[Q&A] Fuel for Comet Tails, Detecting a Voyager's Crash, Driving Into Lava Tubes

Why don't comets run out of "tail fuel"? If Voyager crashes into something, can we tell it apart from a regular failure? What are the chances we will drive into a lava tube? Will satellite communication become dominant at some point? Answering all these and more in this Q&A show. 🦄 More Q&A in the Overtime Audio: https://www.patreon.com/posts/overtime-audio-q-116788920 00:00 Start 00:37 How can comets leave tails for thousands of years without running out? 02:57 Can we detect a hit to a Voyager? 04:20 How possible would it be to drive into a lava tube on the moon? 05:44 More Space Bites from website authors? 09:52 Does Moon getting farther away impact tides on Earth? 11:34 Will satellite communications overtake traditional on-ground ones? 16:01 Can we protect a Moon colony with an artificial magnetic field? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/FwLo1h8l5Oc 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast