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David Sholes

Another hour that just flies by.

I play the conclusion of David Scholes Trath: The Final intervention, just to make sure that I get in them in this week.

Next from the blog and Kallimus: Trouble with the ISS coolant  again, Ray Harryhousen has passed away at 92, Neil DeGrasse- Tyson has a web site that promotes his radio program Startalk and YouTube videos, there is a link on the wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com BMU blog.   A company has developed a  bulletin board that sends two messages, one to adults and one to children in a call to help reduce child abuse. Check out the blog for more information.

Earth Sky articles are next, the Milky-way, asteroids, temporary moons and Earth’s shadow are on tap.

I review the live action version of Death Note.

And finally, chapter 3 of No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber a  novelette from the sixties.

That is it! I hop you enjoy this week’s offering of Beam Me Up.

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David Sholes

This week I start off with a new track from John Anealio called Zombinista which has a decidedly 50s or 60s zombie flick.

Next I read Kallamis’ weekly run down of weekly happenings.

First it’s Curiosity’s return to operation. Next it is alien planets tidally locked planets orbiting red dwarf stars. In Sci-fi news the st-tng’s bridge is being rebuilt. TMNT are NOT aliens it would seem! Fantastic Four reboot may be problematic?

I do a follow up on space trash. This week we learn that the Fermi space telescope was almost destroyed by space junk!

David Scholes sends in a new story in the Trathh arc. “Trathh: The Final confrontations” Due to the run time, I was only able to play the first part.

In Earth_Sky news, Cassini has returned some exciting news on Titan. Jovian Trojan asteroids are in the news this week and maybe the discovery of the worlds oldest Dinosaur records.

IBM researchers have created a film that sets the records for the smallest stop motion film.

I review the anime movie Redline which is an over the top racing movie.

Hey, have you heard about Google’s Glass? The head mounted computer that Google has great hopes for.

NASA has extended their contract with Russian space services for a mind numbing…weeeeeeeeell it is half of what a stealth bomber cost…so maybe not numbing, it is just money that could have served a better purpose….like doing it ourselves..hummm?

And finally – in our flash from the past – chapter 2 of Fritz Leibers No Great Magic!

And that folks is the podcast. Yes, I know it is a bit longer than the radio program, but I wanted to add in several features, that I didn’t have time for on the radio.

Enjoy, and thanks for listening.

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Fritz Leiber

Wow does Beam Me Up episode 363 steam right along this week!

It was really a case of not being able to get a word in sideways because of all the stuff I had planned!

I start by well raving a bit about the new spaceport….but mediate it some with the closing song to season one’s A Scientific Rail-gun called “Dear My Love” I know, but it is a toe tappin tune that makes for a cool piece. I like the anime as well even though it incorporates all the standard High School short skirt big …..eyes, pantie fixation and odd powers. But something about the characters is captivating. Hey it is no High School of the Dead…but then few are.

Earth Sky this week covers Cassini’s work at Saturn’s moon Titan and who can get bored about any information about the mysterious and weird as the harmless sounding as a white dwarf?

Star trek trivia is next on the card. This week, Tribbles the open monologue, the premiere episode?

Kallimus again collects some of the top science and science-fiction news, which I read. Meteorites and space junk among others this week.

This week I though some golden age science fiction might be in order. No Great Magic ch.1 by Fritz Leiber from the Librivox project.

See? Like I said, little over an hour and it steams! Enjoy!

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Robert Lee Frazier

This week on Beam Me Up episode 362

Kallamus joins us once again for his entry in the blog for his weekly round up.

I review the anime dvd series Gantz. This 12 dvd set may not be for everyone but if you like large servings of slash and smash……

I found a small article that deals with a large subject Book Banning. In this case it is the top 10 banned and challenged SF book! I may have run on a bit here……

It seems everyone is excited about the possibilities of if not life at the very least all the needed parameters needed to support life on the newly discovered Kepler 62e and 62f are Earth like rocky worlds that contain liquid water possibly on their surface….. Very exciting indeed!

A dig in china has yielded some very exciting embryonic dinosaur fossils that may radically change our understanding of many of the up to now animals of little know about their early stages.

The story this week is “The Hunted” by Robert Lee Frazier concerning a bounty hunter and his “prey” who develop a most unusual relationship.

And that is it for this week. Enjoy

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Jason Kahn

After a short intro, I spend about ten minutes in my opening with a discussion. This week, why I feel the force you call gravity does not exist in the classical sense. At least according to the first law of motion…and some of the second. You can write comments to me btw at beammeuppodcast@gmail.com or go to the blog at wrfrbeamEup.blogspot.com and make your thoughts known on the weekly show description.

From there….

