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The podClast episode 4 – a little different from what you may have come to expect. Discussions of the Sichuan earthquake and the Phoenix Mars Lander.
Episode 4 of the podClast is ready for download. You can grab the mp3 here (3.9 Mb, 6:37), or subscribe through iTunes here.
Today’s show is a little different from normal. We had a lot of problems getting Skype running properly, due to network problems. The audio was just too choppy to record and broadcast. Instead Dave Schumacher and I put together a clip each detailing two of the topics we were planning on covering. So today you’ll hear about the Sichuan province earthquake in China the Phoenix Mars Lander, which is due to land in 9 hours at the time of posting.
Participants
Chris – goodSchist
Dave – Geology News
Show Notes
Photos of the Sichuan earthquake can be found on Dave’s blog, Geology News.
The British Geological survey identified the risk of such a large earthquake happening again just months beofre it occurred.
And an eighty (!!) year old man has just been pulled from rubble, 266 hours (11 days) after the earthquake struck.
There’s the overview for the mission of the Mars Phoenix Lander. (Wikipedia has details too).
You can watch the landing and mission progress at NASA TV here. It’s in a few hours, so act quickly!
If you miss that, there’s a neat guided tour of the simulated landing.
And finally, the video entitled 7 minutes of terror is a dramatic overview of what will be a dramatic landing.
del.icio.us/podclast
We have a del.icio.us account which can be found at http://del.icio.us/podclast. All the web pages and resources we’ve found and used in the discussions on the podclast can be found here. A conveniant way to browse per episode is to go to, for example, http://del.icio.us/podclast/episode4 (for this episode).
If you find a link to a topic that you’d like to hear discussed on the podclast, or have a link to a topic that’s already been discussed, you can add links to the podclast page through your own del.icio.us account.
When saving a link, include the tags for:podclast and episodeX (where X is the episode number – for example episode3). You can add more than one episode tag if the link applies to multiple episodes.
(I haven’t added the links for today’s show yet, I’ll do this in the next couple of days).
Next Episode
We like to have a new episode of the podClast every fortnight, so the next episode will be recorded on Saturday the 7th of June at 2300 GMT.
Contributing
If you’re keen to hear a specific topic talked about, or would like to join the discussion during the next episode (we’d really like a few more voices in there), either leave a comment below or email podclast [the at symbol] podclast.com. You’ll probably also do well reading the details on joining the podclast.
Credit
The intro and exit music was Roots Fi Cool by Burning Babylon.
The splash image on the homepage and the album art is from NASA.
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I finally got around to listening to it. It is indeed a bit of a different style but nonetheless interesting to listen to. I usually listen the podclast while reading or surfing the geoblogosphere. A pitty though you had such technial problems before recording.
I’d like to try and join in this time, although I suppose the amount of intelligent contributions I can make depends on the discussion topic. Have we got any ideas so far?
Just got signed up for Skype – my ID is tuffcookie_mcl.