Why Keep Voyagers Alive, Life with No DNA, Confidence in the Distant Ladder | Q&A 320

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Is keeping the Voyagers active a waste of money and time on the Deep Space Network? Could you play catch with a baseball-mass black hole? How confident are we in the distance ladder? And in our Q&A+ version, does it make sense to film a movie in space? Answering all that and more in this Q&A show.

00:00 Start
00:29 [Bentation Funkiloglio] Could we play catch with a really tiny black hole?
01:24 [Aturuxo] How confident are we in the "distance ladder"?
08:03 [Pelican666] Is continuing the Voyager missions just a waste of money?
09:53 [Cooper Levesque] What will finding life in the Solar System actually mean?
12:10 [Edward] Would a microbe without DNA even be alive?
13:48 [Cooper Levesque] The topic I'm bored to cover

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