SIO383: Ask An Astrophysicist Anything!
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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I thought it would be cool to have patrons pose whatever questions they wanted to our illustrious astrophysicist Dr. Bryan Gillis. Well, they must have agreed because they came through with some great ones! We've got a two-parter this week, as we learn a bunch of cool new space stuff!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquires only this is episode 383 I'm your host Thomas Smith |
| 0:21.5 | and I'm so excited for today's episode space, space, space, and other science. |
| 0:27.3 | So I put out the call recently for questions for astrophysicist Brian Dr. Brian Gillis and |
| 0:32.8 | you folks came through on patreon by the way patreon.com slash series pot you folks came through |
| 0:37.6 | in spades lots of great questions so much so in fact that we recorded extra and there's |
| 0:43.1 | a two-parter for you. So lots of questions and answers to the keys to the universe coming |
| 0:48.4 | this week. It's learn secrets to the universe week because this is a two-parter. I want |
| 0:54.0 | to thank the patrons again for their great questions this was so much fun so let's get on over |
| 0:58.1 | to part one and because it's a two-parter recording in advance if you'd like to ear part two jump |
| 1:02.9 | on patreon.com slash series pot and I'll get it up right away so you can hear both and of course |
| 1:07.2 | as always you get the ad free show you get the bonus stuff that's going to be memento very soon |
| 1:12.9 | can't wait for that. So patreon.com slash series pot thanks so much to all our patrons for supporting |
| 1:18.1 | and here we go and we're joined by astrophysicist Dr. Brian Gillis how you doing today Brian? |
| 1:24.8 | I'm doing well how are you Thomas? Doing well and I think you brought your space cat we may hear |
| 1:29.5 | from space cat from time to time. Oh yeah maybe even two space cats. Oh two space cats we're |
| 1:34.5 | fan of space cats on the show I'm so excited to do this Brian thanks for agreeing to do this |
| 1:39.2 | I put out the question thread on the patron patreon.com slash series pot of course was where you could |
| 1:44.9 | go if you wanted to find out you know the secrets to the universe and everything but you know |
| 1:49.2 | you missed out on this round but I'm sure there will be more secrets to the universe so make sure |
| 1:52.5 | to to sign up and people have asked you some great questions and I hear you're ready to tackle |
| 1:58.2 | all comers I can't wait. Yeah let's just go through them and see what we have to say about |
| 2:03.1 | each one. All right well David Bax parentheses spinal breaker asks what's your favorite dinosaur? |
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