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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Can Mirror Bees Save Our Planet?

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

Look out. The Mirror Bees are coming this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

0:21.0

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. It's only a matter of time.

0:26.0

There's a rock out there with our name on it. So what do we do when we see it headed our way?

0:31.2

Max Vazile has a new answer to that question and he calls it

0:34.8

Mirror Bees. We'll find out what he means in a few minutes. From Mirror Bees to

0:40.4

wimps or weekly interacting massive particles. Never heard of them? Well Bill Nye is

0:46.6

here to tell you that they might make up most of our universe. And it's not that

0:50.5

Bruce Betts is a wimp, he's just under the weather, but that won't stop him

0:54.8

from joining me for this week's edition of What's Up?

0:58.5

What's no longer up is Endeavor.

1:00.7

The shuttle made a night landing at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, February 21.

1:05.8

It had spent two weeks in space, most of that docked with the International Space Station,

1:10.6

where it delivered the tranquility module.

1:13.0

Joined by middle school kids in an engineering competition,

1:16.0

President Barack Obama made a White House call

1:19.0

to the commanders of Endeavor and the ISS.

1:22.0

I just want to repeat and I think I speak for all the of Endeavor and the ISS.

1:22.8

I just want to repeat and I think I speak for all the young people here and everybody back

1:27.7

home, how proud we are of you, how excited we are about the work that's being done on the space station and how

1:37.0

committed we are to continuing human space exploration in the future.

1:44.0

President Obama talking with the crews of space shuttle endeavor and the international space

1:48.0

station as the buzz surrounding the President's proposed NASA budget continues.

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