The LIUniverse with Dr. Charles Liu
Feb 8, 2026 · 55 min · 13 segments
How can a helicopter fly in space? How does LIGO detect gravitational waves? How do quantum electronic devices like Josephson junctions work? Could AI turn evil and destroy humanity? What about those…
Charles LiuHostAllen LiuHost
Leslie MullenGuest
Eleanor AdamsGuest
Stacey SevernGuest
We have today a directly technical thing which I just wanted to have everybody know because it's sometimes, um, again, not so photogenic, not so, uh, splashy, uh, with the press releases.
But it's so important in our ability to explore space, right? And it is that the European Space Agency has just inaugurated a new deep space antenna in Western Australia.
Now, um, the deep space networks, uh, they're-- uh, the United States has one, uh, Japan has one, China has one, and the European Space Agency has had one for many years as well, but this is taking it to the next level, all right? And this is a 100-foot wide antenna that's in Western Australia, and it's going to have all of the latest technologies that will allow us to pick up the, like, billionth of a watt strength signals, uh, from billions of miles away in the solar system, from some of the most advanced, uh, space probes that are gonna be going out there in the next-
We have today a directly technical thing which I just wanted to have everybody know because it's sometimes, um, again, not so photogenic, not so, uh, splashy, uh, with the press releases.
But it's so important in our ability to explore space, right? And it is that the European Space Agency has just inaugurated a new deep space antenna in Western Australia.
Now, um, the deep space networks, uh, they're-- uh, the United States has one, uh, Japan has one, China has one, and the European Space Agency has had one for many years as well, but this is taking it to the next level, all right? And this is a 100-foot wide antenna that's in Western Australia, and it's going to have all of the latest technologies that will allow us to pick up the, like, billionth of a watt strength signals, uh, from billions of miles away in the solar system, from some of the most advanced, uh, space probes that are gonna be going out there in the next-
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