53 Future Now - Stormy weather stories, Our media experiments with AI, In Memoriam- Science Poetry by Len Anderson, Wooden Satellites, Nukes in Space, Lunar Landing!

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What’s great about stormy weather is that stirs up some great stories, and out here in California it means we have more indoor time.  This translated into more creative time for us play with some of the new AI media tools coming our way.  So in this week’s show you’ll have a preview of what’s possible in telling your tales in more spectacular ways. My favorite experiment so far is our Scifi short, “First Contract,” about a group of intergalactic trader priests negotiating with an off planet entheogenic humanlike tribe living in a tropical rain forest. We have completed just the first couple of minutes sans visuals, a nice tease..

Our last radio broadcast with poet/scientist Len Anderson

We are sad about the passing of Santa Cruz poet/physicist Len Anderson, but happy that we are able to share some of his science poetry.  A large part of Len’s work deals poetically with spiritual and metaphysical themes, and funny! One of his poems starts like a joke,”Science and Mysticism walk into a bar, and decide to have it all out in the back alley, each accusing the other of not knowing what he is talking about.,” His friend and colleague on the frontier, Dr. Nick Herbert, wrote a touching in memoriam of Len, on Nick’s blog, including the rest of this poem. So if want to know who won, see you in podcast! 

52 Future Now - New Luna Landings, Evolutionary Chiral Current Tech, Interview - Randall Lee Hopper on Free Food, Vitamins, and Tech for those in need

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Some great space news this week, including a new US lunar lander touching down this month; if successful, the Nova-C Lunar Lander by Intuitive Machinesfirst US craft on the moon since 1972! We also explore what are known as ‘chiral currents,’ a new approach to tech which may be as significant as electrons are to modern day electronics!  

And we had a great interview with Randall Lee Hopper, a local visionary/entrepreneur who shares with us how is able to procure and distribute an abundance of free food, books, tools, vitamins, and consumer tech from both local, domestic, and international sources. We think you’ll appreciate his understanding of our region’s food recycling ecosystem.  He also shares with us his enthusiasm for of a new kind of social space where people can freely eat, drink, talk, read, and connect to create a better life.  Enjoy!

Randall Lee Hopper

51 Future Now - Storming in CA, PACE Mission, Whale Tech, Master Now Georgia update, Glowing Plants, Bacterial Plastic to Silk transformers, STOL planes, IO Volcanism

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We recorded this show in the aftermath of a large west coast storm, and if you listened in realtime, you would have heard the numerous tech glitches that happened, including dropping off the air multiple times.  But for the podcast version you get to focus on what we found most fascinating this week, not the glitches. In Space News, for example, the PACE mission will dramatically improve our tracking of life and weather over the Earth’s oceans, and led to a conversation on how other creatures of this planet may also benefit from our planetary tech.  If you like glowy things, consider the first commerical glowing house plant, a petunia with a biolumenescent gene from  a South American mushroom!  If that is too silly for you, consider deploying bio-engineered bacteria that eat our waste plastic, a relatively low cost/low impact approach to cleaning up our polymer messes.  We also have fun looking at the new Short TakeOff and Landing aircraft under development, the the exciting new infrared NASA photos of Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon, IO.  Hot spots all over, enjoy!

Light Bio’s bioluminescent petunia’s with mushroom glow genes

50 Future Now - Moon Lander falls over, Robots attacked, AI prevents potholes, Obelisks- a new life form, Russian Spirit Fest debuts

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Even though the Japanese moon lander kind of crashed, it is still sort of functional..better than nothing! Robots are making their way into society, but not without some issues from the street..Obelisks-a new kind of life smaller than viruses than live within microbes..

This week we covered the “Spirit Fest,” a gathering of mostly Russian families in the Bay Area interested in mind/body/spirit aspects of life.  In a way it was reminiscent of the great Whole Life Expos of the 1980’s, yet very different in that most of the workshops were based on traditions from Russia and conducted in Russian. It was relatively small in size, with a few hundred folks in attendance including, I might add, many very beautiful women. There was evolution and change in the air, a good feeling! It was a day filled with workshops, meditations, tantric practices, music, dance, and mind-blowing transformational experiences .

We were guests of Svetlana Doroganich, a psychologist who had trained with Stanislav Grof, M.D., famous for his pioneering work in LSD Psychotherapy. In this week’s show, you will meet several of the festival’s presenters, including Svetlana, Dennis Zaika on cosmic energy, and Nikita with Alexaner, pioneers in the integration of spirit and psilocybin. Enjoy!

Folks behind “Spirit Fest”

49 Future Now Show - Deep Fake Biden call, DNA Facial Recognition, 1K mile EV battery, Interview - Gingi Cia Medina update on green manufacturing

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Well, the next phase of deep fakes has begun, with a phoney  call from the Prez  during the NH primaries. And generating faces from DNA is now here as well, bringing new light into cold cases. But how accurate is it, what could go wroing? Plenty..  Meanwhile, a new bar for EV batteries has been set, with the introduction of the thousand mile battery, invented at MIT and funded by Lamborghini (now owned by VW).  

In our interview we catch up with organic clothing designer Gingi Medina and her beloved, Cia, as they are about to embark on a global adventure, with plans for creating a very green manufacturing facility for the fashion industry and the implementation  of a new super textile for clothing, thanks to behind-the-scenes work from NASA scientists.  Enjoy!

Gingi Medina & Cia