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LIVE: Neuralink Robot Suits, NDT messes up and SpaceX Aug 07, 2019

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In this live episode of the podcast we discuss the latest ideas on Neuralink, SpaceX and Neil Degrasse Tyson's Twitter mess up.

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Crashed Spacecraft Might Have Colonized Moon With Live ‘Water Bears’ From Earth Aug 07, 2019

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Tardigrades can enter a state of deep suspended animation. They are not able to move around or reproduce on the Moon. They are frozen in time. They would have to be recovered and taken to a place with a suitable atmosphere, and then rehydrated, to *potentially* be reanimated.

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SpaceX announces Falcon 9 SmallSat Rideshare program with launches to start in 2020 Aug 06, 2019

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has announced that it is expanding its launch services to directly address the growing needs of small satellite operators. The company plans to accomplish this by introducing a SmallSat Rideshare program, which involves regularly scheduled, dedicated Falcon 9 missions whose prices could go as low as $2.25 million per customer for payloads up to 150 kg.

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Elon Will Present Details of SpaceX Starship in 3 weeks! Aug 05, 2019

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August 24th, either at Cape Canaveral or Boca Chica, Elon Musk will present a detailed review of the first Orbital Starship with pros and cons of the design decisions.

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SpaceX details launch and landing plans for Starship and Super Heavy Aug 05, 2019

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Starship and Super Heavy will launch from Florida, with the current plan to build a second launch mount at its current LC-39A launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, which it leases from NASA and currently uses for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. After launching from LC-39A, the current plan is to have Starship return to Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1), which is SpaceX’s current landing area for Falcon first-stage boosters at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Super Heavy would land downrange, aboard a drone barge ship, like the twin “Of Course I Still Love You” and “Just Read The Instructions” ships that SpaceX uses now, depending on mission conditions on both its East and West coast launches.

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Tests Show that Potatoes Can Grow on Mars Aug 03, 2019

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The International Potato Center (CIP) launched a series of experiments to discover if potatoes can grow under Mars atmospheric conditions and thereby prove they are also able to grow in extreme climates on Earth. This Phase Two effort of CIP’s proof of concept experiment to grow potatoes in simulated Martian conditions began on February 14, 2016 when a tuber was planted in a specially constructed CubeSat contained environment built by engineers from University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima based upon designs and advice provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Ames Research Center (NASA ARC), California. Preliminary results are positive.

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Hubble spots a football-shaped planet that's leaking heavy metals Aug 02, 2019

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Astronomers just used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to take the temperature of an exoplanet called WASP-121b and discovered that the world is so hot that heavy metals actually leak behind it as it whips about its central star. It’s the first time scientists have seen such a phenomenon.

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SpaceX moves Starhopper back to launch pad -Launching again this month Aug 01, 2019

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According to recent road closures reports in Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX is preparing Starhopper for a second flight just 17 days after its first hop and has cordoned off August 12th through the 14th.

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Potentially habitable planet discovered just 31 light-years away Aug 01, 2019

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The newfound exoplanet — a so-called super-Earth named GJ 357 d — lies 31 light-years away from our solar system. It’s about six times more massive than our planet and orbits in its host star’s habitable zone, where water could exist in liquid form on the surface.

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