Wunderdog

Anders Sandberg talks volcano engineering, Freeman Dyson's computer at the end of everything, moving planets, how transparent society should get after quantum computers, and what is the best type of geoengineering! 

Anders is a futurist and transhumanist, but also deeply concerned with the ethics and risks of all the wild technology he believes will happen. He works at Nick Bostrom's Future of Life Institute, and calls himself an "academic jack of all trades". This episode is me trying to hold a firehose at full power. But Anders manages to remember where digressed every time I completely lose track of our topic. This one goes EVERYWHERE.

If you don't learn something new in this one, you're something special!

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Made in collaboration with NITRO STUDIOS, Oslo.

Casey Handmer: On leaving Hyperloop One and NASA to bet on cheap, giga-scaleable carbon capture.

First he took a PhD in gravity waves, then he got a position at Hyperloop One because of some truly shocking problem-solving skills (as far as I can tell, just listen to the episode and see if you agree), and THEN he worked at NASA JPL, where the literal rocket science happens. Every single one of these topics could have been their own 2 hour 40 minute podcast - but we hardly go there.

This episode focuses on Casey's current endeavour after he left NASA: Terraform Industries, a carbon capture project that's designed to be ultra-scaleable - which is what the world VERY much needs. Is Casey's carbon capture project feasible? If solar power becomes cheap enough, Casey thinks so. The episode was recorded before the current war in Ukraine, and with the war, gas prices have gone up so much that Casey's technology would be profitable today.

The war has also shown (as if that was necessary) the value of producing one's own natural gas, which Terraform's machines are promising to do. It sounds almost too optimistic to be true, but Casey's credentials speak for themselves. This may be the most optimism-inducing podcast I've recorded so far, and on twitter, you can tag me @oysteinrunde and casey @cjhandmer if you have any questions or grievances.

His twitter bio reads "Physicist, Immigrant, Pilot, Dad.Former Caltech, Hyperloop, NASA JPL.Founder @terraformindie", and he came to my attention when a lot of smart space people shared his essay "Starship is still not understood".

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/starship-is-still-not-understood/

If you want me to make a similar episode where we ONLY talk about SpaceX' and Elon Musk's masterpiece Starship, the spaceship that promises to really change the space industry for humankind, please find me on Instagram @rundeshow and send a PM, and do leave reviews and comments on this podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts. Spreading the word helps!

This podcast exists because of the generous contribution of Nitro Studios, Oslo, and my great supporters at www.patreon.com/runde. They also get some neat digital comics!

The second part of the Jesse Moynihan interview!

Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend and colleague Tom Herpich suggested Pendleton Ward hired Jesse to join as a storyboarder/writer/artist/art director at the end of the first season of the soon-to-be legendary animated show Adventure Time.

On the side of the enormous body of work that is Adventure Time (currently on HBO max), Jesse has also made his own, weird, spiritual, slice-of-life comic about bickering cosmic gods, Forming. With his brother Justin he's released the short Manly on youtube, via Cartoon Hangover. And he's been art director on the beautiful show Midnight Gospel (Netflix).

Recently Jesse presented an NFT project on his instagram account @jmoyns. The ensuing debate showed that some of his regular fans saw NFTs as a betrayal of the integrity Jesse had shown through his entire career - and with great disappointment comes great interviews! I jumped on the opportunity to hear Jesse explain his thoughts on NFTs and their place in the current art scene, as I can easily say that Jesse has never been an artist known for taking "the easy route". So, what's his thoughts on the climate impact of NFTs, why he stayed away from OpenSea even though it could have meant a bigger profit, what he sees as the future for art, on building a new fanbase from the ground up, and what he wants to do next.

I'm very proud to give you this 3,5 hour talk with one of the most awesome creators I know of! For practical reasons this talk has been cut in two.

Jesse's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/forming

Jesse's art can be found on Netflix (Midnight Gospel), HBO max (Adventure Time), YouTube (Manly)

Instagram: @jmoyns

His future project, on twitter: @jesus2rises

On Discord: discord.gg/jesus2rises

This podcast is, as always, produced thanks to Nitro studios, Oslo, and with the help of my supporters at https://www.patreon.com/runde 

Patreon supporters get secret comics, sketches, full pdfs of unaccessible comics (like Olav Sleggja and Margarin and Teleboy - in english) AND extra nice drawings and maybe gifts if they meet me at festivals. This year I'm a guest at Fantasticon Copenhagen (june 25th) and Art Bubble Aarhus (sept 16th).

