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Welcome to ANI In the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore.
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So today is a special edition of this podcast.
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It is in fact the last of the podcast, at least under this name.
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Why?
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Because we have no tent anymore.
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We took it down today, and so I'm going to recall this podcast, ANI In the Air, Under
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the Sky, Around Baltimore, and Around Baltimore, placing Under the Tent with Under the Sky.
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Now we're out here, and we're under the sky, people.
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Beautiful sky.
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Yep.
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Yeah, spent the whole day power washing the top of the tent after we took it down.
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It was pretty cool.
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Caroline and Phil got trapped in the middle.
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I said I was no way going to be in the middle of that, because I got claustrophobia, and
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that was pretty awful.
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We've got them out, though, they're fine.
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So anyway, yeah, that was basically the day, at least for me.
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We had announcements.
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The big announcement is that we're going to have an assembly meeting on Thursday to discuss
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the rising numbers and the imminent transition to a fully online ANI experience.
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That's right.
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If the numbers continue to be as they are in terms of daily case rates and positivity
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test rates, then starting next Monday, we will no longer be in person.
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We will be fully online.
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So that's a sad day, but we'll have fun online.
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Maybe I can finally finish on a Kato that'll be the day, huh?
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Anyway, so, um, yeah, I was going to do a millions Monday.
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I'm not sure if I've talked about this before.
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I don't really have time to say too much about it, but figured since now I'm going to be
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under the sky and it gets dark early, it's like getting nighttime now, I've seen lots
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of stars.
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That's right.
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Lots of stars.
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How many stars?
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Well, uh, I'm glad you asked.
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So theoretically I've heard numbers like a hundred billion stars in our galaxy.
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At times I've heard a hundred billion galaxies.
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Sometimes I hear 2 trillion.
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So somewhere in there is the truth, I imagine, but it's a lot.
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But I don't know, there's just something about, I was, I was, um, curious about, um, you know,
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there's lots of stars in the sky, lots of planets evolving around those stars and there
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quite potentially could be lots of life on those planets, even intelligent life, even
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intelligent life that's, uh, starting to go explore their solar systems or whatever.
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Uh, there's a famous thing about, um, I think it's called the Fermi paradox where basically
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the question is like, why don't we see evidence of, you know, intelligence life out there,
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even on the scale of millions of years to propagate across the galaxy, you'd think somebody
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would have done that and we would know about it.
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So the question is why we don't see them and, uh, you know, the big question is whether
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the thing that kind of has prevented that is behind us, namely the likelihood of having
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a planet where life could evolve or a life actually evolving on a planet or intelligent
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life evolving on a planet or intelligent life having the resources to be able to get outside
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of their planet.
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Um, those are the things behind us.
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And of course in front of us are things like, Oh, maybe there's always a global pandemic
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that wipes out intelligence life or nuclear weapons or, uh, asteroids or, you know, intelligent
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robots.
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I don't know.
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Um, but that's sort of the big question.
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And so, um, but anyway, my, my puzzle, my big puzzle I was thinking about is just how
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much space there is in between these star systems.
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It just seems like there's a lot, a lot, a lot of star systems, but they're very far
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apart.
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I mean, even though the speed of light, it's like a few years to get to the closest planet
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and that's at the speed of light, just kind of, you can think of that as a speed limit
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of the universe.
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So I dunno, uh, just makes me kind of sad.
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The big emptiness that's all around us and we can't get to these stars, we might never
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know that there's life on other planets or not, but now that the tents down, uh, I can
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contemplate that more cause I'll be looking up into the sky or at least if I'm out here
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after dark, which rapidly getting dark around here.
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All right.
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Uh, well, so anyway, uh, this is, as I said, the last podcast of ANI in the air under the
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tent and around Baltimore, and soon it will be in, uh, in the air under the sky and around
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Baltimore.
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And uh, maybe I even have to change it again next week, uh, if we transitioned to fully
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online.
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We'll see.
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All right.
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Uh, I, I did, uh, have an idea about the parody of the American pie song.
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Um, you know, kind of like the day the tent came down, but I'm really bad at singing so
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I'm not going to sing that.
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You know, I could then go like, you know, bye, bye miss ANI, you know, and then, and
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then continue, uh, along those lines.
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I love making little parody songs.
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I'm not very good at it.
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I have no music, musical ear whatsoever, so I won't sing it, but just wanted to put it
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out there in case somebody gets inspired and writes a beautiful, amazing parody of American
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pie that describes the entire wonder and joy of ANI.
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All right.
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All right.
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Well, you have a good one.
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Uh, talk to you all later under a different podcast.