121 I Am Not Troubled By Any Competence

Rob and Chris talk about quasi-moons, spiders, and media coverage
of science. There’s data visualisations of Earth and new arrivals
around Mars.


Links:




Interplanetary Lobbing: http://www.strudel.org.uk/lob/


Spiders on Twitter:
http://www.geert.io/spiders-on-twitter.html

Earth observation in many flavours:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4205&button=search&value=None

Turn your smartphone into a cosmic ray detector :
http://www.news.wisc.edu/23166

…or an IR camera (for $200!) http://www.thermal.com



2014 OL339 - a quasi-satellite of the Earth
(http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5588, @blobrana)




Interview with Elon
Musk: http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/the-elon-musk-interview-on-mars/




In our time on exoplanets :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03brwql




Science Visualisation Studio:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html




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Credits:


Audio content Copyright 2011-2014 Chris Lintott and Robert
Simpson. Many thanks to Oxford Press Office for recording space.
Podcast Image of lightbulb courtesy of Flickr user bazik
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).