Month: August 2014
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Episode 015: Google Car / Fantasy
Recorded August 20th, 2014 This episode contains: Special Guest Patrick Spain, awkwardness, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, explaining names, Google cars, facial recognition, saving lives, repairing vehicles, driverless future, the difference between science fiction and fantasy, chat about The Broken Empire series by Mark Lawrence, the Stormlight Archive chat, Tolkien stereotypes, the Night’s Dawn trilogy…
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Episode 014: Black Holes / The Singularity
Recorded August 13th, 2014 This episode contains: Google maps, suggestive butts and click bait, terrible dad jokes, what is a Black Hole?, the event horizon, how Black Holes form, XKCD and mols, why we can’t see Black Holes, super massive black holes in the early universe, accretion disc radiation, extra galactic jets, Big Bang Theory…
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Episode 013: Junk DNA / Genetic Engineering
Recorded on August 6th, 2014 This episode contains: Snowpiercer mini-review, junk DNA, 8.2% of human DNA may be functional, ENCODE, genes expressing, sentence analogy, what percent do we actually use?, Star Wars, droids and Clone-troopers, Eureka!, Exosquad, evolution of Wolverine, Galaxy Quest and authority, genetically engineering ourselves and our children, DNA replication, Futurama quote, what…
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Episode 012: Nuclear Power / Post-Apocalypse
Recorded July 22, 2014 This episode contains: What would happen after a short nuclear war, climate changes, rainfall shortages, frost free crop times, ozone layer depletion, UV gene damage, starvation, orders of magnitude, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Fallout video game retro-futurism, Mad Max depletion of resources, peak oil, drinking milkshakes, Sunshine, asteroids and Armageddon, Rosetta…
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Episode 011: 1138 Part 2
Recorded July 20th, 2014 This episode contains: Super Star Wars special, with guest Ben Dorst of the Pure BS Podcast! We talk about corrections, lightyears, Parsecs and what they mean in the Star Wars and our Universe, the Kessel run, Strange Days and recorded memories, moving in with significant others, the Endor Holocaust, starship speeds,…