Mindless Science | Mindless Prattle

There's E Coli in the water and Hydrogen in the cars but with the future of protein structures secured there's no shortage of satellites from Northwood. If nothing else alarmo could be the way to go for your morning wake up needs, either that or the new alien game coming out. In any case this is the Prattle that goes on endlessly for at least another week.

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[00:00:10] You gotta stop using that word. It's annoying. Why? It's an annoying word. It's not annoying. Yeah. And it's a fun meme. You're me. Why did you say that? That's how it sounds like every time. Every time it sounds annoying. You didn't even say the word. I know. That's what it sounds like. Sometimes you are the worst. Other times it was the best of times. What a great line though. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Indeed. Indeed it was. Yes. Those are the two options.

[00:00:39] I don't like facing this way. Well you're gonna face the microphone alright and you're gonna like it. Well can't you just know. Can I just what? Like rotate? Put it off your butt and hopefully it captures the right vibrations. I don't want nothing up there. Leave my butt alone. Like damn these are some interesting vibrations we got going on. Don't you just love election season? I get tons of messages asking me to donate to this person. Donate to that person. But then I also get text messages that are like to my family members. And I'm like please I get enough of my own texts.

[00:01:09] I don't need theirs to. You know it's been a pretty good week for video games.

[00:01:13] Was last week like their depression season? No I just be like. What does that mean? There was a lot of really good video game news. What? Okay so four days ago. We're recording this on a Saturday. Four days ago. So the 8th.

[00:01:27] I like that you roundabout way just said the 8th. I had to do math. Like you could have skipped the whole thing.

[00:01:33] I was doing math. Could have just said hey last

[00:01:37] last Tuesday. So on the 8th.

[00:01:40] So on the 8th.

[00:01:41] Alien Isolation had its 10 year anniversary.

[00:01:44] And so I'm scrolling on Twitter right?

[00:01:46] Or X or whatever the hell it's called these days. It's Twitter.

[00:01:49] It's Twitter okay.

[00:01:51] Why are you so confused by it?

[00:01:53] But so 10. It was the 10 year anniversary of the game coming out.

[00:01:57] When was this?

[00:02:00] On Tuesday the 8th.

[00:02:01] Tuesday the 8th. Oh okay.

[00:02:03] So that would be four days ago right?

[00:02:06] Yeah.

[00:02:07] Oh good.

[00:02:07] I'm glad we did math.

[00:02:10] Six days ago if you're listening on the 14th.

[00:02:13] Yes.

[00:02:14] Seven days on the 15th.

[00:02:17] Yes.

[00:02:18] Oh I thought we were practicing math.

[00:02:19] Okay.

[00:02:20] But so I was scrolling and I see a message from the team of Alien Isolation and Creative Assembly.

[00:02:27] And they put out this really nice message for the 10 year anniversary that like we really enjoyed your screams.

[00:02:33] And like watching you guys play the game and how much love it's gotten over the past 10 years.

[00:02:37] And they were like it's our pleasure to announce there's going to be a sequel.

[00:02:41] They're working on a sequel to Alien Isolation.

[00:02:43] And when I tell you I wanted to Kurai like I love that game so much and I really thought it was impossible.

[00:02:50] Like I was like it's never going to get a sequel.

[00:02:52] Like they just they didn't it wasn't as successful as they wanted it to be.

[00:02:56] But it's got like almost like a cult following over the years.

[00:02:59] And I am so fucking excited that they're coming up with a sequel.

[00:03:02] Like ah I got to talk about it you know.

[00:03:08] And I thought it was funny because I remembered the other night we were going to bed and I was like sorry I my eyes were looking and I just thought Google's dumbass AI like message at the top was funny.

[00:03:25] It's like hey idiot it's a single player game.

[00:03:29] My favorite memory of that game.

[00:03:32] Memory.

[00:03:33] Memory.

[00:03:33] Memory of the enemy.

[00:03:35] Of that game is the fact that you didn't play it for several months in a row because you were trapped in a locker and were too scared to die in a video game.

[00:03:44] Hey that was my unmedicated anxiety.

[00:03:46] Okay.

[00:03:47] It's bad for the heart to like be in a locker.

[00:03:51] And they didn't have they didn't have the five difficulties back then.

[00:03:54] They just had the three.

[00:03:55] So it was like like easy normal really hard basically.

[00:04:00] And oh my god I was in normal mode and chapter five or mission five took me fucking forever to get through.

[00:04:06] That's where the alien first starts hunting you.

[00:04:08] And I remember being in the med area and just like you said locker just stuck in the locker for 30 minutes at a time.

[00:04:17] Too scared to get out.

[00:04:18] Oh my god.

[00:04:19] And now I'm like fuck if I die I die.

[00:04:22] I've got almost every single achievement.

[00:04:24] I've played it on like four different four different like what are they called consoles versus PCs like four different modes.

[00:04:36] But I'm really excited.

[00:04:38] I'm definitely going to be playing it whenever it's announced and coming out.

[00:04:42] Like I don't care how old I am.

[00:04:45] Alien Isolation 2.

[00:04:47] Speaking of new consoles did you see Nintendo made something new?

[00:04:51] No what is it?

[00:04:56] It's super super fun.

[00:04:58] It's an alarm clock.

