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Astronomycast, episode 343, the universe, is trying to kill you.

Hey everyone, Fraser here. So this is a special interview that we did with Dr. Phil Plater, a good friend of that astronomer, about how we always say here on astronomycast, the universe is trying to kill you.

This was a part of the Hangout Affon 2014, and if you're listening to this, you still have time to donate.

Let's go to CosmoQuest.org slash Hangout Affon. And big thanks to Phil Plater for jumping in and answering all my questions.

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All right you two, why is the universe going to kill us?

Hey Phil, hey Fraser, I remember you. It's been a while.

It has been a while since we've been on a Hangout together.

I know you've been doing a lot of stuff. I've been seeing a ton of your video happening on Oberon Slate, all the work that you've been doing there.

It's a good job.

It's been keeping me up and actually it's been writing a lot more and I've got a lot of travel coming up over the summer.

I'm desperately trying to write a few, what they call evergreen blog posts, things that don't depend on immediate happening news, trying to get those kind of written and banked so I can use them later.

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. I'll say that much.

We just wrapped up shooting our 100th episode of the Guide to Space videos that we've been doing.

Yeah, it's been crazy. We've learned so much. We were this far away from being able to do essentially documentaries.

We have to learn how to write longer than four minutes, which I think is part of our work.

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