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Welcome to Astronomycast for weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand Episode 734, the Einstein Probe.

Welcome to Astronomycast, a 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. I'm the publisher of the universe today. With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of Cosmo Quest.

Hey, Pam, how you doing? Like every single

person I know in my country right now, I am not entirely all right, but I am compensating by drinking

coffee in large amounts. Perfect. Yeah. And working on science proposals because science never sleeps.

It's true. I am currently working on four different proposals to the NSFAAG. I am P-Iing one, co-ying three others.

And overwork and too much caffeine is how I get through life.

Yeah.

As you say, it is a interesting time.

And there's a lot of reporting that we're doing in the universe today, just trying to

wrap our minds around the potential shifts to science funding,

to space funding, to Artemis, SpaceX. So it's going to be all hands on deck for a little

while we try to digest what the implications are going to be of the changing administration

with Elon Musk potentially coming in to cut costs. try to digest what the implications are going to be of the changing administration.

With Elon Musk potentially coming in to cut costs and like I don't, it's it's a weird time.

So one of the things we had to do with EVSN, Escape Felicity Space News, our our news podcast and show is we, we had multiple people come to us and say, look, you guys are affiliated with government funding.

You probably want to not say anything about Elon Musk that isn't absolutely shiny and good.

Right.

Or Trump.

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