Good news, everybody! Stories from Space, the humble ship that launched one year ago (as of last week), has surpassed 5000 downloads – 5,346, to be exact. And since the show first aired, 43 episodes have been released. Doing the math, this works out to about 0.83 episodes a day, 14 downloads a day, and about 124 downloads an episode. Of course, that’s just the averages. Some episodes have done better than others, and the number of downloads has fluctuated over time (though the trend is upward).
It appears that of all the host platforms, Apple Podcasts was the greatest source, accounting for 1,359 downloads (or 26.32% of the total), followed closely behind by Spotify (1,153 downloads; 22.33%). According to the analytics, the following episodes were the ten most popular:
- The Great Filter Hypothesis | Guest: Dr. Robin Hanson – 371 views
- The Alcubierre Warp Drive | Guest: Dr. Harold “Sonny” White – 364 views
- Behind The Scenes At NASA | Guest: Nancy Atkinson – 260 views
- We’re Going to Mars! – 258 views
- Where Are All the Aliens? The Transcension Hypothesis – 198 views
- Building An Elevator To Space! | Guests: Dr. Peter Swan & Adrian Nixon – 160 views
- Where Are All the Aliens? The Planetarium Hypothesis – 155 views
- What Is The Future Of Space Law? | Guests: Christopher M. Hearsey & Nathan Johnson – 149 views
- Going Interstellar | Guest: Les Johnson – 140 views
- Marschitecture | Guest: Vera Mulyani – 124 views
According to my publishers at ITSPMagazine, this is a pretty good start. Now if we could just get some sponsorship, we’d be in business! In addition, I’m interested to know what subjects people are interested in and want to know more about. This could be anything from historical tidbits, past & future missions, and general knowledge stuff to concepts in astrophysics and the wild and wonderful world of the truly deep and speculative stuff.
The show is growing, ongoing, and evolving. And I’m hoping interested parties will share their ideas on where it should go. Let me know in the comments!
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Mazel tov!
Nice! I’ve really enjoyed the various answers to the Fermi Paradox. I see a few of those episodes are on your top ten most downloaded lists. I’ve also really enjoyed any time you talk about this historical aspects of space exploration. That’s an angle not a lot of other science communicators take.
Thanks for letting me know! I have a lot of other historical episodes I could be doing, but haven’t! Though I will be teaching a course about the history of Mars exploration and its role in our culture.
That sounds really interesting!
Any requests? š
Have you ever heard of a book called “Edison’s Conquest of Mars”? It’s an unauthorized sequel to “The War of the Worlds,” published circa 1900, telling the story of how Thomas Edison leads Earth’s counterattack against the Martians.
I’ve never read it, and I have no idea how relevant it would be in your course. But I do think it’s an interesting footnote in the history of science fiction.
Nope. I just looked it up, thanks to you. I am intrigued!