A Toast to Alcohol in Space
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
They are not for everyone, but there’s no doubt that alcoholic beverages have been part of human culture for as long as there has been human culture. And there’s no reason to think booze won’t follow us across the solar system. Host Mat Kaplan talks with Chris Carberry about his comprehensive and eye-opening book, Alcohol in Space: Past, Present and Future. The December Solstice edition of The Planetary Report has just been published online. Editor-in-chief Emily Lakdawalla provides an enticing overview of its contents. We’ve also got headlines from The Downlink, and a glance at the crowded night sky in What’s Up. Learn more at: https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/1204-2019-chris-carberry-alcohol.html
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| 0:00.0 | What more beer in space? |
| 0:03.0 | How about Kaniac? |
| 0:04.0 | This week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our |
| 0:15.8 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:18.1 | We humans have brought along our spirits, the liquid kind, wherever we have roamed. |
| 0:23.6 | Chris Carberry says they will follow us across the final frontier. |
| 0:27.3 | We'll talk with him about his new book called What Else, Alcohol in Space. |
| 0:31.8 | It's about much more including the embryonic attempts at space |
| 0:35.5 | agriculture. You'll be glad to hear Emily Lockwall is back with a brand new |
| 0:40.0 | edition of the planetary report and we'll have some fun later with the chief |
| 0:44.3 | scientist. Bruce Vets has another space trivia quiz in store along with a |
| 0:49.0 | meteor shower. We'll open with these sample headlines from the Downlink presented by Planetary Society |
| 0:56.1 | editorial director Jason Davis. There's no bigger news in this week's down link |
| 1:00.8 | then the decisions made last week about funding for the |
| 1:04.2 | European Space Agency. ESA will move forward with the Hera mission, a |
| 1:09.1 | spacecraft that will visit asteroid Didamus in 2026 after it has been smacked by NASA's |
| 1:16.2 | Dart probe. |
| 1:18.0 | The resulting data will provide invaluable guidance as we work toward the ability to deflect near-Earth objects. |
| 1:25.7 | That same budget will pay for a Mars rover designed to retrieve the surface samples collected |
| 1:31.1 | years earlier by NASA's 2020 rover and then boost them toward a |
| 1:36.0 | European orbiter that will return them to anxious scientists on Earth. And then there's |
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