Ep 158: Science... sort of - Star Fox

Science... sort of

Brachiolope

Of, Science, Network, Paleopals, Media, Brachiolope, Natural Sciences, Sort

4.8 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2012

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

00:00:00 - Astronomer Eli Bressert joints the Paleopals to talk about his entry into science, his time working for the Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope, and whether or not life sustaining planets could for in galactic clusters. And that's just part 1!

00:25:55 - We have drinks. Because, that's why. Eli starts off with a Three Sheets Pale Ale from the Lord Nelson Brewery. Charlie assaults his palate with a Hopageddon from Napa Smith. And Kelly has a Angry Orchard cider that's a bit too sweet for her but good nonetheless. And Ryan may not be keeping it local, but at least he's keeping it regional with Odell's Footprint RegionAle.

00:31:09 - The groups is split over opinions about Director Quentin Tarintino, but his new movie, Django Unchained, just might the thing that brings them all together in this week's Trailer Trash Talk!

00:42:43- More science with Eli as we talk about whether or not stars can form in isolation and other interesting astronomical ideas.

00:56:50 - PaleoPOWs area lot like books about Python, appreciated by fewer people than they ought to be. Eli tells us about how he created one of our favorite Brachiolope images as well as his new book: SciPy and NumPy: An Overview for Developers, which is about computers, not snakes, in case you were wondering. Charlie tackles some questions from new Canadian listener Les about asteroid composition and the possibility of us putting out a book. And Ryan gets a question from Any S. via Facebook about the potential for quadrupedal predatory dinosaurs. And Kelly tells us that Temporal Tony dropped what he was doing, as instructed, to let us know he had caught up on the show.

Thanks for listening and be sure to check out the Brachiolope Media Network for more great science podcasts!

Music for this week's show provided by:

Twilight Galaxy - Metric

My Pal Alcohol - Slim Dusty

Like a Ball and Chain - Jackie Greene

Starry Configurations - Jets to Brazil

Transcript

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0:00.0	Yeah, this is great, and it led to a lot of interesting tangents.
0:03.8	Interesting tangents are what the show lives on.
0:06.0	It's our fuel source.
0:08.3	We fuse legitimate science into interesting tangents because we're in advanced.
0:13.9	We might say we fizzle.
0:19.7	Yeah.
0:20.2	A lot of the stuff I was actually talking about
0:22.5	is contentious in astronomy as well
0:24.7	Just to let you
0:25.8	We'll get some angry emails and we'll forward them to you
0:27.7	From science sort of.com
0:29.7	You're listening to Science Sort of
0:32.0	You're listening to Science Sort of Hello and welcome.
0:43.3	You're listening to Science Sort of.
0:45.2	This is episode 158.
0:47.6	Our theme this week is Star Fox.
0:50.3	And that will hopefully make sense in just a moment.
0:52.7	I'm your host, Ryan, and joining me to talk about things that are science, things that are sort of science, and things that wish they were science are, uh, you know, a very much missed paleo palo, and we're glad to have you back, Kelly.
1:02.4	Thank you. Hello.
1:03.8	Glad to be back.
1:04.5	October is done.
1:05.5	October is done.
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