[00:05:01] What?

[00:05:01] Nintendo made an alarm clock.

[00:05:04] Why?

[00:05:04] I don't know.

[00:05:06] Are kids having trouble waking up?

[00:05:09] It's called Alarmo?

[00:05:11] It's called Alarmo.

[00:05:13] Yeah.

[00:05:14] That sounds like some video game shit.

[00:05:16] I like that.

[00:05:17] 2.8 inch LCD screen that tells you the date, time, and shows a playful Nintendo mascot including Link, Olimar, and of course Mario who react to what you and Alarmo are doing.

[00:05:30] Alarmo being the clock button.

[00:05:33] If you stay in bed for too long, Alarmo might send a less friendly face to motivate you like the evil king Bowser.

[00:05:40] But if you're asleep and you're not looking at it and you're like, oh, Bowser's here, I wouldn't be like, oh no, Bowser.

[00:05:44] I mean, he's here to steal things.

[00:05:47] Honestly, though, it's only available to buy if you're an Nintendo Switch online.

[00:05:52] Okay.

[00:05:53] But like, we are.

[00:05:55] It has a built-in motion sensor that can track your movements.

[00:05:58] It can track your sleep habits, which you can review in the morning and can be waved at to snooze your alarm.

[00:06:03] So you're basically buying a Nintendo camera to put next to your bed.

[00:06:07] Oh.

[00:06:07] That's what you're buying.

[00:06:08] Like, it's going to just watch you every time you're in bed.

[00:06:10] That sounds really creepy.

[00:06:11] That's fun.

[00:06:12] That's why I have like smart alarm clocks.

[00:06:14] I'm all right.

[00:06:14] I don't need to be in bed.

[00:06:15] You know what, though?

[00:06:16] It would be so great to have like a regular old-fashioned alarm clock.

[00:06:19] Like, could you, you know, it's going to wake you up and you give yourself a break from your cell phone at night.

[00:06:27] Yeah.

[00:06:27] But hey, January 2025, get you an Alarmo.

[00:06:32] Well, we can get it now.

[00:06:34] Nope.

[00:06:35] It should be launching to the general public in January 2025.

[00:06:37] But we have an Nintendo Switch membership.

[00:06:39] Hmm?

[00:06:40] But we have an Nintendo Switch membership.

[00:06:41] Not until January 2025.

[00:06:44] No.

[00:06:46] We're the early ones.

[00:06:49] Yep, we come early.

[00:06:51] It says it's available to buy for people who are paid Nintendo Switch online members, which we are.

[00:06:56] So if you wanted it, we could get it.

[00:06:58] I don't want it, but...

[00:07:00] Ma'am, you've got to read between the lines.

[00:07:03] Okay?

[00:07:04] You've got to get it in January 2025.

[00:07:07] Why?

[00:07:07] Why are you going to buy brand new things, right?

[00:07:09] Is it brand new?

[00:07:10] They're going to be terrible.

[00:07:11] Well, I mean, I don't really want like a smart thing anyways.

[00:07:15] Creeps me out.

[00:07:16] That's why we have cats.

[00:07:16] Smart House?

[00:07:18] Haven't you ever seen Smart House?

[00:07:19] Oh, I thought you were talking about the cats.

[00:07:20] Disney Channel original movie, Smart House.

[00:07:24] I have seen that.

[00:07:25] It warned me about the dangers of an AI woman coming into your home.

[00:07:32] Say that.

[00:07:34] Sorry, Cortana.

[00:07:35] You'll never be real.

[00:07:37] What?

[00:07:38] She could be in the Halo universe.

[00:07:41] Okay.

[00:07:43] I guess I have a lot of horror game news right now, actually.

[00:07:46] It's only horror for me right now.

[00:07:48] Well, there's a few other ones, but...

[00:07:49] We're living like horror game IRL right now.

[00:07:52] Like, don't drink the water.

[00:07:54] It's poisonous.

[00:07:55] Yeah.

[00:07:55] Like, what does that mean?

[00:07:56] Like, you could die.

[00:07:57] Make sure after you wash your hands with soap and water to rinse off the water with another

[00:08:03] bacteria-killing thing because the soap won't kill it.

[00:08:06] You're like, well, thank you.

[00:08:07] I'm glad that my soap doesn't work.

[00:08:10] Yeah.

[00:08:11] I had a coworker, and they're like, is this...

[00:08:13] Is E. coli really that bad?

[00:08:14] And I was like, yes.

[00:08:16] And they're like, what?

[00:08:17] I thought it was just like food poisoning.

[00:08:18] I'm like, yeah, food poisoning used to kill people regularly.

[00:08:22] Like...

[00:08:22] Yes.

[00:08:24] Like, you literally...

[00:08:25] Do you want on your gravestone for it to say you shit yourself to death?

[00:08:28] No.

[00:08:31] And he's like, is dysentery still a real thing?

[00:08:34] Yes.

[00:08:34] Is dysentery...

[00:08:37] I think he's like 19, so it makes sense that he talks about this stuff.

[00:08:43] They always ask me questions, and they just think I'll know everything.

[00:08:46] Oh, yeah.

[00:08:47] I don't know.

[00:08:47] Speaking of...

[00:08:48] We have the E. coli here just because it's in...

