Interview - Dr. Bruce Damer on the latest Asteroid Return Missions, the Starship Tests, the Origins of Life, and us as Imaginal Cells in the Field.

Listen Now to Dr. Bruce Damer 12.15.2020

One of our favorite guests, Bruce brings us up to date on the latest asteroid return missions, heralding a new era in our ability to collect samples from off planet in our solar system and bring them back to Earth. We delve a bit into the adventures of Elon Musk’s Starship, and Bruce’s Origin of Life research, including his inclusion in a feature article on the topic in the latest issue of Nature, the scientific journal. 

We also discuss mRNA and why that is such a breakthrough approach for vaccines, understanding the creation of life via protocells, the rise of human consciousness as a kind of slime mold in the Gaian field, and our role as imaginal cells in the field. We discuss his collaboration with Dr. David Deamer, and the future of online collaboration with the next generation of scientists. Mrs. Future also reminds us of  the ‘Christmas Star’ that will appear next week, for the first time in hundreds of years.  Enjoy!

Dr. Bruce Damer, looking up!

Future News - Vaccine updates, Uber backs Joby Aviation for Flying Taxis, Watch out for Zoox mobiles, Chinese Achieve Quantum Supremacy, iPhone DNA Sequencer tricorder for personalized medicine, Solar System Super Highway Discovered, The Rise of the Xenobots.

Listen Now to Future News 12.15.2020

The day began with a 3.5 earthquake for us, after a beautiful night of watching the Geminids meteor shower, one of the most spectacular annual stellar events.  The Covid 19 vaccines have begun their mighty distributions and we discuss the differences, such as the value of mRNA. Fun stuff!  

It was great to note that our local aircraft company, Joby Aviation, is inking a $75 million deal with Uber, a strong move to make their flying electric VTOL taxi to be a strong contender in that market. While on the ground, Amazon’s transpo company, Zoox, has debuted their first fully autonomous vechicle, guaranteed to speed up ground taxi service and packager delivery! Also, the Chinese have achieved that latest breakthrough in quantum computers, using light rather than electrons for computing. We also had a great conversation about the new iPhone-based DNA sequencer, a kind of tricorder, and Mrs. Future gave a nice report on an existing solar system super highway that will make space travel faster and more affordable. And then, there is the rise of the Xenobots, the first fully biological robots…enjoy!

Amazon’s Zoox - first autonomous passenger vehicle

Future News - Asteroid Sample Returns, Moon Rocks from China, Solar Telescope Activated, RC Racing on Moon, New CRISPR Covid Test via Smartphone, VW Goes After Tesla, AI and Free Will, Dan Beilin on Ivermectin, Monica on City Council Going Virtual.

Listen Now to Future News 12.08.2020

A lively show today with the likes of us, including Bobby Wilder in San Francisco.  We report and discuss the Hyabusa 2 Asteroid Sample returns to EarthHyabusa 2 asteroid return mission, the Chinese moon rock return, Elon’s plan to race RC cars on the moon next year (with 1/6 gravity you can get some serious air jumps!), a new Covid test via smartphone, AI’s and Free will, and with Dr. Dan, the amazing Covid treatment results reported so far using the deworming drug, Ivermectin. And lastly Monica McGuire checks in with a report from the Santa Cruz City Council, who have decided to go virtual. Enjoy!

Chinese probe returning to Earth with 5 lbs of moon rocks

Interview - Jeff Peters on Surviving the CZU Lighting Complex Wildfire

Listen Now to Jeff Peters on CZU Fire Experience

This last week my brothers and I went on a little field trip to check out one of our Boulder Creek neighborhoods that had been devastated by the CZU lightning complex wildfire this last August and September in the Santa Cruz Mountains, very close to our home.  We visited Pinecrest Drive an area not far from Big Basin Vineyards, where my friend Bradley Brown lost his beautiful home to the wild fire.

We were stunned at what we found. It looked like  what I imagined a nuclear blast could do. Buildings completely leveled, leaving nothing but ash and debris, molecules that was once someone’s precious belongings. While exploring the area we were intercepted by a guy in a big truck asking what we were doing here, assuming that we were ‘looky loos’, here to check out the sights, or in this case, loss of sites, just rubble where once stood rustic mountain homes.

After assuring the driver that we were not the droids he thought we were, we found out that he was a local who had lost his beautiful home and belongings. Before long a couple of other locals arrived and My brothers and I had an opportunity to find out more exactly how it all came down in the Pinecrest neighborhood, and how the residents and the authorities have been dealing with this profound local disaster.  It’s quite a story with many implications, especially for of us living in wild fire threatened mountain neighborhoods.
So I thought we’d share it with you. Our guest today is Jeff Peters,  a software engineer who had lived in his dream home with his family for 21 years. Jeff shares the heartbreaking yet hopeful fire story of his family and neighbors, as they grappled with a massive wild fire bearing down on their homes and lives.

Jeff Peters and what is left of his dream home

Future News - Arecibo Collapses, Chang'e 5 Lands on Moon, New Clues to the Origin of SarsCov2, The Mysterious Monolith Appears and Disappears, Lunar Gas and Electric, The Wow Signal Update, A Slushy Solution to Power, Air, and Water on Mars, or anywhere for that matter.

Listen Now to Future News 12.01.2020

 Have you heard of the famous SETI WOW signal, a powerful 72-second radio signal from a distant  part of the Monolith in Romaniagalaxy, heard back in 1977?  Using modern 3D galaxy maps, an amateur astronomy may have identified the star system from wence it came. Maybe the mysterious aluminum monolith that keep appearing and disappearing on Earth has a clue for us about WOW, but probably not.  Also of note this week is the Chinese landing on the moon for sending back rocks to Earth. Chang’e 5 has succesfully landed and has begun the task of drilling for core samples. And on the Covid front, a CDC study indicates that Sars Covid-2 was already in the US last December, based on antibody tests on donated Red Cross blood from many states.  We take a closer look.  Enjoy..