violent cosmic crash theory gets double boost (Space.com) Our solar system gets pretty chilly out past Mars (NASA) What might the sun look like from other planets? (Futurism) NASA's 'Pluto Time' shows how bright it is on dwarf planet (Space.com) Pluto may have clouds (The New York Times) Chemical properties of methane (Wikipedia) Methane is quite common in the outer solar system (University of Oregon) Ceres is a dwarf planet (Wikipedia) Charon is the largest of the 5 known moons of the dwarf planet, Pluto (Wikipedia) Pluto's unusual orbit (Smithsonian) You need a telescope to see Pluto (EarthSky) The hypothetical planet, Vulcan (Wikipedia) Gravity Probe A helped figure out relativity (Wikipedia) Gravity Probe B helped figure out the curvature of space-time near Earth (Wikipedia) Why did we land on a comet? (Mental Floss) Røde microphones Corrections Woops! Lucy did bad maths: Light would travel a little over 1 billion km in 1 hour, not 65 billion km...so not as far as Pluto (Wolfram Alpha) Apparently we may have photographed an exoplanet: This is the first photo of a candidate 1,200 light-years away (Science Alert) More than 1,300 Earth's would fit inside Jupiter (NASA) Cheeky review? (If we may be so bold) It'd be amazing if you gave us a short review...it'll make us easier to find in iTunes: Click here for instructions. You're the best! We owe you a free hug and/or a glass of wine from our cellar Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia Click to subscribe in iTunes

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