BONUS - Mole People on Mars
The Supermassive Podcast
Izzie Clarke
4.6 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Should astronauts live underground on the Moon or Mars? Black hole jets, rogue planets, the big crunch (or freeze) and the Ontario question. Dr Becky, Izzie and Dr Robert Massey tackle your correspondence from the Supermassive mailbox and producer Richard makes a pronunciation intervention.
The book Becky mentions is Red Rising by Pierce Brown.
Keep sending in your wonderful ponderings. Email them to podcast@ras.ac.uk or via Instagram @Supermassivepod
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society. |
| 0:09.0 | With me, science journalist, Izzy Clark, astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst and the Society's deputy |
| 0:14.9 | director, Dr. Robert Massey. Right, let's dive into the Supermassive Mailbox. |
| 0:23.7 | Robert, Rick in Canada, has a question about living in space. He says, hello, just listening to your returning to the moon episode from |
| 0:29.6 | Ontario, Canada. You mentioned having to be protected from radiation. So it's Ontario. What did I say? |
| 0:35.6 | Ontario. Ontario. Ontario. Hang on. Ontario. Ontario. It's definitely Ontario. What did I say? Ontario. Hang on. |
| 0:38.9 | Ontario. |
| 0:39.7 | Ontario. |
| 0:40.6 | It's definitely Ontario. |
| 0:43.3 | Yeah, that's what I think. |
| 0:44.8 | Ontario. |
| 0:45.5 | Ontario. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.1 | Ontario. |
| 0:48.3 | We need to check on some. |
| 0:50.0 | I think it might be, you could probably pronounce it either way. |
| 0:52.2 | Why don't you just say, we've just had an argument. |
| 1:11.0 | Yes, yeah. Ontario. Just leave it in. Ontario, definitely, yeah. Ontario. Okay, well, okay. Hello, just listening to your returning to the moon episode from Ontario, Canada. Also, side note, we've just had a production discussion on whether it's Ontario or Ontario. I'm, you know, I'm Northern, what can I know? We'll definitely appreciate |
| 1:16.6 | residents. So, Rick, please respond with the phonetic pronunciation, how you would pronounce it. |
| 1:25.7 | Anyway, Rick says, you mentioned having to be protected |
| 1:28.9 | from radiation and I suppose any other hazards like meteorites. I hear very little though about |
| 1:34.8 | plans to locate the habitats below surfaces like for the moon or Mars. It seems a simple and |
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