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Oh Thank you. I'm Astronomycast, Episode 795, The Science of the Expanse.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.

We'll help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kane.

I'm the publisher of 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, Pamela, how you doing?

I am experiencing sunlight streaming radically into my studio in a way I don't get to see on Mondays because I've usually fled at this point of the day.

Right.

Yeah, we're usually done recording, but here we are later on in the afternoon, and you're getting that afternoon sunlight coming through.

It's true.

Feels good.

Yeah.

This is the final episode of our series on sci-fi universes.

And this week, we will tackle The Expans.

Now, we've got fusion drives, protomatter, and G-Forces.

Listen up, Beltalota.

We'll talk about it in a second, but it's time for a break.

And we're back. All right. Now, last week I said that Stargate was objectively the best

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