Science Faction Podcast

This episode contains:“Funny anecdote here,” Devon’s trip to Hawaii, manta ray night diving, plankton attracted to light

Pop-Sci: NASA and squid robots, NASA funding new ideas, soft robot squid pros and cons, mermaids, critic robots

http://io9.com/nasa-is-considering-the-use-of-soft-robotic-squids-to-e-1703592055

Nature-watch: Bird migration and climate change, weather affects seeds in turn affecting bird migration, bird irruptions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150511162906.htm

Biological imperative: Neurons changing careers after maturity, changing a neuron for one sense to another, brain plasticity, managing senses in the brain, the brain and blindness, WWW series by Robert Sawyer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150511154915.htm

TV Reviews: hidden cameras, Daredevil, Netflix v. cable, poor lawyers, character development and flashbacks, Stick, Rated R Karate Kid, Daredevil second season, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, The Night Nurse, David Tennant, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, OASIS, 80’s pop culture, Steven Spielberg directing movie version, awesome ride, Star Wars: Rebels, compare with Clone Wars, start of the Rebellion, stupid “roger, roger” droids (I hate them, I hate them so much!), characters of Rebels, Chopper is a jerk, violence in Star Wars cartoons, Vader, Tarkin, Lando, spoilers for end of first season of Rebels, the Inquisitor, Ahsoka, disappointment with new Star Wars books, new canon v. old canon, favorite Rebels episodes, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: R2 with rockets, fans put X-Wing in space, Yellowstone, super volcano, other volcanoes, judgement day (Terminator), cloning dinosaurs for oil, Steven's Jurassic Park story,  video gamer brains, stronger brain connections, amateur gamers v expert, AVG, different types of video games, Portal, Assassins Creed, British settlers, Genghis Khan, Sacajawea, why the future will consider us barbarians, Star Trek: the Voyage Home, Bones in a hospital, JNKO Jeans, farming v growing meat, animal testing, digital stimulation for drugs, drug policy, presidents and drugs, chemical birth control for men, paper clips, non-hormone birth control, knowing where everyone is all the time, eroding privacy, benevolent governments, nothing to hide?, standing on principle, story of missing child, plane sight, Age of Ultron, no humans = no crime, Chris and Sam Podcast, Futurama Quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: Star Wars 7 trailer, 88 million people watched the trailer, line from Return of the Jedi, “and my… sister has it,” Star Wars BS Podcast Network Special, depositions, psychiatric workers’ compensation claims, why people hate lawyers, so much in space, X-Files coming back, exo-planets, detecting planets with direct visible light from planet, spectroscopy used to detect elements in atmospheres, 51 Pegasi b[1], photograph of exo-planet, Hot Jupiter, Mexico is closer to the Sun, applying method to other planetary system, Ebola vaccine successes, Dr. Oz (F him), claiming First Amendment protection when it does not apply, commercial speech does not have the same protections as other forms of speech, Steven gets a mysterious text (X-Files music plays), interesting beers v. Shock Top, IPAs, Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Ale, Leinenkugel, X-Files last movie sucked, new X-Files reboot?, “Sculder and Mully” (42:45), Daredevil, Terminator: Genisys, Devon can’t spell, Terminator timeline, “Sean Conner,” John Conner is a… Terminator?, Terminator Salvation has been forgotten, Sky Net steps up, Devon is done with Terminator’s convoluted timeline, 1984 (not the book), X-3 also discarded, Doctor Who, Wolverine grows new head/body, CG Arnold, Prometheus’s relationship to Alien, xenomorph precursor, reboot Alien, Devon will not see Prometheus II in the theater (“The line must be drawn here! This far, no farther!”), history is full of reboots/sequels, will we ever see a Star Wars reboot?, Disney live-action fairytale movies, retro-futurism for each decade, Star Trek reboot, original Enterprise crew v. totally new characters, Star Trek: Nemesis, Star Trek Beyond/Into Darkness, Futurama Quote, what Devon learned.

