The Mad Scientist Supreme
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🛰️ Space Junk, the Kessler Syndrome, and Keeping the Road to Space Open
Hello, people. This is the Mad Scientist Debrief, talking today about space debris.This comes from Science, 13 August 2026, page 642, discussing the danger that planned satellite constellations could contribute to runaway orbital debris.
Cure Bacterial Infections
Tuberculosis — Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This is the obvious one for your story. WHO estimates about 10.7 million people developed TB and 1.23 million died from it in 2024. It remains the world's leading cause of death from a single...
🌾 When the Water Runs Out: Crops That “Play Dead” and Farms That Take Care of Themselves
Hello, people. This is the Mad Scientist, talking today about food production—and how we're going to keep producing food when water becomes harder to get.This comes from Science Magazine, March 26, 2026, page 1312, in an article provocative...
🧬 Catching Cancer? When Cancer Becomes Contagious
Hello, people. This is the Mad Scientist Supreme, talking today about cancer.Well, communicable cancer.Normally, you cannot catch cancer from another person. If living cancer cells from somebody else somehow enter your body, your immune...
🌌 Converging Worlds, Zero-Point Energy, and the Hidden Cost of Free Power
Hello, people. This is the Mad Scientist Supreme.Today I'd like to continue the discussion from my previous episode on Converging Worlds.In that episode, I suggested a speculative idea: if every branching universe in a multiverse requir...