[00:08:51] We have a tea.

[00:08:52] ...the water, right?

[00:08:53] But some people...

[00:08:55] I don't know if you saw, but Marjorie Taylor Greene told her supporters to drink raw milk

[00:09:01] and stop being afraid, and there's been an outbreak of E. coli cases because they were

[00:09:08] drinking raw milk instead of fucking pasteurized.

[00:09:12] I'm like, bro, you're doing good, huh?

[00:09:15] That's why.

[00:09:16] Like, we went to a farm one time with your mom, and you guys were all drinking raw milk,

[00:09:19] and she wanted me to try some, and I was like, no, I'm okay.

[00:09:22] Wow, you're allergic.

[00:09:23] That's fine.

[00:09:24] She was offended, and I was like, I just am too scared to try things like that, you know?

[00:09:28] Too scared to try things.

[00:09:29] My body's weak as fuck.

[00:09:30] I got a flu shot, and it took me out.

[00:09:33] Yeah, I guess that's true.

[00:09:35] If you have a terrible immune system like Ripley, don't do that, but...

[00:09:40] I think I'm, like, allergic to something, but I had, like, blood allergy tests done, and

[00:09:44] my doctor said I was fine.

[00:09:46] I don't know if I just need to get, like, the scratch test done or something, like...

[00:09:51] But I always have an allergy symptom.

[00:09:53] You want me to scratch you with milk?

[00:09:54] No.

[00:09:55] Scratch, scratch, scratch.

[00:09:55] Other things, like...

[00:09:56] What happened?

[00:09:57] It turned red.

[00:09:58] When my doctor was telling me about lactose intolerance, I had gone to the doctor for it,

[00:10:02] right?

[00:10:02] And he goes, when you eat dairy, does it...

[00:10:05] Do you have these symptoms?

[00:10:08] Charged you for the test, then you're probably lactose intolerant.

[00:10:11] Stop having so much dairy.

[00:10:13] He said, does it hurt when you drink milk?

[00:10:15] Yeah.

[00:10:16] Well, don't do that.

[00:10:17] Yeah, pretty much.

[00:10:17] Get out of my office.

[00:10:19] He was, like, if you want the $100 test or whatever, we can do it, but stop having dairy.

[00:10:25] And I was, like, bitch.

[00:10:26] Yeah.

[00:10:27] Okay.

[00:10:28] That's good.

[00:10:29] And now it gets worse all the time.

[00:10:32] And now it gets worse all the time?

[00:10:33] Yeah, like, over the years, it's gotten worse.

[00:10:35] So, like, I used to be able to tolerate a lot more, or I could take, like, lactate and

[00:10:39] feel better.

[00:10:40] When's the last time you had lactate, though?

[00:10:42] It's been a while.

[00:10:43] Exactly.

[00:10:43] I just drink the milk now.

[00:10:45] Exactly.

[00:10:46] But, like, I had just, like, a sip of dairy the other day at work, and I was like, oh,

[00:10:49] my God, I have to go to the bathroom, like, right now.

[00:10:54] Are there certain things that are better for it, like cheese or milk or something?

[00:10:58] Yeah.

[00:10:58] So, it depends on the type of cheese or milk, like, surprisingly, like, heavy cream and cream

[00:11:04] have lower rates of lactose, and regular milk has higher rates.

[00:11:09] What about butter?

[00:11:10] Butter is usually fine, as long as it's not having tons of it all the time.

[00:11:14] Dang it.

[00:11:16] But, like, different cheeses have different amounts.

[00:11:19] Like, Parmesan is really low in lactose.

[00:11:22] Yeah, that's why it's the king.

[00:11:24] I fucking love Parmesan cheese.

[00:11:25] And Swiss, oh, my gosh, Swiss cheese is so good.

[00:11:28] Swiss is not that good.

[00:11:31] But other cheeses have higher rates.

[00:11:33] So, it just depends.

[00:11:35] Usually, for me, it's just, like, straight milk or, like, ice cream make me feel bad.

[00:11:41] But I'm going to handle a lot more cheese.

[00:11:43] And sometimes I'm like, oh, my God, why am I having so much cheese today?

[00:11:47] Speaking of putting things in other things.

[00:11:49] Oh, yeah?

[00:11:50] Yeah.

[00:11:51] Like, teasing you.

[00:11:52] We talked about it a while back, of, like, the future of, like, electric vehicles and cars and whatnot, right?

[00:12:00] And I was saying, like, it just isn't practical right now.

[00:12:03] Because, you know, driving, especially if you drive long distances or, like, I can see it in Europe where you're driving short distances, like, around your hometown.

[00:12:12] Sure, you could charge it up at night, whatever.

[00:12:13] Like, long distance here, we talked about, like, if I'm driving from one end of the state to see, like, our parents, that's a seven-hour drive.

[00:12:23] And you would have to stop halfway through and wait for your car to charge for 30 to 40 minutes.

[00:12:28] Yeah.

[00:12:29] Or you could stop at a gas station for three minutes and then keep driving.

[00:12:33] You know, like, if the benefit wasn't there.

[00:12:34] Well, Toyota's come up with a fun solution that they're testing out currently that I'm excited for.

[00:12:41] Because it not only deals with the electric problem of people being like, oh, electricity is going to be terrible.

