Brian Keating on Planetary Radio with Host Matt Kaplan: Special Crossover Episode (#161)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Mat Kaplan is the host of Planetary Radio Host and Producer, The Planetary Society. Mat Kaplan loves hosting and producing Planetary Radio. He was just 17 when he got his first job in broadcasting, yet it wasn't until the 2002 premiere of The Society's popular weekly broadcast and podcast series that he combined his twin loves of space and radio. A Planetary Society staff member for more than 15 years, Mat also plans and manages technical support for our Planetfest celebrations and other major events and webcasts. Outside of The Planetary Society, he hosts a series of live events for Southern California Public Radio called NEXT: People|Science|Tomorrow, and frequently serves as moderator or speaker at space and science gatherings. His extensive background in journalism has ranged from public radio reporter covering the political conventions to movie reviewer for an international magazine. Some may remember him as a correspondent for a pioneering national TV series about personal computers. Mat also enjoyed a 30-year career in higher education that included major television awards and recognition for service to the community. The longtime Long Beach, California resident has two adult daughters raised to be citizens of the solar system. Mat is available as a moderator or host for conversations about space and science topics. He’s also a passionate speaker about the mission of The Planetary Society, the importance of space exploration and development, and the history of human fascination with Mars, including robotic exploration of the Red Planet. Follow Mat on Twitter at @planrad Planetary Radio The Planetary Society’s weekly podcast take you to the outer reaches of the solar system and beyond. Host Mat Kaplan visits with scientists, engineers, mission leaders, astronauts, advocates, and writers who provide their unique and exciting perspectives on the exploration of our universe. New episodes are published every Wednesday.Thanks to our sponsors! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/planetary-radio-space-exploration-astronomy-and-science/id91689834 https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio https://magbreakthrough.com/impossible http://betterhelp.com/impossible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this special episode of Into the Impossible with today's special guest, Brian Keating.
0:10.0	That's me.
0:12.0	It's true. true.
0:13.0	I was a guest on my friend Matt Kaplan's podcast, which he does for the Planetary Society, the very society
0:19.6	founded by Carl Sagan over four decades ago.
0:24.4	Matt hosts Planetary Radio and he's one of the best podcasters in the business.
0:28.7	I hope you'll subscribe to his podcast and leave it a rating and review along with leaving me a
0:33.9	rating and review on the Into the Impossible Podcast. I read everyone and I enjoy them so
0:38.7	much. I know Matt does too. So sit back and I enjoy this special interview with your fearful host of the
0:45.4	Into the Impossible Podcast in a crossover episode on Planetary Radio with Matt
0:51.5	Kaplan. Enjoy.
0:53.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
1:01.0	Here's a story that has taken 17 months to tell. It began in January of 2020 when I drove up to the University of California, San Diego to meet Brian Keating.
1:14.0	Brian is Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics at the UCSD Center for Astrophysics
1:20.0	and Space Sciences.
1:22.0	He is also Associate Director of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human
1:26.0	Imagination at UCSD, where I've gathered material for several other planetary radio features. And Brian also wrote losing the Nobel Prize a
1:35.8	story of cosmology ambition and the perils of science's highest honor.
1:41.4	The book is about all that and more, including Brian's
1:45.4	Odyssey across several attempts to determine one of the most basic truths about
1:50.6	how our universe came to be.
1:53.0	That journey has led him to leadership of the Simons Observatory,
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