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Q&A: Moon Landings and Making Medicine

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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Are You Getting on the Wrong Side of You?

Mat i started this quest by saying that gernok could get on the wrong side of you if he makes the atmosphere more opaque, so you can't see things so clearly. Have astronomers not got quite crafty ways of subtracting wonkiness in the atmosphere? So when light comes through the atmosphere, it causes stars to twinkle. The stars look like their twinkling because light is bending anyway as it comes through the Atmosphere. We absolutely do. And yes, we do have clever ways of dealing with it. What we'd have to do is just make a model of the atmosphere. Wat we live under a hundred miles of turbulent, wet gas. If we can understand

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