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How weathered are the Voyagers by now? Did we already start building the Dyson sphere? What should we expect from the Extremely Large Telescope? And in Q&A+, why do we prefer L2 Lagrange point for our telescopes?
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00:24 [@Sora._Cloud] Is Parker doing well?
03:44 [@Lothian53] Does Dyson sphere need to feed power to Earth?
05:33 [@paulwilson1529] How weathered are the Voyagers?
08:03 [@madmillion91920110] What to expect from ELT?
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How weathered are the Voyagers by now? Did we already start building the Dyson sphere? What should we expect from the Extremely Large Telescope? And in Q&A+, why do we prefer L2 Lagrange point for our telescopes?
00:00 Start
00:24 [@Sora._Cloud] Is Parker doing well?
03:44 [@Lothian53] Does Dyson sphere need to feed power to Earth?
05:33 [@paulwilson1529] How weathered are the Voyagers?
08:03 [@madmillion91920110] What to expect from ELT?
11:18 [@stevenlewis7669] Shouldn't we be sending robotic scouts to the Moon?
14:55 [@jimmirow] Is there mold on the ISS?
18:04 Channel name controversy
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Are Von Neumann probes coming soon? What will it take to categorize all neighboring stars? Where are the promised discoveries from Vera Rubin? And in Q&A+, which dwarf planets should we visit next?
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00:32 [@HenryWarren-b6j] Are Von Neumann probes coming soon?
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Would the Sun be poisoned by iron if the Earth crashed into it? What happens to a binary companion when a supernova goes off? Which rocket is my favourite? And in Q&A+, could JWST pay more attention to the little red dots?
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Curiosity gets a rock stuck to its drill. NASA releases over 12,000 images of the Artemis II mission. The new Pandora Space Telescope sees first light. How Ios lava lakes are hotter than we thought. And in Space Bites+, a meteorite that is very similar to the planet Mercury.
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00:19 NASA Releases 12,000 Artemis II Photos
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02:15 Curiosity Lifting Rocks on Mars
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03:33 Pandoras first light
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13:20 Superionic ice inside ice giants
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How would a rover for an icy moon look like? Which moon should we replace the Moon with? Why put a telescope on the Moon? And whats the probability of Artemis II launching this February? All this and more in this weeks Q&A.
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00:24 [@kasieream1248] How would rovers for icy moons look like?
06:29 [@walleyeottagofishingchanne3960] Replacing the Moon with other moons from the Solar System
08:23 [@AEFisch] Why put a telescope on the Moon?
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12:26 [@georgegherghinescu] AI software in rovers and space probes
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