Date Aired: Wednesday 21 Feb 2024
Tags: John Batchelor, Dr. Ajay Kothari, Dr. David Livingston, Thorium, Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR), thorium U.S. and global reserves, nuclear power replacement, liquid not solid, no explosive possibility, no pressure chamber or dome, TMSR history, isotopes, no meltdown possibility, smaller plant profile, DOE interest, small modular reactors, Copenhagen, Holland, China, KW/hour cost estimates, space propulsion, in-space usage for power, upper stages can be repurposed for lunar...
Date Aired: Wednesday 31 Jan 2024
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Grinspoon, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Comets, Haley's comet, asteroids, interstellar object, fast moving, interstellar velocity, intercepting a fast moving interstellar object.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 24 Jan 2024
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Guests: John Batchelor, Doug Messier, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Starship demo flight two Elon Musk incident report, Musk plans for frequent Starship flights, possible Artemis delays and pushback.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 10 Jan 2024
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Jeff Foust, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: LEO vs. GEO satellite communication challenges and frequency interference.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 03 Jan 2024
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Ioanna Koutsouridou, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The earliest stars in the Milky Way, Population III stars, pair instability, China's LAMOST, searching and confirming more descendants Population III stars
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Date Aired: Wednesday 27 Dec 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Anna Ho, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Tasmanian Devil Space Explosion, LFBOTs, collapsing stars, black holes, failing neutron stars, unusual bright explosions in space.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 20 Dec 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Grinspoon, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Dr. Grinspoon's new position at NASA, finding life off Earth, extremophiles and their significance, NASA astrobiology mission and more.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 13 Dec 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Anshu Gupta, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Explaining the brightness of very early galaxies.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 06 Dec 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Eric Berger, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The most recent Starship demo test flight from Boca Chica.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 29 Nov 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Bob Zimmerman, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The Apollo 8 Xmas Eve mission.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 15 Nov 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Akos Bogdan, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The oldest supermassive black hole yet discovered.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 08 Nov 2023
John Batchelor Hotel Mars, 11-8-23, Dr. Ed Garnero, Dr. Qian Yuan, #4114 Time: 19:00
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Livingston, Dr. Ed Garnero, Dr. Qian Yuan; Topics: We discussed the recent Nature paper by Dr. Qian Yuan with Dr. Ed Garnero titled "Moon-forming impactor as a source of Earth's basal mantle anomalies."
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Date Aired: Wednesday 01 Nov 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Ryan MacDonald, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Stellar contamination detected by JWST impacts exoplanet observations in the TRAPPIST -1 system plus more on JWST exoplanet observations.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 18 Oct 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The Psyche Mission, mission experiments, the potential dollar value of Psyche and much more.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 11 Oct 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Harold Connolly, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The Bennu sample return mission preliminary analysis,
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Date Aired: Sunday 08 Oct 2023
Guests: Dr. David Livingston hosts multiple callers with multiple topics: Topics: Many topics were discussed with several callers. Use the tags as a guideline for subjects talked about on this program.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 27 Sep 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Doug Messier, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Mars Sample Return cost overruns put mission at risk, GAO report, IRB review and more.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 13 Sep 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Patryk Sofia Lykawa, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Predicting Earth-like planets in the Kuiper Belt
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Date Aired: Wednesday 30 Aug 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Anatoly Zak Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The failed landing of the Russian Luna 25 mission and why.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 16 Aug 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Anatoly Zak, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: The Russian Luna 25 mission to land a rover on the Moon.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 09 Aug 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Seth Shostak, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: SETI, the search for ET Intelligence and the new Cosmic Project at the VLA for SETI.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 26 Jul 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Doug Messier, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Starship and FAA for next flight, launch pad repairs, Super Heavy boosters testing, Orion, Artemis, lunar landing, FAA and questionable support
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Date Aired: Friday 07 Jul 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. Jeff Hoffman, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Making O2 on Mars with MOXIE and related topics.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 28 Jun 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Anatoly Zak, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Russia back to the Moon, their lander and lunar technology.
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Date Aired: Wednesday 21 Jun 2023
Guests: John Batchelor, Dr. David Grinspoon, Dr. David Livingston. Topics: Enceladus and phosphorous, volcanos and upcoming missions regarding Venus.
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