Science Faction Podcast

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 nuke Mars, investment in terraforming, using time warp to colonize Mars in the book Spin, weathering a map, Devon is annoying,

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150928094114.htm

Sci-Fi: Devon is still annoying, crediting the people who found water on Mars, The Martian SPOILERS, creative narration, solving problems, simplifying for the movie, less obstacles in the movie, our ratings of the movie and book, what was cut from the book for the movie, most dramatic part of book was cut, small differences to climax of the movie, zero G in movies,

SFP Book Club: Dune, how much of the book we’ve read, deserve to be a classic, comparison to Game of Thrones, Paul and Jessica, Bene Gesserit, Suk Dr. Yueh, House Harkonnen and House Atreides feud, family connections, Gurney Halleck, political intrigue, action scenes, plot against the Atreides by the Emperor and Harknonnen, importance of water, still suits, sequels, Iron Maiden: To Tame a Land is still awesome, Devon relearned how to play it on guitar, Futurama quote, anti-joke

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, After the Gold Rush, Dune, book and movie, SFP book club, Devon never reads what his grandma gives him, Iron Maiden To Tame a Land, Rhapsody of Fire, 360 degree view of Jakku, Fallout 4, Loot Crate, Steven's begs his wife to buy him a toy, story and lore of Destiny, we go "super nerdy," the Black Spindle sniper rifle, Rocket League, Futurama quote, what Steven learned, Iron Maiden!!! 

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 Week in Space: Air conditioning for tidally locked planets, three possible models, expanding number of possible habitable planets, Drake Equation, Proxima and Ultima by Stephen Baxter,

http://www.iflscience.com/space/air-conditioning-system-may-turn-hot-planets-habitable

Sorry Mom: Effectiveness of anti-bacterial soap, comparing ant-bacterial soap and plain soap, how often should we wash our hands?, freaking out about health, new eating disorder

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150916113058.htm

Sci-Fi: Calculating God by Robert Sawyer (3 out of 5 according to Steven, 4 out of 5 according to Devon), interesting debates but poor story telling, forced climax, Necromancer by William Gibson, cyber punk, being thrown into a universe without explanation, militarized dolphins, Street Samurai, Molly Millions, Miles Greb and After the Gold Rush, Dune, Z for Zachariah, Futurama Quote, and what Devon learned

This episode contains: Rainforest 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, sci-fi wormholes, energy needed for a “real wormhole,” MRI-3D, faster than light drive bending space-time (Alcubierre Drive), Ark by Stephen Baxter 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150903081506.htm

Sci-Fi: Star Wars: http://io9.com/everything-we-know-about-star-wars-post-return-of-the-j-1729549100, less than 100 days until Episode 7!, Millennium Falcon coffee table, Millennium Falcon screen accurate models, Force Friday, inside of Millennium Falcon, after Return of the Jedi, propaganda war, The Iron Blockade, The New Republic, galactic governing, demilitarizing, use of force agreements between planets, down fall, new emperors, cloning, Imperial Remnant, Battle of Jakku, Star Wars live action show, Imperial Future Council, heroes of original trilogy go their separate ways, Nights of the Old Republic, Acolytes of the Beyond, Knights of Ren, wellspring of the dark side, full Nazi, cult of The First Order, middle east and ISIS, Hogan’s Heroes, Boba Fett, filling in 30 years, Benicio Del Toro in Episode 8, Rogue One, Futurama quote, what Steven learned

This episode contains: Nothing special, Shakespeare, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Ant Man (4 out of 5 according to Devon), Periscope, Captain America: Civil War, stingers

Biological Imperative: Gene Leads to Nearsightedness When Kids Read, Steven’s childhood, goat eyes, stigmatism, Giants losing to the Dodgers, near v. far sightedness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150831144103.htm

Nature Watch: Another Cracked article, 6 Facts About the Environment that Just Aren’t True, biodegradable is bull, planting trees, Earth Hour, powering down all you crap, candles, CA drought and almonds, Devon’s type of sandwich, solar panels, Steven stands up on his soap box for environmentalism, water reclamation, desalinization

http://www.cracked.com/article_23018_6-things-everybody-gets-wrong-about-saving-environment.html

Interview and Sci-fi: Interview with Miles Greb – author of After the Gold Rush,  (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/919052445/after-the-gold-rush-a-science-comic) (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=756517&ty=h) Marvel, independent comic books, Kick Starter, skepticism and atheism, science as wonder, accurate idioms, 25 issue run, hard sci-fi, day job, Dune, commentary for Prometheus, Mad Max videogame, control scheme, Fury Road, War Boys, Gas Town, Bullet Farm, Plains of Silence, R2-D2 building (www.astromech.net), Calculating God, Star Wars Episode VIII casting, “chemistry read,” live interest in new Star Wars trilogy, romance in movies, Spider Man, Futurama quote, what Devon learned

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, crows using tools and passing on knowledge, crow school, crows observing other crows, testing age, Biological Imperative reprise, largest cell usually cited as ostrich egg, larger cells: nerve cell in giant squid and giraffes 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150826113817.htm

