Decipher SciFi: the show about how and why
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Isolated BS: VR breakthroughs, space clouds, and earthworm jerky
Spaaaaace Clouds in space…? Microsoft Azure Space and Azure Orbital. Making space cheaper and more accessible with satcomm as a service. VR The new Oculus Quest. Past predictions. Pulling the VR market in the direction of affordability? Pandemic wi
Her: sad foreheads, augmented audio presence, and friendly AI takeoff scenarios
AI everything Creating a thinking, feeling artificial intelligence to do really important things for humanity like… sorting through your e-mail. N-dimensional AI chess. Rapid takeoff scenarios. Personal Assistants Natural language processing develop
The Core: Flying bricks, pacemakers, and quantum avian eyeballs
Forgetability The valley of forgetability (The Core) between science-respecting sci-fi (e.g. Arrival) and totally bonkers nonsense (e.g. Jupiter Ascending). Space shuttle Landing the “flying brick.” Bird navigation Magnetite beaks. The possibili
Stank waffles, VR development, and Venusian cloud datacenters
Clouds in episode image from “Storm Clouds” by Albert Bierstadt/The White House Historical Association CC-O @ Wikipedia Waffles Belgian Waffle formula Tasty waffles! Stank waffles! With lots of syrup! Solving food problems with casserole
Raised by Wolves: exoplanets, eating rats, and fake-karate floaty physics
Happy 5-year anniversary whoooooo
Isolated BS: nuclear bananas, unreal simulations, and buttplug archaeology w/ Josh
“Banana” image used in featured image with our brains by nicubunu CC-0 Josh, recently Made a strong showing on the recent Saving Private Ryan episode over at LSG Media. Real human stuff in between the dick and fart jokes. Teledildonics Tales of
On Decipher History - Titanic! rich people, bad luck, and ever-increasing hugeness w/ Joe
Production Costly! The costs of vising the wreck twelve times for research and footage, not to mention the cost of the film production overall. The extreme profitability of this film and James Cameron in general. Classism First, second, and third cl
Proactive prostheses, facial recognition, and correlating diarrhea
Fawkes mask in post image Multipainkiller Studio CC-BY Prosthetics Proactive prostheses in our future? Recognizing that we routinely do this with major joints, and with for a full cyberpunk limb-improvement future. Big brother etc Machine learning
X-Men First Class: nuclear panic, destructive resonance, and woolly mammoth piñatas
Fear of mutation Our recent X-Men. Irl post-war nuclear anxieties. More mutant panic and more mutant supremacy bad guys. Irradiating Earth Not enough to make superpowers, but we sure did irradiate a lot. The clear mark of human civilization in the g