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welcome to the crave cast on your host eric mack and i'm joined today as usual by stephen Beecham kelsey Adams Bonnie Burton Jeff Sparkman in the cnet studios in San Francisco and also via the magic of skype which we hoped continues to work as well as ever right now but from Australia it's michelle starr and her tad oh okay Holly hey so once again we've got some live viewers if you want to join in on the conversation here you can tweet at me at Eric CMAC or at krave at crave and we've also got the live chat rooms going on our YouTube and our livestream pages and there's some folks in there right now so jump in on the discussion we're going to be talking about a space today once again I should also mention I'm live from Taos New Mexico and the offices of the award-winning taos news my hometown newspaper and one-time employer and because today we're going to be talking about space on the crave cast let's start with this image from the taos news com this is actually a shot of the great Orion Nebula captured by an amateur astronomer right here in northern New Mexico named Gary's antara hopefully I'm getting that right using his telescope on a hilltop and the beautiful son g'day de cristo mountains not far from here you know so personally I love seeing images like this that were literally captured by the retired teacher down the road and then imagining what else is out there what else we might discover with the far greater you know scientific and technical resources we have available to us today on this planet so on this crave cast we're going to talk about where we're going next in space we'll also revisit the moon including the things we found in Neil Armstrong's closet and because we've got so many Star Wars and sci-fi aficionados on our panel here will also leave some time to talk about the great characters and alternate universes that our obsession with space as inspired but first let's address the question that Mars one has been asking humanity who wants to die on Mars no not right oh wait a bit that feels like it's a multiple choice can I send people i can send people i don't want to live anymore tomorrow's right yeah it could be like a reality show the loser goes to Mars okay competing right people are applying and competing yes yes a Mars one who's actually doing this there are nonprofit based are the Netherlands and they're planning to build a permanent base on the red planet and their financing the whole thing through this weird mix of donations crowdfunding and by holding a bizarre reality show style competition to select their astronauts who will then make a one-way trip to mars sometime in the 2020s you're not coming home there is no returning from Mars with Mars one the pool of applicants started at over 200,000 and this month was whittled down to just a hundred finalists okay so another way I figure there's two questions we need to address here number one will this actually happen and I can answer that one right away no it won't but most interesting who are these two hundred thousand people who want to go Diane mom you know it would be such a great reality show though as if they made them believe that they really are going to Mars and name of you may put them in like some sort of like simulation that they've actually gone into a spaceship and then they're going and then make them land on some sound stage and make it look like Mars and then film that and just see how they like like freak out and think it's the real deal because there's a lot of reality shows that let's be honest reality is really is the farthest thing from the show great so I kind of feel like that's not true I or not the real world's not about the real world but um yeah I would love to see that I really would I think that would be great but then again I'm all for sending stupid people in space and leaving them there so if it does happen I'm totally fine with that because that helps the gene pool a little bit more they could do one with just training just training to be an asteroid like space camp yeah wasn't there Space Camp really TV show I feel like there was on Nicholas an awesome move his knee I'll see movie in me it was a very awesome great baby why don't they reboot that that's a great movie because nobody could replace Lea Thompson that oh that's true okay anyway we've already tan jadid tangent it off into netherworld would I guess the question would any of us go yeah did you guys go Bonnie says no I say no I'm saying no depends on what's on TV that night I find the earth much more comfortable yeah I did too well that like hell I got Jeff's like on we win so I'll go i'm bored bored what's us planet but how are they narrowing people down what are the criteria and I want to know yeah well they're going through kind of like a training camp sort of thing where you know they'll be tested physically and mentally I mean literally it is kind of a reality show thing they'll go through through different rounds um I mean yeah be drowned you guys even know anyone who would who would consider doing this I mean there's been some profiles on some of the people that have applied and I mean there's like you know me Mary people with families it's crazy go to space I think it costs I don't know how many millions of dollars it costs but it costs a lot of money and you have to go through the actual NASA training but they do take none astronauts under space missions I've taken teachers they've taken people that aren't I don't know I at the top of my mind I can't think of anyone that necessarily is not a teacher that went still kind of blew up too often for my taste yeah i just i don't know if you can see me my my reality is based on all space horror films right so I