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The Most Important Satellite You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
Season 11
Episode 11
One of the most important reasons we go to space is to know our own planet better. Today I'm going to tell you about an orbiting facility that literally watches Earth's biosphere breath and grow and die with incredible resolution. I'll talk about its profound existential and economic importance, and about why it's in danger of being lost.
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Learn about Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's idea of how consciousness is caused by quantum processes.
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Faster than light travel may produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth.
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All particles belong to two large groups: fermions and bosons.
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Just how much stronger is this year’s solar activity going to get?
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So you’ve decided to jump into a black hole...
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We only recently figured out where cosmic rays are coming from.
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Black hole complementarity may force us to rethink what it means to say that it exists.
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To travel the stars without faster than light travel we’re going to need a generation ship.
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The Moon: humanity’s first destination beyond our atmosphere.