If you want to support Ukraine AND get a comic from me and genius Ida Neverdahl, order our first travelogue MOSCOW from this link - http://centrala.org.uk/shop/moscow/

For the first non-space related episode of Wunderdog, I have a MASSIVE nugget of artistic GOLD.

Jesse Moynihan went from incredibly weird underground cartoonist to "household name" when his friend and colleague Tom Herpich suggested Pendleton Ward hired Jesse to join as a storyboarder/writer/artist/art director at the end of the first season of the soon-to-be legendary animated show Adventure Time.

On the side of the enormous body of work that is Adventure Time (currently on HBO max), Jesse has also made his own, weird, spiritual, slice-of-life comic about bickering cosmic gods, Forming. With his brother Justin he's released the short Manly on youtube, via Cartoon Hangover. And he's been art director on the beautiful show Midnight Gospel (Netflix).

Recently Jesse presented an NFT project on his instagram account @jmoyns. The ensuing debate showed that some of his regular fans saw NFTs as a betrayal of the integrity Jesse had shown through his entire career - and with great disappointment comes great interviews! I jumped on the opportunity to hear Jesse explain his thoughts on NFTs and their place in the current art scene, as I can easily say that Jesse has never been an artist known for taking "the easy route". So, what's his thoughts on the climate impact of NFTs, why he stayed away from OpenSea even though it could have meant a bigger profit, what he sees as the future for art, on building a new fanbase from the ground up, and what he wants to do next.

I'm very proud to give you this 3,5 hour talk with one of the most awesome creators I know of! For practical reasons this talk has been cut in two.

Jesse's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/forming

Jesse's art can be found on Netflix (Midnight Gospel), HBO max (Adventure Time), YouTube (Manly)

Instagram: @jmoyns

His future project, on twitter: @jesus2rises

On Discord: discord.gg/jesus2rises

This podcast is, as always, produced thanks to Nitro studios, Oslo, and with the help of my supporters at https://www.patreon.com/runde 

Patreon supporters get secret comics, sketches, full pdfs of unaccessible comics (like Olav Sleggja and Margarin and Teleboy - in english) AND extra nice drawings and maybe gifts if they meet me at festivals. This year I'm a guest at Fantasticon Copenhagen (june 25th) and Art Bubble Aarhus (sept 16th).

If you want to support Ukraine AND get a comic from me and genius Ida Neverdahl, order our first travelogue MOSCOW from this link - http://centrala.org.uk/shop/moscow/

In 2020, the esteemed physics professors Eugene Chudnovsky and Luis Anchordoqui published thatr describes a theoretical form of life unlike anything else.

Eugene and Luis suggested that a combination of cosmic strings and magnetic monopoles could perform the tasks of DNA at a subatomic level. 

Eugene Chudnovsky received his undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral education at Kharkiv University in Ukraine, and has been engaged in human rights for years, among many other things as Co-Chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists. We talk a bit about his experiences in the Soviet Union before he left for the US. The episode was recorded before the invasion of Ukraine.

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Ida Neverdahl & I have made a travelogue comic from Russia, MOSCOW. We participated in one of the last pro-LGBT demonstrations before it was deemed illegal, and also experienced first hand how street protesting already in 2015 were strongly regulated. The book is out in english, and the publisher, Centrala, has now put "Moscow" as part of their Ukraine help sale. Please check out MOSCOW and the other books from Centrala here. (All proceeds other than shipping go to Ukraine)

http://centrala.org.uk/en/sale-of-comic-books-and-graphic-novels-for-ukraine/

 

For Norwegian readers, I have a new book out, "ANTIBIOTIKA, helt og antihelt", together with Norway's foremost authority on antibiotics resitant bacteria, prof. Dag Berild. It's been called a "pedagogical bullseye" by Dagens Næringsliv and it's a short, easily digested and remembered summary of Berild's 30 years of research on how bacteria develop antibiotics resistance. Even Norway can cut our consumption of antibiotics in half without sacrificing anyone's health, and in the book we show how. April 3rd we present it at Litteraturhuset Oslo, Saklig Søndag. I will also be at Fantasticon in Copenhagen June 25th, and Art Bubble in Aarhus September 16th.

