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A astronomy cast episode 617 crowdfunding science. Welcome to astronomy cast or weekly

facts based journey through the cosmos where we help you understand not only what we know

but how we know what we know. I'm Fraser Kane publisher of University

A with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay. I've seen your scientist for the Planetary Science

Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest. Pamela how you doing? I am doing remarkably

well for someone who is now in I think this is our 30th point of 36 hours of streaming.

There may be a few words missing from my brain but there's a lot of joy in my heart.

Yeah you were able to sleep last night a little bit right you got a nap? Yeah I slept

for about 5 hours and tomorrow I will be sleeping a little bit later and then joining my

team and I suspect we're going to be eating food and watching Dune because it is the season

Dune season. Excellent well congratulations on the Hangout of Thons so far of course

when the people listen to this episode it will have already happened but here we are.

Alright speaking of Hangout of Thons funding for basic science has always been tricky business

coming mainly from universities government companies or wealthy individuals but who

know is how many fascinating discoveries were never made because of a lack of funding

and we now live in an era where regular people can come together to fund scientific discoveries

and this is kind of interesting because you have an enormous amount of experience I mean

literally we are recording this episode of astronomy cast during an event where you are

fundraising for a essentially scientific outreach and communication as well as the science

the crowd funded science that gets done on CosmoQuest so this is very orb or barathe sneaky

needs on tail here. I'd say it's more like inception. It's inception sure. Yeah.

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