Episode 215 - Dr. Farah Alibay

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Farah Alibay, a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, invited Matt and Andy to her home in Highland Park to talk about her work on a real-world Armageddon mission to redirect an asteroid, CubeSats, giant geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus, the importance of planetary protection and upcoming solar system exploration missions.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Welcome to Probably Science.
0:14.0	My name's Andy Wood. Seated next to me is Matt Kirshan.
0:16.0	Hey, we're on the road again, Andy.
0:18.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:19.0	We traveled a whole seven or so miles across L.A.
0:22.8	What, for L.A., that's like...
0:24.4	Road-tripping.
0:25.3	You're like, yeah, like, I don't know what we're even doing here.
0:27.6	What is this?
0:28.6	We are out...
0:29.2	We are out...
0:29.2	We are out in Pasadena, near the home of Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
0:35.2	Why are we there, Andy?
0:36.4	No reason. No reason.
0:38.1	Complete coincidence.
0:44.2	We were at the home of JPL systems engineer Farah Allerbe.
0:44.9	Yeah.
0:46.8	Thank you so much for... Hey, thanks for having you.
0:47.8	This is not Pasadena, by the way.
0:49.3	We're in...
0:49.5	We're not in Pasadena.
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