Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) have hogged the headlines for the last decade or so; prompting many news organizations to question whether they are produced by far-flung alien civilizations in the midst of some sort of bizarre intergalactic transport mechanism. The truth however is likely much more mundane; they could be flashes from Hawking’s storied evaporating black holes or colliding neutron stars or something we have simply failed to imagine. But in this podcast episode, Duncan Lorimer, their co-discoverer, at West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown, gives us the straight scoop on what they most likely are and aren’t. Great episode!
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Episode 46 – Harvard Geologist Andy Knoll Sums Up The Grand Sweep Of Earth’s History
Episode 45 --- The Incredible Story of Flying Tiger Flight 923’s North Atlantic Ditching
Episode 44 --- ESA’s Upcoming Euclid Dark Energy Survey
Episode 43 --- What Future And Final Galaxy Surveys Will Teach Us About The Cosmos
Episode 42 --- Neil DeGrasse Tyson Talks About His New Book “Cosmic Queries”
Episode 41 --- The History Of Space Exploration In 100 Objects
Episode 40 --- Cosmic Cataclysms And The Evolution Of Intelligent Life On Earth
Episode 39 --- What NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Teaching The Rest Of Us.
Episode 38 --- The Trouble With Dark Energy
Episode 37 --- Is Oumuamua, Our Solar System’s 1st Identified Interstellar Asteroid, Actually An Alien Probe?
Episode 36 --- NASA Aims For The Geophysical Heart Of Mars
Episode 35 ---America’s Heroic World War II Air Raid On Ploesti --- The ‘Taproot’ Of Nazi Oil
Episode 34 --- Why Geology Is Crucial To Unlocking The Mysteries Of Our Solar System
Episode 33 --- How Pan Am Changed The World
Episode 32 --- How Deep Space Navigation Is Revolutionizing Planetary Science
Episode 31 --- Interstellar Propulsion --- What We Need to Make Star Trek Real
Episode 30 --- Uranus and Neptune --- Our Solar System’s Mysterious Ice Giants
Episode 29 --- How the Cold War Spurred the Race for Supersonic Flight
Episode 28 --- The Glenn Miller Disappearance: One of World War II’s Greatest Aviation Mysteries
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