just keep thinking I'm gonna be the red shirt I'm gonna be a red shirt I'm gonna be the first person that dies or eaten or something practicing my passive submission now yeah but I like the idea that there is a like they are trying to whittle down all these applicants that think that they're actually going to Mars it's just kind of sad when they find out they're not and they're gonna have to good I don't know Utah or something instead we're all just basically cowardly writers who would never been you know suppose hey you guys don't tell us all about it yeah well we'd love to cover it it's not worth it to have a street on Mars named after you yeah i don't know i just get clausterphobic easily and also space supposedly doesn't smell that great and i don't know i don't want to go we're in an article that it's not like steak no it smells like I thought it was like burnt hair and cinnamon and metal like a goth club Michelle can you confirm haha I don't remember where an article no God smell like that perfume called poison oh yeah your categories yeah she would you go to would you go to Mars it's Australia seems like the kind of sauce really seem like the kind of people that might sign up for that kind of a thing similar landscape 20 and you're closer we've got a bit more gravity son what kind of into that um no I don't think I would there was a documentary a couple of years ago called Mars one way and they interviewed a few of the people who had signed up for the Mars one mission and it was actually really depressing there was this one guy who he wanted to go because he he just didn't have any friends he didn't relate to anybody on earth there was another guy who had a wife and kids and he was like I yeah I want to go to Mars like you know it's my life's you know mission to go to Mars this is my destiny meanwhile is poor wife's they're going well I guess I guess we're gonna have to support him there's not much else we can do like it just I feel like that should come up in the first date like yeah sure you should talk about this lake how do you plan on going to space anytime yeah like this should probably be something you bring up before you get married is are you cool of me abandoning you to go to Mars and not come back I think some marriages would be okay with that but not all well what if so what if we did it the way we've done every other man space mission where we figure out a way for you to come home well I mean how would that change the amazing the other great if it wasn't like if I didn't return to a planet of apes I'd be totally cool with it but as fictions taught me well we can't change the planet while you're gone this fiction Tommy when they come back it's gonna be all right everybody hide hide look money to see the Apes it'll be hilarious all the other four Baca's and like three 3d printers will have taken over and hope words and hoverboards and all the humans will be like corralled into like factory farms or something like I just I don't know my my superior but my fear of things happening while I'm gone it's time to paranoid the planet I'd be afraid of things happening while I was there but good parties yeah like while i was asleep yeah well you couldn't miss another burning man well the things I could be tricky all Mars is isn't it okay so i guess i'm thinking venus glow sticks dehydration yeah i know if there's one thing astronauts should always bring with them as glow sticks and tang and tang and we know we reported last year on there was a study by some students out of MIT who were kind of looked at the preliminary designs the Mars one has and they predicted the people who basically start to die in like 63 days don't buy any girly bananas kids the air system wouldn't work um which is which is debated but the point is you know they did a crowdfunding campaign for four hundred thousand dollars and didn't even get halfway there I don't entirely think this is going to happen so I just been not sure we needn't worry about it the people who applied didn't all pay I don't think there was an application they show a really attractive woman and then they say never to return seductive he's stuck on a planet with a beautiful woman no it's like 50 shades of Mars this is kind of an for the this is the ad for the reality show right meet the Mars woman sounds like Mars tinder all of a sudden yeah anyway well you know as romantic is making it tomorrows might be for other people who are different powers like us ah there you know there's plenty of really smart people out there like renowned a Canadian astronaut and microgravity musician Chris Hadfield who think it makes more sense to go back to the moon first the moon might not be is sexy because you know we see it all the time but as Michelle you reported on recently we're actually just not getting a good look at the other side of the moon the so-called Dark Side of the Moon which unlike the album of the same name you don't have to be totally stoned to enjoy from what I understand they're right Michelle well about the other side of the moon not there I just don't know it's it's not actually the dark side of the moon cuz it does get some it it's called the far side of the moon because it's actually the face of the moon that we don't actually say on earth so as the moon orbits the earth it's tidally locked in place so that we only ever see the one side and the other side the far side of the moon is what the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been checking out as it sort of orbits so yeah it's pretty cool um Derek there's a there's a video of it down there at the bottom Steven and it's kind of cool and it sounded like basically there's more or different kind of craters on the far side than what we see on the side that that