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Talk: Cosmic conversations with King Sidharth

Jatan Mehta

Aug 23, 2020

I was invited over by my friend and inspiration Sidharth for a livestream talk on all things space with his audience.

Topics discussed were:

00:30 - What do I do?
01:58 - Journey of science and writing
06:18 - China's rise in radio astronomy
10:48 - What is space?
15:52 - NASA's mission to study the Sun
19:37 - Does space occupy space?
23:17 - NASA Voyagers: The farthest we've been from home
28:10 - When will we go to Mars?
31:50 - Patreon

You can watch the original, unedited livestream if you prefer longer videos for some reason.

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