[00:12:48] And the recharge problem of I don't want to wait for 30 minutes to an hour to ever have long to.

[00:12:55] What is happening over there?

[00:12:56] There's a toy here.

[00:12:58] Oh, there's a cat toy.

[00:12:59] That makes sense.

[00:13:00] But it deals with that.

[00:13:01] And the way they're dealing with it is they have, they're testing out a hydrogen cartridge.

[00:13:07] Basically, like, a tube of, like, hydrogen, like, energy that you plug into your car.

[00:13:12] And then you would go to, like, one of their stations and just swap it out and put the new battery in.

[00:13:17] It's like a hydrogen battery, basically.

[00:13:19] Would it stick out like that?

[00:13:20] No.

[00:13:21] No, this is just showing, like, where you're going in the car.

[00:13:24] I was like, that seems really bad.

[00:13:27] No, they're portable contracts.

[00:13:29] The concept looks like a giant double-A batteries.

[00:13:34] This is just mostly their theory right now.

[00:13:37] So, like, they're still testing it.

[00:13:38] It's still a long ways off.

[00:13:39] But I think it's really hopeful that they're especially using hydrogen, which would be much more useful than just straight up electric, you know?

[00:13:46] Yeah.

[00:13:47] All right.

[00:13:48] So, that actually kind of goes along with something I really wanted to talk about.

[00:13:51] I don't think we talked about it on the podcast.

[00:13:53] But I was talking to you about Bridget Mendler from Disney Channel.

[00:13:56] Yeah, the smart lady.

[00:13:58] And how she's so incredibly smart.

[00:14:01] So, she's got a space startup called Northwood Space.

[00:14:05] And the thing that they're working on right now is revolutionizing, like, satellites.

[00:14:10] And they just passed their first test in, like, being successful and, like, taking steps to becoming better.

[00:14:15] They built the technology for it in four months as a team, which is, I feel like, incredibly fast for things in space to be reinvented.

[00:14:23] Well, what part is, like, reinvented?

[00:14:25] What's it like?

[00:14:26] So, okay.

[00:14:28] So, I have the article pulled up.

[00:14:29] Okay.

[00:14:31] It's so beyond me that, like, some of it I'm, like, reading and I'm, like, this is too smart for me.

[00:14:35] You've got a good reading voice.

[00:14:36] Go ahead.

[00:14:37] So, first of all, I think it's really cool because they named it Portal.

[00:14:42] Okay.

[00:14:43] So, they're developing ground stations to be mass produced and betting that it can, its phased array-based system called Portal can outperform the parabolic dish antennas traditionally used by ground station companies.

[00:15:02] Mm-hmm.

[00:15:55] But, yeah.

[00:15:56] They're stuck in a different era of blackouts and super expensive networks.

[00:15:59] Yeah.

[00:16:00] I don't know if you or a lot of people are aware of it, but when money gets put into science and technology and the likely, like, applicable fields, we make great strides.

[00:16:13] Like, within a decade, they went, you know what?

[00:16:15] We need to beat everyone else to the moon.

[00:16:18] We're going to pour all of our money into it.

[00:16:19] And it took them 10 years to get from flying across the fucking Atlantic to flying to the moon and landing people safely.

[00:16:26] Yeah.

[00:16:27] And I think it's really cool because, like I said, they called the prototype Frankie, built it in four months, and then they deployed it.

[00:16:37] And then, with more than 150 imagery satellites in orbit, it heralded Northwest's test as a major milestone.

[00:16:47] Mm-hmm.

[00:16:47] And they said it's not only for historical issues like cost and scale, but it's solving having to build and test phase array antennas faster than they thought.

[00:16:58] But it's a major breakthrough in science, basically.

[00:17:01] Like I said, I was reading some of their quotes, and I was like, I can't even understand what the fuck you're talking about.

[00:17:05] There's a lot of major breakthroughs in science going on right now, simply because people are like, the world is dying.

[00:17:11] We need to find solutions to it.

[00:17:13] And then you have some, like, very few people actually putting the money into it.

[00:17:18] So three, actually, three people just won a joint Nobel Prize in chemistry for mapping or 3D mapping proteins.

[00:17:28] So 3D mapping proteins is basically what they would do to come up with cures and medicines for things.

[00:17:39] And they've done it with, like, three or four so far.

[00:17:42] And it was, it did one that helped with, like, it come up with medication for diabetes that wasn't as expensive.

[00:17:50] They had, they came up with treatments for, like, breast cancer that were much more effective based off these proteins.

[00:17:55] The issue was that their old way of testing them to get the 3D map, to complete the 3D map of these proteins, because they're so small, you can't, like, map them out correctly, right?

[00:18:07] Is that they would, let me, let me make sure I gather it.

[00:18:12] They would shoot x-rays at individual proteins to map them out.

[00:18:18] And the process was very expensive, and it took, like, years to do it.

[00:18:23] So they've only done, like, four, right?

[00:18:26] Well, they completed four, and those were the ones that helped with, like I mentioned, cancer and a couple other things.

[00:18:32] Well, these scientists, these group of three scientists who won the Nobel Prize, they took all of the known amino acids and building blocks and the completed protein structures, and they fed it to a supercomputer that they designed to connect the links between one and the other.

