And the Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only, this is episode 445.

I'm your host Thomas Smith and we got another fun returning guest for you you may recall from I don't know a month or two ago

Dr Paul M Sutter theoretical cosmologist he has the show Ask a Space Man, Fantastic Show.

Well last time we had him on to talk about his book and since then we've been looking for any

excuse to get him on to talk about basically any space stuff. I'm a huge fan of space stuff and between then and now I guess the

show Three Body Problem came out. It's on Netflix. It's of course based on the book

series. Now we will do our best to avoid heavy spoilers but there's

going to be a little bit of talking about the plot to some degree it's not

going to go through all the end or anything but if that's something that you have in your Netflix queue then you know maybe

give it a watch before listening to this it's a great show if you've watched it or

if you're never going to watch it or if you don't care about spoilers, proceed on,

as there will be a few.

So we're going to talk to Paul about some of the science of the series,

things it gets right, things it gets wrong,

but more importantly than, you know, critiquing it or anything, it's gaining a better

understanding of the scientific issues and it's a really fun conversation.

Can't wait for you to hear it.

And that will be after this break that you of course can't avoid if you go to patreon.com slash serious pod support the show support science and science communication by pledging to the show and making it happen. We appreciate you so much our current

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serious pod to skip the ads and support the show and after this we'll get to Paul Sutter we'll ask a

space man about three body problem. I'm Jane Perlaz, long-time foreign

correspondent and former Beijing Bureau Chief for the New York Times. I've been a foreign correspondent in lots of places,

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