Marmalade Stocks are Running Low

Summary: Space Cows and the remarkable Kangaroo Vagina! Chris is watching seaplanes land in Seattle, while Rob stays at home in rainy Oxford. ESA has selected its next large mission. We wonder if we’re going asteroid mining. More acronyms receive judgement and as does a contender for ‘Worst Ever Scientific Paper’. [MP3 Link] Episode #30. 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: ESA selects JUICE: http://scienceblogs.com/catdynamics/upload/2012/04/esa_makes_a_choice/ESA-SPC.pdf Gorgeous view of 30 Dor : http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1206/ Are we going asteroid mining: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27776/?ref=rss Is there a lack of dark matter int he solar neighbourhood : http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1217/ Do GRBs cause cosmic rays? : http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/04/icecube-chills-cosmic-ray-theories.html ChAInGeS: The Chandra Arp Interacting Galaxies Survey : http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3194 S^4G : http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~ksheth/S4G/ (From Jen Gupta) Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies Kangaroos have three vaginas: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/17/kangaroos-have-three-vaginas/ (HT to @davesteele) The world’s worst paper : https://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/math-paper-retracted-because-it-contains-no-scientific-content/ Diving to avoid Venus: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/16/us-aircanada-incident-idUSBRE83F10120120416 ARAA : Fabian on AGN :http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4114 Kennicutt & Evans on SF : http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3552 Credits: Audio content Copyright 2012 Chris Lintott and Robert Simpson. Special thanks to the Oxford Press Office for recording space. Podcast Image courtesy of Flickr user bazik (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bazik/395792175/).