Hosted by Annalee Newitz and Esther Inglis-Arkell.
io9: We Come From the Future is a news show about science, entertainment and culture from a tomorrow that you wish you lived in today. Annalee Newitz, editor in chief of io9, and Esther Inglis Arkell, io9 writer, cover science fiction and science fact in a studio format with segments including... Read More
In this episode we talk about what it would take to launch your a$$ into space and keep it there. Who will fund it? Can artificial gravity really work? Also, Esther explores the miracle substance that can kill both fires and your friends! And finally we ask: Do space operas need to be more realistic?
In this episode we talk about what it would take to launch your a$$ into space and keep it there. Who will fund it? Can artificial gravity really work? Also, Esther explores the miracle substance that can kill both fires and your friends! And finally we ask: Do space operas need to be more realistic?
James Cameron and Google invest in space mining project looking to harvest water, gold, platinum, other rare Earth elements on near-Earth asteroids. Giant space snowballs have been recorded passing through Saturn's rings. NASA builds a prototype Moon base here on Earth to test technologies that would make the lunar surface habitable!
Annalee and Esther discuss the myriad ways humans could generate artificial gravity for life in space including black holes and dark matter.
Esther demonstrates how to create enough carbon dioxide to snuff out candles invisibly and quickly and the feasibility of using it as the ultimate murder weapon!
Space operas are often a point of derision in the sci-fi universe. But they provide that much needed human melodrama that makes so much of what we see in the movies and read in fiction a delight. Esther and Annalee highlight their picks that make the most of the genre!
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