dustindriverJan 137 minHow does the James Webb Telescope work? What will it see?The great Carl Sagan once said, “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” The...
dustindriverDec 23, 20215 minDid we just discover warp drive?In Star Trek the crew of the USS Enterprise zips between the stars in mere days, traveling a distance that takes light itself months or...
dustindriverJun 18, 202123 minWhere are all the aliens?In this off-the-cuff episode I talk about some solutions to the Fermi Paradox (where is everybody in the galaxy?), the intergalactic...
dustindriverOct 4, 20205 minCan drugs give you superpowers?My current novel is about everyday people who get superpowers from amazing future technology that I totally made up. The tech simply...
dustindriverJun 28, 20203 minIs wood the building material of the future?In 1940 the de Havilland aircraft company introduced the Mosquito—a combat aircraft made almost entirely out of wood. A few years later...