Kip Thorne and the Science of Interstellar

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 2 December 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Spoiler alert. Famed physicist Kip Thorne says you might be able to survive a plunge into a black hole after all! That’s just one molecule of the fascinating science behind the science fiction film he helped create. We’ll talk about the movie and Kip’s new book, “The Science of Interstellar.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kip Thorne and the Science of Interstellar this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:19.8	I'm at Kaplan at the Planetary Society, ready to take you into the fifth dimension with eminent physicist
0:26.0	Kip Thorne, co-originator of the movie Interstellar and the film's primary science advisor.
0:31.7	Bruce Betts has lots of stellar goodies waiting
0:34.1	for us in this week's What's Up and Bill Nye is back with big hopes for a
0:38.2	NASA test mission. Senior editor Emily Lochuala also has big hopes regarding a couple of robotic missions.
0:45.6	I think you want to begin with a Japanese mission that hopefully will be getting off within days
0:51.0	as we speak.
0:52.0	Hayabusa 2 is on the launch pad.
0:53.5	Unfortunately, weather has delayed the launch that was supposed to happen this weekend, but
0:57.6	hopefully by this time next week we'll be talking about the successful launch
1:00.6	of Japan's next asteroid sample return mission.
1:03.2	What can you tell us about New Horizons?
1:05.4	That also has a milestone coming up.
1:07.2	Yeah, that's coming up on December 6th.
1:09.4	New Horizons wakes up.
1:10.4	Now, it's woken up before.
1:11.9	It periodically hibernates during its long
1:13.7	cruise to Pluto but this is the last wake up this from this point on from
1:18.0	December 6th on new horizons will be awake and doing science as it begins to
1:22.4	approach Pluto for the fly by in July of 2015.
1:26.0	And we've been in touch with Alan Stern about this and I guess he was encouraging the planetary
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