Episode 582: Q&A 104: Should We Reconsider The Definition Of A Moon? And More...

Published: Oct. 30, 2019, 6 p.m.

In this week's questions show, I explain why it's probably not time to reconsider the definition of a moon, if we could make artificial gravity with a chunk of a neutron star, and why a supermassive black hole isn't the anchor for an entire galaxy.

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00:47 Should we reconsider the definition of a moon?
\n03:35 Could we make artificial gravity with mass?
\n05:48 Why didn't the Big Bang collapse back into black hole?
\n07:47 Why can't a black hole be the anchor of the galaxy?
\n10:45 How far and how small can we see?
\n13:37 What is left after a black hole evaporates?
\n15:00 Could you have a star made out of something else?
\n16:32 Could a planet orbit a binary star?
\n18:29 Could aliens Planet 9?
\n19:24 If aliens are advanced, we're no threat
\n21:35 How can aliens not exist?
\n22:30 Why don't they put a microscope in a rover?

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