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180709 KZSB SBAU radio hour Baron CM TW TT BM 2nd Monday 9am

00:00.000 B, CM, TT computer malware, social telescope outreach problems?
01:41.499 B  traffic, B idea coffee stick like an oil dipstick, Blue Blood motor oil remark. "I'm down a quart".  B-who was affected by Friday night fire?  CM-5 miles away from us.  TT-thought it would burn down to the ocean.  cars can vaporize.  more fire thots.
06:02.831 Craig Allen State St financial thots with B.
13:37.515 Donny Risdin traffic
15:20.942 natural disasters, Thai boys in cave, Elon Mush submarine, sedate kids?, Richard Dugan, winch. Chilean miners hole, but time & geology unstable.  Ingenuity. all divers want to help.  CM-news travels more than 50years ago. RD-training kids CM-but Seal diver died.  B-Colbert will have them on?
19:00.000 Goleta fire news, Wildlife Care Network losses.
19:46.897 Earth/Sky:  Russia fireball 1910 Tunguska river, flattened trees, event.  no meteorite fragments. 
21:23.000  CM-think a comet

22:00.346 song: "as a spaceship flies...strong embrace of a black hole..."  B-Mac's favs, intros TT, TW newsletter julian Nott cancel, Bruce Murdock on phone.  B-things about cosmology leaving people behind, (DE, DM, expansion, etc) what happens at various outreaches.  CM-there was gunshots at Lake Lopez, TomW no longer goes there.  B-school events, last to leave CM-some other sci presenters like to come by.  B-How do folks know that you are there at state beaches?  TT-posters.  B-SBMNH Star Parties? CM-Museum has notices on web page.  B-baby at telescope?  BM-usu 1-2 years, they do not know where to look.  If you do not get light on your pupil, you will not see anything.  CM-forehead or nose, look sideways.  TW-helps if looking at moon, cause image shows on their eyes.  B-fill eyep with moon?  TW-yes, diff ways of checking out moon.  CM-can not see flags on moon.  BM-large tele needed. CM-6 mile dia.  B-satellites crossing sky.  CM-in city lights no.  Cachuma Iridium flare was -8 magnitude, very bright.  polished microwave antennas on old version.  B-Mars close?  CM-closest in 15 yrs.  B-when to launch to mars? CM-every 2yrs.  TT-close every year?  B-speed of planets around sun?  TT- Merc-100Kmph, Earth-70Kmph, Pluto-10Kmph.  music: Gato B Europa.

33:32.114 music:  "it was a calm and cloudless night...summertime 1609...Galileo..." B-thot of day: Galileo: "cannot teach people anything, only find it within itself"  B-teach summer at Westmont? TW: already over, 5 wk session.  B-newsletter?  TW: proofreader is CM.  B-Cal Sci Center, Endeavor trip August 14, RubenG arranging.  B-physicists in club.  But B did program asking questions.  What youtube video to pick if you want to?  Several billion to choose from.  CM-watch no videos.  BM-I watch Star Trek  B-spaceship shape  CM-submarine like is more likely.  BM-big screen tv has internet built in, Netflix, Hulu.  TW-books, mags for me, NYTimes crossword, Amy was answer to old jazz song, Dean Martin.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Yd-gGXWfwE  .   B-I will give TW the next segment.  B-what is coming up for outreaches?  TT-1st Friday meetings.  CM-no one for August.  B-Astro on Tap speakers are good.  TT-over 125 members.  B-trip organizer, RubenG, event coming up.  $25 bus ride.  B-Endeavor shuttle, big area  BM-earthquake supports on shuttle.  B-how shuttle attached?  CM-3 points, well engineered.  not sure about explosive bolts.  B-seems it would fall over  CM-balanced.  B-exterior tanks lost?  CM-they never left them in space, dumped in ocean.  https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/index.html  .  B-orange tank.  CM-list of outreach events.
song:  "spaceship...call is heard"

46:30.740  music: GatoB "europa" B-descending on Mars now, intros.  BM-open console July21, Sat 9-11am, and Aug 19, Sunday silent movie, "The General" Buster Keaton (locomotive).  www.sbtos.org B-keep us posted B-TW, NY Times article, Shannon Hall, tilt of planet vs life on a planet.  Mercury no tilt, Uranus 90deg tilt.  Earth 23.5deg, Mars 25.9deg.  Could life depend on seasonal tilt?  Mars nutates, big tilts over millions of years.  TT-because without a big moon?  B-water floats when ice, fish live underneath.  Equator folks have little seasons.  CM-but seasons may cause effects there.  B-maybe 20-30 planets in Milky Way galaxy with life?  CM-life may be more common than we think, altho multi-cellular life is big step.  Tech life another step.  CM-spread spectrum comm may look like noise signal.  Adam Frank "Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth"   https://www.amazon.com/Light-Stars-Alien-Worlds-Earth/dp/0393609014/ref=sr_1_1/134-4614237-0578756?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1531168731&sr=1-1&keywords=adam+frank .  Global warming might be tough on life.  CM-evolution makes you selfish, so hard to share resources[?]

55:22.558  music: GatoB "Europa"  B-talking astrophysics, cosmology  BM-plate is full.  I like to look at objects that people like, like Saturn, M13 globular cluster.  B-rings around planets fairly common?  BM-outer planets  B-either a moon or a disk around a planet? BM-Saturn rings are mostly ice, 200Kmile dia.  TT-earth has a ring  CM-centaur asteroid has a ring TW-handles on Saturn  B-Galileo time they diappeared.  Webb tele 2021.  CM-infrared, mainly to see red-shifted cosmic dawn B

62.17.838 Music: GatoB  B-back with a vengence.  TomW, if inside a rotating drum in space giving 1g (2001 said to be rotating too fast); if in middle of drum, zeroG. so if run backwards and jumped up, would float?  TT-2001 movie shows them on ladder to center of drum.  BM-gravity depends on the radius and v2/r.  B-concave vs convex TT-head vs feet gravity effects?  BM- if 6ft tall in 7ft diameter drum.  TT-Ringworld, all are spinning.  B-Kelly astronaut changes.  Star party this Saturday.
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