Episode 588: Open Space 51: Where Would I Send A Rover? And More...

Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 8 p.m.

It was another solo live QA this week and I did my best to answer as many audience questions as I could do, closing in on 60 questions during the hour. Needless to say it was a wide-ranging conversation with questions about where I think rovers should go, what do I think about time travel, and whether we should do more SETI or build more space telescopes.

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The thumbnail is for a Greenland rover called Grover. Here's an article about it:
\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/grover.html

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01:28 Updates
\n05:58 Has Canada got an exoplanet?
\n06:10 Thoughts on Hygiea?
\n07:00 Where would I send a rover?
\n07:79 Has NASA done sex studies in space?
\n08:05 How can black holes ever merge?
\n09:55 What does a rocket push against?
\n11:05 What do I think of metallic hydrogen?
\n12:50 What's my most memorable space event?
\n15:36 Have I seen any time travel videos?
\n16:00 Could Valles Marineris caused by a scraping asteroid
\n17:13 Why doesn't JWST's Ariane rocket have an abort system?
\n18:14 What would happen if a comet passed through the atmosphere?
\n18:39 Is Mercury tidally locked?
\n19:03 What will the do about food on Mars?
\n19:43 Do I believe in ancient aliens
\n19:56 How do we measure the expansion of the Universe?
\n21:18 Happy Halloween
\n21:39 What about Nibiru?
\n23:12 Do different worlds experience different time dilation?
\n24:50 Can you brew beer in microgravity?
\n25:20 Any relativistic calculators?
\n25:45 Could we see Earth in the past with a black hole?
\n27:45 Could we blow up asteroids?
\n29:00 Will SpaceX be violating the Outerspace Treaty?
\n31:29 Super spiral galaxies
\n32:35 Europa lander keep from getting fried
\n33:42 What do I read in my spare time?
\n35:05 Have they found the bolts in James Webb?
\n35:27 Are aliens too different?
\n37:00 Any breakthroughs in propulsion?
\n38:18 Did I see Halley's Comet?
\n38:30 Are there any bright comets coming?
\n39:37 How frequent were meteor impacts in the Late Heavy Bombardment?
\n40:15 Will the Moon landings actually happen?
\n41:30 Will there be version of Starship that could service satellites?
\n42:50 Space Telescopes versus SETI
\n43:55 Will CRISPR help modify humans to travel in space?
\n44:39 Collaboration with Joe Scott
\n45:00 Can we terraform Venus?
\n45:30 Live telescope streaming?
\n45:54 Upcoming astronomy events?
\n46:07 Why grow plants in regolith?
\n46:56 Why do we only see photons when they hit a thing?
\n48:04 Could we move a pole faster than the speed of light
\n48:55 Could they make an anti-asteroid version of Starship?
\n49:58 Where did Theia come from?
\n50:50 What if a star made a direct hit on a black hole?
\n51:37 Could we terraform Mars if we set up factories on it?
\n52:56 Is the Sun part of Alpha Centauri?
\n53:29 What does the X-37B
\n55:00 Does it make sense to send a new Voyager?
\n55:39 Could there be infinite Earths?
\n56:00 Most realistic space movie?
\n57:38 When will we live off fusion energy?
\n59:20 What's SpaceX's plan to get through the Van Allen Belts?
\n59:40 How did X-37B launch?

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