where science meets fact meets fiction

Month: April 2015

  • Episode 048: Visible Planets / Reboots

    Episode 048: Visible Planets / Reboots

    Recorded April 22nd, 2015 This episode contains: Star Wars 7 trailer, 88 million people watched the trailer, line from Return of the Jedi, “and my… sister has it,” Star Wars BS Podcast Network Special, depositions, psychiatric workers’ compensation claims, why people hate lawyers, so much in space, X-Files coming back, exo-planets, detecting planets with direct…

  • Episode 047: K3-Autism-Bronto / Sci-Fi Machine Fail

    Episode 047: K3-Autism-Bronto / Sci-Fi Machine Fail

    Recorded April 15th, 2015 This episode contains: Tax day, Rolled Spine Podcast shout out, Hawkeye, mega-cavitations, K1 – K3 scale, we are a K1 civilization, on our way to K2, Dyson sphere, harnessing all power of a galaxy, thermodynamics, mid-inferred wavelength output, no evidence of K3 civilizations in study of 100,000 galaxies, no K3 in…

  • Episode 046: Aluminum-ion / Sci-Fi Ideas

    Episode 046: Aluminum-ion / Sci-Fi Ideas

    Recorded April 8th, 2015 This episode contains: Outlets in airports, R2-D2 dome lighting, Astromech.net, plastic v. metal droid, Pure BS Twitter, R2 drive systems, tank driving, ultra fast aluminum battery, metallic pouch of hot chocolate, hot chocolate = energy, lithium-ion batteries, safer batteries, airlines ban boxes of batteries on commercial flights, pros of aluminum, Earth’s surface,…

  • Episode 045: Gender / Gay Star Wars

    Episode 045: Gender / Gay Star Wars

    This episode contains: Devon working out, Devon’s physique vs the rest of BSPN, Alien Isolation, Ripley’s daughter, directors cut of Aliens, Blade Runner directors cut, game play for Alien Isolation, games tipins to the movies, where are all the Aliens in the game, Steven loves this game because it’s boring, Alien reproduction on societal structure,…

  • Episode 044: Rice / Future Food

    Episode 044: Rice / Future Food

    Recorded March 25th, 2015 This episode contains: Devon hasn’t had candy since October 15, 2013, La Fondue, fondue desserts, cheese and beer, homemade chicken pop pie (recipe below), quinoa kale salad, rice in Asia, rice for breakfast, reduce calories in rice by cooking with coconut oil and refrigerating for 12 hours, types of starches, 10%…