While studying the stellar stream GD-1, Harvard astronomer Ana Bonaca made a literally enormous discovery: Cosmic "bullet holes" in our galaxy, several light years across. Something with around a million times the mass of our sun has punched enormous holes in our galaxy. What is the "bullet" here? Is it a supermassive black hole, of the kind we only see in the center of a galaxy? Or is it a cluster of stars? Or is it something even stranger, a "bullet" made of dark matter?

Jupiter's moon Europa is the most exciting place in the solar system to look for life. Cynthia Phillips from NASA tells us why.

Cynthia Phillips is a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where she serves as the Europa Clipper mission’s project staff scientist and project science communications lead. She is also the deputy project scientist for the Europa Lander mission concept.

This podcast is possible because of Nitro Studios, Oslo. 

It's also funded by my patrons at www.patreon.com/runde 

Thank you, patrons. 

Professor James Fallon talks psychology and space travel for "psychopaths" with psychologist and former coach of the Norwegian MMA national team, Jakob "the striking viking" Løvstad. 

This podcast is a collaboration with Nitro studio, Oslo. Theme song: Jan Krey aka Jkreyzy

Extra material and my art for patrons at www.patreon.com/runde - special thanks to my 5$ and up patrons:

Maren Struksnæs

Adrian Kaxrud Berntsen

Jo Christiansen

Halvor Harnæs Lund

Øystein Borgersen

Are Edvardsen

Maisen Pedersen

Kyle Arumugam

Kyrre Matias Goksøyr

Lars Ivar Igesund

Morten F. Thomsen

My books on www.oysteinrunde.no

The Fermi paradox is the mysterious lack of traces of alien civilized life.

Professor Robin Hanson invented a term to describe that something may doom all civilizations to die before they go interplanetary (and become visible from earth). He coined this unknown factor "The Great Filter". Today, the term Great Filter has become quite mainstream and understandable - just look at Elon Musk's pinned tweet since august: "We must pass the great filter." 

But Robin has moved on - this idea was his in 1996! We want to know what he's up to next. So this episode is not about the great filter, but about Robin's excellent, and very unique, book "Age of Em". (We'll have to save his new book "Elephant in the brain" for later - we only had two hours!) Later, Robin developed the "Grabby aliens" hypothesis as a potential (and scary) solution to the fermi paradox. This has a separate episode! 

Robin Hanson's homepage:

https://www.overcomingbias.com/

The Age of Em, audiobook:

https://tidd.ly/3nyuEAL

This podcast is a collaboration with Nitro studio, Oslo. Theme song: Jan Krey aka Jkreyzy

Extra material and my art for patrons at Patreon.com/runde - special thanks to these 5$ and up patrons:

Maren Struksnæs

Adrian Kaxrud Berntsen

Jo Christiansen

Halvor Harnæs Lund

Øystein Borgersen

Are Edvardsen

Maisen Pedersen

Kyle Arumugam

Kyrre Matias Goksøyr

Lars Ivar Igesund

Morten F. Thomsen

More about my books at www.oysteinrunde.no

Stephen Hawking's last speeches were often about his gigantic dream project, funded by physichist and billionaire Yuri Milner: The Breakthrough Initiative. It is mindblowing in scope and ambition. Professor Philip Lubin is one of the minds that inspired one part of this initiative: Breakthrough Starshot.

This podcast is a collaboration with Nitro studio, Oslo. Theme song: Jan Krey aka Jkreyzy 

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Extra material, and my art, is available for patrons at Patreon.com/runde - special thanks to these 5$ and up patrons:

Maren Struksnæs

Adrian Kaxrud Berntsen

Jo Christiansen

Halvor Harnæs Lund

Øystein Borgersen

Are Edvardsen

Maisen Pedersen

Kyle Arumugam

Kyrre Matias Goksøyr

Lars Ivar Igesund

Morten F. Thomsen

My books (mostly in Norwegian) can be found on www.oysteinrunde.no