The Science Faction Podcast

This episode contains: High school drink, no beer, no mixers, The Quantum Entanglement or The Solution (peppermint vodka and ginger beer), Star Wars tease (that’s never paid off) This Week in Space: Gizmodo, simple design change to build a thruster to Mars, Hall Thruster, less fuel use, ion thruster, the engine of the future, just using…

This episode contains: Crashing TIE fighter, trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek Beyond, Star Wars through the generations, ubiquity of Star Wars, tickets and servers crashing, Football/Star Wars tie-in?, bringing back fans that hated the prequels, playing it safe/similarities to A New Hope, Rey in Star Destroyer hanger, The First Order, who’s…

This episode contains: Delorean doors, Back to the Future Day!, Facebook hoaxes, Biff and Trump, first time watching BTTF, election night, our first sound tracks This Week in Space: NASA’s Kepler Mission, star brightness dropping strangely, scientists baffled!, debris, comets, Oort Cloud, Dyson Sphere, aliens?, radio waves, Calculating God, advanced civilizations retreating to the matrix,…

This episode contains: No harmonica, dentists and pain, taking it in the mouth, Wild Card game, Devon may be drunk, our extremely tenuous connection to the Nobel prize in physics, neutrinos, SNOLAB, Steve Maguire, https://www.snolab.ca/ Tech Upgrades: The $1 Billion City Nobody Calls Home, full scale town for tech testing, sensors, self-driving cars, energy technology testing,…

This episode contains: Hobo harmonica from Germany, strange recording date/time, having a productive weekend with toys, buying keyboard or drums, homemade steak dinner This Week In Space: water on Mars, Reoccurring Slope Lineae (RSL), spectroscopy, death metal band scientist, Mar’s polar icecaps, Steven quizzes Devon, how much water?, history of Mars, Elon Musk’s plan to…

This episode contains: Carl’s Jr., hamburgers, crazy pizza toppings, TMNT, Gilgamesh Brewing, X-Wing Miniature Game Force Awakens, Star Wars: Armada Evolutionarily Speaking: Republican campaign and evolution, hermit crabs making rash decisions, Scott Walker, Trump  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150911140925.htm Nature Watch: watermelon crossed with tomato, eggplants and Blue Apron, grafting plants, hybrid fruits http://io9.com/woman-fools-local-news-into-believing-she-crossed-a-wat-1732630288 Sci-Fi: the new Muppets show,…

This episode contains: Devon’s decedents will take over the Earth, Pure BS Podcast guest hosts, engagement party, joint finances and the Domingues system, Nature Watch: Apes Know a Good Thriller When They See One, apes watching movies, long term memories of apes, can apes empathize with movie characters?, showing animals pictures and mirrors http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150917134634.htm This…

This episode contains: Rain forest of Brazil, Devon’s Mom keeps calling, engagement party Nature Watch: Estrogen and frogs, life finds a way, too many female frogs, sampling from different ponds, prey-predator dynamics http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150907190643.htm Physical Challenge: Magnetic “Wormhole” Connecting to Regions of Space Created for First Time, three layer cylinder, magnetic lines invisible between two points,…

This episode contains: Mics, webcams, no pants deposition, crap on a potato  Biological Imperative: Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete?, bacteria cells, the collective me, size of cells, eggs as cells, Star Trek amebas, “holobiont,” “hologenome,” evolution on micro-biome, holo = whole and entire, diseases and hologenome/holobiont  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150819120658.htm  Nature Watch: UCSB, Something to Crow About,…