 Hello everyone and welcome to the Midget Space podcast. I'm Amy Shira Tidal. You guys may know me from my YouTube channel or blog of the same name. Both are my internet babies and this is an extension of my internet baby. So thank you so much for joining me, and I thought we'd start to kick off the podcast generally with something a little bit fun that has come up in various in various comment sections and I've had conversations with some of you guys on Twitter, on Facebook, about weird ways that history could go very differently. This was inspired in a very large part because I moderated a panel of space historians at Space Fest this year in Tucson. So I thought I would share some of the thoughts from that panel with you guys.