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Alright, so welcome to Astronomycast Live from Dragoncon!

So my name is Fraser Cane, I'm the publisher of the universe today and with me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay,

Professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest.

And so today, we've got a few victims here that we're going to be sort of adding to the podcast and the topic.

Let me just see if I got this right here.

The tough questions of space science.

What I think this really should be is the tough questions from Fraser.

So there's a bunch of questions that Pamela is often unwilling to answer.

Or she gives me this really quick answer, which is like, I don't know.

We don't know. How could we know?

And so we've got some fresh meat here tonight.

And I thought we would do is we would ask some of these questions to some of the other people.

Pamela is a chiming, that would be great.

So I thought I would sort of set the tone for the evening, but we'll go for about maybe 20 minutes, half an hour or so with some of these questions.

And then when I've run out, but I won't.

Then I thought I would give you guys a chance to ask some questions.

But here's the deal, here's the game. It got to be awful. Just horrible, tough.

And by horrible and awful, what he actually means is these must be the most difficult questions you can think of.

So I have some questions that should we be able to answer them?

Might garner us Nobel Prizes because he hates us that much.

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