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We begin a new subseries this week on language and communication. For starters, let’s have a looksee at how single-celled organisms chat.
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We didn’t notice it was going to be asteroid day until yesterday, but by coincidence, today is all about asteroids.
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Once thought a portent of doom, or a sign of the impending death of kings, nowadays a comet makes a good target to launch a mission at.
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We’ve been putting out episodes on science for five years. There’s no end in sight. You’re welcome, or we’re sorry, depending. In celebration we relax with a freeform episode, even drink a couple of beers. We do drift passed a bit of science, but only by accident.
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If you count it as a planet, it is the furthest away and smallest. Whether or not you think it’s a planet, it might harbor life.
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High winds, a segmented ring and other oddities confound us as we take a trip to Neptune.
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Jokes aside, we take a more complete look at Uranus, the sideways planet.
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Unexpected issues caused a very short episode about the seventh planet. Gave us a chance to go ahead and snicker at its name.
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We finish up with the planet Saturn with a look at her moon, Enceladus. It is spewing forth giant guizers of water and other chemicals, hinting at its subsurface salty ocean and even the possibility of life.
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The largest ring in the solar system is nearly impossible to see. Not even the Cassini mission, which spent 13 years orbiting Saturn, was able to see it. Just to make things more interesting, Saturn also has a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t moon. As it happens, these two oddities are related, so we relate them.
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