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🗓️ 18 August 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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How are space and time related? How long would it take to travel the Milky Way? What other tricks can you play with Special Relativity? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman!
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Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman on Twitter@PaulMattSutter and Facebook/PaulMattSutter for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.
Thanks to Janet Johnson and Jennifer Mirsky for their generous contributions to help support the show!
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0:00.0 | Before I start today's show, this is part two of a two-part series. I actually didn't plan for it to be a two-part series, but when I was recording |
0:22.1 | part one, I was really stretching out and really fitting it in, and I didn't want an hour-long |
0:28.1 | episode. I wanted to give you a chance to breathe, to listen to the episode again, to ask some |
0:34.8 | questions on Twitter or Facebook, to clear up any misconceptions or any lingering questions you might have had before I move into part two. If you're just |
0:45.0 | jumping in now and you haven't listened to part one, hit the stop button now. And then I don't |
0:51.9 | need to give you any further instructions because you should have hit stop. |
0:56.0 | But just in case, you should go listen to part one because I'm going to just briefly review it. |
1:03.5 | But if you haven't been introduced to these topics before, you're going to be as lost as a porcupine in, |
1:12.3 | that sounds like a metaphor, right? |
1:14.7 | For something, I was trying to make up a metaphor on the fly, |
1:18.6 | but I didn't know a porcupine. |
1:21.5 | I don't know, if you can finish that metaphor for me |
1:23.7 | for someone being lost, a good, woodsy metaphor, |
1:27.0 | let me know. Anyway, this is part two on with |
1:30.8 | the show you know what time it is it's time for ask a spaceman i'm your host paul sutter you've got |
1:37.1 | questions and i've got answers you know how this show works you online to twitter or facebook use the hashtag Ask a Spaceman. Pop in a little |
1:46.7 | question and I'll pop out a little answer on this show. Your questions live, well, recorded and |
1:53.5 | stuff, but, you know, answered no matter what on the show. You can also reach me at askaspaceman.com or emailing ask a spaceman at gmail.com or by |
2:05.6 | following me on Twitter and Facebook, Instagram, all that. |
2:08.7 | My name is Paul Matt Sutter, three names, because why not? |
2:14.2 | Now, we have a very simple goal with this show. |
2:17.0 | Complete knowledge of time and space. |
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