Ep. 733: Euclid Of Alexandria

Astronomy Cast

Science, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Space

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Astronomy Cast - Ep. 733: Euclid Of Alexandria By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 5, 2024. Last week we talked about the mission. This week we’ll talk about Euclid of Alexandria, the ancient Greek mathematician who inspired the mission. Let’s learn about his life and the ground breaking work that made so much of our modern mathematics possible. Hosted by: Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela L. Gay. SUPPORTED BY YOU! This Episode is made possible thanks to our Patrons on Patreon. Join at the Galaxy Group level or higher to be listed in our YouTube videos. Thanks to: Andrew Poelstra, BogieNet, Brian Cagle, David, David Truog, Ed, Gerhard, Schwarzer, Jeanette Wink, Siggi Kemmler, Stephen Veit!

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0:00.0	I'm going to Astronomycast, Episode 733, Euclid of Alexandria.
0:53.5	Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly fact-based journey through the cosmos
0:56.5	who will help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:59.5	I'm Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of the universe today. With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay,
1:03.8	a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of CosmoQuist.
1:08.5	Hey, Pamela, how you doing?
1:09.6	I am doing well. It is raining and raining and raining,
1:17.5	but it really looks like Halloween is supposed to look, even though we're now a week past Halloween.
1:25.0	I'm just going to embrace the fall. Yeah, yeah.
1:27.7	I mean, always, I'm always stunned by how beautiful the fall is here on Vancouver Island.
1:33.2	The trees have turned various shades of red and yellow and orange, and it's just, and they
1:42.1	collect, they fall down and move around like snow drifts of
1:47.0	color.
1:48.5	It's amazing.
1:49.3	I love fall here on the island.
1:50.9	And you also get the salmon, don't you?
1:53.9	Mm-hmm.
1:54.4	Yeah, that's carnage at a whole other scale where you have just thousands of salmon swimming
2:00.6	upstream through all of the rivers and streams,
2:03.2	and then they die, flop around on the bank.
2:06.3	Then you get tons of wildlife bears, cougars.
2:09.2	I don't know if the cougars like them.
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