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Astronomy Cast

Ep. 739: Drones!

Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast

Science, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Space

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 740: Drones! By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live January 9, 2025. From little Ingenuity to the future Firefly and all our Earth Science fliers, let's look at the buzzy scientists. NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter showed us how wonderful a flying science platform can be on another world. Soon there’ll be a helicopter flying on Titan, but there are many other flying robots that’ll be helping us with all our science needs.    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

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Oh Thank you. I'm Astronomycast, Episode 739 Drones.

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Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help

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you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

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I'm Fraser Kane.

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I'm the publisher of the universe today.

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With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute

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and the director of Cosmo Quest.

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Hey, Pamela, how you doing?

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I finally am on the other side of writing

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two major proposals, being a co-eye on three other proposals and going to the AGU. And I feel

1:24.3

like I have stepped out of the uncharted wilderness, and it is now time to redie

1:30.5

my hair, and that did not happen before this episode. So if you're watching on YouTube,

1:35.3

you may laugh at my roots. Right. But you can now consider other things that aren't grant writing,

1:41.5

more grant writing, editing grants. Yes. Yes. No, that all sounds,

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that all sounds fantastic. So, so we're here into the new year. We made it through 2024.

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Now we're about to enjoy all of the wonder and suspense that 2025 has to offer us. But there's

1:58.4

something that I wanted to just take a second and make a bordering on a

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plea, which is, you know, if you do a Google search now for anything, you will see this giant

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block of artificial intelligence summary that sits up at the top of your page. And this is a way

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for you to quickly get an answer thanks to Google. Now, of course, the raw material that

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forms that summary comes from websites like mine, like CosmoQuest, right? And over the last,

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