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