Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, science journalist Izzy Clark, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst and the Society's deputy director, Dr Robert Massey.

This is the place where we dive into the supermassive mailbox and answer all of your brilliant, brilliant questions that make us scratch your head and be like, do we even know anything?

I'm just like, mm, okay. But before we do that, we've had some really nice messages and emails that I would like to run through.

Booker-Saver on Instagram loved that we

did an episode on Voyager and she said, my dad sold a sensor to NASA that's on board. I don't have any

questions but I got to do the coolest show and tell in school. That's amazing. Isn't it? So I went

back and said to her, I was like, oh my God, what did this sensor do? I, more details, please. More detail, please. So she said, it was about temperature using a heated

wire. Their other main products back then measured fluid flow and particulates. Dad trained us

setting up experiments at home using his company's equipment, how to design an experiment,

controls, parameters, etc. from a very young age.

Then we'd get to go with him on business trips.

Boeing could hardly say that the equipment was too complex if a six-year-old girl in the 1960s

could demonstrate it and recommend on the fly and experiment after seeing their top secret

military jet wing for the first time. Great sales pitch and we really enjoyed it. I got to meet

the professor who invented the tornado F scale and demonstrate a sensor on a mini tornado he spun up

in his lab. Oh. I know. How cool is this?

Dad was great, way ahead of his time in treating girls equally and then taking them to work

ages before that was a thing.

I mean, what a guy.

Nice.

That's so cool.

Yeah.

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