122 Ranting About The Hobbit

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10/10/14 • -1 min

Rob and Chris talk about rainbows, comets, and Hollywood. There’s a cool new pulsar in M82 and an awesome new artwork on the web.

Links:

Rosetta Captures Thrilling Close-Up Image Of Comet “Firing Its Jets” http://t.co/roTLYnX5qG
A nanosecond on/in the Sun - one of the best ‘What If’s ever. (The What If book is excellent too BTW) http://t.co/YkfMvzhy2R
A Full Circle Rainbow over Australia on APOD http://t.co/LaKfmvxw8g
How to prove Hollywood favours men : http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-measure-women-film-annenberg
Halley’s not coming back : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/here-comes-halley-keep-your-eyes-peeled-for-a-cosmic-fireworks-display-later-this-month-9775958.html
Spectacular pulsar : https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2014/Oct/ATL100914_star.html
Talk is Fundraising for Children in Need by walking 1km to school http://t.co/DoGuSFaShp
Weneedus.org (and the recession vending machine)

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Episode #122. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott.

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Audio content Copyright 2011-2014 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).

Rob and Chris talk about rainbows, comets, and Hollywood. There’s a cool new pulsar in M82 and an awesome new artwork on the web.

Links:

Rosetta Captures Thrilling Close-Up Image Of Comet “Firing Its Jets” http://t.co/roTLYnX5qG
A nanosecond on/in the Sun - one of the best ‘What If’s ever. (The What If book is excellent too BTW) http://t.co/YkfMvzhy2R
A Full Circle Rainbow over Australia on APOD http://t.co/LaKfmvxw8g
How to prove Hollywood favours men : http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-measure-women-film-annenberg
Halley’s not coming back : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/here-comes-halley-keep-your-eyes-peeled-for-a-cosmic-fireworks-display-later-this-month-9775958.html
Spectacular pulsar : https://www.llnl.gov/news/aroundthelab/2014/Oct/ATL100914_star.html
Talk is Fundraising for Children in Need by walking 1km to school http://t.co/DoGuSFaShp
Weneedus.org (and the recession vending machine)

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Previous Episode

121 I Am Not Troubled By Any Competence

Rob and Chris talk about quasi-moons, spiders, and media coverage of science. There’s data visualisations of Earth and new arrivals around Mars.

Links:

Interplanetary Lobbing: http://www.strudel.org.uk/lob/
Spiders on Twitter: http://www.geert.io/spiders-on-twitter.html
Earth observation in many flavours: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4205&button=search&value=None
Turn your smartphone into a cosmic ray detector : http://www.news.wisc.edu/23166
...or an IR camera (for $200!) http://www.thermal.com
2014 OL339 - a quasi-satellite of the Earth ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5588, @blobrana)
Interview with Elon Musk: http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars/
In our time on exoplanets : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03brwql
Science Visualisation Studio: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

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Next Episode

123 Sexy Ice Moon

Rob and Chris talk about Uranus, moons, and nuclear fusion. May be there’s dark matter, maybe there’s not - and what angle should canned whipped cream be sprayed at?

Links:

Ice on Mercury : http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=266
Bruno Merin’s lovely multi-wavelength gallery http://brunomerin.com/slider/menu.html
Optimal angle for spraying whipped cream: http://laughingsquid.com/a-father-and-his-two-kids-conduct-an-experiment-to-find-the-optimal-angle-for-spraying-whipped-cream/
Lockheed announce fusion ‘breakthrough’ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/15/lockheed-breakthrough-nuclear-fusion-energy and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/16/experts_skeptical_over_lockheed_martins_claims_to_have_cracked_fusion/
UK Space Weather centre opening in Exeter: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-10/09/uk-space-weather-forecasting-centre
Mimas : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4342
Have we found dark matter? : http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2014/october/inexplicable-signal-from-the-unseen-universe-provides-tantalising-clue-about-one-of-astronomys-greatest-secrets-2013-dark-matter
Hubble finds KBOs : http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/october/nasa-s-hubble-telescope-finds-potential-kuiper-belt-targets-for-new-horizons/

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