Science Faction Podcast

This episode contains: Super Star Wars special, with guest Ben Dorst of the Pure BS Podcast! We talk about corrections, lightyears, Parsecs and what they mean in the Star Wars and our Universe, the Kessel run, Strange Days and recorded memories, moving in with significant others, the Endor Holocaust, starship speeds, Futurama quote, what Ben learned.

Warning: this episode may not be suitable for younger viewers.

This episode contains: exciting news, LEGO mini figures, using solar sails for interstellar and interplanetary travel, Space X and NASA, study on friends reveals similar genetics, friendly pets, Vanta Black: material created with carbon nanotubes and absorbs 99.96% of light, magnetic ferrofluid, practical uses for black material, Simpsons references, Planet of the Apes talk, Rise and Dawn, recaps and paradoxes, movie review, spoilers from 58:22 - 1:05:30, Y the Last Man, capuchin monkys, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: High school band, Canada, electroencephalography, testing the rhythm of bass notes and treble notes, brain activity while playing music, timber of sound, the feel of bass, ancient music, vocalizing emotion, auditory cheesecake, evolutionary bipedalism, Come Sail Away, theramin, future music, music and emotions, video games and movie soundtracks, Game of Thrones in space, Rains of Castamere, musilanguage, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

This episode contains: Reddit, ads and likes, advertising on Facebook, the Facebook study and how it worked, Tuskegee experiment, 1984, The Hunger Games and how it relates to government size, Firefly and decentralized government, Netflix and Arrested Development, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

This episode contains: Christopher Nolan movies, brow ridges and jaw lines, fish gill bone structure, trilobites, current physiological structures as evidence, sexual selection within evolution, fighting, the Rules of Fight Club, next step, devolution, white ancestors and actors, Farscape, mutants, fast evolution, hot women, humanity is the pinnacle of human evolution, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

Interstellar Trailer

This episode contains: How to Train Your Dragon 2, science getting things wrong, digging deeper into scientific studies, defining Quasars, baryonic acoustic oscillations, Kerbal Space Program, x-wings and vipers, Reality Dysfunction, warp cores, Star Trek wiki hole, alien species, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.

Scott Manley: The Physics of Flying 'Space Fighters'

This episode contains: Intelligence, The Animatirix: The Second Renaissance, Turing Test, Chat Bots, Cleverbot, computer model of a brain, Three Laws of Robotics, Terminator 2, trilogy of trilogies, original Matrix ideas, movies with artificial intelligence, Futurama quote, what Steven learned.  

Cleverbot 

This episode contains: Lawyers, Super Time Force, update on the Drake Equation, more exoplanet news, erasing and replacing memories in rats using gene therapy and flashes of light, the Matrix, creating lifetimes, Dollhouse, clones, Total Recall, brain in a vat, Memento, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.   

This episode contains: JJ Abrams Star Wars news, gambling, exoplant detection methods, Drake's equation, Jurassic World, H.R. Geiger's legacy, the Alien movies, problems with Prometheus, Futurama quote, what Devon learned.

Recorded May 14th, 2014

This episode contains: the science behind time travel, special relativity, time travel in science fiction, the grandfather paradox and others, Futurama quote, what we learned.

Special Relativity