Living Earths: The Astronomical Answer to “Are We Alone?"

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1. Tony, what happened to the Hubble Hangouts? I really miss them.
2. I just can't understand how a cellphone camera has specs like this:
   CAMERA Primary 12 MP, f/1.7, 26mm, phase detection autofocus, OIS, LED flash, check quality
   Features 1/2.5" sensor size, 1.4 µm pixel size, geo-tagging, simultaneous 4K video and 9MP image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, Auto HDR, panorama
   Video 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@240fps, HDR, dual-video rec., check quality
   Secondary 5 MP, f/1.7, 22mm, dual video call, Auto HDR
   
   but a scientist's or scientists' cameras in 2016-2020 are still only able to do what Voyager's camera did in 1990. Come one, scientists are supposed to have the best tech in the world, it needs to improve.
3. Each example of a star shade mission that I've seen seems to suggest that the mission pairs a single star shade with a single space telescope. If shade movement is such a time consuming ordeal (not to mention what do you do if the shade fails to deploy correctly), then why is it not the plan to simply send a telescope with a small compliment of them? One would think that this will allow the telescope to look at something worthwhile continuously as each non-observed shade adjusts itself and queues up to be next. This carries the added benefit that if a shade fails, there are backups.
   It just seems to me like the advantages of multiple shades would massively outweigh any argument that the project is already physically too big or heavy. Perhaps a single viewing takes so long that moving star shades for a week at a time just feels like a mere moment's wait by comparison? How long do you expect to stare at a single star before you think you understand it well enough to move on to another target?
4. Standing in New York and looking at a firefly in LA? Where are those flat earthers when you need em?
5. Let the xoplanets do for us where we fail in technology in realizing, that planets emit theire own light source .without the deflected sunlight.any lighting strike and hundreds of strikes are the equivalent to a spike in our sensitive light detecting equipment.lighting Is a planets own light and heat source . And the bottom line you get atmosphere readings or atmosphere fingerprints too.and two birds with one stone by a planet doing for us what our limits are failing us.
6. Tony m'man, you should slit there hangouts up.. in "combustable" bite-sizes ;) like 10-15 mins and realse with a few days inbtween.. People with bad memory like me will listen, and have to rewatch some thing :)
   Just like down town man..
7. Missed you guys!
8. Any word from SNC about Dreamchaser? If they are going to continue testing and when a possible launch date may take place?
9. wish i could of seen this live... do they talk about trappist 1?
10. As always awesome Tony, thanks for sharing your love with the universe gathering together expert lovers for us mortal lovers! You know what I mean, keep this way!
11. Only caught a little live, but got the rest now. Great stuff, as usual. Thanks!
12. Great show, and great news at 56:17 , can't wail till you do a show on it
13. Thanks as always!
14. I can't believe That where live
15. Never stop looking up
16. I have this idea that "dark matter" is a heavier gas than "dark energy".
17. Tony, while watching this video I got the idea that "dark energy" is gas.
18. lit