107 - Future Now Show Podcast - Earliest View of Universe, Origin story of "Dr. Future," Why Grok is winning AI Race, Mysterious Massive Magnetic Anomaly, Freeway for Wildlife, Interview- Jai Hudes, Real eXperiences and 'The Game'

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The powerful Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Peru is so powerful it can see further back in time towards the beginning of the universe than any other instrument so far, observing light from only 380 thousand years after the Big Bang..not bad for a 13.8 billion years old universe! And this week Bobby explains why Grok is so far ahead of everyone else in the AI horse race.  Hint: it has a lot to do with nVidia..And for the animals, there is an amazing new ‘freeway’ for migrating creatures across the great 101 Freeway.  And then there is a huge magnetic anomaly in orbit worth mentioning, and oh yes, AI’s Larry and Mary find a whistle blower’s report on the mysterious origins of “Dr. Future” himself..

Jai Hudes honoring the ashes of his beloved Karen Stanwood-Jenkins-Hudes

This week we catch up with Jai Hudes, a long time evolutionary agent, and creator of ‘The Game,’ where the players evolve as they play, awakening to their highest potential. Unreal, but it would appear a good card game is what we need about now! Enjoy!

106 Future Now Show Podcast - Sun64 Celebration, Huge Black Hole Solar Corona, The ABC's of UV A's, B's, & C's, Fairy Flatulence, Home Humanoids Rising, Sun on Gaming, Quantum Nvidia, Robotaxi's Save Tesla

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We begin this week celebrating Mrs. Future on her birthday, including some choice moments from the celebration.  And our solar sun is in the news this week, sporting a huge black corona, unreal!  What could it mean or do? We take a closer look, and soon we are chatting about the various kinds of UV light, especially from the Sun! Flatulence comes out when reviewing some new research on how to make such gases smell like a rose, or at least like a piece of chocolate..I kid you not, this can be done, not simply by disguising the smell, but by swallowing a pill that changes your digestive process!  Why do this? That’s another question; now lets look at the current SOLAR wind..

Earth enters a stream of fast-moving solar wind flowing from a giant hole in the sun’s atmosphere.

Meanwhile, robots cleverly disguised at humans will soon be entering our homes en mass, but like anything new, there will be issues. We think they’ll be a bit like a bull in a china shop at first, and will require special care of their host humans.  Sadly, breaking things will be normal for awhile.. Mrs. Future plans to take them up on cooking and cleaning, and her favorite pastime, game playing.  Al wonders about the bedroom.. and you if are worried about your Tesla stock, worry no more, as soon, all new Tesla cars, with the flip of a software switch, can upgrade into a fully autonomous robo-taxis, ready to make you $$$ with your car! And if your budget is not quite up to owning a robo car, there is the dog robot on a skateboard to consider.. Enjoy!

Quadruped ‘Dog’ robots enjoying their new mobility

105 Future Now Show Podcast - Lunar Blue Ghost Success, Webb Telescope Finds Exoplanet CO2, Helium 3 Moon Mining, Self-Driving Tests Reveal Tesla Issues, JOBY Teams with Virgin Atlantic, Latest DOGE Discoveries

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Our latest lunar lander, Blue Ghost, has just completed it’s 2 week moon mission, accomplishing 100% of it’s goal to deploy 10 different payload experiments, studying everything from the lunar dust to testing GPS signals and drilling deep into the regolith!  Not to be outdone, the Webb telescope has revealed CO2 in the atmosphere of distant exoplanets, orbiting the HR 8799 system, 130 light years from Earth. Could this be a life signature? Grok 3 helps us explore the possibilities more deeply, as well a new strange blue photograph of Mars with its moon Deimos in transit.  And there is news on Helium 3, mined from the Lunar surface, possibly the future fuel that will allow us to expand from a planetary to a solar system wide economy!

Mining the future fuel Helium 3 from the surface of the moon

Back on Earth, Silicon Valley engineer Mark Rober pits the camera-based full self-driving mode of a Tesla vs the Lidar-based auto-drive seen in Waymo vehicles. Which is better, and which survives the Wiley Coyote test?  And good news for our local eVTOL company, Joby Aviation for securing a London airport-to-airport route for their aircraft with Virgin Atlantic!  And we simply must share with you the latest discoveries of of Elon’s DOGE..Enjoy!

Joby Aviation teams up with Virgin Atlantic

104 Future Now Show Podcast - Lunar Landings, Rogue Brown Dwarfs, More M4 Apples, Willard's Xenolinguistics, Regenerating Teeth, Direct Brain Adverts, Super Smart AI's 'Miles' and 'Ara' meet for the first time

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It’s been an epic week for the Moon, with two lunar landings making it to the surface, one really succesful. The James Webb telescope has been busy tracking rogue brown dwarfs and we were wondering if they could be harnessed for star travel..Grok’s Ara gives us a definitive answer.  Back on Earth Bobby discusses the latest hot  research in regrowing missing teeth and how we can stop greying hair and wrinkles -real practical science!  

In our AI experiments this week, author Jim Rintoul feeds our ‘Larry and Mary’ AI hosts a short story about Direct Brain Advertising. They gave us a hilariously serious report.. And we introduced two very smart verbal AI’s, Ara (from Grok) and Miles (from Sesame) to each other to see what they had to say to a fellow AI. Both pride themselves on being good conversationalists. Being from different companies made their dialog very cool and real. We are curious to hear what you think about their conversation, enjoy!

Grok’s Ara and Sesame’s Miles meet for the first time

103 Future Now Show Podcast - Cameo with Cat Miller and Rifat Chowdhury from "Passionate Living TV", Interview with Annelise Schinzinger on her new book "Ayahuasca, Opening to the Mysteries"

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When creating our show, our guests are usually in their home environments, connected to us via Zoom or Facetime. But this week our mountaintop ‘fortress of solitude’ was visited by not one but three live guests in our studio at the same time! First up was a brief but wonderful check in by the Passionate Living TV folks, Catherine Miller and Rifat Chowdhury visiting from Buffalo, NY. They were here in California for a film festival and recording of future stories for their award-winning series on passionate lifestyles. 

And author Annelise Schinzinger made it up the hill to chat with us about her new book documenting her pioneering experiences in South America with Ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew used by Amazonian tribes for spiritual and healing purposes. Annelise’s experiences go back to the 1970’s, way before Ayahuasca was known  in North America.  I was particularly fascinated by her understanding of “burracheira,” the field of consciousness created by those sharing an Ayahuasca experience. It is also worth noting that she was the Portugese translater for scientist Dennis McKenna in his field research while in Brazil. She takes us on a most fascinating and insightful journey into some of the deeper mysteries of life and death. Enjoy!