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170227 KZSB SBAU radio show cryptic notes, download attached audio file for playback.

00:00.000 Roll over Beethoven, Janet surgery, TT used classifieds to find spouse, Baron, TomT, JerryW Std model new particles, low temp condensed matter physicists for JW, TW, Trappist-1 planets vs space size 40 light years away.  AU hour for everyone.
03:37.710 gettin higher, Donny taking money out of the safe, AU guys, traffic smoothly, fire above Turnpike, M8RX bar Wed, 10 4min talks. Donny ringing bells, food by Tinkers.
06:00.467 Bill Paxton Aliens movie, died.
06:30.467 beginning of universe  discussion.

11:20.159 "human nature to be afraid of the unknown"... B-welcome to AU hour; intros, Trappist-1 planets, dwarf red star, 7 names from Snow White; seen from earth, JW-10% of stars have plane of planets we can detect; CM-people thot it would be a waste of time to try to look for planets around other stars.  JW-close in Jupiter types are too hot.  CM-potentially all of Trappist-1 seven planets could have life.  B-are all planets on an ecliptic?  CM-on a plane, JW-because condensed from a disk. B-our ninth planet on the ecliptic? CM-highly inclined. JW-need energy loss to capture a planet from outside the original disk; TW-classes cover this, kids bring up news from the web; CM-Trappist monks make beer in Belgium.  Telescope in Chile 24".  [Kepler 55"] TW-Aquarius behind Sun this time of year.  CM- no benefits to being an AU member.  "Galileo"

21:58.336 "Galileo" AoTSB, Wed, TT ten talks; Friday AU meet; La la land comments; Richard Dupree we are in Aquarius Feb 14- Mar14, entered 16 yrs ago, due to precession TW-wobbling earth, 26K yrs; RD-can we see Trappist red dwarf star, no because of position near Sun right now. JW- possibly years of work before this 7 planet announcemnet; TW-if Sun basketball, Trappist sun would be a golf ball.  B-on E-M spectrum RBG, TW-star dominated by infrared end of spectrum.  TW- Times said red dwarf star may only look as bright as our Moon to these planets. B-all stars similar to our solar system? CM-probably a lot of life out there.  JW-an organization of matter.  M8RX, AU talks, Janet up and walking. "Al demeola jazz"

31:18.733 5th Dimension, "Age of Aquarius", B-precession? CM-throws out astrology; discuss, TT-"horoscope" meaning? TW-clock. JW-ancient times did not have Star Trek, so thot they were looking into Heavens.  TW-planets passing thru zodiac.  B-Orion's stars in belt moving? CM-can see proper motion with a telescope.  Barnard's star can be seen.  B-people naming stars like Tabby's/ CM-Nasa folks gives names to things, meteorite on Mars called SpongeBob SquarePants.  Spirit shut down, but Opportunity arthritic, Curiousity working. B-Juno mission still going CM-still in wide orbit due to sticking engine valves JW-radiation belts around Jupiter like van Allen belts around earth.  B-N pole positive? TW-North magnetic pole (actually is south based on field line directions) JW-not like protons electrons, only that similar ones repel each other.  B-anti-matter? 

41:19.241 "fall into a Black Hole" Aug 21 total solar eclipse, B-lear jet to track eclipse? Pres desk Q of month: why does not star fly apart as it forms from rotating disk that spins faster?  JW-moment arm of angular momentum (distance of mass from center) as disk collapses, star rotation speeds up.  a contradiction.  B-stars around black hole of galaxy going faster as they get closer.  TT-energy lost by sun growing north/south? CM-viscosity effect heat of mag fields?  JW- Rigel spinning fast and bulges.  plasma is a fluid.  TW-Sun spins in one month CM-on average JW-mag field lines twist up and snap, sunspot cycles. charged plasma dragged.  B-northern lights? CM-charged particles from Sun spin around mag field lines.  JW-electron is a sink of an electric field, mag field around its path, not into the electron.  N-S of iron magnet. ceramic magnets also.  TW-will screw up credit card. "star of gas"

50:06.055 "star of gas" CM-thermonuclear fusion song.  B-7 min left, 200 person club? TT-160.  probably no trip.  B-trip to Griffith last year.  Ibrahim poet, looking for City poet.  Wednesday, AoTSB, M8RX bar, 409 State. TT-good fun review of astronomy.  Charlotte Mason, talk Friday for AU, galaxy evolution.  B-Vegas has big screens nowadays.  CM-calendar of outreach review.  B-30min setup ea time, get sick and tired of doing? CM-no, it is fun!  B-sky looks b/w  CM-camera picks up color.  B-Trappist planets, how do you see? JW-moving planets.  B-did Arrival win? TT-screenplay? B-Contact Jodi Foster, can not show alien creature? JW-UFO folks have all sorts of clear representations. CM-leave something for imagination.  B-bipedal creatures? CM-redundancy is good.  "cloudless night..."
57:28.349 end of AU show