Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA Ep. 126: Going Deeper

The 365 Days of Astronomy

Hosted by Steve Nerlich.

Dear Cheap Astronomy – What is the right message to send to the aliens?

Keen listeners may be familiar with Cheap Astronomy's ongoing despair at Earth's lacklustre

attempts at communication with the wider Universe. A few episodes back we ran through a

history of deliberate communications to date, about 90 per cent of which have been music – well

mostly digitized and some analog radio transmissions of music.

Dear Cheap Astronomy – Can we drill through the ice and find life on Europa?

Firstly, there are quite a few moons out there with suspected subsurface oceans – Ganymede

and Calisto around Jupiter, Enceladus and Dione around Saturn – there's even a suspicion that

Ceres, an asteroid rather than a moon, may have one.

Everyone gets excited about Europa, because it's hot.

We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.

Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can!

Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!

Every bit helps! Thank you!

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Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

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Hosted by Steve Nerlich.

Dear Cheap Astronomy – What is the right message to send to the aliens?

Keen listeners may be familiar with Cheap Astronomy's ongoing despair at Earth's lacklustre

attempts at communication with the wider Universe. A few episodes back we ran through a

history of deliberate communications to date, about 90 per cent of which have been music – well

mostly digitized and some analog radio transmissions of music.

Dear Cheap Astronomy – Can we drill through the ice and find life on Europa?

Firstly, there are quite a few moons out there with suspected subsurface oceans – Ganymede

and Calisto around Jupiter, Enceladus and Dione around Saturn – there's even a suspicion that

Ceres, an asteroid rather than a moon, may have one.

Everyone gets excited about Europa, because it's hot.

We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.

Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can!

Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!

Every bit helps! Thank you!

------------------------------------

Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness!

http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.

Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!)

------------------------------------

The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu

Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

2025-10-29 14 min
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