The Rough Corner: How to Kill an Asteroid ft. Dr Robin George Andrews

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This episode will have a Deep Impact! How the heck do we defend ourselves from a killer chunk of space debris? Luckily, planetary defenders are on the case...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, an upcoming book by award-winning science journalist Robin George Andrews, he reveals the development of the technology that makes defending the earth possible - from spotting elusive asteroids and comets to figuring out their geologic defences and orchestrating a deflection campaign. The book is available in all good book shops and online from October 1st 2024. Get it before we're gone.

You can get in touch with Dan Schreiber on Instagram @wecanbeweirdos. There, you'll find the link to our Discord channel - a global community of likeminded weirdos!

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1:10.0	Hey everyone, welcome to The Rough Corner. This is the bonus episode that sits in between the main We Can Be Weirdo's shows where I, Dan Schreiber, I go through the weird last seven days I've experienced. I read out the correspondence that you, the listener, have sent in, and more often
1:27.9	than not, I sit down with someone interesting and talk to them about all the odd things they're
1:32.1	doing around the world. If you notice a very husky, lower tone to my voice today, it's because
1:38.9	I had a massive party last night that was thrown to celebrate 10 years of my other podcast. No such thing as a fish.
1:47.1	And I stayed up a bit too late and had a bit too much drinky-winky. So this is often what happens.
1:54.8	My voice decides to drop octaves the following day. So you've got hungover a Dan voice on this week's episode. But I'm feeling good.
2:04.3	I had an amazing conversation today with someone that you're about to hear from. He is a multi-award
2:09.7	winning science journalist. He's an author. He's a volcanologist. Describes himself as a mischief
2:14.8	maker. And he's written what looks to be an amazing book.
2:17.6	It's coming out in October of this year.
2:19.6	It's called How to Kill an Asteroid, the Real Science of Planetary Defense.
2:24.5	And his name is Dr. Robin George Andrews.
2:28.1	I'll be honest with you.
2:29.4	I wanted this conversation to go on for another two hours at least.
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