Spacetime With Stuart Gary

Stream on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly) Hi...Stuart with the Show Notes foe Series 19 Episode 54... *Alien megastructure star still a mystery Follow up observations of a weird erratically flickering and dimming star has failed to find an explanation for the strange stellar behaviour. The star named KIC 8462852 is so unusual -- one scientist even suggested it could be our first sign of a hypothetical alien megastructure called a Dyson Sphere. *The world’s first interplanetary mining mission It’s not the Nostromo made famous in the movie Alien, but the world’s first commercial interplanetary mining mission will launch a precursor flight next year before venturing off in to deep space to mine a near Earth asteroid. Australia changing its address *Australia is about to change its address. Federal government hasn’t updated the continent’s coordinate system since 1994.causing existing GPS navigation systems to be off by about one and a half metres. *New project to study dark energy The United States