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It's Showtime!, CRRRRS's 11th Official Anniversary, A Spoiler Strewn Review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Renfield, From, Silo, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Red Dwarf, The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot Sequel, Doctor Who's Untempered Schism Is The Restaurant at the End of the Universe's Total Perspective Vortex, We Hunt Together, Byker Grove, Samsung A14 4G, Mental Health, Geeklife Walk, Mystery of the Puddle, Trying

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?"

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

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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