faces us I think it's so strange the moon doesn't spin it just kind of hangs in one spot you know it's well it does it was tripped me out it doesn't spin it all no it does spin but it's all but is sort of locked to it like to our to our plantation yeah yes so we only see one side of the moon forever basic yeah yeah it's really obsessed with us uh-huh the other side is making faces at us so Michelle you mentioned things that are different about the other side um yeah because that side sort of faces away from the earth it's sort of more vulnerable to impacts from asteroids and other stuff that's out there so it's it's got yeah it's got it doesn't have the big dark spots that you know the man in the moon or the rabbit in the moon or whatever you want to call it that's got these big dark spots they don't exist on the other side of the moon and it's just got all these craters just yeah it's just full of impact craters basically from yeah I just liked it I just need to pretend that the other side of the moon we don't see is just completely littered with broken down satellites like the whole thing looks like a like a Sanford and Son like junkyard of like broken satellites and like different ships that had parts and debris and just trash and like all this crap that we don't see because it's kind of like when you clean your room and you shove everything in the closet or under the rug that's the end of the rug side the moon so that's why I always currently I have no evidence well I'm not letting you been cleaning the moon it's just you know whatever you can't see for sure I mean we are seeing it now but for so long we didn't that I just thought that would be hilarious if you just went to the other side and it was just like crap everywhere or the first day to be covered in sarcastic commentary on doing so yes the man the man faces though this is you right well the funny thing too I mean it was not funny but I there's so much space junk in orbit right now that you don't really know where that stuff's landing and so it would be pretty sad if we were turning every planet into our own little personal junkyard cos so do we just can't be bothered yeah I know we need a little Wally to clean up everything well you know who had his own personal junkyard moon junk it turns out is a Neil Armstrong in his closet in his closet yeah so Steven you and Amanda both covered this there was some stuff that's now in the Smithsonian but it was literally found by Neil Armstrong's wife in his closet after he died stuff that went to the moon with him yeah I've been in there for 50 years 40 some 50 years and it's officially an old the purse the purse yeah I was called a lunar purse or something like that and uh it was just meant to stow away um loose objects in the spacecraft and he just left it in his closet and there's like cameras in there and all kind of stuff did alien Skelton yeah that's crazy but um well yeah so they were covered in they and their here at all as all the stuff and they've lent it to the Smithsonian you know so um this is the purse she looks like the actress who would play her in the mix like a pretty boring Birkin bag actually yeah it's just a totally like they call it mcdivitt purse yeah Courtney gale yes it's just like you know something he called it a bunch of trash he's like I don't think it's useful stuff right it's just things that like there's a belt that strapped you in so you don't float away you know that's useful yeah but there's a camera too i mean yeah i receive this is a really nice film camera that he used to document a lot of the trip yeah but nobody uses film anymore yeah 10 millimeter camera I mean did he go yeah what haha but um and like power cables you know things that yeah just would power lights and just just all kinds around with stuff but you know it's pretty interesting all this the way this is a 6-pin it looks like six pin plug just kind of random stuff that but they feel so weird that he took it home like usually yeah that stuff in your desk at work yeah and then do you want it I mean my grandpa would have been breaking in there and borrowing the tethers to use yeah except other stuff with yeah well that just makes me think like how awesome Neil Armstrong was that oh this is just a bag of crap I put in my my closet right yeah a few people in the chat room are calling them a see if I don't know if we can let that stand I'm sure a lot of people can comment saying that thief too but come on I don't think it's really a thief if you drift that risk his life that dude went a space and pretty sure you could do anything you want at this point see the guy who punched someone on the job no that's muzzle that was you don't tell buzz that the moon landing my name is also send buzz after these people yeah you know never say moon landings faked around real astronauts are low yeah you up um yeah no I don't think he's a thief I don't know I kind of feel like it's work stuff so you can take it home oh come on it tastes like why pretend you didn't paperclips post-it note here they never profited from it was in this closet now it's any museum we know the lungs in a museum look now it's now it's a museum worthy but back then it was probably just junk I mean you know when Star Wars was shot almost all in the set was just thrown out the dumpster and then if you were smart enough in the 70s and worked on Star Wars and grab that stuff by the dumpster you can sell it for you know five hundreds of thousands of dollars back then and just set pieces to a movie they didn't think would do anything my uncle said he knew it'd be a huge hit I mean I know people probably say that all the time but he said as the first start sci-fi movie he'd seen that really looked like sci-fi you know where things are