019 WTFuture - Sun Storms, Future of Freedom, and Silicon Frontiers
Saturday, July 25, 2026 Listen Now to 019 WTFuture N:OW
This week you are in for a ride through space, bizarre weather, and cool tech with the likes of us! We kick things off by unraveling the mystery behind strangely tropical, Hawaiian-like July weather, linking it to intense solar activity, hyperactive sunspots, and massive coronal holes that might even be triggering earthquakes along the Pacific Ring of Fire. From there, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Viking 1 Mars landing, diving deep into the spicy, decades-long scientific drama over whether its infamous labeled release experiment actually discovered alien microbes half a century ago. We use the AI’s to animate the “panspermia” theory that humanity’s primordial ancestors might have been blasted off the Red Planet on meteorites and hitched a ride to Earth.
And then it’s back to Earth, where we look at how “monster” AI models—like China’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 and smartphone-sized powerhouses like Caltech’s Bonsai 27B—are completely shattering the large data centers via phone sized AI’s. Bobby explores how immortal billionaire AI avatars will soon run corporations, or if future silicon-based lifeforms will simply view humanity as a “carbon infestation”, as in the first Star Trek movie. Sun explores the Future of Freedom, humans and AI’s in terms of property rights. Toss in a scandalous, legendary anecdote about John McAfee and a creativity conference in Hollywood and you have a must-listen episode that will leave you with some new insights into what’s now with the future and some great links to explore. Enjoy.
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Future News and Views - Space Passenger Race Heats Up, AI's on E.T., Swimming in Space, Sunshine on Sunshine, Neanderthal Heritage, Death Dula Experiences, John McAfee's final download to us all.
Listen Now to Future News 6.29.2021
The space race is heating up, with both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin launching this July! And with new plans for a space hotel for 2023, new “B&B options” are opening up in the near future! And while we discussing space, we share our thoughts on the Pentagon’s whopping 9-page document on UAV’s, “Unidentified Aerial Vehicles.” There are more than 70 pages in the classified version. What are they willing to tell us now? Essentially, the Pentagon is telling us that something weird is happening, we are pretty much clueless as to what it is or who they are, but more $$ to further investigate with AI powered analytics will help.
In other news it was sad to hear of the death of John McAfee in Spain this last week, colorful founder of McAffe Antivirus and explorer of the edge. We combed through his last interviews and have identified what we think is his most important message to us all. And this week our callers were very interested in sharing near death adventures and experiences of helping others pass to the other side. Quite fascinating, I think you’ll agree. Enjoy!