The Human Journey with Dr. Carolyn Porco

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🗓️ 18 June 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Carolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist known for her work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She leads the imaging scientist team on the Cassini mission currently in orbit around Saturn. She’s also involved with the New Horizons mission launched to Pluto. She has authored more than 100 scientific papers. She has given two popular Ted Talks lectures. She has won numerous awards, including the Carl Sagan Medal presented by the American Astronomical Society for Excellence in the Communication of Science to the Public, she was named one of the 25 most influential people in space by Time magazine in 2012, and she was recently elected to be a laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.

On this podcast, we talk with Dr. Porco about her work, about the exploration of our solar system and beyond, about science versus anti-science, and about this new age of discovery that has opened windows into the vast reaches of space.

CAROLYN PORCO WEBSITE: http://carolynporco.com

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Lionsgate Plus.
0:04.3	The third season of Alliancegate Plus original series The Great is streaming exclusively on
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0:10.1	Follow Catherine the second played by L-Fanning and Peter The Great, played by Nicholas
0:13.7	Holt, as they hilariously attempt to make their marriage work after some seemingly insurmountable
0:18.2	problems.
0:19.2	From attempted murder and the imprisonment of close friends to their never-ending legal
0:22.6	responsibilities.
0:24.0	The Great, season three, is streaming exclusively on Lionsgate Plus.
0:30.0	Okay, here we go.
0:31.0	The step by three, two, one, action.
0:35.0	A sewer, nothing.
0:38.0	Brash, bald, fake, black, blue.
0:41.0	Question, everything.
0:42.0	I find it extremely hard to imagine.
0:44.0	Open your eyes.
0:45.0	It is quite alright to be an atheist.
0:48.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country has been measured as being those
0:52.4	who have no belief or who are atheists.
0:55.0	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:57.6	Challenge the opposition.
0:58.6	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
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