really gritty right anyway sorry didn't mean to throw no sorry that's a good transition we're gonna spin it into Star Wars instant yeah we were gonna talk about Star Wars it anyway but I did want to talk about the other astronaut news cuz I did write a story about the astronauts that we're posing as Jedi yeah yeah man and this kind of revealed something that most NASA fans already know is that for each mission the astronauts have been posing as different movies like different sci-fi and fantasy and cult classic movies for each mission so this one was star war but they've done Star Trek they've done Indiana Jones they've done Reservoir Dogs um yeah they're not done Batman and Robin the women pictures yeah the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is one of my favorites just because they have every once in a while they have the robot can't cameo as well but metropolis was a weird one I'm not sure sure why you would I don't even see Superman into I like the tron one yeah the trauma one's pretty cool I mean it's interesting i loved the Star Wars that's the most recent one so the star wars ones for the the upcoming mission but it's just fun to go back and see all these and the matrix ones great because they totally look like they look they look like a great band I mean there's the reservoir dogs one I'm not these don't make sense hugs I know right happy rose I'll be space movies well there's some yeah they did pirates of the caribbean which is hilarious because i really do look like pirates yeah there you go I mean you know people are having fun with photoshop for sure but it's it's one of those things where it's nice to see astronauts and NASA have a sense of humor I mean they do already and they're already cool astronauts and this just kind of drives at home and then there was another astronaut he had taken his official fellows and it was with his dogs it's actually not from this year it's from a couple years ago but a journalist saw it and tweeted it at of course the astronaut and he retweeted it and it became a viral sensation just a couple weeks ago or a few weeks ago but it's not his current NASA photo but it didn't matter it was just so great that there were dogs in it it's just like yeah you know I could see dogs going on a mission they probably won't because the original dogs that went on missions didn't always come back um but anyway anyway the point B gonna go down downer the point being is that astronauts are cool yeah they like stuff that we like and they have have they done a poster of ice pirates yet cuz that oh i don't know like I just kept thinking of all the movies a Time Bandit back on my eyelids yeah but you have to be careful you don't want to pick a movie where astronauts die okay so probably not event horizon not a venomous blog gravity lucky idea I like the idea that this might be like in your astronauts contract you're gonna spend six months in the International Space Station and you're gonna be obi-wan yeah i think it was it was interesting that took him this long to do with star wars won I mean they've done every movie until Star Wars but maybe they're afraid of getting a season decision from George Lucas I don't know but it's pretty awesome and I think I mean I did an article about it but if you go on starwars.com I think they interview one of the astronauts it's going on the mission that actually did pose for the for the poster but they're pretty cool and you can download them off the NASA site in high res and print them out and put him on your wall so you can have these posters to to decorate your home or locker I do not decorate yeah there you go I do want to think astronauts love their jobs you know you don't want that really I guess I'm a mascot its ok now ours are tough yeah they should love it maybe it's kind of a pain like a shoots of pain I mean that's a thing too is a lot of times when these astronauts are no longer on space missions they do a lot of stuff with education they go to school that's different you try to help with stem yeah I mean they really look at that look how great they are even that even the badge that they do for each mission is cool oh yeah all the collectible badges so anyway I decide we bring it up I really want to know what what's the deal with these star wars cruises oh yeah star wars crew okay so this is a deal they're not what you think they are okay there oh god they're not what you think they are they're not an entire cruise full of like Jawas and he walks and stormtroopers and Vader there every single day dance what it is is that there's only going to be a select amount of these Caribbean cruises for Disney Cruise Line and it's one day / cruise vacation package that's going to be called star wars day but the cool thing with that is you can watch all they're going to show all the movies outside so you can see them on the water with like you know the stars in the sky and that's kind of cool Vader's gonna be wandering around I know there's so many jokes to be had on this is so great ah Vader's wander around there's going to be stormtroopers I believe some celebrities will be there that they haven't announced who yet and then there's a bunch activities for the kids love Jedi training like they do with the jedi academy training at disney for star wars weekends i mean it's kind of like star wars weekends from disney but on a boat but it's only one day / cruise oh man i'm just so seeing the video singing i'm on a boat i know i don't know what they're gonna do I know they get there probably need some sort of dancing karaoke number that's gonna be painful to watch but I have a thing where you get to launch like a jar jar mannequin I don't know they're gonna have fireworks I don't know if they're gonna explode Ewok