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Astronomy Cast, episode 346, Area 51.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos,

where we help you understand what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of Universe Today, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay,

a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of Cosmocrest.

Hey, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing?

Great. How are you enjoying your spring so far?

Oh my gosh. It's other than being filled with pollen from dogwitries, which is evil.

It's filled with baby birds and baby groundhogs and baby sheep and baby geese.

So basically spring has sprung out with baby critters everywhere.

I always forget how vibrant and green it is here on the west coast,

living in a coastal temperate rainforest.

During the rain part, the warm part, it's just, it's so green and there's flowers everywhere.

It's awesome. But yeah, same deal, which is the allergies, where I, for me,

the allergies manifest out of the types of filled dumb.

I can't think.

Yeah, Friday, I, I, there, there was no thoughts.

Capable, and I have to admit, I did take allergy medicine.

So while I look a bit perky, hopefully I'm managed to keep the stupid out of astronomy cast.

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