Published: Saturday, May 18, 2020
In Episode 111, Rod and Tariq speak with Dr. John Mulchaey of the Carnegie Observatories about the dangers of completing two giant astronomical observatory.
Welcome to the Big Glass Wars. You thought you knew everything, but it turns out that there is a fierce competition between a few countries in order to stay at the forefront of optical astronomy. To do this, they need a huge hunk to collect light from distant stars and galaxies.
Enter the Carnegie Observatories, and their partners in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) and the Giant Magellan Telescope. Both telescopes are under construction and are both threatened by the budget cuts of the U.S. Congress.
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Rod Pyle is a journalist, TV producer, and editor-in-chief of Ad Astra Magazine. He has authored 18 books about space exploration, history, and development. These include Space 2.0, Innovation the NASA Way (a book on innovation), Blueprint for a Battlestar (a book on blueprint for a battlestar), Amazing Stories of the Space Age and Destination Mars.
Rod has produced documentaries and shorts films in the past for The History Channel and Discovery Communications. Rod also worked on visual effects for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Battlestar Galactica remake and various sci-fi television pilots. His last TV credit was the NatGeo document on Tom Wolfe’s classic book The Right Stuff.
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Tariq Malik, the Editor-in Chief of Space.com and responsible for Space.com’s editorial vision has covered space science and news for 18 years. He first joined Space.com in 2001 as an intern, and then as a full time spaceflight journalist covering human spaceflight and exploration. In 2009, he became Space.com’s managing editor. He has been a space reporter on CNN, Fox News and NPR.
Tariq has been an Eagle Scout for over a decade (yes, the Space Exploration Merit Badge is hiss), attended Space Camp four times, and once as an adult, and experienced the ultimate “vomit camet” ride, while reporting zero-gravity flames. He was a reporter at The Los Angeles Times, covering education and city beats. He holds journalism degrees from both the University of Southern California, and New York University.
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