In today’s Lightning Round video, I fall down a crazy rabbit hole around Jupiter’s moon Io, talk about a potential crewed mission to Venus, stumble over the newest AI news, and talk a little about my new studio.Questions:Isaac HutchisonI’ve just learned that Io generates...
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With the first launch of the SpaceX Starship just days away, I thought it would be good to catch up with my old friend Tim Dodd, The Everyday Astronaut to catch up on what he’s been doing, his plans for the first launch of Starship, and of course we talk about the upcoming Dear Moon...
As humans, we value intelligence perhaps above all other traits. But for some animals, intelligence isn’t much of a virtue at all. In fact, some animals have perfectly adapted to their environments by getting, believe it or not, stupider. Here are some of the best examples of...
I recorded my live reaction to the results of the Sketch Madness voting – you can see the abbreviated version on this week’s video over at the main channel but some of these were so surprising I decided to post the full (lightly edited) take here.
Chemical rockets have made it possible for us to launch satellites into orbit and land humans on the moon, but if we want to go further, into the solar system and beyond, we’ll need a different kind of engine, and NASA has recently partnered with DARPA to build a new nuclear thermal...