Outer Space: We Are All Made of Stars

Strong Sense of Place | Travel Through Books

Melissa & Dave

Books, Arts

5.0 • 559 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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As you read these words and listen to our podcast, we’re all riding on a ball about 8000 miles (13,000 km) across. Our rotating disco ball in space is dancing around the sun at about 67,000 mph (107,000 km/h). Our sun is about 93 million miles (150 million km away), shooting us with subatomic particles. Probably not maliciously, but who knows? The sun might be a trickster. It’s also filling our solar system with light so we can see all the other planets, comets, asteroids, dwarf planets, and moons in orbit. As humans, it’s nearly impossible to not put ourselves at the center of the world — we all have main-character energy. For millions of years, we puny humans have looked up at the sky and tried to understand just what the devil is going on and where we belong in the whole situation. In this episode, we try to unpack many of the mind-blowing facts we know about space and our expanding universe — and we get real about the emotional impact of embracing our stardust origins. We talk about the condition called the Overview Effect and whether or not space smells funny. Then we recommend great books that took us there on the page: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowell The Mars House by Natasha Pulley The Milky Way by Moiya McTier Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertolino For more on the books we recommend, plus the other cool stuff we talk about, visit show notes. Sign up for our free Substack to connect with us and other lovely readers who are curious about the world. Transcript of Outer Space: We Are All Made of Stars Do you enjoy our show? Do you want be friends with other (lovely) people who love books and travel? Please support our work on Patreon! Strong Sense of Place is an audience-funded endeavor, and we need your support to continue making this show. Get all the info you need right here. Thank you! Parts of the Strong Sense of Place podcast are produced in udio! Some effects are provided by soundly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	In each episode, we focus on one destination
0:34.8	and discuss what makes it different than any other place on Earth.
0:38.0	Then we recommend five books we love that took us there on the page.
0:41.7	I'm Melissa Jolwan.
0:42.9	I'm David Humphreys.
0:44.3	We're going around the world, one great read at a time.
0:47.7	Thanks for joining us.
1:08.8	Thank you. Welcome to Strong Tense of Place.
1:11.6	Today we get curious about outer space. If you're listening to this on release day, we are a mere two weeks from the 55th anniversary of the first landing on the moon.
1:26.6	So cool.
1:28.4	Yeah.
1:29.5	In Two Truth and a Lie, I'll be talking a little bit about the profound change that Michael Collins,
1:34.5	he was the capsule commander on that mission, took home from that trip.
1:38.9	And then we'll talk about five books we love.
1:41.7	I'm recommending a book that landed a spot on my favorites of the year already.
1:48.0	Wow.
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