On Star Wars Day, May The Fourth, we welcome Sumen Rai back to The Adelaide Show to talk all things Space in South Australia
Sumen tells us about the recent NASA International Space Apps Challenge held in Adelaide.
She also sheds some light into the far corners of South Australia’s space universe, uncovering an international space university, international astronautical conference coming to Adelaide next year, the Mars Society, and the promising outcomes of the local entries in the Space Apps Challenge.
Sumen is quite bullish about our state’s readiness for space and this show will certainly take you on a voyage to some of the super things happening.
Other ‘May The Fourth’ highlights
Wine tonight – two Pinots from Brian Gilbert at Lofty Valley Wines
For the Made To Move Minute, Max Martin … continues his series on pain and diagnosis.
In IS IT NEWS, Nigel quizzes us on our knowledge of … space.
The Adelaide Visa Council has another defendant, with a strange name.
In musical pilgrimage we have a track from a South Aussie currently touring the UK, Tom West.
Show notes running sheet by timecode
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| TIME | SEGMENT |
| 00:00:00 | Outtake |
| Homage to Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds. Sorry. | |
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Theme |
| Theme and introduction. Our original theme song in full is here, Adelaidey-hoo. | |
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Talk Of The Town |
| David Washington, editor of In Daily, gives us a midweek wrap of the news we’ve been talking about in South Australia this week. | |
| 00:03:09 | Items Without Notice |
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We have a phone number. 088 12 1836 0 Memories of Max Harris History Conversations. This Saturday, 2-4pm, St Peters Town Hall. |
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| 00:09:02 | SA Drink Of The Week |
| Lofty Valley Wines 2013 and 2014 Steeped Pinot Noir … Tasting notes. | |
| 00:18:59 | Made To Move Minute |
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Max Martin from iNform Health and Fitness Solutions, Norwood, present a thoughtful minute for pondering more ways and reasons to get moving and improve your health. This week: Part Four of the series on pain and diagnosis. |
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| 00:24:03 | Sumen Rai |
| Sumen Rai’s day job is with the South Australian Government, facilitating new research and development partnerships between industry, research organisations and government agencies. But if you have been listening to us for a while, you would have heard her in episode 104 in which she mentioned that in her spare time she likes to organise events such as NASA’s Space Apps Challenge. Well, that was held late last month in Adelaide and while the event was one small step for South Australia, the topic of space is a giant leap forward for this podcast. | |
| 01:05:25 | Is It News? |
| The news history quiz with Nigel Dobson-Keeffe. | |
| 01:18:58 | Adelaide Visa Council |
| speedy the weasel (@speedweasel) VISA REJECTED 27/04/2016, 8:00 PM @adelaidejerks OK, there’s two things to do in Adelaide if you count @TheAdelaideShow and Ketamine
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| 01:25:27 | Musical Pilgrimage |
| And our song this week is Easy, Love by Tom West, selected by our musical curator Adrian Miller, from Radio Adelaide’s Monday night program, Songcatcher. | |
| 01:34:31 | Outtake |
| Nigel being weird, Steve made a joke | |
Here is this week’s preview video:
SFX: Throughout the podcast we use free sfx from freesfx.co.uk for the harp, the visa stamp, the silent movie music, the stylus, the radio signal sfx, the wine pouring and cork pulling sfx, and the swooshes around Siri.