Tower of Technobabble

The Conduit tries to sink the film "Battleship" (Spoiler alert - no on sinks the battleship), Kentucky Slim and his brother ponder keyboard layout, and the Repeater warns of the potential trouble female, um, issues can have with bigfoot while camping.

Show Notes:

Every line Rihanna says in Battleship - http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/read-every-line-rihanna-says-in-battleship.html
One word review (with more words added) - http://gawker.com/5911532/battleshit
Showing Battleship to wounded soldiers (haven't they suffered enough?) - http://www.shockya.com/news/2012/05/16/battleship-to-be-screened-for-alumni-of-wounded-warrior-project/

Inexplicable review from Entertainment Weekly - http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20483133_20587674,00.html

Crazy Stuff My Brother Says - Keyboards are for left-handed people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY
http://discovermagazine.com/1997/apr/thecurseofqwerty1099/
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question641.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/askjack/2006/nov/23/numberpadlayouts

Chicks dig bigfoot:
http://www.facebook.com/BigfootChicks
http://www.bigfootseekers.com/
Bigfoot mating season
http://www.flashnews.com/news/wfn01100513fn3688.html

This week the world is flying apart with World War 2 airplane crashes, rocks bursting into flames, extraterrestrial Armageddon spheres, and the repeater revealing his plan for continuing education. Oh, the humanities.

Show Notes:

• Desert Time Capsule:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142300/Crashed-plane-Second-World-War-pilot-Dennis-Copping-discovered-Sahara-desert.html

• Woman has rocks in her pockets burst into flames :
http://gizmodo.com/5911111/these-mysterious-rocks-burned-inside-a-womans-shorts-causing-third-degree-burns

• The Betz Mystery Sphere — Will it kill us all or something? 

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2012/04/the-betz-mystery-sphere-alien-artifact-or-doomsday-device/

We hail a space taxi, and we find the absolute best moment of the Kentucky Derby. Also, we learn about the most awesome ring in, or out, of the world, and question why on earth someone wouldn't want one just like it. And, did the Russians just flat out copy our late, lamented space shuttle back in the 1980s? (Spoiler alert: Yes, they certainly did.)

Show notes:
• Guy makes his own weding ring out of a meteorite -
http://io9.com/5907849/this-guy-hand+forged-his-own-wedding-ring-out-of-a-meteorite

• Space Taxi! -
http://www.space.com/15382-private-space-taxi-race-special-report.html



http://www.space.com/13409-photos-spacex-dragon-capsule-commercial-spacecraft.html
http://www.space.com/15366-dream-chaser-private-space-plane-infographic.html

• Buran
http://www.k26.com/buran/Future/1.02/space_buran_1_02__ptichka_.html

The Repeater discovers automotive genitalia, we ponder the place of Gabby Hayes in space, discuss a hypothetical murder suicide homicide manslaughter conspiracy, and cut lemmings a freakin' break.

Show Notes:

• James Cameron will save us all, and film it — http://io9.com/5904599/its-official-james-cameron-and-google-unveil-plans-for-asteroid+mining

• Hypothetical murder/suicide — http://boingboing.net/2012/04/24/hypothetical-murdersuicide-co.html#more-156335

• Lemming suicide — http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp

We find that wrongdoers can't hide from the long arm of the Internet, decide how we'll get around after the apocalypse, find out how an eccentric millionaire caught the Repeater's fancy, and do our first check in with Kentucky Slim's brother.

Show Notes:

Website’s Commenters  identify a piece of a car broken off in a hit and run and help cops track down the suspect  - http://jalopnik.com/5903407/police-arrest-murder-suspects-in-truck-identified-by-jalopnik-commenters

Getting Around after the apocalypse - http://io9.com/5896196/how-will-we-get-around-in-the-post+apocalypse

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Eccentric millionaire fails spectacularly -
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2012/apr/07/titanic-at-100-abilenes-jack-grimm-ship-finding/

Well, apparently, this week, the repeater annoys the bejesus out of Kentucky Slim. Also, was the Earth a galactic litterbug in its teenage years? Also, why the Starship U.S.S. Enterprise didn't dock with downtown Las Vegas (Hint: One guy in Hollywood was afraid to take a chance).

Show Notes:

Dave: Secret history of the near-construction of a lifesized Starship Enterprise in downtown Las Vegas
http://www.thegoddardgroup.com/blog/index.php/now-it-can-be-told-the-star-trek-attraction-that-almost-came-to-life-in-1992/

Paul: Earth Ejecta! http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27720/

We ponder on what the Hulk and Iron Man smell like, and then look at a new take on the 10 Commandments, probably breaking several of them in the process.

Show Notes:

Avengers cologne:
http://www.jadsinternational.com/marvel/the-avengers-cologne-set.html

or, for the entire line

http://www.jadsinternational.com/

Feedbag:
BEN — 10 new Commandments
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9123866/Churches-adopt-new-Ten-Commandments.html

We take a swim down memory lane for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic, and look at other maritime mishaps that don't get as much press.

Show Notes:

100-year anniversary cruise will take extreme tourists on Titanic’s route -
http://www.titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/index.php

And here's the ship that will relive that fateful night (although, to be fair, while these pictures look pretty extreme, the ship DID survive) - http://gcaptain.com/incident-photo-of-the-week-cruise-ship-hits-rough-seas/

Other ships mentioned in this podcast:
The Queen Mary -
http://www.queenmary.com/

The Olympic -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic

The Imperator -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Imperator

Other Maritime disasters:
The Sultana -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Sultana

The Indianapolis -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_%28CA-35%29

The Lusitania:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania

After delving into questions the Repeater has about super hero naming conventions, we take a swing at the question "What is truth." Yeah, like that's a hard one. We got this.

Show notes:

• "This American Life" retraction from the Mike Daisey episode - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/retraction

• Henry Rollins - http://henryrollins.com/

We discuss the hotness of ladies in 80-some-odd year old movies, Kentucky Slim gives his enemies a strategic clue on how to take him out, and a whole new slew of fairy tales have been discovered for Disney to gloss over.

Show Notes:

• Ben discovers something about himself, via the silent movie "Metropolis" -
http://www.kino.com/metropolis/

• 500 new fairy tales discovered -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/05/five-hundred-fairytales-discovered-germany