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Mayor Habba passengers, this is your captain speaking.

Welcome aboard the inaugural episode of the widen your world podcast, part of the Turkish Airlines series.

Thank you. podcast, part of the Turkish airline series. I don't know if you heard about this, but there was an asteroid spot in.

We might have a 1%, 2%.

This week it got as high as 3% chance of being impacted by a 300-foot wide, you know, bigger than Foxborough Stadium.

If it does hit the Earth, I think it was like 2032, I would think it was, right?

Yeah.

By then, do you think we would be able to do anything about it in 2032?

That's a very good question.

So this is only seven years from now, Brian, right? Astronomy is not an experimental science. It's a very good question. So this is only seven years from now, Brian, right?

Astronomy is not an experimental science. It's a purely observational science. We have time machines, so telescopes are time machines.

They allow you to look back in history and see it as it was then. Web is able to do things as far back as the beginning of the earliest galaxies, not quite the Big Bang,

but closer to it than ever before. And one of the most interesting aspects of it is to look

for extraterrestrial life on other planets and the formation of so-called exosolar planets

that could harbor extraterrestrial intelligence. It's one of the most exciting discoveries,

if true, that could ever be made.

So are there any big unanswered questions about the universe that keeps you up at night right now?

They don't keep me up at night. They keep me fully employed. You know, that's the nice thing about being a scientist is you never run out of mysteries.

You know, science is what's known as an infinite game that you, you know, the object is to keep playing.

But it's made up of a whole bunch of finite games, you know, getting into college, getting into graduate school, getting into, you know, prestigious postdoc or working

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