sir I don't know I don't know what's gonna happen but the promo pictures operational Chewbacca will be on board so that man a Wookiee on the on the ocean I mean come on sweating like yeah I'm going off the hi dad why can't tell you gonna do a triple Lindy from past experience from working at Lucasfilm that they give to the guys who play Chewbacca they give him lots of breaks what do you mean the guys who play Chewbacca the guide is not the real Chewbacca Peter may his busy doing real movies he's busy doing well don't say Chewbacca's not real he's real there's more than one Wookiee you know ok so anyway so I'm excited for this this is the first time Disney's done a cruise where there's a Star Wars element so I'm pretty excited I don't know if I'm gonna go but it's pretty awesome I can't wait for all the viral videos to start popping up on YouTube all the blue milk you can drink I'm just a little worried there will be some seasick stormtroopers and that's not the video i want to see but take the bucket off first you're worried doing this yeah I just don't I don't know but there's been a lot of Star Wars news lately so that's one of the things I was excited about was the cruise and another one how are there you wrote about how there's 32 new Star Wars Legos okay so here's the thing what have they not made 32 sets coming out that span all the movies and Star Wars rebels which is the new obviously the new disney animated series and clone wars which was the old cartoon network series and they haven't even announced the force awakens sets yet so this is the stuff that they showed at toy fair that hasbro gave us it's a lot it's not all 32 they didn't reveal all 32 pictures so people that are snarky in the comments saying i apparently 12 pictures / 32 the reveal them all uh but they're so cute look at them look at so cute so i looked at the poster of the minifigs their Jabba the Hutt actually has the slave change yeah so this has got to be the first lego minifig with a slave chain I just want to I will point out there is a jar jar yeah there is a charge our minifig i will point that out for the two people that like charger but the big news you know and those are the new figures look Holly good they're called like I think they're called connects or can actually probably like this I'm contraction they're called contraction sets and they look really weird but they're kind of cool-looking are they look like when they're fully dilated all right but I will tell you all this money uh it also came with a lego poster that was like the ABCs that is I was very very cute and was out on my son that is downloaded all that on my wall so you can download it from our cider from hasbro site but i will say the big thing that's cool is the TIE fighter and I think I think I led the yeah I like you Amy that is all that they've done Lego Tie Fighters before but this one comes with a display stand it's much more intricate and it's pretty freaking expensive and it's in the thousands of pieces so it's gonna take you forever put together does it make the pew pew pew see how big is it uh pretty big it says in there somewhere I can't yes the figure down there looks pretty small I didn't remember uh yeah I can't with the little minifig it says about a foot yeah it's pretty big I mean I have all the typhoid ER sets from Hasbro in my apartment already and I'm getting this one because it's pretty detailed but the point is start saving your money or just wait for your tax refund and just give it directly to hasbro because we're fine to ship some of these sets are expensive and some of them are a little bit cheaper in the price range and if you don't want the LEGO sets you can get the brand-new hasbro lightsabers where you could build oh yeah the crazy lightsaber so you can fun like your cocktail for you can make a lightsaber trident you can make a lightsaber I don't know you could just make the type of lightsaber that will kill you the minute you try to ignite it pretty much any of them really speaking of mods can we look at the base the rebel base oh yeah we're so yeah definitely eternally in Falcon guitar oh okay two of them there's the Han Solo Millennium Falcon guitar and then there's the rebel base hmm which is I think that's hilarious ah these are for sale they are for sale on Etsy their custom you can get you can even get a custom made what's the word case for it they light up they're made from vintage Millennium Falcon toys and they added blue lights as well so it's not just the light up part of the toy that originally came with but they added LED blue lights and I interviewed the creator of these guitars on cnet crave and you can check him out there but he says they play fine just like a normal guitar just you just have to know how to you know play one well but I love it I I think it's great I would not mind yeah now we know why we have no interest in going to Mars cuz there's doing a great space toys here at Halloween what's the point Oh incidentally i'm on twitter I've lost a page Oh Tyler G green comments that none of the people went to die on Mars they went to live on Mars fair point Oh optimist wait um well you know all we've got Michelle on the line um all the way from Australia and we woke her up at like seven in the morning to get her on here we wanted to hear a little bit more about a story that's been doing gangbusters on crave the Euro of Michelle about this mummified no it wasn't found inside the to know what what's this story okay so it's this statue of the Buddha and a bunch of guys CT scanned at last year and they found this mummified monk inside um they think he's around nine hundred to a thousand years old and yeah he's just stuffed inside the Statue how big is the statute or is this a really tiny