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🗓️ 7 July 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Is Tatooine from Star Wars possible? What kind of binary stars are allowed? What would life be like around binary stars? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman!
Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman, Twitter@PaulMattSutter, http://www.Facebook.com/PaulMattSutter, and http://www.askaspaceman.com for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.
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0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Space Man. I'm Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. |
0:16.9 | Well, I hope I have answers, but I'll let you in on a little secret here. I only answer |
0:23.2 | questions on the show that I know I can answer. So if you ask a question, I don't know the answer, |
0:27.7 | it just kind of disappears. So it makes me look a lot smarter than I really am. But anyway, |
0:32.8 | you know how this show works, but I'm going to tell you anyway, you go online to Twitter or |
0:37.4 | Facebook, |
0:37.7 | use the hashtag Ask a Space Man, and Fireway, send up those questions about space, and I'll pick |
0:44.4 | ones that I know how to answer on the show. You can also go to Ask aSpaceman.com, you can also |
0:50.8 | go to YouTube, or you can just email Ask aSpaceman at gmail.com. Or if you bump into me on the |
0:57.5 | street, you know what? Go ahead and ask me some questions. I don't mind. We have one very tiny, |
1:04.6 | simple, easy goal with this show. Complete knowledge of time and space. It's going to take a while, but, you know, we'll do it |
1:13.5 | one question at a time. We'll make our way there. I'm not too worried about it. So on the way to |
1:18.9 | complete knowledge of time and space, I got a question through email to Ask aSpaceman.com |
1:26.0 | from Adam. Adam asked, what would life be like if we lived on a planet |
1:32.9 | and that planet orbited a binary star? Great question. The question is motivated by, you know, |
1:41.9 | like Star Wars. You have that opening scene, that great opening scene. Well, not the |
1:46.7 | opening, opening scene. Not the one with the ships and the lasers and the pew, pew, pew, |
1:50.8 | the one after that, where Luke Skywalker is standing. He's looking out into the desert. He's all |
1:59.0 | winsome, I guess. Is that the definition of winsome? Is his look, his |
2:03.4 | emotions? Anyway, he's being like really emotional at that moment. And he's looking at the sunset. |
2:07.6 | And surprise, it's not a sunset. It's a sun's set. There are two suns in the sky and they're both |
2:15.6 | setting at the same time. And to me, other than the |
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