The Gateway Planet

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Every chapter of the book is a mix of narration and exposition. I kept writing and writing and it's like this chapter is 20,000 words long and it can only be seven. So what am I going to do here? And even then, there was so much more I wanted to talk about. It has mountains that go all the way around its equator - they're several miles high. We don't know why these are very tall but may have been formed from an impact. The Moon Iapetus might have collapsed back down after being spewed out by another Moon which landed on it. Some people think it formation could have been caused by asteroids smacking into each other; we

Astronomer Phil Plait joins us to discuss his new book, Under Alien Skies, in which he describes what it would be like (through human eyes and real physical experiences) to actually travel to Saturn, Mars, asteroids, and distant stars. Also, we discuss the recent surge in UFO sighting as well as his famous talk at The Amazing Meeting more than a decade ago in which he asked all science communicators and critical thinkers to approach those who believe in pseudoscience with empathy and respect instead of scorn and vitriol. And, we run through the history of James Randi's popularization of the big-S Skeptic movement.

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