This episode contains: Tax day, Rolled Spine Podcast shout out, Hawkeye, mega-cavitations, K1 – K3 scale, we are a K1 civilization, on our way to K2, Dyson sphere, harnessing all power of a galaxy, thermodynamics, mid-inferred wavelength output, no evidence of K3 civilizations in study of 100,000 galaxies, no K3 in our galaxy, might be K2s in galaxy, exhaust port, scale of universe and our galaxy, autism, developmental disorder, autism spectrum, Devon’s dog going nuts, autism in other species, study of paternal genetics in sperm for autism markers, epigenetics, statistically significant tags, fixing genetics once tag is identified, Brontosaurus is back, laser scanning bones to identify species, kids and dinosaurs, the tyrannosaurus prayer, why we’re awkward, Ben Dorst’s showmanship, Devon’s lack of laughter, have we gotten better?, Helicarriers would destroy everything under it, Phil Plait, Avengers Legos, transporters would help crime and change tourism, currency in Star Trek, communistic Federation, transporters and force fields, transporters would change population distribution, Spiderman’s webbing cleanup, Amazing Spiderman 2 problems, Superman v. Batman issues, Suicide Squad, Zack Snyder, Watchman, bio-cable 10x stronger than steel, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: Outlets in airports, R2-D2 dome lighting, Astromech.net, plastic v. metal droid, Pure BS Twitter, R2 drive systems, tank driving, ultra fast aluminum battery, metallic pouch of hot chocolate, hot chocolate = energy, lithium-ion batteries, safer batteries, airlines ban boxes of batteries on commercial flights, pros of aluminum, Earth’s surface, how batteries work (sort of), quick recharge, how many recharges can  a particular batter take, power v. energy density, never needing to recharge your smart device, Elijah Wood in Back to the Future, wireless charging history, bending batteries and screens, new sci fi ideas, twists on familiar stories, Factoring Humanity (by Robert Sawyer, 1998), collective conscience in higher dimensions, Being John Malkovich, Grant Morison, two collective consciences in higher dimensions, The Matrix blew Steven’s mind, questioning reality, Simulacra and Simulation (by Jean Baudrillard, 1981), Plato’s The Republic (380 BCE ish), The Allegory of the Cave, brain in a vat, Descartes (before the horse), Dooms Day (2008), hide from zombies in castles, alternate dimensions, Ultima (by Stephen Baxter, 2014), Timeline, alternate realities as time travel, Source Code (2011), pointless robot on robot wars, Star Trek TOS episode A Taste of Armageddon, Devon’s mystery sci fi show from childhood, Devon’s Tatooine upbringing, My Teacher is an Alien (by Bruce Coville, 1989), The Long Blue Blazer (by Jeanne Willis and Susan Varley, 1988), Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