Sci-fi: beer, 805, pumpkin flavor, Devon hates his headphones (seriously!!!), Periscope, Calculating God, thought experiment good - plot development bad, non-humanoid alien, debating the existence of a creator, A Fire Upon the Deep, unique space battles, Forever War, Neuromancer by William Gibson, World War Z, Orphan Black, Canada, great acting, RSP, Mr. 1701, It’s Such a Beautiful Day by Don Hertzfeldt, The Simpsons Couch Gag “Clown in the Dumps,” Futurama Quote, plugs?, Patreon, what Steven learned, anti-jokes

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 mile high elevator, cost effective?, lower gravity?, why do we make fun of Canada so much?, space tourism, hydrogen v. helium, 12 mile long Hindenburg, maintenance, skyscraper stability

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/212482-could-an-inflatable-kevlar-tube-make-space-elevators-practical

Biological Imperative: Listening to music before, during and after helps with recovery from surgery, decreases need for pain medication, what music in particular?, Steven’s experience with surgery, any surgery is dangerous, Devon uses the Simpsons as his security blanket, music does not reduce length of hospital stay, only a mental benefit, pain scale (0 to 10), Devon hates some aspects of his job, the subjectivity of pain, cultural impressions of pain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150812200431.htm

Sci-Fi: A Young Doctor’s Notebook, Daniel Radcliff as a young doctor in 1917 Russia, dark comedy, new trailer for The Martian, too many spoilers?, still looks like an awesome movie, Mars rover, All Along the Watchtower, A Fire Upon the Deep, zones of thought, Terminal World, technological zones, Tines: packs of dogs with hive minds, dogs with castles (not as bad as it sounds), Seveneves, Steven’s disappointment, some books need sequels, Ark, Robert Sawyer, Calculating God, WWW trilogy, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, Armada, sci-fi prepares us for real alien invasion, Fan Boys, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

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 ten agents over ten generations to determine best configuration for moving from one place to another, robots analyzing how something works and determining best solution, baby steps to the Singularity

http://io9.com/this-robot-uses-the-power-of-evolution-to-produce-and-i-1723610563

Biological Imperative: The power of pupils is in their shape, why do different animals have different shaped pupils?, vertical pupils v. horizontal pupils, different perceptions of distance and location of objects, evolutionary theories, counter examples, what about birds?, considering environmental factors 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/power-pupils-their-shape

Sci-Fi: More Blue Apron, tricks to shucking corn, Sense8 will be back for a second season!, SGU, Deadwood, A Fire Upon the Deep audio book, The Tines and collective consciousness, The Ship of Theseus Paradox told using a hammer, Seveneves, cons of reading books on alternative formats, Game of Thrones, no way to avoid some spoilers, George R. R. Martin, post-apocalypse video games, Rust by Face Punch Studios, survivalist game, crafting new items, shoutout to Canadian Bacon, improvised armor (coffee can, wood, signs), Last Man on Earth, play Rust with Steven, Destiny and light system, the grind, Sheltered by Team 17, fallout shelter survival, keeping your family alive, sanity, water butts?, Worms Battle Ground, Centipede, Snake, Futurama Quote, what Steven learned

This episode contains: Steven’s back!, Las Vagas, 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 hidden magnetic track, false headlines, tricks on a hoverboard, hovering cars?, Devon stops paying attention

http://www.iflscience.com/physics/heres-lexus-hoverboard-finally-action

Pop Sci 2: NASA found an alien crab on Mars (according to crazy people), Zoidberg or mole or roots?, does look biological but obviously isn’t, paradolia, Photoshopped?, UFO website with all kinds of crazy

http://io9.com/nasa-totally-found-an-alien-crab-on-mars-and-didnt-tell-1722449768

Sci Fi: Fallout 3 played as a baby, Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1999), Flashforward by Robert Sawyer (1999), book version v. TV version, A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992), Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (2015), stories with large jumps in time, Star Gate Universe, Time Ships by Stephen Baxter (1995), Ex Machina (2015) (both give it 4 out of 5), actors in Episode 7, Sense8 (Devon gives it a 9 out of 10 because 4 out of 5 wasn’t accurate enough), being too graphic, Futurama quote, what Devon learned

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, 6 engines and 28 landing gear wheels, commercial space travel, Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, prioritizing space travel, politics and government waist, how much would we spend to go to space, comfortable space travel, quicker travel, space travel always cost prohibitive?, space mining, Moon,

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/stratolaunch-soon-largest-plane-world-133041433.htm

Sci-Fi: Biggest technological breakthrough in the near future, self-driving vehicles, commuting, less traffic, no need to own a car, bad driving sampling error, Google car accidents, driving freedom, safer motorcycles, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, brain implants, privacy, VR games and porn, increased productivity, 8 x 8 = 64 (we were both way off), living off the BS Podcast Network, Steven is the hardest worker in the network, Bubba’s super powers, what sci-fi technology do you want right now?, lightsaber not as useful as it might seem, Cracked’s Adventures in Jedi Training School http://www.cracked.com/series/adventures-in-jedi-school/, years of lightsaber training, people in the Star Wars universe should treat lightsabers like guns, anyone is allowed to use a lightsaber, transporters, no driving, live anywhere, manufacturing and distribution, fixing the CA drought, space travel, transporter range, interdimensional travel, transporter paradox, wormholes, Old Man’s War by John Scalzi, Fantastic 4, real teleportation, quantum bit, transporter accidents in Star Trek, evil Kirk, Futurama quote, what Ben learned.