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Brothers of the Serpent

Jan 7, 2021

In this episode Russ gives a presentation, with slides, about the standard model processes that take place in stars to generate elements, how that process eventually results in novas and supernovas, and how supernovas and other similar very high energy events generate cosmic rays. When these cosmic rays hit earth,...


Jul 2, 2020

We've gotten way behind on listener emails because of the guests on the last three shows, so after we open some 1up boxes and do the drawing for the SnakeBros Hat prize, we read through a lot of excellent emails that spark conversation on many topics.

In the third segment Kyle reads some articles on recent...


Jun 6, 2020

This episode is one of those rambling conversations that is difficult, in retrospect, to give a concise title. We do talk about entropy and the arrow of time, but we also discuss gravity and astrophysics, orbital mechanics, lagrange points and trojan points, geomagnetic anomalies and an "activated" asteroid in a...


Jan 31, 2019

After the customary SpaceWeatherNews update, we read the story of the three year old boy who was lost in the woods for 48 hours and, when he was found, said he "hung out with a bear". People seem to think he was actually hanging out with sasquatch. So we get our resident three year old to look at a picture of sasquatch,...


Aug 9, 2018


We open the show with spaceweathernews about NASA making the "coldest place in space" using incredibly hot lasers, and giant rogue MagnePlanets hurtling through the interstellar void sucking up all the spacemetal. We then read a couple of articles regarding a new spate of mystery booms in Tennessee.

Kyle proposes a...