4 December 2011
Lost Cosmos Episode: The Meat Planet
Posted by Ryan Anderson
I’m on my way to San Francisco later today, along with 20,000 of my closest friends. I’m not sure how much I will be able to blog about it, since I am still editing my dissertation and putting the final touches on my presentation for Wednesday, and AGU evenings are often spent catching up with friends and colleagues. For example, my adviser has started a tradition in which a large group of us gets together for seafood on even-numbered years or “meat on a stick” (Brazilian steakhouse) on odd years. This year is an odd-numbered year, and to get everyone psyched about our meaty dinner, Melissa sent around this absolutely brilliant video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA&feature=youtu.be
I will be taking notes in the sessions that I attend, so I will blog about the most interesting talks that I see, but that will have to wait until after my defense on December 16.
Hey man, glad you liked the video. I made it with a friend of mine, we initially wanted to go into some real science to actually calculate & describe what things like the gravity would be like on a meat planet but we were constrained by the words Carl actually said in his audiobook. But I still want to make that calculation. I figured that a meat planet would have an iron core and therefore a magnetic field tho, which felt like some kind of nonscience breakthrough. We put some of our other ‘research’ on this mini-site: http://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/meatplanet
Glad that it appeals to actual scientists, I’m kind of a bit starstruck you’re actually involved with the mars rover, I’ve got my name on a microchip on that thing. Best of luck with it!
An impressive share! I have just forwarded this onto a coworker who was doing a little research
on this. And he in fact bought me breakfast due to the fact that I stumbled upon it for
him… lol. So let me reword this…. Thank YOU for the
meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending the time
to talk about this issue here on your internet site.