I'm trying to be cast episode 455, your practical guide to colonizing the Milky Way.

Welcome to Astronomy Castor Weekly Facts based journey through the cosmos, where we help

you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today with me, and I got a title

in front of me is Dr. Pamela Gay, the director of technology and citizen science at the Astronomical

Society of the Pacific and the director of Cosmic Quest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Good, so we are here in St. Louis two days before what is either a wonderful entriomphant

eclipse journey or your third rain eclipse.

So I already got trying to kill everyone out of my system by taking a few bicyclists

on the highway by accident because I missed a right hand turn.

So hopefully my attempt to kill four people sacrificial will have cleared up our karma.

Oh really?

This is my hope.

Okay.

Is that what our dark gods require is like some kind of bicycling accident?

I am abandoning you on the day of the eclipse in hopes that my bad luck does not rub off

on the air.

We'll see the rain off on the horizon and that'll be Pamela.

Yeah, carrying it away from us.

For a skeptic scientific podcast, we sure get downright superstitious in this kind of situation

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