monk it's personalized okay oh yeah there's a picture of it I don't know I'm feeling it's not a sure you're sure you're back then they're shorter back then I'm just saying we got the idea to do a CT scan on the Golden Buddha in the first place was it a rumor or something we asked like where its eyes following people around the room well you can see the base of it is is cut away so I don't know if it was like that and they sort of looked inside and saw it I had something inside or if they just thought there was something a bit strange about it I don't actually know that so um and they found something yet they didn't just find a body to they found something about the body yeah they found these scraps of paper inside where the organs should be with our Chinese writing on it I don't know what the writing says I iou assumably you have to go to the museum to check that out okay probably like a trophy for best hide and seek yeah I am the monastery back in five minutes right oh god this is such a great story though i love this i hope that they start doing more CT scans of everything but apparently apparently there's a mummification practice in in Buddhism of this area where well she talks about it I'm just trying yet kelsey's trying to keep us on point out in from Australia this is a Varrick yeah tell us more Michelle well it's it's self-mummification so they go through this period where they they go on this diet of nuts and seeds and then they go on this diet of bark and this this sap that they normally use for lacquering plates and then they'll sort of be sealed into a tomb for a thousand days and if at the end of the thousand days of being sealed in the tomb they've been mummified then they become a sort of a living Buddha or yeah they're basically worshipped in a temple as a living Buddha I'm not entirely sure that this guy was a living Buddha because he did have his organs removed and pick and stuff put inside him but he could have been I don't know bo is this practice it was outlawed I think in the 19th century they they sort of made it illegal to do this because you know if obvious reasons but um those who achieved it were sort of putting the temples and put on display and people would go in and worship them more or venerate them I don't know if worships the right word and those who and we're just sort of left sealed in the tomb but with with respect for for their attempt for for their endurance in in sort of going through this this 2000 a horrible deprivation to try to turn themselves into these living borders you're actually trying to lacquer your insides practically is there yeah that's hardcore that's impressive yeah literally yeah some of us do that every weekend but favorite part of the story I think is that Michelle seems becoming our own like in house Indiana Jones in charge of these archaeological expeditions you had another one the other teeth or the teeth and the Mexican statue yeah it was a Jesus that's right yeah Jesus yeah they found eight human teeth in this statue of Christ yeah that's not that's like touch me I so that is not creepy at all nope no it's a greedy but Jesus is a good name for a band yeah so what kind of a human teeth like what kind of tea under human yeah he would taste Wow I mean it's it's a what's the word it's Reverend you know it just it seems creepy to us but it's intended reverently yeah the interesting thing about both of these cases is that they seem unique like there is no other statute in which they've found human teeth religious statue and there's no other Buddha statue in which they found a mummy so but have them checked have they really ja they really checked I feel like now everyone's gonna be checking their you know resident mummified whatever in every museum to see if there's something in signing off their bases I know yeah imagine being an asian art museum at night and looking around and just they're all people in there there's about to be a comer o terracotta warrior zone oh my god that's crazy the Emperor who did all that was crazy yeah he wouldn't actually surprised I don't know I kind of I kind of missed that I kind of feel like we don't have that I mean the closest thing we have mass murder we totally do we totally do know with an artistic to know I mean like you know warlike leaders that have kind of a crazy side like pute Putin I got huge monument yeah North Korea I guess what's for us we don't really have that kind of like death etsy death cray-cray over here like we like they did back in the day I'm not like they'd had back in the day and I don't know I guess I'm being nostalgic for a time we should never be the stalker banerjee coud we don't really Vlad to employ Impaler we don't there's some guys trying to bring that back I mean the closest thing we knew the NFL I guess I think we have right now is the head of the NSA his picture has gone viral because he there's a picture of him kind of looking like a Star Wars character or something where he's just screaming into the microphone about how the NSA doesn't really spy on us when we all know they do and so now everyone's saying that instead of every time a journalist posted like some sort of stock photo of some creepy guy to computer to show a hacker like to show that they should just show this guy that's the head of NSA screaming into a microphone because it's even creepier that I'm getting aids us getting a message in my ear Bonnie that that is not correct alright well we're about out of time but I know we've all got some interesting stuff that we're working on we wanted to tease the folks with under Kelsey you were working on some stuff about the flash is that right oh yeah well look nice I can't tell you how many people just grin at me when I walked down the street wearing