[00:18:51] And then they fed it all of the amino acids that they know of, the bases, and it 3D mapped all of the remaining known proteins to science.

[00:19:00] So we had, like, four for the past, like, 15 years, and then now this year we have hundreds.

[00:19:06] That's insane.

[00:19:07] So they're like, we are going to make a ton, like, they're going to make a ton of medicines and, like, medicinal progress based off these proteins is what they're trying to do.

[00:19:15] That's really cool.

[00:19:16] Awesome.

[00:19:18] I like hearing all the good stuff because I feel like there's so much bad stuff right now, you know?

[00:19:22] It's nice to be, like, positive science, you know?

[00:19:25] Yeah.

[00:19:26] Positively, people died in that hurricane.

[00:19:29] It's...

[00:19:30] Oh, my God.

[00:19:32] They're like, oh, no.

[00:19:33] You see how many people were posting videos on TikToks, like, I didn't evacuate, I'm not, and then, like, two days later, or, like, someone will comment on the video and be like, yeah, this person's account's been offline since that day.

[00:19:42] Yeah.

[00:19:43] Yeah.

[00:19:44] Yeah.

[00:19:44] I've seen videos where people were like, oh, I chose not to evacuate, and it was the worst choice I ever made.

[00:19:49] Mm-hmm.

[00:19:50] And then I saw all these videos of, like, birds of prey that normally don't like to be together, just, like, huge groups of them, like, walking down the street, like, barking almost, and, like, warning all the people in the area to get the fuck out.

[00:20:03] Like, I thought that was incredible.

[00:20:05] Dude, the animals would come together, humans not.

[00:20:08] They were like, I don't care about this.

[00:20:10] Clearly, we are all going to die if we don't get along.

[00:20:13] Yeah.

[00:20:14] Well, did you see that they had dumped a bunch of the...

[00:20:18] Besides, like, the obvious issues of hurricanes hitting, the other issues are, like, species locations and things like that.

[00:20:27] So, a lot of hurricanes, like, when they'll hit, a lot of species will get swept up into the eye of the hurricane, and then they'll just travel with it because they're like, I'm not going through another one.

[00:20:36] You know, another half of a hurricane.

[00:20:38] But so, it led to, like, thousands of, like, birds and, like, species that normally wouldn't get, like, inland to be forced inland.

[00:20:46] So, now they have a bunch of species that are out of their habitat because in, like, a flooded area where they're like, I guess I'll settle down here.

[00:20:54] Yeah.

[00:20:54] So, it's going to lead to a lot of problems.

[00:20:55] I think I showed you that video of the people opening their door, and they're just being, like, a fucking alligator inside their home.

[00:21:02] And they're like, what do we do?

[00:21:04] Yeah.

[00:21:05] There was a...

[00:21:06] I saw one...

[00:21:10] Did you see the post from...

[00:21:13] I think it was from the National Hurricane Association that was like, I cannot understate this.

[00:21:18] You need to leave.

[00:21:19] This hurricane is the largest we've seen in a long time with sustained winds of 185 miles an hour.

[00:21:26] Did it say it was the largest mathematically possible hurricane in history?

[00:21:29] Yeah.

[00:21:29] It was approaching...

[00:21:30] No, no, no.

[00:21:31] No.

[00:21:31] It was the fourth largest hurricane by pressure in recorded history, and it was approaching the limits of mathematical possibility.

[00:21:40] So, the mathematical, like, possibility of how strong a hurricane is is based off of water temperatures, wind speeds, things like that.

[00:21:47] So, like, with how warm the water was and the atmospheric conditions, that hurricane was almost as strong as it could have been before it hit landfall.

[00:21:56] So, like, normally, if it's really warm water, but it's moving quickly, it doesn't have time to pick up all that mass and energy.

[00:22:02] So, it'll maybe get, like, a two or three, like, category two or three, but it was moving so slow over such hot water, and the pressure dropped so much, it dropped below 900, which is very rare for hurricanes.

[00:22:15] And it sped up so fast that, like, the spiral sped up, not the speed of it moving.

[00:22:21] It was only moving at, like, 10 miles an hour.

[00:22:24] Yeah, but, like, a semi-truck hitting you at 10 miles an hour is still pretty bad, you know?

[00:22:30] Well, no, that's what I'm saying.

[00:22:30] Like, the wind speeds were, like, 180 miles an hour, and then when it finally hit, it was down to, like, 130, I think.

[00:22:37] But even still, like, 130 mile an hour wind moving 10 miles an hour with rain, and you're like, you ain't going through that.

[00:22:43] I'm still having that on the East Coast anymore.

[00:22:45] Like, I remember doing hurricane drills in elementary school, and, like, they would be, like, take a textbook, line up in the hallway, and, like, curl up and put the textbook over your head.

[00:22:56] And, like, that's a hurricane thing.

[00:22:58] That would work in, like, the old schools, because they were made out of bricks.

[00:23:02] Yeah, but my school was all bricks, yeah.

[00:23:04] So, like, new schools?

[00:23:04] No.

[00:23:05] I know our high school was, like, all glass.

[00:23:07] I don't even know what your elementary school would look like, but mine was all brick.

[00:23:10] My elementary school was bricks, yeah.

[00:23:12] Yeah.

[00:23:12] There were, like, no windows either.

[00:23:14] Yeah, because schools used to be designed based off of prisons, and then they moved to designing them based off of malls, which helped, like, students navigate and feel, like.

[00:23:25] The mood, yeah.

[00:23:26] Or, you know, wanting to be there.

[00:23:28] But I guess with the hurricane, the Coast Guard has been a little busy.

[00:23:34] Well, thank God for the Coast Guard.

[00:23:35] They found a guy floating on, like, an industrial icebox, like the ones you see outside gas stations, floating on an icebox 48 kilometers away from land.

[00:23:46] Like, just floating out there for, like, a day.

[00:23:48] How fucking scary would that be?

[00:23:49] You're like, holy shit.

[00:23:50] Like, just in the middle of the Gulf, I think.

[00:23:52] Or, like, off the coast.

[00:23:53] I'm like, oh, my gosh.

[00:23:54] That's not, like, I like to watch those natural disaster movies where people get, like, knocked off their boat or, like, they get stranded on their boat after a storm.

[00:24:02] They can't do anything.

[00:24:04] Like, oh, my God.

[00:24:05] That is so terrifying, you know.

[00:24:07] I don't know.

[00:24:07] It was good.

[00:24:08] If you're in the middle of the ocean, all you got to do is hope and pray somebody comes along because what are you going to do, you know?

[00:24:13] We don't belong out there.

[00:24:16] So, I, okay, I saw this video.

[00:24:18] YouTube, I don't know if I'm just watching too much or what's going on.

[00:24:22] It's starting, like, the videos I'm seeing now that are getting recommended to me or, like, in the feed are old videos that I look up.

[00:24:29] And I'm like, oh, that's an interesting fact.

[00:24:30] And I look it up and it's something from, like, January.

[00:24:33] Like, today I got a video that popped up and it was a guy reacting to somebody else, somebody's TikTok.

[00:24:41] And the TikTok was a woman saying, I'm sure you've heard, but NASA discovered city lights on a planet 7 trillion miles away.

[00:24:50] Yeah, I've seen that.

[00:24:51] Right.

[00:24:52] And so, the guy then responded to that video and said, 7 trillion?

[00:24:57] Oh, my gosh.

[00:24:58] How's the housing prices?

[00:24:59] Right.

[00:25:00] And it was funny.

[00:25:01] But then I was like, I don't remember hearing about this 7 trillion thing.

[00:25:05] So, then I looked at it.

[00:25:07] So, then I looked at it and I went to NASA's actual website.

[00:25:11] And NASA's website was like, we never mentioned anything of city lights.

[00:25:14] We have not discovered anything of that nature.

[00:25:16] What was discovered and what was referenced in the original video where people, like, took that and ran with it was we discovered a new dwarf light in a system 7 trillion away.

[00:25:27] And they're like, it's just the birth of a star.

[00:25:29] Like, that's what we discovered.

[00:25:30] Aw.

[00:25:31] Happy birthday, star.

[00:25:32] It's the birth of a star.

[00:25:34] You know, it was 7 trillion, like, years away.

[00:25:36] Yeah, but happy birthday.

[00:25:38] Yeah.

[00:25:39] But NASA was like, we never said anything about city lights.

[00:25:42] The only thing they got right was there's a light and it's 7 trillion light years away.

[00:25:45] You know what?

[00:25:46] Yeah.

[00:25:47] I always, I don't, I like to look up stuff that I see on TikTok because I feel like TikTok is like the Gen Z's Facebook for, you know, baby boomers.

[00:25:59] There's information that I was like, I got to look at this.

[00:26:01] Like, some of it's really good and then some of it I'm like, I don't think that's correct.

[00:26:06] You know?

[00:26:08] Yeah.

[00:26:08] That's why you got to fact check people.

[00:26:10] Yeah, that's why I'm like, I'm trying to look up stuff because I'm like, I don't know what the hell's going on with some of that.

[00:26:17] And especially it was like, I think I would have heard about a new city somewhere along the way.

[00:26:21] Yeah.

[00:26:22] I did see those videos on TikTok, but the ones I saw said that it potentially discovered the light of the city.

[00:26:29] And I was like, hmm, I'll wait for more info on that one.

[00:26:32] I saw an interview that was like, what do you think there's intelligent life in the universe?

[00:26:37] And he goes, well, that depends on what you define as intelligent.

[00:26:39] And I'm like, by our standards, like we're intelligent, but monkeys are not right.

[00:26:43] Or like chimpanzees.

[00:26:45] But realistically, we're only about 0.1% away or 1% difference in like the relative spectrum of intelligence levels.

[00:26:52] So like if you came across some other species that was the same distance away from us as we are to the chimpanzees, they would look at it and be like, wow, look at Stephen Hawking.

[00:27:04] He can do astrophysics in his head.

[00:27:05] He's slightly smarter than the rest of these monkeys, like little Billy's doing it in third grade over here.

[00:27:10] You know, like that's the difference level of you're like, okay, cool.

[00:27:13] It's the same as us looking at an orangutan.

[00:27:15] You're like, wow, he learned sign language.

[00:27:18] He's smart for the species, but the species overall has managed to survive and do all these things.

