Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella

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1,941 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 19 Sep

Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #872 - Mar 26 2022 podcast

That's awesome. voice-verified

Wait, wait, wait. voice-verified

It's the only time I would ever win it on a podcast, not on stage. voice-verified

Give or take a billion. voice-verified

Did they give any thought of how that could have gotten there? voice-verified

The first replicate? voice-verified

So why, Steve, why is it so important and good that you could have cooperating lineages instead of one lineage? voice-verified

Why is that so much better than the other? voice-verified

And what would you be saying if they showed that only one lineage could really predominate? voice-verified

OK, this update is a little specific. voice-verified

The UK government is reportedly evaluating a 16 billion pound proposal, and that's not how much it weighs, to construct a solar power station in orbit around the Earth. voice-verified

So as we have mentioned before, the idea at its most basic is to collect energy in space from the sun and beam it back to Earth and use it to the grid. voice-verified

George Freeman, the UK's Minister for Science Research and Innovation and Muggles, is said to be meeting with a group to discuss this possibility and would possibly commit to at least a chunk, a chunk, a huge chunk or a big chunk amount of money with the implied hope that other countries would join in. voice-verified

Freeman said to potential private investors and engineers in Westminster recently that this is being taken very seriously and voice-verified

We're up for being bold, and we're not going to be able to fund the whole thing, but we're up for supporting ecosystems like this. voice-verified

So that's nice. voice-verified

So the whole idea of space-based solar power, SBSP, it goes back to the mid-1920s at least. voice-verified

Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the father of Russian space, is ostensibly the first person to voice such an idea. voice-verified

Then he of course inspired many sci-fi writers like Isaac Asimov and for example his enjoyable 1941 short story Reason used this idea. voice-verified

Fun story. voice-verified

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