I'm Astronomycast, Episode 793, The Science of Star Trek. Welcome to Astronomy cast, our 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 Frisicane and 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 CosmoQuest. Hey, Pamela, how are you? I am dealing with the fact that we appear to have astronomy cast-triggered extreme weather Monday.

Yes.

There is thunder. There is hail. There is a pocket of red passing overhead while we record.

Right.

No tornado today, though.

Right.

But last time we tried to record, you had multiple tornadoes bearing down you.

They were hunting you.

It's true.

Yeah.

It's true.

Yeah.

And I am having unseasonably warm weather here.

It's wrong.

And I, in the beginning of this episode, I'm going to feel like I'm a little out of breath because I literally just came in from double digging out my vegetable bed in the grueling heat. It is crazy. Early May, we can still have freezing nights where I am in Canada in early May. We hit We hit 28 degrees yesterday, Celsius, which I don't know.

That's like high 80s.

Yeah.

28 in F, 82.

So we hit 82 Fahrenheit.

Yeah.

Yesterday in Canada, in early May.

It's bananas.

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