Listen "Petrified CO2, Team Fortress 2 Bots & Akon's Wakanda"
Episode Synopsis
First I was afraid, I was petrified. Thought I'd never be carbon sequestered. But the scientists don't care. They don't need a basilisk (or catchy disco songs) to petrify CO2 in industrial waste.The technological singularity wasn't supposed to happen like this. TF2 bots have decided they don't need us meatbags anymore and are going to war against hackers. It's only a matter of time before the bots go up against their creator.Akon is designing a city in Senegal specifically to attract economic giants and create a home away from home for the black diaspora. WAkonda forever.This week Professor reached into his magic powers and DJ did nothing at all.Industrial waste’s new superpower : Petrification- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/industrial-waste-can-turn-planet-warming-carbon-dioxide-stoneTeam Fortress 2 : Bots vs Bots- https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-09-04-the-team-fortress-2-community-is-fighting-bots-with-botsA real life Wakanda powered by Akon- https://comicbook.com/movies/news/black-panther-wakanda-akon-6-billion-senegal/Games PlayedDJ– DNPRating: 0/5Professor- Spellbreak - https://playspellbreak.com/enRating: 3.5/5Other topics discussedŌkunoshima (A small island in the Inland Sea of Japan. It is often called Usagi Shima (うさぎ島, "Rabbit Island") because of the numerous feral rabbits that roam the island. The rabbits are rather tame and will approach humans.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8CkunoshimaThis Island Is Overrun With Rabbits—Here's Why It's a Problem- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/12/rabbit-island-japan-overrun-tourism-spd/Charcoal (a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) so as to drive off all water and other volatile constituents. In the traditional version of this pyrolysis process, called charcoal burning, the heat is supplied by burning part of the starting material itself, with a limited supply of oxygen.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CharcoalThe Changing Role of Coal in Electrical Generation- https://www.nuscalepower.com/environment/coal-plantsHalf-life (The term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly...
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