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Astronomycast, episode 369, the Fizzo Experiment.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, will help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Keane, I'm the publisher of University and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the Director of Cosmacquist. Hey Pam, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Doing great, we got a couple of announcements to make today, so why don't you go first?

Well, I think the biggest one is we have coming on April 25, 26, the 36 hour Cosmacquist hang out of thon.

So far, the only reason we're still going in the face of NASA cuts is because of awesome people out there donating to keep our programs going.

We are in the process of writing a giant NASA grant, and if we get it, we will have the money in September.

If we don't get it, I will personally cry a lot because this is a once in every five year opportunity, but we have to still be going in September and we need your help to do it.

This year, like past years, we're going to ask people to show up and not just give money, but also donate their time to clicking on pictures of worlds and helping us map them out.

If we're not producing science, we might as well not exist. So come do science come hang out, watch me lose my mind over 36 straight hours.

Always entertaining.

Fraser will be joining me and let's map other worlds and raise money to keep the science going in the face of well politically driven budget cuts.

All right. And then the second thing, I just just to let you know if you didn't know, we record astronomy cast actually is a live Google plus hang out, we take an hour to do the whole show.

The first half an hour, we record the show that you're listening to right now, and then we stick around for another half hour and answer questions live from the audience about space and astronomy.

And in addition, I will be sort of asking for you the questions that we get by email. So if you have a question about space and astronomy, just go ahead and email us info at astronomy cast calm.

But you won't hear the answer unless you come and like watch the full length video. So sorry.

But I think we're going to want to you know experiment a bit maybe make some of these other the audio available in other methods. So we'll probably either release full audio in a different feed or release the question show separate in the feed.

We'll figure this out.

But let us know how you consume astronomy cast so that we can make this this stuff available to you. All right. Let's get rolling.

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