Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.

Hey guys, it's Amory.

And Ben, and we have some news for you.

We're going to take a break from publishing full episodes for a couple of months while we work on special endless thread projects.

We're super excited about what's in store.

And don't worry, while we're working on a bunch of new episodes of endless thread,

we will be keeping your podcast feed nice and toasty warm with some updates on our favorite episodes.

Also updates on what we're up to along with whatever Reddit stories might pop up in the meantime that we just have to talk about.

But before we go into hibernation, we want to give you something.

A special project we've been working on pretty much since we started making this show.

It is a sweeping audio drama, but not your average audio drama.

It was adapted from a movie script written by redditors in a single comment thread.

That thread came from a real news story about space, and a unique space rock that humanity discovered as it was passing through our solar system.

Along with this audio drama, we did talk to Harvard's Astronomy Department Chair, who has, just like redditors, been mildly obsessed with this space rock.

So if wacky audio dramas are not your thing, we also have a nerdy conversation about space aliens and the big question that has faced humanity since the dawn of time.

Are we alone?

You'll get a sample of our conversation on real space science today, and then in a few days we'll pop a full version of the conversation into your feed.

To keep it toasty, like we said we would.

But right now, let's go.

In November of 2017, a story was posted to the world news community on Reddit.

The story was about space.

Scientists had confirmed that a mysterious empire state building sized and shaped object just discovered speeding past the sun was from another solar system.

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