Sci-Fi & Squeam

27 Sep 2012

Episode # 132 Science-Fact VS Science-Reality: Does Sci-fi cut the mustard when it comes to being realistic?

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With our special guest in the studio Tara Judah from iconic genre supporting The Astor Theatre & Community radio RRR’s Plato’s Cave podcast, we dabble into
these questions and more are unpeeled by riffing on a few of the Sci-fi movies we love from 2001 A Space Odyssesy , Contact to the new one: Looper, where Sonja expresses her disatisfaction with Emily Blunt and an axe!!

We spoke to curator/organiser of a very special exhibition here in Melbourne @Experimenta: Hiroshi Ishiguro ( ” man of the robots “) ROBOTS !! Telenoids in Oz ! ‘Telenoid is a tele-operated android that adopts a minimal design of human, that is, it is designed according to the minimum requirements to express humanlike appearance and motion. Able to be interpreted equally as male or female, old or young, Telenoid allows all its users to transmit his or her own presence to a distant place’…..Yes, intriguing scientist H Ishiguro’s robots have arrived, soo how close are we to A.I ?

We also chatted to organiser Neil Foley on the phone about Monster Pictures Australia’s : Monster Film Festival ! From Oct 31st to Nov 9, 2012 in Batmania ! … Elvira is coming, what more do we need to say?? !

So listen up sci-fi freaks and scientifically minded enthusiasts…. to this Podcast from the Future !