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All right, so hi everybody, my name is Fraser Cain and I'm the publisher of Universe today.

And this is your weekly space hangout for February 9, 2012.

So this week we're going to be talking about the methods of proposed methods of interstellar communications,

a supermassive black hole eating asteroids, the skydive from space, well stratospheric skydive,

the Russians reaching Lake's Vostok and what they found, and the evidence that Mars once had an ancient ocean in its northern hemisphere.

All right, and again, I am shared by my space comrades in arms.

We've got Alan Boyle from MSNBC's Cosmic Log, Emily Lector-Walleth from the Planetary Society's Planetary Society Blog.

Eononeal from Discovery.

We've got Nancy Atkinson from Universe today and Pamela Gay from Astronomy Cast, Star Striper Cosmic Quest, many hats she wears.

So I realized I always see Pamela's got a doctor, but actually there's a whole pile of doctors here, right?

Eating your doctor, aren't you?

Yeah, there we go, Dr. Eononeal.

In the sun.

In the sun, yeah.

In the solar, the solar is driving itself.

And Phil is the doctor as well.

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