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Oh Thank you. I'm Astronomycast, Episode 794, The Science of Stargate.

Welcome to Astronomycast, 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 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 CosmoQuest. Hey, Pamela, how you doing? I am particularly well because I've been brought a 44 ounce cranberry slushy.

So I'm going to be getting progressively more sugar high throughout.

Fantastic.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So you won't hear all of the breaks that we take as Pamela goes to the bathroom,

but just assume they will have happened. 44 ounces. I don't even know what that is in milliliters. That's a lot. All right. We continue our ad hoc miniseries through sci-fi franchises. This week, we'll talk about Stargate, Wormholes, Mind Paras and self-replicating bots. There's a lot to talk about. But first, it's time for a break. And we're back. All right, Stargate.

Now, this is objectively the best sci-fi series.

So I just, you know, I need to put my, and like, I'm not just saying it's my favorite.

I'm saying that it's objectively the best, that in a court of law, it would stand up,

people would make their case, and in the end, sorry, it would win.

I'm just, I broke no argument from anyone.

That is just the truth, the reality.

This is the universe that we live in, the Stargate universe.

Obviously, you know, people will give me grief to that.

They'll send email, send your emails to Pamela at, no, Star Strattor, no.

So, well, so let's just start with the big one, with the Stargate universe. And that, of course, is the Stargates themselves. What is the science of what they're doing in Stargat?

So in theory, there are a series of rings that if you put in the correct number of locked in runes will allow you to travel to a matching gate in our galaxy or, or...

Into another galaxy.

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