Show Notes Cool intro music, courtesy of Brian Hogan http://bphogan.com/music/ Tips for junior devs Elon is probably fine Hawking is being cynical Power stuff with your feet Is tech greater than government? We’ll see you next year with even bigger and better things! Stay in touch @cheerskevin and @alexbragon…

Show Notes The President doesn’t keep his Twitter account How Many People are in Space Right Now? Astronauts aboard the Tiangong-2 Tesla has a solar roof Tiny computers are ruining the internet The placebo effect discovered

Show Notes Code Monkey Patreon Cool intro music, courtesy of Brian Hogan http://bphogan.com/music/ Seaweed reduces methane production Self-driving truck delivers beer Bryan Fuller no longer helming Star Trek: Discovery Apple kills the escape key Twitter kills Vine

Show Notes Code Monkey Patreon Cool intro music, courtesy of Brian Hogan http://bphogan.com/music/ More space habitation developments Apple is better at fitness tracking Not all 7 phones are bad Yahoo and the NSA

Show Notes Code Monkey Patreon Cool intro music, courtesy of Brian Hogan http://bphogan.com/music/ Hurricane’s are a danger to space Washington Post’s thoughts on SpaceX sabotage Blue Origin did a thing! Google Home’s API

Show Notes Code Monkey Patreon Cool intro music, courtesy of Brian Hogan http://bphogan.com/music/ SpaceX reports on their explosion Musk tweets out about the Rapter rocket How feasible is this plan? Jellyfish don’t like space How Much Would it Cost to Live on the Moon? (Video)

Show Notes Code Monkey Patreon Cool intro music, courtesy of Brian Hogan http://bphogan.com/music/ Tardigrades are shielded from radiation There is most certainly life on Europa Senate pays the way to Mars Google is experimenting with Web Bluetooth Amazon Echo might get push notifications?

Show Notes Code Monkey Patreon Cool intro music, courtesy of Brian Hogan http://bphogan.com/music/ China launches Tiangong-2 Automatically convert units from stupid units to good ones! Pluto is a bit gassy Super carbon-y stuff around that one asteroid AdBlock putting ads in yer ads so you can ad while you ad…

Show Notes Code Monkey Patreon New intro music, courtesy of Brian Hogan http://bphogan.com/music/ NASA’s asteroid mission Apple removes the headphone jack IQ comes from Mom! Testing the EM drive in space???

Show Notes Code Monkey Patreon SpaceX Twitter reports on the anomaly Elon Musk reports the upper-stage error Watch the explosion in HD (YouTube) Crewed launches expected delays even before the explosion Did Russia discover Alien life signs? Nope, Russia did not discover Alien life signs An EM Drive paper has passed peer review…

Show Notes We have a Twitch channel ScienceAlert says EM Drive is okay EM simulated with high school physics ESO confirms a rocky planet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri Tesla’s cars have ludicrous mode Tesla owners just want to go camping though

Show Notes Watch us on YouTube Or listen on SoundCloud Jekyll blogging framework New Earth on Phys.org More details on Space.com xkcd on the Fermi Paradox How far have radio signals gone? Self-driving Ubers rolling out in Pittsburgh NASA’s opening up the science Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (Wikipedia)…

Show Notes Listen on SoundCloud Watch on YouTube Veritasium on the Reproducibility Crisis (Video) Try the Trolley Problem with self-driving cars Or read more about the problem on TechCrunch All the details about Star Trek: Discovery Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (GoodReads)

Show Notes IO’s atmosphere collapses all the time Cauchy surface (Wikipedia) Cauchy horizon (Wikipedia) Closed Timelike Curves (Wikipedia) Private companies on the Moon

Show Notes Markov Chains (Wikipedia) Petition for some Mars thing whatever Soylent CEO is weird Tom Scott on Shipping Containers (YouTube) Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (Wikipedia)

Show Notes Tiangong might be fine NASA’s Chinese exclusion policy (Wikipedia) MinutePhysics on the sun (YouTube) Leon Muss Tesla’s second secret plan Edward Snowden’s making a thing Star Trek was almost too Star Treky

Show Notes Mr. Robot on USA Furcadia MUDs (Wikipedia) Ingress Nobody owns the moon Elon’s original secret plan Tesla’s big accident

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Show Notes Roller Coaster Tycoon (Wikipedia) x86 Assembly Language (Wikipedia) Flappy Bird in Super Mario World (YouTube) The /r/cheerskevin subreddit @cheerskevin @alexbragdon Telsa has a new car The Tesla super-highway ISS’s new module Boaty McBoatface

Show Notes Computer Desktop in VR (video) Compiz Linux window manager (Wikipedia) Google’s opening up voice recognition Tardigrades don’t rely on horizontal gene transfer

Show Notes Quantum Conundrum (Steam) Watch Star Wars over telnet The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant Transporter Paradox Videos CGP Grey’s (video) Vsauce 3’s (video) MinutePhysics’ (video)

Show Notes XKCD - Purity Nerdwriter on Donald Trump (video) Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe (GoodReads) BASIC English (Wikipedia) The secret language of movie quotes Prey, by Michael Crichton (GoodReads) The First Men in the Moon, by H. G. Wells (GoodReads) Counting Heads, by David Marusek (GoodReads)…

