SA Extra: Herschel Space Observatory Interviews

This is the 2nd of 3 interviews from the AAS meeting. At the Herschel booth and amidst free ice cream we interview Dr. Steve Lord followed by Dr. Babar Ali.

• ESA’s Herschel Page
• JPL’s Herschel Page
• Steve’s web page
• Babar’s web page
• William Herschel via Wikipedia

Show #15: When Asteroids Attack!

Show: 15
Title: When Asteroids Attack
Castdate: 050627
Written By: Pamela
Disembodied Voices: Pamela & Travis
Engineered: Travis
Subjects: Asteroids, Moon, Mars, Earth, Death & Destruction
all images are from NASA

• Transcript
• Press Release on Nature of Bombardment

We’d give you more, but no one seems to have posted anything on this story!

CONTEST!
There will be no winners, but we’re asking you to play anyway.

At left there is a picture of the full moon. Please download it and draw on what you see. Post your image in the comments below, and we’ll all give ourselves a good laugh.

Show #14: Dunkin’ Quasars

Show: 14
Title: Dunkin’ Quasars
Castdate: 050621
Written By: Aaron
Disembodied Voices: Pamela & Travis
Engineered: Travis
Subjects: Quasars, spectra, journals

• Transcript
• Spaceflight Now
• Active Galaxies Newsletter #98 (abstracts of both papers)
• Quasar & AGN Illustrations

Show #13: The Beginning of the End

Castdate: 050614
Title: The Beginning of the End
Written By: Aaron
Engineered By: Travis
Disembodied Voices: Pamela & Travis (plus Bones, Decker and Jim)

• Transcript
• National Geographic.com
• AP
• V’Ger’s Golden Record
• ST:TMP Director’s Cut
• Audio interpretation of the termination shock passage
• Solar Sail Interview via Universe Today

We promise to never say “Dude” again. That was just… bad.

Interview: Kevin Marvel

This is the second in a series of podcasts from the
206th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The
first was a soundseeing tour.

Dr. Kevin Marvel is Deputy Directory of the AAS. He is
heavily involved in the astronomical community on many
levels. Among his responsibilities is public policy, which
often sends him to Capital Hill to advocate for astronomy.
He is also an active researcher of Water MASERS, including
making observations with the VLA and VLBA.

• American Astronomical Society
• Write Your House Rep
• Write your Senator
• Kevin’s web page (Water MASER movies are there)

Some topics mentioned (in rough order):

The AAS
The greater astronomical community
Women in astronomy
Minorities in astronomy
Public policy
Current political support for science funding
Lobbying
MASERs and the VLA

Show #12: Orion Poisons its Young (Planets)

Show #12
Title: Orion Poisons its Young (Planets)
Castdate: 050606
Written By: Pamela Gay
Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay
Engineered: Travis Searle
Subjects: Extrasolar Planets, Chandra, Poison Gases, Canada, Chandra, Odin, Dentists

Links

• Transcript
• Chandra Press Release
• U-Calgary Press Release

And Orion, You’ll be a Dentist… (so sings the Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors).

Council of Doom #1: It’s Alive!

About a month ago we e-mailed a bunch of astronomy podcasts and
invited them to join us to create an Astronomical Council of Doom.

REPREZENT! Official members of the ACoD:

• Singularity
• Skepticality
• The Universe Today
• Radio Frontier Channel
• And us: Travis, Aaron and Pamela.
• Many others have been invited and said they will try to join us for the next show…

The rules were simple. We met via Skype. Everyone could use as much or as little of the show for their own podcast. So visit the other sites to see what they have put online (if anything - no one is obliged to post a thing).

The goals of the Council of Doom are 1. to have a fun time and 2. to build a sense of community among the astronomy podcasters.

This was our first show so was a little formal in the beginning as we got to know each other, but by the end everyone was comfortable annd things were rockin’ and rollin’. Travis was in charge as the MC and made sure everyone had a chance to weigh in.

Talking points:

• Bush’s Moon & Mars directive
• Manned vs. robotic exploration
• Catastrophe Astronomy stories, science or entertainment?
• Favorite hard science, sci-fi movies and TV (and the worst)

We hope to do this again in the summer. But until then download it via our Slacker Extra feed!

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