This is Dr. Pamela Gays, Senior Scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director

of CosmoQuest. Hey Pamela, how are you doing? I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser? Good.

We, for those of you who don't know, we are in the midst of the CosmoQuest Hangout

athon 2019 edition. You have been streaming. You and your friends have already been streaming

for what, 28 hours so far? We are at one day plus five hours, 42 minutes. There you go.

Almost 30 hours, you will be going for another 10 hours after this and that is of course

to help raise money for CosmoQuest and all the things that you do. So can you give for

the people who are listening to the show after the fact that it actually happened, we're

still taking donations for the next 10 days. Yes. How can people participate and what

are we looking to do here? So what we're trying to do is raise the funding necessary that

we don't have to do a lot of begging in 2020 instead of spreading the begging out over

the year for all of our nonprofit efforts, which means if you donate in your United States,

it's tax deductible, where the law allows. 513C. Exactly. So as part of the Planetary Science

Institute, we produce the Daily Space Podcast. We produce all the science projects that

you see over at CosmoQuest and all of these efforts take staff time, money, effort. And for

the past year, a lot of the people in our team have been putting in effort that they know

needs to get done, that they know is the right thing to do and we haven't had the money

to pay all their hours. I don't want to do that anymore. I want to pay people for everything

they do. I want to pay them a living wage. And the difference between what we bring in

in a standard month between donations and Patreon and everything else and what we need to pay

everyone all the hours they work is over the course of an entire year and multiple human

beings, just $40,000. And right now, as we record, we've raised just over 10% of that.

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