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astronomy cast episode 671 the consequences to breaking space laws.

Welcome to astronomy cast 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 Fr. Cain. I'm the publisher of universe today with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay. I seen your scientists for the planetary sciences to end the director of cosmocost. Hey Pamela, how you doing?

I am doing well happy dark side of the moon Fraser.

What I don't understand. It's the 50th anniversary of pink Floyd's dark side of the moon coming out and having a sciencey cover and a sciencey name.

That have absolutely nothing to do with each other or the contents of the album.

And is gibberish anyway because there is no dark side of the moon.

It's true. It's all true all of it.

So I've got something kind of serious to talk about that I just want to.

It's like normally I don't beg for money, but I'm going to today and that is because the advertising market has cratered over the last year.

So ad revenue on university is down 68% since what it was this time last year while the traffic remains roughly the same.

And this is you know we've seen all these layoffs and all the big tech companies.

There is a fairly significant restructuring going on in the market.

And so you know if it wasn't for the patrons, I would be starting to lay off people at university today.

But thanks to the patrons, I don't have to.

I've been able to sort of keep going forward. I'm assuming we'll get through this and that things will change and recover.

But it also just gives me so much hope that I can shift from having to worry about what the advertising market is going to be doing.

And always be sort of concerned to this place where I have thousands of individual bosses, he to which can are supporting us.

So if you've been listening to astronomy casting, you want to support the work we do here.

Definitely join our Patreon.

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