#88 Space (Part 2)

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Space: the final frontier and indeed, the subject of this week’s episode. We’ll have early astronomy, we’ll take a trip to the moon and we’ll ask the fundamental question: are we alone in the universe and has anyone from another civilisation visited us on earth? (Outside of that one particular episode of Beadle’s About in the 80s).

Elsewhere, we’ll be discussing the loneliest human in history and why leech-based healthcare was so big for so long. If you’ve got anything else to contribute, here’s where you need to send it: [email protected]

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0:38.4	Pee's and C's Apply. Hello, welcome to Oh, what a time, part two, and we are doing space as a topic, a topic that's very kindly suggested to us by Lizzie Hopley, a listener.
0:59.9	So if you have a topic you think is suitable, something you'd like to hear us tackle.
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1:08.6	We welcome all of your suggestions. But I think we should get cracking with my topic.
1:15.0	I'm going to be discussing visiting the moon. Now, humans have been fascinated by the moon for millennia.
1:22.3	You'll know this from part one that Tom did. And a colony on the lunar surface has been a staple of science fiction
1:31.3	ever since the genre of science fiction was invented.
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