Future News - Mars update: Copter, Cliff City, Earth Orbit Sweeper, New Viagra use, Search & Rescue Drone Swarms, Robot arm tattoo artist

Listen Now to Future News 3.23.2021

It’s Springtime and lots of activitiy, both on planet and off.  NASA just had a press conference on Ingenuity, their Mars helicopter, soon to set a new record on Mars, our first attempt at flying a craft in the atmosphere of an alien world.  Also this week, plans for a Martian cliff city were released, the city of Nüwa, with a population of 250,000 humans.  Closer to home, we look at Astroscale’s “Orbital Debris Removal Satellite,” the world’s first space sweeper, designed to clear valuable orbit space of dead sats.  A caller suggested we check out the new Netflix series “Space Sweeper,” a comedy about the people who clean space for us in the future.

Also of interest this week is a new use for Viagra, which seems to extend the life span of men, and is of special interest to those subject to heart attacks and strokes.  Drone Swarms are now being considered as a more effective way of ‘sweeping’ a disaster area for survivors, and a tattoo artist in Holland  has successfully performed a remote inking using a robotic arm. Enjoy!