[00:27:25] Well, it doesn't like how far away a planet would be from us.

[00:27:28] Like by the time we got to another planet that had life on it, wouldn't it have already changed?

[00:27:34] Maybe.

[00:27:35] I don't know.

[00:27:36] In the time it took us to travel to them.

[00:27:37] Unless we discover something that can like break the speed of light.

[00:27:40] No.

[00:27:41] There was articles about that too.

[00:27:43] It was like, if you travel faster than the speed of light, it would be the same as just tearing holes in the universe.

[00:27:50] There's no way.

[00:27:52] That's why they're talking about like wormholes can bend space and light and time, but the light will still travel through there at the same speed.

[00:27:59] And so you're like, I don't fucking know anymore.

[00:28:01] I don't know, man.

[00:28:02] I forgot to take down the name of it, but there's like a phenomena where people swear that they like died, but then didn't.

[00:28:12] Like, not like a near death experience, but like they feel like they got shifted to a parallel world, like an accident where they died.

[00:28:21] They wake up and they're like, oh, I didn't actually die in that accident, you know?

[00:28:26] But people will like think that sometimes when they die, you just switch to a different like parallel reality.

[00:28:32] That's so scary because that's not scary.

[00:28:34] That's the same as when you're in Skyrim and you're like, you know what?

[00:28:36] I wonder what happens if I stab these people and you hit quick save and then you stab a bunch of people and they're all dead.

[00:28:42] And then you hit quick load and then you go back.

[00:28:45] And then they go, I feel like I just got stabbed.

[00:28:47] And you're like, that's crazy.

[00:28:48] But you have memory of that.

[00:28:51] In reality, though, you're just kind of like, oh, I've already done this.

[00:28:54] Why is Skyrim not real, huh?

[00:28:56] Who are you to define Skyrim reality?

[00:28:57] I would live in Skyrim.

[00:28:58] It's real for those people.

[00:28:59] I would not.

[00:29:00] What game would you live in?

[00:29:02] Again, we've talked about this.

[00:29:04] We did it like three, two to three weeks ago.

[00:29:06] We did it like a year ago.

[00:29:07] I think I'd live in Tiny Glade now.

[00:29:09] Tiny Glade?

[00:29:10] No, there's no food.

[00:29:12] You don't need food in that game.

[00:29:13] You need purpose.

[00:29:14] You just going to build houses forever?

[00:29:16] Nah.

[00:29:18] I guess not.

[00:29:18] I'm going to live in like Stardew Valley.

[00:29:20] Stardew Valley would be fun.

[00:29:21] Super easy.

[00:29:21] Or what's the other Stardew Valley-like game we played?

[00:29:25] Sunhaven?

[00:29:26] Sunhaven.

[00:29:27] That would be fun because there's a lot of different environments.

[00:29:29] Sunhaven would be fun.

[00:29:30] Yeah, there's demons and stuff in there.

[00:29:31] That'd be fun.

[00:29:33] Be a hot little elf girl.

[00:29:34] Yeah.

[00:29:35] Okay.

[00:29:36] So the Silent Hill 2 remake came out.

[00:29:39] Yeah.

[00:29:40] I want it so fucking bad.

[00:29:42] I never played Silent Hill.

[00:29:44] I've always wanted to.

[00:29:45] You want the remake?

[00:29:46] And then the remake came out.

[00:29:48] Oh, I have the videos and stuff from it.

[00:29:49] It looks so cool.

[00:29:50] So scary.

[00:29:50] But it's like $70 for the regular edition and $80 for the special edition.

[00:29:55] And I'm like, I don't have $70 to be spending on Silent Hill.

[00:29:58] Right.

[00:29:59] Like, I'll get to play it around Christmas time, I guess.

[00:30:01] Yeah.

[00:30:02] Because I like Christmas.

[00:30:03] Yeah.

[00:30:04] Have you seen...

[00:30:06] You know how people have been getting upset with NVIDIA in the past few years for their

[00:30:10] prices of like the 40 series?

[00:30:13] I mean...

[00:30:14] And the 30 series.

[00:30:15] It's fair.

[00:30:16] The pricing, I feel like.

[00:30:17] Their pricing is not fair.

[00:30:18] What do you want?

[00:30:19] Oh, I mean, because like...

[00:30:20] It costs them like $100 maybe to make and import everything.

[00:30:24] And then they're charging you like $1,000.

[00:30:26] But I thought like all the metals and stuff that go into those things are rare.

[00:30:30] No, they're not rare.

[00:30:32] There was a shortage when COVID happened.

[00:30:34] And every company took advantage of that to be like, oh, no, there's a superconductor shortage.

[00:30:39] We can't make computers and phones.

[00:30:41] We need you to do all these things and jump through hoops.

[00:30:44] And like, there wasn't a shortage.

[00:30:47] It was just a supply chain issue.

[00:30:51] Because things just weren't moving as quickly.

[00:30:54] There's no shortage.

[00:30:55] They can just make them.

[00:30:56] They're just hiked up the prices.

[00:30:58] And it's crazy.

[00:30:59] Now, the last...

[00:31:00] The 40 series was in like the $1,000, right?

[00:31:03] They just...

[00:31:04] Someone leaked the proposed prices for the 50 series, which are coming out next year in...

