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Episode 5 - “Roger Braddock #2″ is now available on Castbox, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and RadioPublic!
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We’re only a month away from the end of our hiatus, listeners! Are you as excited as we are?
We know it’s been a while since you’ve heard from us, so this October is a great time to go back and listen to our first three episodes before Episode 4 comes out on November 2nd!
A playlist featuring Vera Lynn, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, and others
Our long hiatus is finally coming to an end, listeners! WHEN in Rhapsody will return to the airwaves (...podwaves?) in two months time. We know you’ve been waiting a long time, so to help you get back in the mood, here’s a playlist of some of the most popular requests at WHEN! Hopefully, there won’t be any mysterious interruptions this time...
The Science of Roger Braddock
Science fiction is rarely scientific. As someone who’s going into astrophysics, I tried to add some science fact into Roger Braddock: Space Explorer, but given that this was supposed to be written by people in the early 1940s (when liquid-fuel rockets were considered the height of technological achievement and nuclear power was still, as far as most people knew, science fiction), there were some...challenges.
The Spaceship: In 1942, not even V-2 rockets existed yet. But even though it was still a relatively new field, it was becoming clear that rocketry was the way to get to outer space. So when you picture the Athena (Roger Braddock’s ship), picture something like the Saturn V (the rocket used for the Apollo missions in the 1960s) shown below:
The Laws of Physics: Force = mass times acceleration. We all learn that in high school physics. Some people (like me) feel dizzy just from being a car when someone floors the gas pedal. So accelerating a rocketship fast enough to travel slightly over 4 light years in about a week, like the Athena crew does...well, let’s just say it’d be a lot worse than a headache. So in order to prevent the crew from dying horribly just from the sheer force of acceleration, the Athena is outfitted with a device called an “intertia negator”. This completely made-up invention is something I’ll never describe in depth because I have no idea how it could possibly work (or if it would ever even be possible to build, even 250 years in the future), but it does exactly what the name implies: it negates inertia, allowing the crew to, in Eris’s words, “go from zero to oh-one in under ten seconds.” Without dying.
Gotta Go Fast: When discussing faster-than-light travel, the normal vocabulary used to describe speed - miles or kilometers per hour - becomes basically useless. Instead, the crew discusses speed in relation to the speed of light. “Oh-one,” for example, is shorthand for .01 lightspeed, or 1% lightspeed. (Which sounds slow, but it’s actually about 6.7 million miles per hour!)
Good evening, Rhapsody - it’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’m so sorry for the delay - we all have busy schedules, and sometimes they all just line up so that we can’t seem to get anything done! Thankfully, we’re back to making new episodes again, and our fourth episode is in the works. Here’s a preview, if you don’t believe me - it features some bonus content we can’t put in the actual episode for copyright reasons.
Ever wonder what a typical broadcast sounds like to people outside the radio station? Well, now you do. And now you see why Edna’s getting complaints.
So, funny story - my laptop has picked up a fun new habit of crashing every other time I open Audacity. Needless to say, this is slowing down the editing process a bit. But on the plus side, classes were cancelled tomorrow due to the weather, so this will give me more time to hopefully get something done! I know it’s been a long time. Thank you all for your patience!
- @wesleyknope, creator
Happy Holidays, Rhapsody!
Just to update you all - we're still working on our next episode. It should be out sometime in January. Thank you all for sticking with us as we sort out our busy schedules - hopefully, we'll be back to releasing episodes every three weeks starting in 2019!
Looking for an editor!
So, it's been awhile since we've released an episode. I realized though I've explained why on Twitter, I haven't done so on here yet. The reason our schedule kind of...vanished is because editing takes a LONG TIME. A very long time. Especially when you're a college student. And also the writer. And the social media manager.
Lately, I haven't been able to devote as much of my time to WHEN as I would like to. My hope is that once finals are over (mid-December), I'll have a lot of time to work on this podcast before the spring semester starts. But I still don't know if I can promise a regular new-episode-every-three-weeks schedule.
That's why I'm looking for someone to help me edit the podcast. I won't be able to pay you (like I said, I'm in college), but you WILL get:
My heartfelt gratitude
The satisfaction of knowing you're helping bring this story to life
To meet the rest of the cast (who are wonderful patient lovely people that I'm so so lucky to have)
You don't need to have prior experience with podcasting! The only requirement is to know how to use Audacity or another audio editing program. If you're interested, or you have questions, please email [email protected]! (Or message me here, but the email is probably gonna be more reliable.) I look forward to hearing from you!
And (I feel like I always say this) if you're not interested, please reblog this so it can reach more people! Thank you!
