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SIO349: Thomas and an Astrophysicist See a Star War

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Bryan Gillis breaks down some bad astrophysics in The Last Jedi, and we have some fun trying to reconstruct it to make sense!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries only episode 349.

0:21.2

I'm Thomas and thank you so much for listening, thank you so much for tuning in.

0:24.6

Alright, here's the episode I teased last time, it was already available for Patrons,

0:29.1

so a little nudge patreon.com slash series pod where you can get ad free episodes, probably

0:35.4

the most important part, you don't want the ads, come on, don't tell the ad comedy

0:39.2

but the ad suck, pledge, no ads, it's great, it's good deal.

0:42.5

But also early episodes and hopefully other stuff TBA, speaking of early episodes, the next

0:47.9

episode is out for Patrons and it is a really fun episode on ADHD with none other than

0:55.2

Stormy Decisus, that's Dr. Alan Smurbeck, but you may recognize Stormy's name, a little

1:01.5

pseudonym I guess, so more on that on the patreon but just want to give a little teaser.

1:05.6

In the meantime, so glad that you all can hear this episode, this is a fantastic breakdown

1:10.7

of some physics, some astrophysics in Star Wars, the last Jedi, a lot of fun and I am excited

1:16.9

for you to get to know and listen to Brian, there is lots more astrophysics recorded and

1:23.0

ready, it's really good, it's really fun, so so much to look forward to on the show,

1:26.9

but again, just thank you so much for listening and sticking with me and now let's get on over

1:31.2

to Brian and I going and seeing a Star War.

1:39.6

I am joined by Dr. Brian Gillis, how you doing today Brian?

1:42.6

I'm doing very well, thank you Thomas, how are you doing?

1:44.8

I'm doing great, I'm so pleased that you reached out and I'm happy to do this recording,

1:49.8

I am so excited, so Brian reached out and had a great idea to record about Star Wars,

1:55.8

the second one of the new ones, which is called the last Jedi, and some of the, you know,

2:00.5

probably less than stellar astrophysics going on in there.

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