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In celebration of our 300th episode, we do a nice relaxed mostly unstructured episode. We talk about space, and robots, and movies for some reason.
Continue reading Ep 300: The 300
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We talk about the “Lunar Surveyor” program, and Apollo 12. For our second mission to the moon, almost everything went perfectly. Which is much more than I can say about Monday.
Continue reading Ep 299: Apollo 12, and the lab has a problem
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We talk about Apollo 1 through 11, take a little time to look at the Apollo program’s onboard computers, and finally finish with the first human footsteps on the moon.
Continue reading Ep 298: One giant leap
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In honor of April fools’ day, we start with real science and then go off into wild speculation. We talk about the possibility of faster than light, and time travel. Not to be taken seriously, but fun!
Continue reading Ep 297: FTL, and the relativistic refrigerator