Episode #528
News Items
- Year Long Mars Simulation
- Robot Evolution
- Naming Exoplanets
- Fusion Reactors
- Building the Death Star
- Does Science Prove God?
- Sunspots
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
Exoplanet PSR B1620-26b is estimated to be 13 billion years old, and orbits a white dwarf and a pulsar.
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Item #2
Fiction
FW Tauri b is the only circumtrinary exoplanet discovered.
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Item #3
Science
GU Piscium b is 2,000 AU from its parent star and has an orbital period of 163,000 years.
Skeptical Quote of the Week.
‘It speaks to some basic human needs, that there is a tomorrow – it’s not all going to be over in a big flash and a bomb, that the human race is improving, that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids – human beings built them because they’re clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.’ - Gene Roddenberry