Episode 260 - Dipak Srinivasan

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

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

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Applied Physics Laboratory engineer (and Andy's old college roommate) Dipak Srinivasan returns to the podcast to talk about his work on the Mercury MESSENGER mission, the Pluto New Horizons flyby (that'll also soon be visiting Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69), and most importantly, the upcoming Parker Solar Probe and a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, the most likely place in our solar system to find extraterrestrial life.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hello and welcome to probably science on location in Pasadena, California.
0:15.7	It's exciting, Andy.
0:16.7	At the lovely Sheraton Hotel.
0:19.1	Just mere minutes from Caltech and from Jet Propulsion Laboratories,
0:23.8	which might be related to the reason that we're out here.
0:28.2	Well, there's a mystery to solve. I didn't realize that...
0:31.6	There might be a connection there.
0:33.9	See if you can guess who our guest is by reading the show notes in the description
0:37.5	in the podcast that you've just downloaded. It's been a couple years. I think it was,
0:42.6	is it late 2014? No, I think it was 2015 when the flyby had, just summer of 2015. So we talked
0:49.2	maybe a couple weeks after that, so maybe it's in August-ish, 2015? We Skyped, and that was the first time
0:54.5	I had talked to you in 16 years. Right. And then last night, I came out to pass it. We got a
1:01.3	beer that was the first time I saw you in person in 18 years. I thought it was 20. Well, graduation
1:06.6	would have been... You know, you're right. 18 years. 18 years, almost to the now. Our guest is Deepak Srinivassin.
1:11.4	Hello there.
1:12.2	Esteemed Applied Physics Laboratory, Engineer, and, or what's your title there?
1:19.4	That pretty much sums it up.
1:20.9	Engineer, yes.
1:21.5	And as we talked to you about on the episode two years ago, you've worked on a number of
1:26.2	incredible space missions, including
1:29.5	the New Horizons Flyby.
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