Ep. 773: What Would You Do With $1 Billion For Astronomy?

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 773: What Would You Do With $1 Billion For Astronomy? By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Nov 9, 2025. We are powerless fans of space exploration. But what if some fool gave us the authority and funding to make our space dreams a reality? Someone asked us what we'd do with a billion dollars. What missions? Which telescopes? But what if we had more? 100 Billion! A trillion! All the monies! You keep asking, and this week we answer you! Come hear what Fraser and Pamela would do if they were given complete control over $1billion that had to be used for astronomy. This show is supported through people like you on Patreon.com/AstronomyCast In this episode, we'd like to thank: Andrew Poelstra, BogieNet, Brian Cagle, Burry Gowen, David, David Rossetter, Ed, Gerhard Schwarzer, Jason Kwong, Jeanette Wink, Michael Purcell, Sergey Manouilov, Siggi Kemmler, Sérgio Sancevero

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh Thank you. I'm Astronomycast, Episode 773, What would we do with a billion dollars? Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based
0:56.8	journey through the cosmos, where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know
1:00.4	what we know. I'm Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of the universe today. With me, as always,
1:04.2	is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of
1:09.3	CosmoQuest. Hey, Pamela. So this is me talking from
1:13.6	the past to us, because at the time that now everyone is listening to this, I am still traveling
1:20.5	and have, we have no idea how I'm doing. You have gone to the land of UTC plus seven.
1:27.5	Yes, I am in the future UTC plus seven. Yes.
1:28.3	I am in the future.
1:29.6	Leaving me behind.
1:31.4	Yeah.
1:31.9	Yeah.
1:32.2	So, yeah, I'm working on my tan.
1:34.1	I am walking in the jungle.
1:36.7	Who knows what's happening?
1:38.3	I hope it went well.
1:41.9	And you?
1:42.8	Who knows how you're doing? So we're just, you know, there's no point asking how you're doing?
1:44.6	So we're just, you know, there's no point asking how we're doing because we would just be projecting into the future to try and imagine.
1:50.9	So we'll move on.
1:52.0	We are powerless fans of space exploration.
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