020 WTFuture Sovereign Minds, Helium Worlds, Augmented Brains

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Hey folks! We are coming to you from Boulder Creek today, joined by Bobby in sunny San Francisco, before we head off on our annual summer vacation to Montreal! In this week’s chat, we completely geeked out over the future of our “augmented brains” and the rise of local AI, like the mind-blowing new Bonsai tech that squeezes a massive 27-billion parameter model right onto an iPhone. It is a total game-changer because it acts as a private, “sovereign” AI companion that does not need the cloud, saves energy, and ensures nobody steals your ideas. We also had a great time joking about the “dead internet” theory now that bot traffic has surged 7,800%. But don’t worry, human creativity is still king—especially when we use AI as a collaborator to create hilarious, custom animations of floppy disks barfing green data goo, complete with gassy liquid sound fx!

Looking to the stars, we were absolutely captivated by SpaceX’s Starship landing beautifully in the Indian Ocean and their wild plans to launch giant AI compute satellites to build an off-planet internet. We also discussed the hilarious twist of a 1972 Soviet Venus probe, Cosmos 482, finally crash-landing back on Earth after a 53-year detour in orbit. To top it all off, astronomers just found LHS1140B, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years away that has a faint stream of helium, marking the first time we’ve detected an atmosphere on a habitable-zone rocky world! It’s a beautifully abundant, high-tech future ahead of us, and as we pack our bags for the Laurentian Mountains, we can’t wait to see what wildly optimistic paradigm shifts happen next. Enjoy!

56 Future Now - Latest Apple Tech and Taylor Swiftie Download, AI Hitler Goes Viral, How Stories fit Emotions, Boiling Oceans exo-planet, Europa Clipper Mission, Space Poetry, Danny Sheehan on UAP Coverup

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Some cool stories this week, including our very own Taylor Barcroft’s admission he is a Swiftie, in the Taylor Swift sense of the word. Who knew?  Besides sharing his Swiftie passion he updates us on the latest in Apple Tech, waveforms of the word ‘water’ in many languages onboard Europa Clipperincluding what’s coming up soon, like Siri 2 this summer!   If you’ve ever wondered what Hitler sounds like if he spoke native English, wonder no more, we play you one of the AI clips that has gone viral.  This clip did inspire a political conversation on authoritarianism and US politics, which is rare for us. 

The Europa Clipper mission is coming up soon and we share with you some of the magic of this space adventure, as it is exploring a fellow water world in our very own solar system.  There is a cool plaque about water on board, and a world class poem about water, which is quite delightful!

Europa Clipper’s planned trajectory over the Jovian moon

Future News - Hawaii Volcano update, Wasp 39b exoplanet atmosphere revealed, Black Hole Sounds, Organics in Martian Rocks, Iranian Drone Supply Chain, Expanding Bliss Bubbles, ET Minerals,Twitter 2.0

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Wow, the Big Island is alive with two active volcanoes right now, the first time in 38 years! Check our links for a live feed of this amazing event. And Artemis is now in orbit around the moon, and has launched the 10 cubesats it carried there. A couple of them aren’t working properly, but hey, 8 out of 10 ain’t bad!  Also new minerals have been discovered on a meteorite, giving us tantalizing new info on the solar system’s formation. And if you’ve ever wanted to hear a black hole…tune in! Enjoy.

Big Island Volcanoes Erupt

Future News - 104 satellites on a single rocket, Where will the next Rover Land?, First Tesla 3's being made, Border Agent makes NASA Scientist unlock phone, Entreprenurial Trump2Cash app, Autonomous Taxi Drones This Summer, Exoplanet Citizen Science, Tim Cook on AR

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Wow, 104 sats in one launch, a new ‘world’ record! And just what are all these sats doing? Well, 88 of them are from Planet Labs, whose first major mission is to image all the Earth’s land mass every single day! Also in space news, the JPL Mars team have narrowed down the 2020 rover landing sites from 30 potential locations to three, as the best candidates for discovering any form of microbial life on the Red Planet. This is exciting for us as one of the final locations is one being promulgated by a Dr. Future Show regular, Dr. Bruce Damer, who was presenting to the JPL team this past weekend. 

Lots of other news this week we think is worthy of your attention, including an opportunity for you to discover a new planet!  Enjoy..

The Planet Lab’s Dove 3 Flock before being launched into orbit

Dr. Future News- Super Earth discovered, amazing telescope power, our Solar System's Membrane explored, A Dark Side of the Moon webcam, and What is Erotic? in the key of C.

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No shortage of interesting topics to explore this week- UCSC scientists discover what they are calling a Super Earth, Euro astronomers have figured out how to network large Earth-based telescopes to create one very large telescope in South America.  New info in on the boundary layer ‘membrane’ around our solar system, and you’ll love the first video of the dark side of the moon!  Soon, we’ll have access to a remote controlled webcam in orbit around the moon! 

And in our efforts to create a world beyond war, we feature an interview with Misha Bonaventura, the producer of this year’s “What is Erotic?”  gala event in Santa Cruz, where the community itself gets to participate in answering that most provacative question.