AaS! 76: Iceland Question Bonanza!
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
4.8 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Where did all the monopoles go? Do other planets have auroras? Can binary stars host planets? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! A very special edition recorded in Vik, Iceland, where I answered questions from the AstroTourists who joined me for the excursion.
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| 0:00.0 | What you guys are about to hear is a very special edition of Vasquez Spaceman |
| 0:15.8 | recorded in Iceland during the Astro tour where I did 30 minutes of spontaneous Q&A. |
| 0:25.2 | I had no idea what these people were going to ask. I had no idea what my answers were going to |
| 0:30.8 | be until I started giving the answers. So it's completely free form, completely spontaneous, |
| 0:35.8 | completely a surprise. I hope you find it as |
| 0:39.4 | fun and entertaining as I do. I love doing live events. I love doing live Q&A. And this is the second |
| 0:46.9 | half of a special series. So the last episode I did was about a topic that I picked a question I asked myself about why is Iceland so |
| 0:57.1 | warm some of the questions reference back to that talk so if you want to go back and listen to that |
| 1:02.4 | if you didn't catch it before go catch that one because it's really special and super |
| 1:08.0 | informative as always and then you can come back and then some of the questions are going to make more sense. |
| 1:14.2 | And before it gets started, of course, I have to do the Patreon pitch. |
| 1:18.2 | Patreon.com slash PM Sutter. |
| 1:20.6 | That is how you keep this show going. |
| 1:23.4 | Special thanks to Robert R, Justin G., Matthew K., Kevin O., Justin R., Chris C., and Helgibbee, and all the other fine patrons for keeping this show going. |
| 1:34.6 | Remember, Ask aSpaceman at gmail.com. |
| 1:38.1 | Hashtag Ask a Spaceman. |
| 1:39.6 | Go to Ask aSpaceman.com for links and show notes and ways to ask questions and just all the juicy |
| 1:45.2 | stuff. Without further ado, here is 30 minutes of random space questions and my answers to them. |
| 1:55.2 | All right. Thanks so much for listening, actually. It was a pleasure to share all this with you. |
| 2:00.4 | And I've been having so much |
| 2:01.9 | fun talking to all of you about your perspectives, what you have been thinking, questions you have |
| 2:06.1 | been having as we've been going on this adventure together. What questions do you have right now? |
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