[00:31:10] I think it's like mid-2025.

[00:31:14] How much do you think that their 5090 was going to be priced for?

[00:31:19] I don't even want to guess.

[00:31:21] The internal leaked documents showed that the 5090, they were debating whether to price it at $2,000 or $2,500.

[00:31:32] I'm like $2,500 just for a graphics card.

[00:31:36] That's ridiculous.

[00:31:36] You could get a whole brand new computer for that price.

[00:31:38] And all of the other series, the 5070 was going from $600 to $700 in the 5070.

[00:31:50] I'm like, that's ridiculous.

[00:31:53] I have seen people complaining about the VRAM thing.

[00:31:57] Because more and more video games are requiring a lot more VRAM.

[00:32:01] And they said that NVIDIA has been really stingy with it and not putting it...

[00:32:06] They're using the same amount for computers five years ago that they are now.

[00:32:10] My computer has that.

[00:32:12] Yeah.

[00:32:13] My laptop has eight gigs of VRAM.

[00:32:16] My laptop's four or five years old.

[00:32:20] The computers that have 12 and you're like, that's cool and all.

[00:32:23] But if you buy a 5090 and it still has 12 gigs of VRAM, you're like, what is the point of all that?

[00:32:30] Yeah.

[00:32:31] I got my 1080 and now that we've upgraded my RAM, it's like, okay, that's great.

[00:32:37] So I think I will wait a little bit for another GPU.

[00:32:41] Yeah.

[00:32:42] I mean, you don't need it.

[00:32:44] It would be nice to have a perfect graphics in Baldur's Gate 3.

[00:32:50] But, you know, it's not...

[00:32:51] You mean perfect graphics?

[00:32:52] You don't need it to look fucking lifelike.

[00:32:54] But what if I...

[00:32:56] Speaking of that...

[00:32:56] I downloaded all these mods and now I got pretty clothing.

[00:33:00] Have you seen...

[00:33:01] There's a couple videos that came out.

[00:33:03] One was a video of Cyberpunk 2077.

[00:33:09] Someone modded it and put in a bunch of shaders and upgraded their graphics and whatnot on it.

[00:33:15] And took screenshots and a video of them driving at like 100 and something miles an hour on a motorcycle.

[00:33:22] And apparently got reported to like police and a bunch of different things because the video looked so real that they were like, this is ridiculous.

[00:33:30] Like the people in there looked real.

[00:33:32] Like he modded the shit out of it.

[00:33:33] It looked crazy.

[00:33:34] And it went in conjunction with another video I saw that was Unreal Engine 5 is being like optimized.

[00:33:41] Oh.

[00:33:41] And the videos that they're making with Unreal Engine 5, you're like...

[00:33:46] It was like the demo video was just a car on fire in the street.

[00:33:50] And looking at the video, you're like, that's a real car on fire.

[00:33:53] Like you...

[00:33:54] It's so hard to tell that it's not a real life video.

[00:33:57] That's so scary.

[00:33:58] And then someone came down with like a giant bubble and like moved the smoke manually and like played with it so you could see that it wasn't a real video.

[00:34:06] And you're like, that's great.

[00:34:07] It's going to be very hard to distinguish video games and AI generated things from reality very quickly.

[00:34:14] I saw something related to that.

[00:34:15] But it said like the level of your graphics will depend on your graphics card.

[00:34:19] But it was like showing a side by side.

[00:34:21] And it was like a regular like stylistic video game.

[00:34:24] And then the second one looked like real life.

[00:34:27] And what I saw in the context of that was that it's killing art.

[00:34:32] This need for everything to be ultra realistic.

[00:34:34] Oh, yeah.

[00:34:34] I don't know if you...

[00:34:35] Hold on.

[00:34:36] If you go on Google and you Google, let's say, baby peacock and go to images.

[00:34:44] Half of the images are AI generated.

[00:34:46] Yeah, that's not real peacock.

[00:34:47] That's AI.

[00:34:49] Like that's the real one versus AI.

[00:34:50] Like over half any baby peacock picture with color in it is not a baby peacock.

[00:34:55] They're brown and they're brown and white for survival purposes.

[00:35:00] You don't want a colorful baby.

[00:35:02] Yeah, and like half of these just look like...

[00:35:05] They just look fake to me.

[00:35:07] But also, like isn't this destroying information?

[00:35:11] Like we have all the information in the world at our fingertips and we are destroying it.

[00:35:16] Now we're just diluting it.

[00:35:18] You know?

[00:35:19] That's why somebody said is like a majority of news websites that actually put out peer-reviewed articles cost money as opposed to free websites.

[00:35:30] Who just put out whatever news stories they want to get clicks and views.

[00:35:35] So it's very hard for people to trust things when you're like, yeah, nobody wants to pay for the right information.

[00:35:41] Just Google it and be like, see, I was right.

[00:35:43] 16 million people clicked on this article and it says I'm true.

[00:35:47] Yeah.

[00:35:47] Like, okay.

[00:35:48] We are in the yellow journalism age of the internet.

[00:35:53] Hey, but this is Mindless Prattle.

[00:35:54] Welcome to episode 88.

[00:35:56] I'm Jordan.

[00:35:57] That's Ripley.

[00:35:58] She just remembers she didn't do the intro.