Show Notes Vertasium on time perception (YouTube) SpaceX delayed (they’ve subsequently had two more delays) CubeSats (Wikipedia) The Pirate Bay of Academia

Show Notes Apple’s Open Letter The Particle Electron Board

Show Notes NASA wants a VR Mars Alex is playing The Witness (Steam) Kevin is playing American Truck Simulator (Steam) NASA is building a space flashlight Reclaiming Conversation, by Sherry Turkle (GoodReads) Shock yourself instead of being bored

In which Kevin and Alex definitely don’t talk about politics Show Notes Marvin Minsky (Wikipedia) Graph isomorphism in polynomial time P vs NP problem (Wikipedia) Millenium Prize problems (Wikipedia) Google has a Go computer Millimeter internet makes Alex happy

A new planet, Alex insists on aliens, and Kevin talks about the Endgame. Show Notes SpaceX lands, not stands This is a collet Alpha Centauri has no planet We use Workflowy for show notes There’s a new planet! It’s still not not aliens Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Second Life Furcadia MUDs (Wikipedia) Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The blockchain…

Alex and Kevin talk about the future of technology and space Show Notes GNU Screen (Wikipedia) Kevin tweets his tmux setup tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development SpaceX sticks the landing! (YouTube) kRPC mod for Kerbal Space Program Virgin Galactic’s accident (Wikipedia) Kevin was totally wrong. NASA pays $70 million per Soyuz seat Judgment under …

Alex and Kevin are back from their holidays, and chat about space, quantum mechanics, and finally, Star Wars Show Notes Early Edition (the newspaper-related show Kevin couldn’t remember) Transactional Interpretation Bootstrap Paradox Off to Be the Wizard PBS Spacetime (YouTube) on mass MKBHD (YouTube)…

Spoilers ahead for our secret bonus episode about this season’s Doctor Who. Happy holidays from Kevin and Alex!

Alex and Kevin might be aliens, but the supercomputers are the real threat! Show Notes Vertiasium on rotationally-induced gravity (video) Learn to Code: It’s Harder Than You Think Coal miners learn to code Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Runaround - The Asimov story Kevin mentions Daemon FPGA (Wikipedia) Maximizing future possibilitie…

Kevin and Alex chat asteroid mining, Raspberry Pi Zero, and Euro Truck Simulator. Show Notes The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero The Twiddler 3 Keyboard The US says mining is fine Euro Truck Simulator 2

Alex and Kevin fight over futuristic propulsion, try to invent gravity, andexpress their undying love for tardigrades. Show Notes The Alcubierre Drive (Wikipedia) The EM Drive (Wikipedia) ISS boosting its orbit (video) Kardaschev scale (Wikipedia) Satupiter stole our stuff! The formation of the solar system (video) Legrangian points (Wikipedia) Tar…

Alex and Kevin discuss Fortran, Common Core math, and more things they know nothing about! Show Notes NASA needs Fortram developers 5+5+5 isn’t 3+3+3+3+3 Common Core Math is not the enemy There’s a new Star Trek!

Kevin and Alex defend their profession from evil engineers, and see who can type the fastest. Show Notes Holes in the ISS (Smarter Every Day) O-rings (Wikipedia) Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers Stereoscopy (Wikipedia) Qubit (Wikipedia) Typing Club Keybr.com Stenotype (Wikipedia) Chorded typing with a piano keyboard…

Alex and Kevin put on their amateur physicist hats and solve the mysteries of interstellar travel! Show Notes The government kills the blimp program NASA really loves Nikon Canon S110 Point-and-Shoot Alex is making videos! Alex went to BufferFestival Rode Rec app for recording microphones on your phone Kevin’s brother calls him out NASA hasn’t disp…

Kevin has suggestions for NASA’s PR team, and Alex believes in free will. Show Notes More YouTube Red information The military’s runaway blimp Eve Online 360 Video Andy Weir made a space sim Karnaugh maps (Wikipedia) Relevant XKCD

Kevin and Alex discuss space and general nerdery. Then they dive into what YouTube’s new strategy means. Show Notes Double star may result in black hole Have we discovered aliens around KIC 8462852? Dyson Sphere (Wikipedia) Planet Hunters Outer Space Treaty (Wikipedia) Warrant Canary (Wikipedia) Heartbleed Vulnerability (Wikipedia) Maker culture (W…

Kevin tries to defend voice communication, Alex predicts the future, and theyboth get sucked into Doctor Who. Show Notes JPL’s Rules For Developing Safety Critical Code (PDF) Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte (Wikipedia) Doctor Who 500 Miles Genetic Cars 2 Genetic Algorithm Polygons George Washington as a zombie (Library of Babel) How Many Peopl…

In the first of what presumably will be many wonderful podcasts, Kevin and Alex discuss The Martian, what their intro should be. They continue by discussing how Amazon is locking competitors out of their service, and some of the potential consequences of home automation and technology. Be sure to keep up-to-date with the latest and greatest in thes…