Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon recap the best fure-related news stories of 2016.

Alien Megastructures 

The world's first artificially intelligent lawyer was just hired at a law firm

The Zuckerberg's Plan to End All Diseases

Scientists Grow Full-Sized, Human Beating Hearts from Stem Cells

Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

Elon Musk Announces His Plan to Colonize Mars

Pittsburgh, your Self-Driving Uber is arriving now

Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive Space Engine Passes Peer Review

Barack Obama: Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive

 

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon explore news items that PROVE we're living in science fiction.

Jurassic Park

First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber

The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur, including bones, soft tissue, and even feathers, has been found preserved in amber, according to a report published today in the journal Current Biology.

 

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream / It’s a Good Life

This AI’s attempt to write a Christmas carol is absolutely bone-chilling

Now, researchers in Toronto have used a technology called “neural karaoke” to teach a computer to write a song after looking at a photo, and the little carol it penned after viewing a festive Christmas tree is an absolutely horrifying display of what these things think of us.

 

Contact

Humans and Supernova-Born Neutron Stars Have Similar Structures, Discover Scientists

 

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon explore news items that PROVE we're living in science fiction.

Jurassic Park

First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber

The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur, including bones, soft tissue, and even feathers, has been found preserved in amber, according to a report published today in the journal Current Biology.

 

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream / It’s a Good Life

This AI’s attempt to write a Christmas carol is absolutely bone-chilling

Now, researchers in Toronto have used a technology called “neural karaoke” to teach a computer to write a song after looking at a photo, and the little carol it penned after viewing a festive Christmas tree is an absolutely horrifying display of what these things think of us.

 

Contact

Humans and Supernova-Born Neutron Stars Have Similar Structures, Discover Scientists

 

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon review more news stories indicating that high-concept future scenarios are coming true.

 

Limitless Energy

Star in a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy

Related: News from 2013  

 

AI Ascendance / Life Extension

The AI that could uncover the secret of eternal youth:

Russian researchers reveal new tool to find life-extending drugs - and say it has already uncovered ten potential therapies

 

First Contact

NASA's Kepler Mission Discoveries Transform Drake's Equation --"Humans Not the First Technological Civilization in the Universe"

A new study shows that the recent discoveries of exoplanets combined with a broader approach to the question makes it possible to assign a new empirically valid probability to whether any other advanced technological civilizations have ever existed. 

 

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon review more news stories indicating that high-concept future scenarios are coming true.

 

Limitless Energy

Star in a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy

Related: News from 2013  

 

AI Ascendance / Life Extension

The AI that could uncover the secret of eternal youth:

Russian researchers reveal new tool to find life-extending drugs - and say it has already uncovered ten potential therapies

 

First Contact

NASA's Kepler Mission Discoveries Transform Drake's Equation --"Humans Not the First Technological Civilization in the Universe"

A new study shows that the recent discoveries of exoplanets combined with a broader approach to the question makes it possible to assign a new empirically valid probability to whether any other advanced technological civilizations have ever existed. 

 

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon review current news stories indicating that high-concept future scenarios are coming true.

 

But First...

John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95

John always had the right stuff,” President Obama said in a statement on Thursday, “inspiring generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay.”

 

Post-Scarcity

Phil relays story of being unable to give a table away.

Stephen talks about the death of repair as an industry.

Regenerative Medicine

First paralyzed human treated with stem cells has now regained his upper body movement

Kris recovered two spinal chord levels which made a huge difference in his movement abilities. It was the difference between minimal movement or none at all and being able to function on his own. Kris regained the incredibly important aspect of independence.

Post-Employment

SILICON VALLEY CEO: People are 'lashing out' because technology is destroying more and more jobs

 

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon review current news stories indicating that high-concept future scenarios are coming true.

 

But First...

John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95

John always had the right stuff,” President Obama said in a statement on Thursday, “inspiring generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts who will take us to Mars and beyond — not just to visit, but to stay.”

 

Post-Scarcity

Phil relays story of being unable to give a table away.

Stephen talks about the death of repair as an industry.

Regenerative Medicine

First paralyzed human treated with stem cells has now regained his upper body movement

Kris recovered two spinal chord levels which made a huge difference in his movement abilities. It was the difference between minimal movement or none at all and being able to function on his own. Kris regained the incredibly important aspect of independence.

Post-Employment

SILICON VALLEY CEO: People are 'lashing out' because technology is destroying more and more jobs

 

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Elon Musk: We Can Power America by Covering Small Corner of Utah With Solar  

The Race to Wrap the Earth in Internet Is Heating Up

SpaceX just asked permission to launch 4,425 satellites — more than orbit Earth today

How feasible are Elon Musk’s plans to settle on Mars? A planetary scientist explains

 

OTHER GEEK

 

Terraforming Mars.  Currently 5th on the hot new games list.

In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process.

 

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Elon Musk: We Can Power America by Covering Small Corner of Utah With Solar  

The Race to Wrap the Earth in Internet Is Heating Up

SpaceX just asked permission to launch 4,425 satellites — more than orbit Earth today

How feasible are Elon Musk’s plans to settle on Mars? A planetary scientist explains

 

OTHER GEEK

 

Terraforming Mars.  Currently 5th on the hot new games list.

In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process.

 

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon review breakthroughs in human augmentation technologies and the controversies that surround these technologies.

China used CRISPR to fight cancer in a real live human  

Buzz Aldrin Had To Be Evacuated From Antarctica

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin recovering well after Antarctic evacuation

Aging Is a Disease and It's Time to Cure It

A Dose of a Hallucinogen From a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and Then Lasting Peace

Man 'cured' of prostate cancer after doctors shock tumour to death with testosterone

IBM Creates a Molecule that Could Destroy All Viruses

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