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Month: March 2015

  • Episode 043: 3D Printing / Replicators

    Episode 043: 3D Printing / Replicators

    Recorded March 18th, 2015 This episode contains: Sub-orbital asteroid, hanging out over the weekend, Munchkin: gateway game, serious board gaming, X-Wing game, Expanded Universe ships, Shadows of the Empire, YT-2400, pilot stats, total point squads, large ships, no one to play with, 3-D printers, cost of printers, quality of 3-D printed objects, new 3-D printer…

  • Episode 042: Galactic Size / Fermi Paradox

    Episode 042: Galactic Size / Fermi Paradox

    Recorded March 11th, 2015 This episode contains: Black cats, Devon’s dog—Zoe, dog training, humane choke collars, life-sized fake dog, Milky Way Galaxy, Snickers Galaxy, Thee Musketeers Galaxy, Baby Rush Galaxy, Butterfinger Galaxy, our galaxy is 50% larger then previously thought,  galactic north v. north of the galactic plane, hard to study our own galaxy because…

  • Episode 041: Thought Flying / Alien 5

    Episode 041: Thought Flying / Alien 5

    Recorded March 4th, 2015 This episode contains: Steven is hosting, PBS co-hosting, “The Big Chair,” Devon’s game show voice, what game shows we watched, Super Market Sweep, Chopped, game show education, Alex Trebek’s age, quadriplegic women flies F-35 with nothing but her thoughts, Flight simulator, thinking of flight, teaching our brains, the first future of…

  • Episode 040: End of the World / Galactic Civilizations

    Episode 040: End of the World / Galactic Civilizations

    Recorded February 25th, 2015 This episode contains: the great LEGO purge, office toys, Stephen Hawking’s recommendations, colonizing planets, earth sustainability, AI dangers, dangerous aliens, what the earth looks like from other planets, cops and murderers, asteroids, climate change, fixing our errors, the doomsday clock, nuclear war, nuclear war, mutually assured destruction, gamma ray bursts, super…