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The Cosmic Controversy Podcast

By: brucedorminey
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  • Cosmic Controversy covers past and present issues in aerospace and astronomy with your host --- science journalist, Forbes contributor and ”Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System” author Bruce Dorminey.
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Episodes
  • Episode 67 --- Mysteries Of The Lunar Surface

    Episode 67 --- Mysteries Of The Lunar Surface
    Sep 11 2021

    Guest Benjamin Greenhagen, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland, outlines the lunar surface’s remaining mysteries --- everything from permanently shaded regions at the North and South poles to near and far side impact craters.  Greenhagen is the deputy principal investigator of the Diviner Lunar Radiometer instrument onboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and is an expert on the geology of the Moon’s surface. 
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    49 mins
  • Episode 66 --- The Big Questions About The Cosmos And Our Existence

    Episode 66 --- The Big Questions About The Cosmos And Our Existence
    Sep 3 2021

    Guest Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist and director of the BEYOND Center at Arizona State University, gives an enlightening and fascinating interview on the true nature of the Cosmos and why there is something rather than nothing.  We also discuss his new book:  “What’s Eating the Universe? --- and Other Cosmic Questions.” 
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Episode 65 --- The Future Of Supersonic, Hypersonic and Suborbital Passenger Flight

    Episode 65 --- The Future Of Supersonic, Hypersonic and Suborbital Passenger Flight
    Aug 28 2021

    Guest Christopher Combs, an assistant professor of aerodynamics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, discusses current prospects for supersonic. hypersonic and even suborbital spaceplane passenger flight.  Combs clearly communicates the technical aspects of flight faster than sound and the issues that are hindering our ability to hop from one corner the Earth to the other within 90 minutes or less.  
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    55 mins
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