Episode 19 of Jason Kahn’s series In Plain Sight. This week, psychic detective Jack Garrett has become interested in a mysterious back room, but to gain entrance he must face a man why himself also fairly crackles with psychic energy. Jack it would seem has his “work” cut out for him.

The Original Star Trek (tost) is next in line as I find interesting Star Trek trivia from my favorite Star Trek trivia book. Some interesting facts to be had, to be sure.

Next Earth_Sky reports on the Lyrid April 16-26 2013

Kallamus is back with his weekly rundown, starts with a returning DBZ. NASA has submitted its’ 2013 budget, one really exciting news about an asteroid capture, tow and then explore!

First ever discovery of a black hole chowing down on a rogue planet! Io has some wildly different volcanic activity! Kallamus finds a site that shows how the planets would appear if they were in the same place as our moon. It is a stunning effect! Kall found some really good info on the “Man of Steel” movie. And finally Kall has a run at conspiracy when they take aim at a clothing tester and that somehow has been twisted into terminators of all things!

Finally I read Having Survived an Apocalypse by Mini Khaw a story I read for the online flash fiction site Antipodean.

All in all, I think this week’s program was great fun. I hope you think so too!

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Michael_Blumlein

I open the program this week with a birthday announcement. Yes this week we celebrate the bithday of one if not the greatest starship captains that have ever existed  Yes, the 22nd of March is the birth date for James T. Kirk. Captain of Galaxy class NCC-1401 Enterprise. Played larger than life by William Shatner. Kallamus writes : Shatner was born this day, in 1931, Montreal Quebec Canada.
Next, I found this short on Youtube for a company called SleepThinker that suggests that if you are bothered by dumb people than you are in a shrinking minority, it would be ever so easy to just join the majority and get dumb with their product minus-IQ. The sales pitch is beyond hilarious.
Kallimus once again gives us his weekly run-down of news. Kallimus covers everything from Apollo to a possible He-Man reboot.
Earth Sky articles are next – sun or light pillars, weather changes on Saturn’s Titan after Saturn experienced equinox and exo-planets may have larger Goldilocks zones that astronomers/scientists first thought.
I take a break here and do some star trek trivia. This week – Mr. Spock
Then it’s back to the Beam Me Up blog before finishing the hour with pt 4 of our story.
Space X does a successful test flight of the Grasshopper reusable launch and landing vehicle. Then an article sent to me by Xnewsman that discusses the ramifications of Earth being in the path of a Coronal Mass Ejection. I do a review of the animated feature The Book Of Kells which is a fantasy retelling of the creation of the Irish treasure – an illustrated book of the Bible called The Book of Kells.

Finally I play part 4 of Michael Blumlein’s Know How Can Do.

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Julie with Bush Baby

And here we are on Beam Me Up podcast, episode 355!

I really think this week proves just as informative as it will entertaining, even though I didn’t aim to either side with any purpose of doing so.

Anyway after griping about the lack of common sense understanding of basic Newtonian physics, I play the first story for the day.

I start with Julie Wornan’s melancholy post apocalyptic tale “Epilog”.

From there I break out the Star Trek Trivia book for some fun and arcane fact about the original Star Trek. Like, what deck is Medical on? Or the three operational divisions that crew are assigned to? How about the maximum number of people that can beam on and off the ship through the main teleporter? Stuff like that! Who knew!

Kallamis once again does a weekly round up of smaller news items that I may have missed. This week, news on the Space X resupply launch to the ISS. Info on a super-massive black hole that will twist your head sideways! Mars caught Kall’s imagination as usual. A start up non profit I.M.F. Wants to send a couple to visit Mars. Of course the devil is in the details… and the next asteroid close encounter will not be Earth, nope, not this time!

I have thought of giving Doug Turnbull’s video reviews a try on the podcast by stripping off the audio.  To get the ball rolling I start with his introduction to Robert A. Heinlein’s Juvenile series of early books which I swear I think I read each and every one. Heinlein’s books and stories fast became one of my very favorite authors. Doug intends to review each of these early Heinlein masterpieces. This will be kind of an introduction others to follow on, every other week or so.

This February 20 was the 51st anniversary of John Glenn’s historic and almost fatal mission.

After some confusion about this story, I guess I though it was being read or I had already done the story when neither was the case…duh, so I am going to play part 1 of Know How Can Do by Michael Blumlein as the program ender.

Enjoy everyone. Thanks for listening!

Paul Cole
for B.M.U. Episode 355

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David Sholes

Yes, I am in the WRFR lp/fm studios this week! Not that this is of heart stopping importance other than it is episode 354! But anyway, I start off with a new segment, weekly rundown from Kallamis which covers some of the news that BMU may have covered, but often other material of interest.

Then we deal with one of the most twisted submissions I have had in some time. We can all blame this one on Xnewsman, and it is better to just hear it. Check it out at about 14:30 minutes into the broadcast.

