Episode 171 - Pluto Flyby with Dipak Srinivasan

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Dipak Srinivasan of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University played a pivotal role in the New Horizons mission whose probe just passed by Pluto, and since he was also Andy's roommate back in their college days he was kind enough to talk with Andy and Matt about his work on the project. Launched in 2006, New Horizons traveled over three billion miles to gather the most comprehensive data about Pluto that mankind has ever seen, including stunning imagery of mountains and frozen plains, and en route it got a boost by slingshotting around Jupiter, becoming the fastest-moving probe in history. Dipak also gives the inside scoop on other projects he's been involved in, including the MESSENGER Mercury orbiter and the upcoming Solar Probe Plus mission to scrape the surface of the Sun. For more detailed information on New Horizons, visit the Johns Hopkins APL New Horizons official site.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Welcome to Probably Science.
0:15.0	I'm one of your hosts, Andy Wood.
0:17.0	I'm joined by Matt Kirshin.
0:18.1	Hey, we're in a different location this week.
0:19.9	I wonder if it sounds any different to people.
0:21.6	We're in the living room.
0:22.7	We've moved it indoors.
0:24.1	It's nice.
0:25.7	I guess there's no reason we couldn't be doing this more often and have air conditioning.
0:29.7	I don't know why we're, it just seems like probably science equals backyard.
0:33.7	I don't know.
0:34.2	I think people like the birds going past. I think a guest like to be able to see a swimming pool in their peripheral vision.
0:39.7	That does kind of make it a special thing for the guests. Yeah. There's a lot of indoor podcasts. We're one of the few outdoor ones, mostly.
0:48.1	Maybe what if we started an entirely outdoor podcast-based festival?
0:53.9	It's not a good idea.
0:55.3	I think you should get ever-increasingly specific festivals, Sandy.
0:58.8	You know, I think that's what my destiny is, is to find the most, is keep making festivals
1:03.4	until I find one so specific that only I show up.
1:06.5	And then that's when I...
1:07.2	Is there a Pez dispenser festival?
1:08.7	I bet there is, actually.
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