The Science Faction Podcast

This episode contains: Definitions for Steven, lots of nothing, Witcher 3, No Mans Sky, 18 quintillion planets, survival exploration, gobbledygook is racist, mixing colors We are all gonna die: We are using all of our resources too fast, ecological debt day, Steven reads his article, Steven does not have excel, too many people, Dazed and Confused, transmuting matter, we’re…

This episode contains: Devon has a lot of passports, passports are alien to Steven, hole punching old people This week in space: Io’s collapse, volcanic activity in space, how do you determine the most volcanic object in space? Io’s is cold, Devon has trouble talking, colonizing planets may be dangerous, tidally locked planets, super clusters, expansion of the…

This episode contains: Old school intro, Devon gets drunk, Russian River, Steven has bad jokes, day drinking, rope swings, knots to the crotch, busted eardrums, lost Giants hat, mystery bruises, rope swing disasters, Steven was in the Bay Area, fact checking the museum, trolling SFP, Stranger Things Cryo-Medicine: ALS Ice bucket challenge, Steven didn’t donate money, Hawking has…

This episode contains: Nice Guys, 5 out of 5, Ryan Gosling, Monkey Tools: different stones used for cashew processing, “hammer stones,” technological development, PBS video series, monkey’s hunting footage https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160711150920.htm Symphony of Destruction: Why we like the music we do, cultural influence, western music theory, dissonance, consonance,  testing different populations, finger nails on a chalkboard,…

This episode contains: Independence Day, fireworks, buying guns and bongs, Blue Apron, Tinkle Bell Peppers, Kurzgesagt In a Nut Shell This Week in Space #1: Origin of Mars’ Moons, captured asteroids, impact with Mars, geological composition, inside gas giants, Juno Mission  http://gizmodo.com/a-badass-new-theory-on-the-origin-of-mars-moons-1783059254 This Week in Space #2: problems with space junk, testing satellite to collect…

This episode contains: Stephen King, How Did This Get Made?, Maximum Overdrive crazy trailer, Trucks (short story) This Week in Space: “I want to die on Mars but not impact” Elon Musk, growing plants in Moon/Martian soil, heavy metals in soil, amount of metal absorbed by plants, metric and imperial system songs https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160627095316.htm Let’s Get…

This episode contains: Detroit, 8 Mile, Heavy Rain, visiting baseball parks This Week in Space: Earth’s new moon, orbit, dimensions, recent discovery, traveling to asteroids, 2016 HR3 http://gizmodo.com/earths-new-quasi-moon-will-stick-around-for-centuries-1782082812 Cranio Baby: Baby with brain outside of skull, incompatible with life, normal development, surgery, the brain, credit for Jesus, trolling http://gizmodo.com/infant-with-brain-growing-outside-his-skull-saved-by-pi-1782348507 Sci-Fi: Fortune cookie, Detroit: Become Human,…

This episode contains: Deathgasm, Me Before You, assisted suicide The Gods Must Be Crazy: world’s oldest computer, the Antikythera Mechanism, Stuff You Should Know, telling the future, astronomy, gears and symbols, http://gizmodo.com/the-world-s-oldest-computer-may-have-been-used-to-predi-1781749625 This Week in Space: carbon nanotubes, space elevators, strength of carbon nantube lines, potential problems due to minor imperfections, http://gizmodo.com/scientists-found-a-possible-deal-breaker-in-the-quest-t-1781909000 Sci-Fi: Elite: Dangerous,…

This episode contains: Awkward, nothing going on, sports, friends Fossilized Research: dog domesticated two separate times, genetic data from wolf populations, dog breeding, DNA time machine, convergent evolution analogy https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160602151723.htm Let’s Get Physical: naming new elements, three new elements, island of stability, analyzing proposed names, Thawnesium, Rob Roy, Devon’s dumb former stepbrother, study about sex…

This episode contains: Swishing soda, cavities, dental things, X-wing Miniatures This Week in Space: quantum satellite, quantum entanglement, how are particles entangled, naturally entangled systems, communication, cryptography, faster than light communication, teleportation, transferring information http://www.popsci.com/chinas-quantum-satellite-could-change-cryptography-forever Robot Overlords: soft body robot actuators inspired by muscle, robot and humans working together, safety considerations, flexing muscles, vacuum, VAMPS,…