Episode 42: Girding for Frivolity

Don’t Panic! Tom is surrounded by hippies. Ped is on the lookout for interstellar visitors. And they both continue their search for the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Plus, Ped has a curious collection.

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• Lighting the beacons

• “Happy Valley”

• John “Grizzly” Adams

• Whole Foods Market

• Rationalism vs Magical thinking

• 12 Natural and Organic Brands Owned By Big Food (Mental Floss)

• False equivalence

• Light pollution

• Messier 31 - The Andromeda Galaxy

• The International Dark-Sky Association

• Outdoor Lighting Basics (darksky.org)

• Bobcat

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

• Zaphod Beeblebrox

• Galaxy Quest

• Infocom

• Play the Hitchhiker’s text adventure online

• Could Solar Radiation Pressure Explain ʻOumuamua’s Peculiar Acceleration (Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb)

• ʻOumuamua

• The Unexpected Trajectory of Interstellar Asteroid ʻOumuamua(APOD)

• Radiation pressure

• Is ʻOumuamua an Interstellar Spaceship? I’m Still Going With ‘No’(Phil Plait)

• Light sail

• Tabby’s Star

• The Planetary Society

• Breakthrough Starshot

• LightSail 2

• Rosa (Doctor Who S11E3)

• Lay’s Stax

• Ped’s collection

• How to Make a Tayto Sandwich

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)