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Astronomycast Episode 183 from Monday, March 29, 2010.

History of Astronomy Part 1, The Ancient Astronomers

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos.

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My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaye, a professor at Southern Illinois University.

Hi Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well Fraser, how are you doing?

Doing very well, I was mentioning to you, but I just got a sailboat.

It's an old trail of a sailboat and I went down to the states and picked it up and brought it back.

Now it's sitting on the lawn.

That will be wonderful for summer.

Yeah, exactly, I've got about 100 things to do to fix it up, but you know, other than that, it should be fun.

So new hobby, I really need a new hobby.

And you live where you can like see killer whales?

That's true, yeah, exactly.

I live with whales and dolphins and lakes and oceans and yeah, exactly.

So, you know, I could put it to use.

It's the plan.

So, I'm not trying to convince the wife to come out on the boat, but the kids want to.

Yeah, they want to.

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