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Astronomy Cast Episode 235 from Monday, October 17, 2011.

Einstein.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey to the cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of Universe Today, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University at Ritzville.

Pamela, how are you doing?

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

Good, you're in a sort of momentary break from in between France and China.

Yes, this would be called travel insanity.

Thursday, evening, I flew from Nance to Paris, left Paris Friday morning, flew Paris, London, Chicago, St. Louis.

I'm now spending about 15 hours in St. Louis before flying St. Louis, Chicago, Chicago, Beijing.

And I'm going there for a meeting of communicating astronomy to the public where I get to find out, help people all around the world do the types of things you and I do.

And so, you know, people sometimes don't believe us that you have this insane travel schedule, but this is the...

You always tell me, as I said, you always say, oh no, I'm going to be around for, you know, the next three months.

We have lots of time to record and then it just gets filled up with all kinds of speaking engagements and trips and meetings and whatever.

So, and again, we are recording this episode as a Google Plus hangout.

So, we've got eight of our best friends listening to this while we record everybody wave, that we'll make into the podcast.

But if you want to join us on future episodes, you just have to join Google Plus and then circle me or Pamela.

And then you'll see, we usually try and give people a bit of a warning when we're going to record and then we will announce the hangout and then it's kind of first come for a serve.

But it's pretty cool. And hopefully when they do the hangouts and air, we'll be able to be a part of that.

We really want to hang out on the air just we're just going to keep saying this.

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