Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 39/38 "The Newtype: Challia Bull" (ニュータイプ、シャリア·ブル), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Jupiter - why would we go there, and how would be do it?, helium and its uses, and government experiments in psychic phenomena.

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- A few articles explaining the role of Helium-3 in plans for near-future nuclear energy production.

- About lunar helium-3 mining, including about China's apparent interest in mining the moon.

- Interview with the scientist who lead the team that started the discussion about lunar helium-3 extraction.

- NASA biography of geologist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt.

- Estimate of rate of energy consumption increase.

- About the cancellation of the last Apollo missions.

- Wiki pages on helium-3 and neutron radiation.

- Decades of Discovery: NASA’s Exploration of Jupiter.

- Target: Jupiter — Missions to the Solar System's Largest Planet.

- Up Close and Personal with Jupiter: A History of 9 Space Probes.

- History of NASA's Pioneer 11.

- NASA's Blueprint for 1970s Planetary Exploration (1968).

- How far is Jupiter and how long does it take to get there?

- Wiki pages on Jupiter, its exploration, the NASA Deep Space Network, and Pioneer 10.

- Helium discovery, production, and use