Outside/Inbox: You Can't Get Further Outdoors than Space

Outside/In

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the final frontier of the outdoors: space! From rocket particles, to ominous theories about what might happen if we ever make contact with aliens, we’re launching into uncharted territory to answer your questions about outer space. And speaking of uncharted territory, we’re kicking this episode off with a very important introduction: our new host Nate Hegyi is picking up the mic for the first time. Question 1: How do I become a backyard astronomer? Here are seven Tips for getting started. Question 2: How sustainable is space travel? Question 3: What is the ‘Dark Forest’ theory? Question 4: Would the hare-brained scheme from 'Don't Look Up' actually work? Do you have a question about the natural world? Submit it to the Outside/Inbox! Send a voice memo to outsidein@nhpr.org or call our hotline: 1-844-GO-OTTER (844-466-8837). Don’t forget to leave a number so we can call you back. Featuring: Susan Rolke, Jennifer Willis, Martin Ross, Jonathan Yaney, and Amy Mainzer ELECTRIC VEHICLE SURVEY Hey folks – we’re working on some stories about electric vehicles, and we’re looking to hear from you. Are you interested in going electric? Wish there was better charging infrastructure where you are? Or would you prefer sticking with the car/truck you’re used to? Tell us what you think about EVs, and help inform our reporting by filling out this survey. It’ll only take a couple minutes, and it really helps us produce the show. Thanks so much! SUPPORT Outside/In is made possible with listener support. Click here to become a sustaining member of Outside/In. Subscribe to our FREE newsletter. Follow Outside/In on Instagram or Twitter, or join our private discussion group on Facebook. LINKS Find an astronomy club near you Want some digital stargazing help? Try an app like Star Walk 2 or Stellarium. Check out the sounds of space. Learn more about the company Spinlaunch, which is trying to use centrifugal force to launch rockets into space, and watch their Orbital Accelerator concept video. Does more efficient sometimes mean more emissions? Read up on Jevon’s Paradox. Are we alone? Like, really alone? Learn about the Drake Equation to find out. Go down a wikipedia wormhole on The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin. Don’t Look Up seems like it’s about a comet, but it’s actually about climate change. Simulate a world ending comet collision with the Earth Impact Effects Program. CREDITS Reported and produced by Felix Poon, Taylor Quimby, Jessica Hunt, and Justine Paradis Host: Nate Hegyi Edited by Taylor Quimby Additional editing by Justine Paradis and Cori Princell Executive producer: Rebecca Lavoie Mixed by Felix Poon, Taylor Quimby, Jessica Hunt, and Justine Paradis Theme: Breakmaster Cylinder Additional music by Howard Harper-Barnes, Jerry Lacey, Jules Gaia, and Blue Dot Sessions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Outside In, a show about the natural world and how we use it.
0:04.6	I'm Justine Paradise and today is kind of a special day because I have the privilege
0:10.1	of introducing our new host, Nate Hegey, Welcome Nate.
0:16.7	Oh, thank you.
0:17.7	Thanks for having me.
0:18.7	I really like the drum roll.
0:20.7	So Nate has been a reporter for the Mountain West News Bureau out in the Rocky Mountains.
0:27.0	What are a couple of stories you've done recently that you're proud of?
0:30.2	Yeah, we just wrapped up a pretty big investigation into Tribal Jails operated by the
0:38.4	Federal Government and some malfeasance and neglect and misconduct that was happening
0:43.9	there.
0:44.9	I also did a really fun story about stopping the plague that was ravaging Blackfooted
0:53.2	ferrets by dropping pills in peanut butter pellets from a drone in Eastern Montana.
1:01.8	That was a really fun one.
1:02.8	Can you imagine being like a person just like not knowing what was going on and having
1:06.6	peanut butter falling from the sky as you want?
1:09.5	You're like, what is this?
1:10.5	And you're just getting like hit in the head by peanut butter pellets and you're like,
1:13.2	how was that?
1:14.2	Oh, sorry.
1:15.2	We're trying to combat the plague, so just ignore us and treat.
1:19.3	So I've been lucky enough to get to travel a bunch and do a lot of weird fun stories.
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