Science Faction Podcast

This episode contains: dirty dozen, William Devon Craft, Esq. jumping right in, pants gangsters, geekery of choice, FTL, Science Fiction and Science Fantasy, Star Trek breaking ground, winner of the non-contest: JB!, Swiss cheese pervert incarcerated, terrible puns, Wacko of the Week: Amou Haji, not bathing, smoking animal poo-poo, five cigarettes, eating rotten porcupine, dumb Americans, dreadlocks, MommyNicky’s hypothetical, the box, twilight zone, your honor, defining gypsies, Justice League, not getting into the Batman vs Iron Man debate, time travel, Back to the Future, the human virus, detecting extra terrestrial life forms, traveling near the speed of light, hard sci-fi, Stephen Baxter, grav-plating, Flood and Ark and space travel, The Timeships, R2-D2 life size model building, Maker Faire, Abrams using fans, People vs George Lucas, prequels were made for kids, Jar-Jar, Clone Wars chat, DEEP Clone Wars chat, NEEEEERDS!, condoning piracy (we don’t).

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This episode contains: Total Recall, Devon's ending to Total Recall, life's a dream, Skynet evil?, robot voice, T2, evidence based science, cherry picking data, preliminary studies, Devon's forehead and jaw, we were in a band, it's all about that bass, tonal discrimination, electrical sensors, brain scans, Come Sail Away, friend genetics, Dorst corrects us, distance from quasars, the common person, alien life, radio astronomy, generation ships, light years, relativity, genetically modified children, choosing child's traits?, The Singularity, deconstruct the human brain, future time line of computer advances, copy of brain, immortality, Google Devon, sci-fi v. fantasy, Steven's take on fantasy, fast forward first 20 minutes, alien abduction, Calvin and Hobs, anal probe hand-shake, Star Trek v. Star Wars, too many Bens, flirting in space, Stone Henge, Drewish?, ancient mysteries, science in movies and TV, Prometheus, The Core, 2012, neutrinos, Matter/Dark Matter/Dark Energy, size of Super Star Destroyer, math, Metric System, building capital ships, White House response to Death Star Petition, Futurama and Simpsons, Dorst Beep, Futurama Quote, what Devon learned...

This episode contains: Ben Dorst from the Pure BS Podcast, Science from 0 to 10, Ben's rank, Devon's rank, Distance to the moon, Orion Spacecraft, Space elevators, Apollo Space Program, Next president’s space policy, Average tax payer, Star Wars Episode 7 trailer, Camping out for movies, Storm Troopers, The Empire continues, Rebels surrender after 30 years, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Darth Vader killing the Emperor, The Force goes dormant then awakens, Devon says Episode 7 will be in top five highest grossing films of all time, Episode 7 Rotten Tomatoes review, Devon 78%, Ben 86%, Defense of prequels, Futurama Quote, What Ben learned

This episode contains: Bugs in amber, Jurassic Park VHS pre-orders, jerky, reading the Michael Crichton book, newly rediscovered Pentaceratops aquilonius, the genus Kosmoceratops, the time between the Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus Rex, possible evolutionary lines, extinction events, Jurassic World trailer recap and thoughts, raptors and motorcycles, old script horrors, toy spoilers, chameleon possibilities, elements from the books used in different movies, genetic hybrids, pygmy dinosaurs, Star Wars trailer reveal, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

Jurassic World trailer

This episode contains: explanation of time dilation, relative velocity, gravitational time dilation, bowling balls and mattresses, Interstellar recap, wormhole in 3 dimensions, galactic spacing, layout of the new solar system, space travel times, artificial gravity and the Endurance, explosions and shuttle thrusters, the fuel problem, the 5th dimension, Factoring Humanity by Robert Sawyer, tesseract, future timeline, Apollo moon landings, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

This episode contains: Spaaace, Philae lander, Rosetta mothership, 10 year mission, harpooning a comet, comet tails, orbits of the moon, Polar Vortex, jetstreams, climate change and science, Dementors, fluxuation of Earths weather patterns, Team America World Police and The Day After Tomorrow, Star Wars, Episode 7, The Force Awakens, The Ancient Fear, Luke's possible hermit role, Chewie's arm, Simon Pegg perhaps, Old Man Han, Empress Leia, plot conjecture, stormtrooper varients, Darth Vader's helmet, concept art, book cannon, Avengers 2 trailer, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: Remember Remember the 5th of November, V for Vendetta on Cinema Sins, airplanes, fear of flying, Apollo 13 film, NASA Apollo mission recap, Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explosion, russian rocket engines, found footage, presidential promises, Virgin Galactic accident, SpaceShip2, $250,000 dollar tickets, wing feathering, Apollo 18 and space horror, Europa report, Gravity, space movie physics, our George Cloony love affair, hypothetical space travel questions, would we (the hosts) travel in space, futurama quote, what Devon learned.  

Footage of Antares Rocket explosion (warning, language)

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This episode contains: Special guest Ben Dorst fromt he Pure BS podcast, The World Series, superstitions, riots, bucket lists, baseball field sizes, pitchers arms and resting, joint speed, the Most Dangerous Game, Surviving the Game, the Hunger Games, gambling and sports, the Running Man, gameshow host, 3 triad and pyramid, Rollerball, Quidditch, 3 teams, Z-ball, Ender's Game, Pacific Rim, Space Jam, Futurama quote, what we all learned.

This episode contains: Special Guest Ben Dorst from the Pure BS podcast, the sports that we played, the reasons that we have sports, how sports may have evolved, the Mesoamerican ballgame Ollamaliztli or 'pitz', sacrifice and competition, the physics of sports balls, throwing a baseball with the magnus effect, concussions and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), the repercussions of not having long term health care, changing rules and penalties, players trying to cheat the system, Futurama quote, what Ben Dorst learned.

This episode contains: Plague Inc, where and when Ebola started, Outbreak and the Hot Zone, the latest news from Texas, five strains of Ebola, quarantine procedures, exponential infection rates, fruit bats as possible transmission, climate change, Captain Trips, Legacy Virus, Motaba, Rage, rebooted zombies, Bone-itis, Irumodic Syndrome and anti-time, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.