Bursts

Wow! Signal Bursts are highly focused, short (often less than 10 minutes), tightly edited episodes, with a bit less in the way of fanfare, show notes and music. Nagging, thanking and begging are dispensed with. Patrons are not charged for Bursts.

Below we list the Bursts we've done to date, with a short description and a link.

Burst #	Release Date	Title	Description
34	16-Jul-2021	The Mystery of the Nine Transients	Astronomer Beatriz Villarroel talks about her latest VASCO paper.
33	20-Mar-2020	Astronomer David Blank comments on Episode 41.	David Blank is generally supportive of the work of Villarroel, et. al., was discussed in Episode 41.
32	18-Feb-2019	Become a Boyajian's Star Scientist	Join the KIC 8462852 Analysis team. No experience necessary.
31	6-Feb-2019	Beyond the SETI Paradigm	Nick Nielsen's latest thoughts on SETI.
30	25-Apr-2018	Gaia DR2 and Boyajian's Star	A update on what the latest Gaia DR2 astrometry release implies for Boyajian's Star.
29	23-Apr-2018	Caral Supe and Evangeline	A update on Boyajian's Star.
28	6-Feb-2018	The Cosmic Archipelago, part 3	Nick Nielsen on the Observable Universe.
27	25-Jan-2018	The Cosmic Archipelago, part 2	Nick Nielsen on the idea of a temporal distance ladder.
26	21-Jan-2018	The Cosmic Archipelago, part 1	Nick Nielsen on the history of the cosmic distance ladder.
25	3-Jan-2018	The Elsie Paper	A short audio tour of the new Boyajian, et. al. paper on the Elsie dip.
24	3-Dec-2017	The Summer of Tabby's Star	Boyajian's Star developments in 2017.
23	5-Jun-2017	Tabby Boyajian Talks about the May 2017 Dip	Tabby Boyajian discusses the observations of the most recent dip in brightness of her namesake star.
22	19-May-2017	Tabby's Star is Dimming	Paul Carr briefly discusses what is going on with the new dimming event.
21	2-Jan-2017	The Absolute Definitive Truth About Alien Megastructures	Paul Carr talks about the sorts of alien megastructures that could be out there somewhere, and how we might be able to observe them.
20	14-Sep-2016	Gaia DR1 and the WTF Star	A conversation with Tabetha Boyajian about the implications of Gaia Data Release 1 for our understanding of Tabby's Star
19	31-Jul-2016	Our Sky Now and Then - A Conversation with Beatriz Villarroel	A novel approach to SETI by three Swedish students - looking for disappearing astronomical objects.
18	04-July-2016	Nick Nielsen on the Spoor of Civilizations	SETI research is much like the traditional task of a tracker, who seeks the spoor of elusive quarry through a wilderness.
17	18-May-2016	The Where's the Flux Kickstarter	A brief discussion of the new kickstarter to buy telescope time to observe Tabby's Star. Please consider donating.
16	31-Mar-2016	Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 2	Our second installment about the puzzling flickers in the light curve of KIC 8462852, aka Tabby's Star
15	16-Mar-2016	The Social Context of SETI	Nick Nielsen's thoughts on SETI in a social context
14	14-Mar-2016	Jason Hessels on the Repeating Fast Radio Bursts	Radio astronomer Jason Hessels explains the recent paper reporting that a previously discovered FRB repeats.
13	10-Mar-2016	Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 1	Paul Carr explains why Tabby's Star is perplexing.
12	13-Feb-2016	SETI as a Process of Elimination	Nick Nielsen on the nature of the SETI enterprise
11	6-Feb-2016	DASCH Photometry with Dr. Josh Grindlay	Josh Grindlay tells us why he thinks Hippke's critique of Schaefer is wrong, but that he is still skeptical of Schaefer's result
10	3-Dec-2015	The Wilderness Hypothesis	Nick Nielsen discusses a variation of the Zoo Hypothesis for resolving the Fermi Paradox.
9	21-Nov-2015	Halos of Vanished Civilizations	Nick Nielsen talks about the electromagnetic halos left behind by lost ET civilizations.
8	17-Nov-2015	Questions about asteroid mining	Paul Carr expounds some of his unanswered questions about the laws governing asteroid mining, as well of those of an Unseen Podcast listener.
7	1-Oct-2015	Why Interstellar Spaceflight is Hard	Paul Carr explains at an elementary level why it is hard for us to go visit the nearby stars..
6	12-Jul-2015	The Caves of the Moon	Mike Mongo talks to Jeff Nosanov about the PERISCOPE mission concept for exploring lunar caves.
5	8-Apr-2015	What About those FRBs?	A quick summary of where we are following the paper by Hippke, et.al. on the strange pattern in Fast Radio Burst dispersion measures.
4	17-Feb-2015	Upper Limits	Daniel Cartin on his latest paper modeling interstellar colonization in the solar neighborhood
3	20-Dec-2014	MISS on Mars?	Nora Noffke explains her hypothesis that the Curiosity rover may have seen microbial mats on Mars.
2	7-Dec-2014	Through the Lens of the Drake Equation	Paul Carr gives us his perspective on the Drake Equation at the end of 2014
1	30-Nov-2014	The Astronaut Instruction Manual for Preteens	Mike Mongo, Astronaut Teacher, tells us about his forthcoming book to inspire kids to pursue careers in space