Description

This week we catchup on feedback and news, discuss ship naming conventions, and learn about an old gravity experiment! What do the Apollo missions and a Scottish mountain have in common? Listen to find out!

Feedback/News

• RSS Boaty McBoatface
• Undersampled Radio
• Neat geological time scale from listener Martin
• Listener Bart recommended an app called “Start10”
• The Orbital Mechanics Episode 48
• GNU Octave

The Apollo Story

• Bizarre Lunar Orbits Article
• Lunar Mare
• There are four inclinations of orbits that are stable 27, 50, 76, and 86 degrees.

Schiehallion

• Schiehallion Experiment
• Pronounce it!
• Contour Line History
• Cavendish Experiment

Fun Paper

• Is Moore’s law about to break and change the way we innovate our microprocessors?
• More Than Moore by Waldrop

Contact us:

Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com

John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman

Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin