#201 – Konstantin Batygin: Planet 9 and the Edge of Our Solar System

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🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 166 minutes

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Custin Teen Batigian, Planetary Astrophysicist at Caltech,
0:06.6	interested in, among other things, the search for the distant, the mysterious Planet 9,
0:13.1	in the outer regions of our solar system.
0:16.0	Quick mention of our sponsors, Squarespace, Literati, Onit, and N.I.
0:21.8	Check them out in the description to support this podcast.
0:25.1	As a side note, let me say that our little sun is orbited by not just a few planets
0:30.0	in the Planetary region, but trillions of objects in the Kuiper Belt and the Ord Cloud that
0:36.2	extends over three light years out.
0:39.4	This to me is amazing.
0:41.0	Since Proxima Santari, the closest star to our sun is only 4.2 light years away, and
0:46.9	all of it is mostly covered in darkness.
0:50.2	When I get a chance to go out swimming in the ocean far from the shore, I'm sometimes
0:54.1	overcome by the terrifying and the exciting feeling of not knowing what's there in the
0:59.7	deep darkness.
1:00.7	That's how I feel about the edge of our solar system.
1:04.2	One day, I hope humans will travel there, or at the very least AI systems that carry
1:09.7	the flame of human consciousness.
1:12.2	As usual, I'll do a few minutes of ads now, no ads in the middle, I'll find those
1:15.8	get in the way of the conversation.
1:18.0	I try to make these interesting, but I give you time stamps, so if you skip, I hope
1:21.8	you don't, but if you do, please still check out the sponsors by clicking the links in
1:26.0	the description.
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