this thing like a lot of us there a lot of us out there people obsessed with the flash the next episode is not gonna be for basically another month and I don't know how I'm gonna get through it oh man but some of that will be therapy at by posting blog post probably yeah that's it that's all for me I think you're also gonna do a gallery right I've been requesting a gallery of images I've taken a lot of screen shots but I'm not sure they're really yeah I don't breathe alright just said it is just send them to me directly it's totally fine yeah dropbox i'm working on a story about the godzilla hotel that is hilarious of an actual hotel that you can have a room that looks like Godzilla's peeking in it um I think that's great i love this idea i'm a huge Godzilla fan and where is it it's in I think it's in Tokyo I'm not too sure I'll find out it sits in its in Japan I know that much but we'll see well the thing is when you're a big Attila fan and you go to Tokyo and you want to go to the Godzilla statue and then you actually go to the Godzilla statue it's not godzilla-sized it's like tiny and so you coming down let me know yeah it's like a little it's like scrappy-doo Godzilla oh you know it's just tiny that's just unnecessarily if you're gonna have a John if you're gonna have an iconic monster represent your country it should be full size so I'm excited for this hotel this is going to be the closest thing i get to retribution for having to take that trip to the godzilla just you i just found godzilla hostels in Russia period oh really whoa all kinds of weird stuff happening why are those in Russia yeah on a budget Godzilla on a budget you don't know how Godzilla decorates his place I don't know I mean it looks kind of amazing assuming does he invite you over that doesn't invite me he doesn't return my calls no maybe maybe they have an actual Godzilla and sleeping and then Godzilla breaks through the window yeah yeah yeah and then they film it and they sell it on cable I mean here's the thing when you go to Japan there's always gonna be there's always a weird hotel like there's the robot hotel that's supposed to be I want to go to that and I wrote an article about it but they didn't reveal what the robots look like so i don't know how like humanoid the robots will be that are running this hotel in Japan that's all robot run all of it so when you check in robots check you in I'll entire made chicken the mate service is awesome yeah that's not them this is no no no no that's prototype that's them pretending that's like hey this could be it that's that's how they're getting people interested in it that's it oh we lost Eric that's how excited you was about the room now here's the thing when you're trying to get investor money you sometimes you photoshop photos know that don't look like the real thing and so you don't feel like the respect us or something yeah they don't have the real robots like game trailers yeah it's what anyway my point being is Japan has great hotels and I can't wait to visit Godzilla the end ex back Eric's back hey whatwhat's Michelle working are we hear from Michelle I I recently interviewed the director of the giant Magellan telescope foundation so I will be writing that up soon um that's going to be the world's biggest telescope they're hoping to have it up and running by 2020 and using it they're going to look for the beginning of time well if there's not a target cities that are gonna be a TARDIS their guitarist at the beginning of time everything I know about doctor who will be ruined say giant space telescope yeah i know i'm excited for this thank you for keeping us legit well I've got I've got one last space related teaser as well it's kind of related what Michelle is working on I recently spoke with an astronomer who's actually out of Puerto Rico and he gave me his prediction including a pretty hard date for when we might be able to confirm the existence of the first habitable planet like right now we have these potentially habitable planets are like the right size and and in the right you know listening to their son but this guy actually has a time frame for when he thinks will confirm that the right conditions for life exists on another planet and perhaps even when we confirm the existence of life on such a planet and it's it's not that far away sadly only two days after the colonists I on Mars yes timing yeah so anyway I look for that alley drunk I do you want to say really quickly the crop circle towels that I wrote about they did reach their funding on kickstarter so if you did fund some of those that i wrote about and they're great they're just green towels that look like crop circles that you see on farms and they're just a design on towels they reached their funding so you can get these awesome towels now and you can still is i think there's like 10 days left so if you want to buy some now's the time to do it but they're pretty awesome i just love this idea but they look like round their best thing to do is to buy some matching regular green towels give them to your friend as a gift and then sneak in some time when they're not looking guy swap them yeah that's great I like that you're already thinking of crop circle I might have got a little too much about them no it's brilliant yeah all right well thanks you guys I think that's all the time we've got for this creative cast will be back next month as always check out all the stories we've talked about an one's upcoming at cnet com / crave you can always treat tweet at us at crave to let us know what you like to us to talk about in a future crave cast for Steven Beecham Bonnie Burton Kelsey Adams Jeff Sparkman and in Australia Michelle star I'm Eric nag this has been the critic I'll see you next time you