From there I play the conclusion to Colonial Scout by Doug Turnbull.

Next I do a change up on Star Trek trivia. There hasn’t been much input, so I take the Star Trek trivia and basically turn it into….Did You Know or do you remember this type of information. I think it will prove to be much more interesting this way.

In light of the Russian meteor, Earth Sky revisits the Tunguska  impact of a hundred years ago.

I do two reviews this week, the first being Pixar’s Brave, which I have to admit has made stunning improvements to their 3d rendering engine.

Kallamis celebrates 50 years of Dr. Who with some really good, historical high points. I give a brief summery, but it would behoove you to take a trip over to the wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com Beam Me Up blog for a more up to date rundown.

My last review of the afternoon is the indie film Robot and Frank. Frank played brilliantly by Frank Langella. The film is a low key story of a two story man (Frank) who is suffering from dementia and must either accept a robot care taker or hospitalization. Check out my review in about 40:00 into the broadcast.

Final story of the afternoon is a Trath tale, “The Story Continues” by David Scholes, another low key tale of the warrior Trath coming back to visit one of the remote aboriginal tribes.

And that winds up the weekend. Thanks for visiting and for listening.

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Jason Kahn

Episode 352 for February 9th 2013.

This week, everything ran a bit late, I will or course blame it on the weather.

This week’s stories are part one of Doug Turnbull’s Colonial Scout and I start with episode 17 of Jason Kahn’s Dark InSpectre series, In Plain Sight. Our favorite physic detective continues to investigate gruesome murders in some of New Eden’s most dangerous places. Where people and specters can be witness and victim alike!

I didn’t get a chance to do articles from the Earth Sky web site so this week I make up with some of the best news in science for the week.

Then it is over to the BMU blog at wrfrbeameup.blogspot.com.

First off the blog is a review of the motion comic which is a low rez low frame rate animation type. The comic in question though is The Astonishing X-Men Unstoppable which pits the x-men against beings from Breakworld bent on destroying Earth. These started out as comic book arcs written by Josh Wedon. Who, when it came time to port the comic to dvd, was joined by illustrator John Cassaday. I break down what was interesting to me and what was good about the format.

We have heard of Jumping the Shark, but have you heard of a Bogosity Generator? Coined by author Rudy Rucker’s site, what is a bogosity generator and why is it used so heavily in science fiction or fantasy?

On the very near event horizon for tech is a very interesting “film” speaker. Quite literally a speaker that is little more than a thin film of plastic type gel that can be rolled, folded, all but spindled and mutilated and still make wonderfully high fidelity music and sound.

I say my final goodbyes to the wonderfully warped show Fringe.

Even though the government has given up on the idea, supporters of building the SW Death Star will not be deterred. They are going to ask for donations through kickstarter! To the tune of 21 million and that for plans only no real building….that will take MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH more.

I start the ball rolling on tech myths. A few that make you just say…huh? But yeah…the things people believe to be true.

The closing story is part one of Doug Turnbull’s Colonial Scout which deals with a fairly normal slice of life but the twist is that it’s a Boy Scout over night and the environment is Mars. The thing to remember though that what gives the average scout here on Earth, a scrape or bruise would be life threatening on Mars….

That’s the week! Enjoy!

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Julie with Bush Baby

Our first offering this week on BMU I play The robot is broken by Calieb Onion which turns our to be a melancholy piece. Next I start doing Star Trek Trivia and travel straight into Jason Kahn’s moody Physic detective yarn on New Eaden call In Plain sight, this week episode 16.

Next Earth Sky, this week I have about about 5 articles from Mars moons to spider brains.

The Movie Looper is the next movie I review.

did you hear the one about Schrodinger and Heisenberg, its funny …trust me!

Sometime I do things not thinking ahead. I found a film that was produced by folks absolutely sure the moon landing had been faked! We all had great fun tearing into this gem.

Oh did you hear about the original Batmobile, driven by that iconic and campy 1960s Batman – sold at auction? You won’t believe how much!

Since the live show was pretty mangled over the past few weeks.  I decided to end with a brand new story by a brand new author!  This weeks last story is Epilog by Julie Wornan. Julie and her particularly unique form of fiction are amazing and entertaining.

I came out of the story with a few minutes, so I returned to the blog with an article that I guess had been making the rounds on various websites. It seems that a British daily reported that a Harvard professor was looking for a woman to host a cloned Neanderthal!

And Deep Space Industries is convinced that they have what it takes to mine the asteroids for precious minerals for a variety of projects. I give you the run down and some links of interest!

Finally  Kallamis put together a file of insults that all of us that watched the 60s Lost in Space remember Dr. Smith who was forever zinging the robot with the most outragious insults. It all but made the show! I said that listeners owe it to themselves to head over to the blog, if for nothing else than this!

And that covers my hour! Enjoy.