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We have one simple goal with this show, complete knowledge of time and space.

And on the road to complete knowledge of time and space and on the road to complete knowledge

of time and space we have today's questions we've got three of them at censored no more asking

from twitter what's up with the axis of evil hmm peter b email what determines the orientation between the solar system in the galaxy and Hayward Z on email?

Is there a preferred plane for the solar system? Very intriguing questions. And I have to admit this is going to be kind of a strange episode.

It's strange because it's going to be based on statistics and there is nothing wrong

with statistics, but I usually avoid the nuts and bolts kind of meat grinder part of the

physics.

You know, the part in between, hey, I have a brilliant idea.

And here's my beautiful result.

There's a bunch of stuff in between that gets you from brilliant idea to beautiful

result.

And I usually skip that part because it's messy.

It's like grinding meat.

All right, there's gristle and there's gears and

there's some ugly, ugly stuff that you don't usually enjoy watching. But this episode is all about

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