The Mandalorian

<p>This is the episode. Disney have <a href='https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/11/disney-announce-10-star-wars-and-10-marvel-series-and-new-films'>announced</a> 10 new films and series in the Star Wars Universe. <a href='https://disneyplusoriginals.disney.com/show/the-mandalorian'>The Mandalorian</a> Season 2 has just finished. The <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory'>Arecibo Observatory</a> just collapsed. We're in.</p> <p> "Your name will be legendary" Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand</p> <p><a href='https://twitter.com/astrondrew?lang=en'>Andrew</a>, <a href='https://twitter.com/timonsingh?lang=en'>Ti</a> and <a href='https://twitter.com/bullox?lang=en'>Steve</a> settle in to talk all things Mandalorian and <a href='https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/seth-shostak'>Seth Shostak</a>, Senior Astronomer at the <a href='https://www.seti.org/'>SETI Institute</a> joins us to talk about the latest in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence and the collapse of the Arecibo.</p> <p> Baby Yoda stole our hearts. Mando stole our Friday nights. </p> <p>Fair warning, this is a spoiler laden episode so make sure you watch all of the first two seasons of the Mandalorian first. Once you have done that, settle in for our last episode of 2020.</p> <p> The Arecibo (as featured in Contact) has collapsed</p> <p>You have two choices. You can download and listen at home or your can can download and listen outside. We can bring in 2021 warm or we can bring it in cold. It's up to you.</p> <p>We have spoken.</p> <p>show notes</p> <p>Seth Shostak has written a <a href='https://www.seti.org/goodbye-arecibo'>lovely tribute to Arecibo</a> <a href='http://www.thecosmicshed.com/'>The Cosmic Shed</a> is part of the <a href='https://stimulusnetwork.wordpress.com/'>Stimulus Network</a> <a href='http://wayback.archive.org/web/20150919222319/https://www.podbean.com/site/podcatcher/index/feedurl/http%253A%252F%252Fthecosmicshed.podbean.com%252Ffeed%252F'>You can subscribe to The Cosmic Shed podc