TWS400: Lookin’ Good At A Distance

On the show this week:

• Space Enough For Anyone


• Slyborg


• Making It Up As We Get Along

CQ: If you won the big lottery tomorrow, would you have 100% leisure time, or would you choose to work for a salary still?

Full list of 16 articles after the jump!

• Space Enough For Anyone:
  
  
  
  • And we all know that the universe conforms to simple math, just look at rocket science.: NBC/MACH – Simple math shows how many space aliens may be out there
  
  
  • Personally, I’m in favour of Star Watch: Exterrestrial Alien Recon.: LiveScience – ‘Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence’ Needs a New Name, SETI Pioneer Says
  
  
  • So far, my RPG scenario from 1994 has not held up.: Reuters – Chemical sunshade to slow warming may not be feasible: U.N. draft
  
  
  • Suddenly space doesn’t seem so sexy..: NY Daily News – Human waste turned into astronaut food
  
  
  • Our 1000-year plan for future space habitation depends upon that car surviving.: Gizmodo – So Like, If You Could Bring Elon Musk’s Tesla Back From Space, Would it Still Work?
  
  
  • Well, *someone* had to!: Unknown source: – Yup, Flat-Earthers Think the Falcon Heavy Launch Was a Conspiracy
  
  
  • Maybe he should have put a car on top.: Unknown source: – Flat-Earth Rocketeer Fails to Launch (Again)
  
  
  
  


• Slyborg:
  
  
  
  • Good bye, glassholes! Welcome intelligeeks?: The Verge – Intel Made Smart Glasses That Look Normal
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Considering that we’re still a bit baffled by our own intelligence, this is pretty much a definite thing.: Ideas.ted.com – Why we need to create AI that thinks in ways that we can’t even imagine
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Along the lines of Douglas Adams, I expect the revelation of the meaning of the manuscript to immediately cause the book to transform into something even stranger..: Science Alert/CP – AI May Have Finally Decoded The Bizarre, Mysterious ‘Voynich Manuscript’
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Just don’t get on to her bad side.: LiveScience – Meet Erica, Japan’s Next Robot News Anchor
  
  
  
  


• Making It Up As We Get Along:
  
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Well, that’s clearly the way that language works.: Detroit Metro Times – Michigan Court of Appeals officially ruled emoticon denotes sarcasm
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Maybe they’re just sarcastic?: LiveScience – Why Are So Many People So Unhappy?
  
  
  • (EXTRA) Maybe they just aren’t trustworthy..: LiveScience – This Is Why You Trust Some Strangers and Not Others
  
  
  • (EXTRA) No? Wait.. what do you know?: The Aeon – Are you sleepwalking now?
  
  
  • (EXTRA) What, no one chose back tentacles?: NBC/MACH – 10 top science minds tell what strange new body part they’d like to have