The Science Faction Podcast

This episode contains: Destiny, what’s the point of playing a video game?, DLC, the Ladies Night Podcast, this is not a videogame podcast!, why most videogames are sci-fi, Sims, farming simulator, “Lot Lizards” This Week in Space: Space elevators, ribbon to geosynchronous orbit, counter weight, alternative to using carbon nano-tubes, Thoth Technology, using pressurized gas, 12…

Recorded August 12th, 2015 This episode contains: Horrible day at work, Blue Apron pizza, arugula on pizza? (Why?), gross olives, Devon is learning to cook, Thug Kitchen, tofu (is supposedly good according to Steven), the science and art of cooking (not really), Robot Overlords: Evolution to improve power of robots, mother robot and children robots, evaluating…

Recorded August 6th, 2015 This episode contains: Steven’s back!, Las Vegas, Craps, Black Jack, Roulette, house money effect (Devon incorrectly calls this a fallacy), adult Cirque du Soleil, Star Trek Experience, M&M store, Eminem ride Pop Sci 1: Lexis has build a working hoverboard, Back to the Future quotes, super conductors, cool fog, skate park with…

This episode contains: Temporary new host, guest host, Reel Stupid Podcast, Twilight, target demo, creepiness of Twilight, Miles from Tomorrowland, sci-fi kids show, Star Wars for kids, Red Letter Media (Devon calls it Red Band), This Week in Space: New space plane, Stratolaunch, larges airplane ever, space ports, past SFP mistakes, Space X, Virgin Galactic,…

Recorded July 15th, 2015 This episode contains: Heart on Pluto, Pluto’s not a planet—deal with it Nano-Nano: Pentaquark, five quark particle, hadrons, protons and neutrons, quark flavors, spin, anti-quarks, Large Hadron Collider (LHC), bump hunting, regular hadrons have three quarks, Ghost Busters’ particle physics, 10^-6 seconds after the Big Bang, quark-gluon plasma http://www.nature.com/news/forsaken-pentaquark-particle-spotted-at-cern-1.17968 This Week…

Recorded July 8th, 2015 This episode contains: Life choices, Nooooooo!, Star Wars App, engagement, gay marriage ruling, asking for hand in marriage tradition, Devon can be romantic This Week in Space: Quintuple star system, touching binary stars, method of detection, solar systems with even more stars, if Jupiter was a star http://io9.com/astronomers-have-discovered-an-exotic-quintuple-star-sy-1716473889 Biological Imperative: Chronological age v.…

This episode contains: Exploding on a barge, Inside Out, ideas, GIRL! GIRL! GIRL!, true cider, banana bread beer Pop Sci: Space X disaster, reusable rockets, Steven and Devon get their wires crossed, mission to ISS, holo-lense, augmented reality, the meteor composition estimation, real space travel v. Sci fi space travel, minor spoiler for The Martian,…

This episode contains: Frantically trying to think of a reference to Inside Out, joys of parenthood, Indiana Jones, Crystal Skull was apparently the best they had (yikes). Pop Sci: Easy eye surgery, skeptical flags, laser eye surgery, bionic lenses, 20/20 x 3, cowboys don’t wear glasses.  http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/06/19/the-8-minute-surgery-that-will-give-you-superhuman-vision-forever/ This Week in Space: Blue Hook Stars, birth…

Recorded June 17th, 2015 This episode contains: Running from dinosaurs, name for baby dinos?, group of dinos?, Steven’s anti-vax story, SFP Ep. 36 (for full discussion of vaccines), arguing with true believers, “Gish Gallop,” defining terms for an argument, emotional based argument. Nature Watch: Worms detecting Earth’s magnetic field, dividing animals by cute and ugly, up…