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Jess (Tuff Cookie) and I discuss slowing lava, the Phoenix lander, earthquakes causing other earthquakes, the geoblogosphere going “main stream” and much, much more.
The post that accompanies this podcast can be found at http://www.goodschist.com/2008/06/11/the-podclast-episode-5/
Episode 5 of the podClast is ready for download. You can grab the mp3 here (19.1 Mb, 33:18), or subscribe through iTunes here.
Today’s show discusses The Mars Phoenix Lander,
Participants
Chris – goodSchist
Jess – Magma Cum Laude
Show Notes
Notes on taming volcanoes with limestone and dolomite
There’s images from the Phoenix showing grains from the Martian surface.
Big Earthquakes Spark Jolts Worldwide? We had a discussion about that.
Ice quakes are a topic you may like to read about.
I managed to digress into talking about the ANDRILL project.
There’s the Geotimes article and the AAPG article about geoblogging. And Chris has a list of all the active geobloggers over at Highly Allacthonous. There’s also Aiden’s post about it all.
And here’s the link to the call for posts for the Accretionary Wedge #10.
Jess was right with her first guess, it was Tambora that caused the year without a summer (not Krakatoa). And the artist we couldn’t remember the name of was James M. W. Turner
del.icio.us/podclast
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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.
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Next Episode
We like to have a new episode of the podClast every fortnight, so the next episode will be recorded on Saturday the 21st 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 chris [the at symbol] goodschist.com. You’ll probably also do well reading the details on joining the podclast. If you don’t have the time to join us but would like to contribute a 3-5 minute audio clip to the show simply record it, make sure it’s an mp3, and send it to the address above [I'll add more thorough instructions at a later date]
Credit
The intro and exit music was Roots Fi Cool by Burning Babylon.
The splash image on the homepage is a section of the painting “The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up” by J. M. W. Turner and the album art is from NASA.
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Finally had a chance to listen to #5 … great ‘potpourri’ of topics!
Barring network or other technological problems, I will be able to participate in #6.
Yeah, I was pretty pleased with this one. The next one should be good too, with the Japanese earthquake to talk about, the flooding in the mid-west of the USA and more progress on the Phoenix mission. Plus the recently discovered extra-solar super-earths should make for a lively discussion.
Hopefully everything falls into place so you can make it, Brian.
Great podcast, thanks for doing them.
It was the 1815 Tambora event that caused the “Year without a summer” in New England, and the William Turner sunset paintings in London. Many think that it was also inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein, written during that same summer.
Looking forward to the next episode.
Patrick: Thanks. I noted the Tambora/Krakatoa mix-up in the show notes, but I probably should have added a correction in the audio.
According to Wikipedia, the Year Without a Summer also had the affect of Joseph Smith founding Mormonism. So it’s not all inspired works of fiction and glorious sunset paintings. Payback for those positives is getting woken up on a Sunday morning by chaps in suits riding bicycles. Urgh.