This week Myke is joined by Marco Arment.
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5by5 | CMD+Space #48: A Fresh Start, with Marco Arment
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Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics
British author Alastair Reynolds is at the vanguard of the current generation of hard science fiction authors — writers whose fabulous adventure stories are grounded in a sophisticated understanding of scientific reality. In this week’s episode of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley talk to Reynolds about the feedback loop between science and science fiction, the future of human space exploration, and his excitement at getting to write a Doctor Who novel.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/09/geeks-guide-alastair-reynolds/
Tagged with wired sci-fi science fiction space book:author=alastair reynolds
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Stranger Than Fiction: Kim Stanley Robinson
This week, Tim speaks with Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy and 2312. In Slate last year, Choire Sicha of the Awl wrote that 2312 “is his boldest trip into all of the marvelous SF genres—ethnography, future shock, screed against capitalism, road to earth—and all of the ways to thrill and be thrilled. It’s a future history that’s so secure and comprehensive that it reads as an account of the past—a trick of craft that belongs almost exclusively to the supreme SF task force of Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.”
In the episode, Robinson talks to Tim about the politics of science fiction, how robots have historically represented wage workers, and why we need to right Earth before we head to Mars.
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Buzz Aldrin’s Case For A ‘Mission To Mars’ : NPR
In Mission To Mars, astronaut Buzz Aldrin lays out his plans for getting Americans on Mars by 2035.
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/09/182313488/buzz-aldrins-case-for-a-mission-to-mars
Tagged with npr space book:author=buzz aldrin
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5by5 | CMD+Space #43: Option+CMD+H, with Merlin Mann
This time Myke is joined by Merlin Mann, for a very different episode of CMD+SPACE.
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Interstellar Travel - Future Tense
Imagine being an astronaut and planning for a space mission you know you have no chance of joining; a journey that won’t even happen in your lifetime, or possibly even your children’s. We meet the long-term thinkers and planners – the space visionaries not afraid to think outside the square.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/interstellar-travel/4527070
Tagged with space interstellar science
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Little Atoms 269 - Ann Druyan: Voyager, Cosmos and Carl Sagan
Ann Druyan is an author and television and film writer & producer whose work is largely concerned with the effects of science and technology on our civilization. She was co-writer with Carl Sagan and Steven Soter of the Emmy and Peabody Award winning television series COSMOS, and as the founder and CEO of COSMOS STUDIOS, she is currently working on a reboot of that series. Ann Druyan served as Creative Director of the NASA Voyager Interstellar Record Project to design a complex message, including music and images, for possible alien civilizations. These golden phonograph records affixed to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, the fastest moving vehicles ever created by the human species, are now beyond the outermost planets of the solar system on their way to interstellar space. They have a projected shelf life of one billion years. She is the author or co-author of several books, including Comet, which was on the New York Times best seller list for two months. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, written with Carl Sagan, was another New York Times best seller. She is also a credited contributor to the best-selling books Contact, Pale Blue Dot, The Demon-Haunted World and Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan. She was the co-producer and co-creator of Contact, a Warner Brothers motion picture, based on the story she co-wrote with Carl Sagan. Directed by Bob Zemeckis and starring Jodie Foster, Contact was released July 1997. Ann Druyan was married for nearly two decades to Carl Sagan, until his death in December 1996, and subsequently she was the Founder of The Carl Sagan Foundation.
http://www.sidrodrigues.com/2013/03/little-atoms-269-ann-druyan-voyager-cosmos-and-carl-sagan/
Tagged with little atoms science interview nasa space book:author=ann druyan
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Scanning For An Alien Signal | The Story
As senior astronomer of the S.E.T.I. Institute in California tells Dick he has no doubt life exists in other parts of the universe, and believes scientists are getting closer to finding it â itâs just a matter of time.
http://www.thestory.org/stories/2012-03/scanning-alien-signal
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Can we build an elevator to space?
With the end of the shuttle program and an International Space Station still in need of supplies, the aerospace industry is working the kinks of out of a century-old idea to build a service elevator from Earth to outer space.
Tagged with space elevator engineering space
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Science Weekly podcast: Sounds of the space shuttle — an acoustic tribute
As the space shuttle programme draws to a close, Piers Sellers and Scott Altman describe what it was like to fly on the shuttle — and we recreate the sounds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2011/jul/12/science-weekly-podcast-space-shuttle
Tagged with space shuttle nasa sound science
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