[SpaceBites+] Dangers of A Super Solar Storm // Jupiter Twice The Size // Crazy Moon Landing System

Why is it called regolith when we talk about the moon or Mars, but on earth we use totally different words like rock, gravel, sand, dirt soil?

Bonus story at 18:22 about where star formation happens in galaxies

Hey Frasier, question about Jupiter being 2 to 2.5 "Larger" in the past than it was today.:The phrasing used throughout is ambiguous to me, do you mean is was twice the mass? twice the volume? twice the diameter? Based on the comment about gas cooling down and about how many Earth's could fit in Juptier now vs. the past, I think you are saying that Jupiter was less dense and had a bigger volume, but the same mass in the past? This also seems to just make more sense compared to it losing half of its previous mass. But you also so that in the future maybe it will gain more material, which implies that the change in is in mass.

Question : Do you think there are more gas planets or more rocky planets in our galaxy ?

solar storms:asteroids (from the Oort Cloud or not)::earthquakes:hurricanes We can get some warning for earthquakes. Both hurricanes and asteroids are visible. That's pretty nice. We can get some warning for earthquakes. The amount and quality has gone up the longer we've studied them. The same can be true for solar storms, but we can only try.

Mars is a lost cause. Forget about it. It’s to small, so it will NEVER retain an atmosphere. If its going to just loose its atmosphere, again, what’s the point. It doesn’t have a magnetic field because the core is frozen and no moon to maintain it. The only way to make it earth-like is to make it bigger, supply it with a moon, and start its core t to both increase its gravity and maintain a magnetic field. If these things aren’t done, the exercise is a waste of resources. I can’t imagine humankind having the ability to achieve any of these things. Hope I’m wrong.

Threat: big comet from the Oort cloud heading in from way out of the ecliptic.

Fraser you need to get over the Carrington event. We engineers haven't been sitting on our hands since then. I'm much more worried about climate deniers, take for example the recent blackout in Spain, immediately they blamed overreliance on renewable energy but actually it was a transmission failure and all the wind turbines and solar panels continued to work as normal. But telling them anything is harder than saying Aliens aren't real.

7:06 'A little over a year ago ... Federal agencies that are defunded and unstaffed got together with universities we don't talk to any more...'

What about big bad comets from the Oort cloud? We'd have a couple of years, but something that's 1000 cubic kilometers or more might need a lot more force to 'push'. Time to bring Bruce Willis out of retirement...

What about bugs who could disrupt asteroid tracking systems like Fraser in his close-up ;)

20:30, what about climate collapse?