Why Does Exercise Make You Tired?--Consider the Following With Bill Nye

Guests

• Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer

Why Does Exercise Make You Tired? Bill Nye works out the answer in this not quite exhaustive examination of how using our muscles makes us crave a little rest.

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Do Living Things Defy Entropy?--Consider the Following With Bill Nye

Guests

• Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer

Entropy will eventually get us all, but life has found a way to deal, thanks to our Sun! Bill Nye shares an energetic explanation.

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Session 7: The Jupiter System

Guests

• Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society

Jupiter and its satellites, Magnetospheres

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Snapshots from Space: Revealing Jupiter's (Mostly) Unseen Treasures

Guests

• Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society

Tens of thousands of images were taken of Jupiter by the Voyager spacecraft. Why have only a hundred or so been widely processed and published? Emily Lakdawalla explains the hardships and rewards of teasing the beauty out of these treasures.

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Sun Hot. Space Cold. What To Do?--Consider the Following With Bill Nye

Guests

• Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer

Space is very, very hot, except when it's very, very cold. How do we protect expensive spacecraft from these extremes? Bill Nye is hot on the trail.

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L'Garde Solar Sail Deployment Animation

L'Garde, Inc. provided this animation of a 10,000-square-meter behemoth of a sail being deployed above the Earth

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Session 6: Asteroids and the Asteroid Impact Threat

Guests

• Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society

Asteroids, including Near Earth Objects, and impact hazards to the Earth.

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How Can We Find New Planets?--Consider the Following With Bill Nye

Guests

• Bill Nye, Chief Executive Officer

Astronomers have discovered hundreds and hundreds of exoplanets--worlds circling faraway stars. Bill Nye shows us one of the ways they find these planets that are still too distant to be seen by even the most powerful telescopes

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Session 5: Mars

Guests

• Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society

Mars

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A Message of Gratitude From Alison Gibbings

Guests

• Alison Gibbings, Laser Bees Researcher, University of Glasgow

Grad student Alison Gibbings is part of the Mirror/Laser Bees research supported by the members of the Planetary Society. Alison recorded this message on behalf of research leader Max Vasile and other colleagues at the University of Strathclyde.

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