REBROADCAST: Space

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2012

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate the 35th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 2 (it rocketed off Earth on 8/20/77 carrying a copy of the Golden Record), and tip your hat to the Mars rover Curiosity as it kicks off its third week on the red planet, with a rebroadcast of one our favorite episodes: Space.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:06.0	From New York Public Radio.
0:07.8	Public Radio.
0:09.0	W. N. Y.C.
0:14.0	And NPR.
0:18.2	Speak.
0:29.6	Some people go to therapy.
0:31.5	Some people go to therapy.
0:37.0	Others come here to the northwest corner of a parking lot on Fire Island,
0:39.1	where most nights you'll find a handful of people looking up. I come down here quite often. It's a great place to stargaze.
0:45.3	You got the sound of the ocean in the background with the crashing waves. It's just adds to the relaxation
0:49.4	of it, you know. The night I visited the sky, Ron, was about one of 20 enthusiasts, huddled over astral maps,
0:57.0	staring through telescopes of all sizes.
1:00.0	This is quite a telescope.
1:02.0	Some so big, you needed a ladder.
1:04.0	Wow, that's a big cluster of stars.
1:06.0	Yes, it certainly is.
1:08.0	Do you get attached to certain stars? Oh yeah, yeah.
1:11.6	Yeah, you do, you begin, you know, the first ones you ever found and stuff like that.
1:16.6	Do you remember your first?
1:18.6	Well, yeah, Albirio is one of them I really like.
1:22.6	Ron's gonna show it to you, I think, after you.
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