TWS395: Let’s Get Off This Rock (and Roll)

On the show this week:

• To The Moon, Alice


• Post-End of the World


• Disruptive

CQ: What song would you send to greet our alien cousins?

Full list of 19 articles after the jump!

• To The Moon, Alice:
  
  
  
  • Probably not a bad idea to start making more baskets..: New Scientist – Should we seed life through the cosmos using laser-driven ships?
  
  
  • Seeding the near earth orbit is a start, right?: New Scientist – The ‘space nation’ Asgardia just launched its first satellite
  
  
  • C’ing the universe, one chord at a time..: Mysterious Universe – Scientists Transmit Songs to Planet With Potential Alien Life
  
  
  • Because who says science can’t be cool looking.: Youtube – Sónar Calling GJ273b
  
  
  • I’m pretty sure he can’t fire it in a curve, because curves don’t exist.: AP – Self-taught rocket scientist plans to launch over ghost town
  
  
  • How do I want him to fail at succeeding, rather than fail to try?: Gizmodo – Flat Earth Researcher Told He Can’t Blast Himself Into the Sky at 500 MPH on Public Lands
  
  
  • : AP/ABC Australia – ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes eyes Monday for new launch date of homemade steam-powered rocket
  
  
  • Yeah, but aside from all the evidence, what more proof do you have?: Forbes – Five Impossible Facts That Would Have To Be True If The Earth Were Flat
  
  
  • Therefore: science is *all* wrong.: The LA Times – Mars may not have the water we thought it did, study shows
  
  
  
  


• Post-End of the World:
  
  
  
  • Seems like we should burn it or something..: Phys.org – ‘Trash islands’ off Central America indicate ocean pollution problem
  
  
  • On the burning edge of fashion.: Bloomberg – A Power Plant Is Burning H&M Clothes Instead of Coal
  
  
  • Seems like it would smell better than burning t-shirts.: Engadget – London buses to be powered by coffee grounds
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Are we wasting a precious resource — again?: LiveScience – Here Come the Macy’s Balloons, There Goes Our Helium?
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Evil or just amoral?: The New York Times – How Evil Is Tech?
  
  
  
  


• Disruptive:
  
  
  
  • (EXTRA) OHMYGODIWILLLIVEFOREVERGIMMEMOREESPRESSO: The UK Telegraph – Even seven cups of coffee a day cuts risk of early death, study suggests
  
  
  • (EXTRA) They should probably drink more coffee (and have a burger).: ACSH – Vegetarian Men are More Depressed – Are Steaks a Treatment?
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Don’t be alone until it’s good to be alone.: StudyFinds – Study: Being Alone Can Be Good For Your Mental Health, Sparks Creativity
  
  
  • (EXTRA) A new feat for high level Ranger characters!: Sploid – This Mind-Bending Archer Fires Arrows That Change Direction in Mid-Air
  
  
  • (EXTRA) It’s the end of the term, as you know it, but I feel fine..: TwinCities Pioneer Press – ‘Zombie apocalypse’ writing assignment leads to controversy at Minnesota high school