Try Harder, Asteroids

Summary: Chris and Rob make an apology and a confession respectively. There’s a new near-miss asteroid on the block, a recursive village in the UK and a question of our detectability. We talk drugs, exoplanets and quasars in this explicit podcast. [MP3 Link] Episode #38. If you have anything you’d like us to look at, or any questions you’d like us to answer - use the links at the top of the web page at http://recycledelec.com. Follow us on Twitter @recycledelec @orbitingfrog and @chrislintott. Links: Asteroid  2011AG5 won’t kill us (probably): http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-178 The VO in the era of big data: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4076 (Bruce Berriman) Quasars snack: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-180 Are we detectable? http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=23057 Bourton-on-the-Water is recursive LEGUE: LAMOST Experiment for Galactic Understanding and Exploration arxiv.org/abs/1206.3578 David Nutt’s new book: Drugs - Without the Hot Air, chat about Equasy and Ecstasy. xkcd’s exoplanets image: http://xkcd.com/1071/ Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford University Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).