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[TomT]

1290AM, 9am, 2nd Monday April, 2016:
Pre-show about 835am had JerryW talking with the Baron on Newton's 3rd Law and rockets.  Earth-Sky has a bit on whether city lights might be detectable on exo-planets.
7:20 in, 9:05am or so, show starts with Baron intros, TomW Westmont labs he teaches and says kids tend not to wear bikinis to class there.  May 6 SBAU speaker is mentioned, Karl Blasius will talk on Mars mission findings.
18:04 TomW talks about playing the banjo; Baron wants to understand the Sun and Moon positions in the sky if you were at the Arctic Circle.  I did not know that the Full Moon is higher than the Sun in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere Winter (does that mean the New Moon is lower than the Sun in the sky in Winter?). Tidally locked moons discussed, Apollo landing site visibility, 2001 movie jumping thru space without a helmet, and Westmont 3rd Friday outreach is mentioned with Dr. Ken Kilstrom helping TomW.  Show call in number is 564-1290 by the way.
33:11 A character called Elmer Davis talks in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still to start this section of the show. Arthur C. Clarke proposed the idea of spin stabilized geosynchronous satellites, and Neaderthals are 5% of our DNA per JerryW.
40:15 more movies: War of the Worlds scared everyone, Invader from Mars is liked by TomW, Baron wrote Revenge of the Ant Monsters, and The Thing just will not go away.  Richard Dupree calls in with a couple of questions, one answered, the red light blue light photography maybe not.
46:42 concluding with Top 10 movie Apocalypses like a Trump presidency.  Westmont and SBCC classes discussed, Chuck outreaches, Jupiter red spot color cycle, and JerryW says Black hole stretching depends on point of view, frame or proper.  Earth Day outreach also mentioned.

Enjoy attached audio file! TomT