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Astronomycast, episode 373, the Becker-Rell experiment.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.

We'll help you understand only 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, Ebridsville, in the Dr. Cosmonquest. Hey, Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser?

Doing good, although it is that season, is a season where we both complain about our allergies, so I'm going to complain about my allergies.

I have allergies.

My eyes aren't watering today, but I have all the windows shut, and I've taken all the allergy meds.

Oh, good. Good. Yeah, and no, it's just in my... You can probably hear it in my voice a bit.

There'll be a little bit of that.

Cool. So, let's just do... because this is what we do, let's do one more reminder about the upcoming Hangoutathon.

Yes, we have. At the end of April, the Cosmonquest Hangoutathon, it is April 25, 26.

You can learn all about it by going to Cosmonquest.org slash Hangoutathon, all one word.

And we're still working and rounding up guests and door prizes, but it should prove to be a awesome 36 hours of me singing for our supper.

It's kind of our hope that this is the last time we have to do this. I'm in the process of writing a enormous NASA grant, that if we get it,

we'll mean we're back out of this hole that sequestration put us in three years ago.

So, help us survive just until we get this grant, hopefully, and if we don't get this grant, well, there's going to be a whole lot of rethinking how we do things.

More year after year, more Hangoutathon, maybe we'll just do them for entertainment as opposed to raise money.

Oh, that would be awesome. That would be truly awesome.

Yeah. Yeah.

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