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Astronomycast episode 678 World Building, Planet Formation, Growth and Objection. Welcome

to Astronomycast from 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. Kaine, the publisher of

University. Today with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the planetary sciences

dude and the director of causal quest. Hey Pamela, how are you doing? I am doing well but sleepy,

like you and not even quite as extreme as you. We got up to the attempt to watch a giant rocket.

Yeah. Go up and hopefully come back down and it did not, but we are still paying the

sleep penalty for it. So we've like even though the weather is just horrible here, we've been getting

a lot of really interesting wildlife things. The swallows just showed up for the first time this year.

The daffodils have opened up for the first time this year where I live.

And Sand Hill Cranes. So I'm on the flight path for Sand Hill Cranes that go from their summer to

their winter homes and it's just amazing. Like you hear them when they're over the horizon and then

you go outside and you wait and then and then it's just this giant formation of Sand Hill Cranes that

fly overhead, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them. Giant birds, like as big as anything

any other bird that you'll ever see and like think like pink flamingos size like the beak.

And they fly overhead and they make this great sound. And we have these ponds and like a little

marshy area. You know I'm out there and I'm like wave them. Come on down here like spend a night.

Like I will I will offer you great facilities but they just keep flying overhead. So so far we have

yet to convince a a wing of Sand Hill Cranes to come and land on our property and enjoy an

an evening on our political estate. That would be amazing. It would really be amazing. Yeah. Yeah

I'm really excited. Hopefully. Apparently around here they do. So so various places they'll stop

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