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Astronomy Cast, episode 354,

Comment, Sightings, Bring, Verses, Mars.

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

who will help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of University and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay,

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

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I am doing well. I am in fact doing far better than my internet connection is.

So if any of you hear any weird context to our voices, it's because we have lag today.

Right, and so if I ask a question and then there is this law,

well you know what, Preston will fix it. So if this big long pause after ask a question,

and then Preston will fix it, and the audio listeners will have no idea that this is terrible,

a quirky jerky video while we were trying to record this episode of Astronomy Cast.

But this is what we get. This is karma coming back when you travel around the world.

You get to have awesome adventures in Australia. You get to see kangaroos and you come back

and the internet isn't going to play nice.

Well it's not just the internet isn't going to play nice.

It's that my home computer died a bitter and brutal death upon hearing that my husband's getting a new computer.

Like literally he said, hey I'm getting a new computer.

And at that moment as I typed in my password to get rid of my screen saver, it died.

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