QA 58: Can We Live If The Sun Dies? and More, Featuring Astronaut Mike Massimino

In this week's questions show, astronaut Mike Massimino answers a question about astronaut training, I wonder how we could survive if the Sun dies, and explain why the shuttle's fuel tank was orange.

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Emma Dogtuin

Can we still live if the sun dies?

Nicholas Bolding

Let's assume something catastrophic happens and essentially stops any and all supply missions to the ISS how long approximately could they live for? And what would happen first, asphyxiation, starvation, thirst or something else?

Richard Price

Hi again Fraser, I've asked you this before but you may not have seen it, why was the main fuel tank on the first launch of the space shuttle white and why did it change to the brown colour later on? This has been bugging me for years! Great channel by the way.....thanks.

Lluís Teixidó

How big was the Universe before the Cosmic MIcrowave Background? (aprox. 380.000 years after the Big Bang?). How come we constantly get photons from that moment? Shouldn't we expect to see a stop of the flow of photons from the moment the universe became transparent some time in the future?

PossibleCinema

I`m wondering what do you think about the moral/ethical implications of our species conducting a self-induced panspermia by, for example, sending thousands of probes with organic materials to exoplanets with known habitable zones, in order to potentially kickstart life there? If plausible, what do you think about this type of impregnation of the universe by us? Such "pollution" is bad when you look for other examples of life but what about giving a better chance for life to thrive, taking the next billions of years into the account? Keep up the great work! Thanks!

Connor Paller

You’re just feeding flat earthers. They’ll take so much of this so far out of context it’s not even funny

Gabriel R

The planets travel on a flattish disk but I’ve seen the Oort Cloud portrayed as Spherical. Why the difference of shape?

boycot gugle

Question: When there is an active galactic nucleus/quasar with lots of stuff falling in and piling up, will the layers closest to the black hole be made up of neutronium or even "quark star core matter", if that exists? Will layers a bit further out do nuclear fusion?

Evolution Inc.

Hey, I recently listened to Ringworld, and I'm just wondering, is such a large structure possible to build, and if we could, would it be stable?

Astro B

Hi Fraser :-) You often talk about moving Heavy Industry into space to cut polution and damage on Earth. Surely this is unachievable because of the huge difficulty of moving heavy stuff out of Earth's gravity well.

Guest Question

Grant Lanning

Do we even have trained astronauts for lunar or mars missions? By this I mean astronauts with geology and structural engineering backgrounds to study this new environments to make the paths for future more experimental based scientific astronauts. This was kind of the error we made before when going to the moon, we sent test pilots, who were incredibly brave and I don't want to sound like I'm putting what they did down in any sense, but what more could we have learned had the first man to walk on the moon been a geologists or any kind of planetary scientist instead.

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