Across the UK, across continental North America, and around the world on the internet by webcast

and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

And you know, because of recent developments in the last 24-36 hours or so, I'm starting

to think that maybe we should say not only across the United States, and around the world

maybe we should say whatever planet you happen to reside upon.

Maybe we should start spreading our net because the chances that there are other life forms

out there somewhere, I think, have just increased with what we've discovered on Mars in the

last day or so.

We're going to talk about that a lot with a guest who's been on this show before about

110, 112 shows ago.

Dr Nick Lister.

Now, Dr Nick Lister has appeared on a BBC television program that you may have seen

if you're in the UK called Star Gazing Live.

The idea behind that, very clever idea by the BBC, to monitor the skies actually live

at night and have a team of experts there to analyze what they see.

So Nick Lister was part of all of this, I think he explains astronomical phenomena in a

very down-to-earth way in words that I can understand because I'm no scientist.

So we'll have Nick Lister on very soon.

We're going to talk about water, apparently flowing on Mars, boosting the odds for life.

That's one headline that I saw online when I got up this morning, the blood moon, of

course that we heard, and we'll reflect back on what has been, and it's now September,

almost October, and we're looking back at what has been the most remarkable, unbelievable

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