Pondering the Assistance Invasion, blasting off with maximum coolness with SpaceX, possible microscopic passengers, and this is not a place of honor for six percent of rats. Tick-tock!

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Resistance is futile: you will be assisted [00:00]

• This is your brain on Virtual Assistance

Falcon Heavy launches away [04:03]

• Elon Musk is elated over the SpaceX success
• Set phasers to maximum coolness
• The Arch Mission Foundation ups the ante for offsite backup

Time And Relative Messaging In Space [12:38]

• DNA as alien message-in-a-bottle (so says TNG!)
• Nuclear semiotics and the problem of messaging across time
• The nuclear renaissance as the (climate change) clock ticks closer
• Practical fusion is getting closer
• Tardigrades, the ultimate package format of life

Wifi Follow-up [34:26]

• NIH: 6% of male rats should not make thousands of concurrent cell phone calls
• Epigenetics is waiting to activate your mostly-inert DNA

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)