53 Future Now - Stormy weather stories, Our media experiments with AI, In Memoriam- Science Poetry by Len Anderson, Wooden Satellites, Nukes in Space, Lunar Landing!

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What’s great about stormy weather is that stirs up some great stories, and out here in California it means we have more indoor time.  This translated into more creative time for us play with some of the new AI media tools coming our way.  So in this week’s show you’ll have a preview of what’s possible in telling your tales in more spectacular ways. My favorite experiment so far is our Scifi short, “First Contract,” about a group of intergalactic trader priests negotiating with an off planet entheogenic humanlike tribe living in a tropical rain forest. We have completed just the first couple of minutes sans visuals, a nice tease..

Our last radio broadcast with poet/scientist Len Anderson

We are sad about the passing of Santa Cruz poet/physicist Len Anderson, but happy that we are able to share some of his science poetry.  A large part of Len’s work deals poetically with spiritual and metaphysical themes, and funny! One of his poems starts like a joke,”Science and Mysticism walk into a bar, and decide to have it all out in the back alley, each accusing the other of not knowing what he is talking about.,” His friend and colleague on the frontier, Dr. Nick Herbert, wrote a touching in memoriam of Len, on Nick’s blog, including the rest of this poem. So if want to know who won, see you in podcast! 

Future News & Interview - Stormy Weather, New Space Station, Sounds of Mars, Mass Formation Theory, Emerald Cup's Tim Blake on the Cannabis Industry, Singing Lemurs

Listen Now to Future News 10.26.2021

Did you know that Blue Origin has plans for a commercial space staton in the coming years? Called Blue Reef, it’ll be a mixed used industrial park in orbit.  Also this week we feature sounds on Mars, both those made by our euipment and the natural sounds of the atmosphere.  We delve into Mass Formation Theory this week, in our explorations of understanding the mass hynosis that seems to have descended on our species at this time. Singing Lemurs are also featured, the only other species that truly creates music, according to our scientists.

Can this endangered lemur create a musical rhythm like the ones humans generate?

Tim Blake, founder of the organic cannabis festival, Emerald Cup, brings us up-to-date with what’s happening in the Cannibis world, which he descibes as a perfect storm, the end of an era for NorCal organic outdoor growers in the Emerald Triangle just North of San Francisco.