NASA sends a boy band to Pluto. Prime Minister Crusader Rabbit makes sense of the Middle East, more or less. And we hear some presciently ironic words from Singapore.
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Episode Credits
- Stingray opening theme (1964), swiped from YouTube.
- New Horizons ready for Pluto visit, Sky News, 14 July 2015.
- Amos Yee’s Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead!, 29 March 2015.
- “Bronwyn Bishop’s plane ride to Geelong cost *474* times as much as the #NASANewHorizons trip to #Pluto. (corrected)”, tweeted Paul Kidd, 15 July 2015.
- “No, Burnt Fag-End, I don’t think Bronwyn Bishop ‘wafts’ anywhere. She’s not for wafting,” tweeted Stilgherrian, 16 July 2015.
- Iranian people celebrate in the streets after historic nuclear agreement, ABC Radio’s The World Today, 15 July 2015.
- Australia and Singapore strengthen partnership, SBS World News, 29 June 2015.
- Amis Yee’s How To Speak Singlish, 10 August 2012.
- “Note to self: Keep a copy of all press releases from the Attorney-General,” tweeted Josh Taylor, 29 June 2015.
- “Labor wants all kids to crack codes,” tweeted Bill Shorten, 21 July 2015.
- “A reminder that Australia is the only OECD nation without a space agency,” tweeted @ABCnewsintern, 14 July 2015.
- President Obama blamed for counterfeiting — Pamela Downs, Chattanooga News, 14 July 2015.
- Tennessee woman arrested for printing own money after reading online Obama had made it legal, Raw Story, 14 July 2015.
Series Credits
- The 9pm Edict theme by mansardian via The Freesound Project.
- Edict fanfare by neonaeon, via The Freesound Project.
- Elephant Stamp theme by Joshua Mehlman.
- Photograph of the Trinity atmospheric nuclear test, July 1945, by the US Government via Wikimedia Commons.
[Picture: George Brandis as Pluto, tweeted by cartoonist Dave Pope, 14 July 2015.]
