Episode 12: The Giant Alien Hunters are Coming!

What we discuss in this episode:

1. Welcome
   1. Will it ever be fall in Michigan?
   2. What should professors wear? Pants? Comment on the reddit!
   3. Burritos for dinner every night!
2. Cassini makes a splash!
   1. Water on Enceladus
   2. Rotation rate of Saturn
3. Fermi Paradox
   1. What is the Fermi Paradox
   2. Radio Waves die off as 1/r2
   3. How many stars are within 20 light years?
   4. Some books on bad aliens
   5. Are humans forward thinking?
4. Should scientists and engineers be allowed to study things that can kill everyone?
   1. Artificial Intelligence
   2. CRISPR
   3. Nuclear bombs destroying asteroids
   4. Mars as a backup plan
      1. Is the moon a better backup plan?
      2. Water on the moon?
      3. How cold is the dark side of the moon?
   5. When will we get to Mars?
   6. Will China beat us to Mars?
5. Recommendations:
   1. Aaron: Reply All podcast
   2. Dave: Scythe by Neal Shusterman 

Partially sponsored by NSF (even if they don't fully endorse that!)

If you want to go to a really good school, try out University of Michigan or Eastern Michigan University.

This podcast episode was edited by the mighty Kenny Carlsen.  Thanks Kenny!

The song on the podcast is "So far, I have not found the science" by the truly awesome band Soul Coughing. I wish that they still existed as a band and had a web page!  But, the lead singer was Mike Doughty, who still tours (he will be in Chicago on November 18th, 2017). Dave and I even went and saw him together once! I saw Soul Coughing in Boulder, CO when I lived there in 1996.