This episode contains: Devon working out, Devon’s physique vs the rest of BSPN, Alien Isolation, Ripley’s daughter, directors cut of Aliens, Blade Runner directors cut, game play for Alien Isolation, games tipins to the movies, where are all the Aliens in the game, Steven loves this game because it’s boring, Alien reproduction on societal structure, bee reproduction, interpretation of genders, the definition of “CIS”, Devon is gender confused, brain development and gender, how to manipulate gender, mice vs rats, gender vs sexuality, correlation of gender to physique, Twin experiments, the restraints of moraity in science, true AI for experimentation, The Nights Dawn trilogy, ethics of experimentation on AI, future of lawyering, Automata, CIS man, microbrew hipsters, the “science” of making good beer, Facebook gender options, other species that have multiple genders, Devon can’t read or spell, Star Wars first gay character, Steven does not pre-read his articles, dead air, Lords of the Sith, lesbian moff lord, defining a moff, the new Empire system in Star Wars, racism in the Empire, and we are back to Nazi’s, the Emperor’s ultimate plot, expanding of gender and race roles in Disney’s Star Wars, old canon of Star Wars and their lesbian and gay characters, Knights of the Old Republic, Clone Wars and the Hutts, Hutts ambiguous gender, Steven roots for gay characters in Star Wars, Steven outs all the gay people, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: Devon hasn’t had candy since October 15, 2013, La Fondue, fondue desserts, cheese and beer, homemade chicken pop pie (recipe below), quinoa kale salad, rice in Asia, rice for breakfast, reduce calories in rice by cooking with coconut oil and refrigerating for 12 hours, types of starches, 10% to 50% reduction in calories, Sri Lanka rice, cooking increase calories?, “healthier” chocolate, antioxidants, free radicals, studies show little to no benefit from antioxidants, Ebola vaccine, eat fruits and vegetables, SFP tips for healthy living, food pill, Forever War, Old Man’s War, Soylent, calorie distribution, general safe FDA certification, “In a world where nobody poops,”  Back to the Future dehydrated pizzas, Marvin the Martian, we are made of a lot of water, cryogenics and dehydration, rehydrating jerky, alien food, alien evolution, President Hoover and the Hoover Dam, thermal vents, aliens made up by Steven, nerf stakes, Romulan Ale,  Farscape, space pizza, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

 Devon's Chicken "Pop" Pie

Ingredients:

2 cups cook, chopped chicken

15 once can mixed vegetables, drained,

2 cans of cream of chicken

1 cup milk

Tube of biscuits

Instructions:

Mix everything together except uncooked biscuits in a casserole dish

Cook at 400 F for 20 minutes

Cut up uncooked biscuits into fourths, distribute on top of casserole

Bake another 15 minutes

Try not to eat the entire thing in one sitting.

This episode contains: Sub-orbital asteroid, hanging out over the weekend, Munchkin: gateway game, serious board gaming, X-Wing game, Expanded Universe ships, Shadows of the Empire, YT-2400, pilot stats, total point squads, large ships, no one to play with, 3-D printers, cost of printers, quality of 3-D printed objects, new 3-D printer using UV light and oxygen, precision at 20 microns, Star Trek quote, cost of lego 3-D printer, simple math, converting units, paying someone to put together your legos, painting 3-D printed projects, replicator, rearrangement of subatomic particles, limitation to replicators in Star Trek, replicating life, transporter twins, Riker’s twin, what matter to use, reclamation to replicators, all matter is made of the same building blocks, lego analogy, Proxima, smart matter, Time Ships, replicators effects on society, Mr. Fusion, time circuits, Niel Stephenson, Snow Crash, Ultima, Ready Player One, Neuromancer, The Girl With All the Gifts, M.R. Carey, trailers for books, The Diamond Age, The Baroque Cycle, class issues with replication technology, The Replicators of Downton Abby, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

Picard: When was the last time we aligned the torque sensors?

Officer: Two months ago, sir.

Picard: They don't sound right.

Geordi: The torque sensors are out of alignment by 12 microns. You could hear that?

Picard: When I was an ensign, I could detect a three-micron misalignment.

– Star Trek: Insurrection

This episode contains: Black cats, Devon’s dog—Zoe, dog training, humane choke collars, life-sized fake dog, Milky Way Galaxy, Snickers Galaxy, Thee Musketeers Galaxy, Baby Rush Galaxy, Butterfinger Galaxy, our galaxy is 50% larger then previously thought,  galactic north v. north of the galactic plane, hard to study our own galaxy because of our point of view, thickness of the galaxy, fastest star found in our galaxy, type 1a supernova, rogue planets, creation of the Moon, Drake’s Equation, Fermi Paradox, The Seven Least Plausible Explanations to the Fermi Paradox, we might be the first generation of intelligent life, there may be no way to travel between the stars no matter what, Von Neumann Probes, The Prime Directive, God created our universe just for us, the anthropic principle, coincidence, multiverse, aliens have been here and left, aliens are here now but hiding, depressing to be alone in the universe, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.