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The Gist

Where Is Space?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, guest host Jeffrey Lewis fills in for Mike and talks about trying to solve big problems. Regulating space is tough because it surrounds the whole world, and people can't even agree where the Earth's atmosphere stops and space begins. Jonathan McDowell, astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, thinks he has the definitive answer to where that line is. McDowell recently published "The Edge of Space: Revisiting the Karman Line" in Acta Astronautica. In the Spiel, North Korea and nuclear weapons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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Okay, here's our show.

0:58.7

It's Friday, August 3rd, 2018.

1:05.1

From Slate, it's the gist.

1:06.9

I'm Jeffrey Lewis, filling in for Mike Pesca.

1:09.7

Today I will interview Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astrophysicist who was written a paper

1:13.7

and actor astronautica that defines where the atmosphere ends and where space begins.

1:18.6

Which I suppose might seem sort of trivial.

1:20.6

I mean, it's up there somewhere.

1:22.7

Except here's the interesting thing.

1:24.5

There are people who do not want to define space.

1:28.0

That's an interesting story that we'll cover with Jonathan.

1:30.4

But that interview touches just a bit on a bigger issue that popped into my mind as I

1:34.5

saw the Trump administration is proposing another round of tariffs.

1:38.0

There are plenty of Republicans who like to point out that the GOP has traditionally supported

1:41.3

free trade.

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