[This show first aired January 21, 2008.]
Stephen Gordon and Michael Darling discuss the emergence of Star Trek technology in the world today.
Topics:
Methuseleh Yeast. Do we have a "Wondering Ecuadorian?"
Was Nikola Tesla a time traveler?
The Star Trek technologies that are now becoming real world inventions.
Growing new organs that are a perfect match for patients by using protein scaffolding in the shape of the organ and the patient's own progenitor cells. It's the Chia heart!
We're witnessing a race to bring plug-in hybrid vehicles to market. Today's nonplugin's have environmentally unfriendly nickel cadmium batteries. The plug-ins will have safe Lithium Ion batteries.