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on today's show NASA's peculiar plan to give the moon a small little tiny moon a classic Nintendo game gets an much-deserved HD remake and you can play it for free and some enterprising and brilliant students find a way to create a fire extinguisher that uses sound to extinguish the flames that's how it get out tomorrow daily greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best speak talk show in the known universe I'm your host Ashley SCANA join me as always kaylynn honest how are you doing I'm great and I'd like to start off this show and every show this week with a disclaimer that April Fool's Day is this Wednesday meaning that if any of these stories turn out to be false I would like to have plausible deniability and let you know that I tried okay like I tried to verify each of these stories so if any of them turn out to be not real I didn't in fact make an effort you're covering your buttocks on this one usually people don't give people a clue in that April 1st is coming up I might hate April Fool's Day because my birthday is the day before April Fool's Day and so when I was a kid everybody and their brother thought it was just so hilarious ha ha ha ha to wrap up boxes that were empty and be like I got you a birthday present and then they were empty and then I was just like wow nice nice job I got to return all those empty boxes I'm back yeah you better but do we have an April Fool's episode planned to meet you maybe maybe we do maybe we don't you'll have to tune in and find out I pitched you an idea I hope we go with it I don't know I think we all kind of like had ideas going some ideas maybe you have any ideas hashtag TD Fool's yeah two equals and if you just I just made that up we're idiots hashtag to you yeah else you have picture pictures of clowns hashtag 284 jesters and anything how about some news all right hit the headlines all this show is out of here that's all right I took great start all right so we got to talk about this moon for the moon this is a weird thing but it is true because NASA posted this video on their website so NASA has this mission that is called the asteroid redirect mission it's called arm an arm the point of arm is to figure out ways to sort of not have a catastrophic asteroid impact on earth which seems pretty important and so they have this plan this is a concept where a robotic spacecraft this is the video they released that they explain how the entire mission will work a robotic spacecraft would fly to an asteroid grab a boulder off of it and then bring it back to the moon and then put it in the moon's orbit what yeah so they would make this little Boulder off of an asteroid a little moon for the moon kind of okay okay so that seems super weird I know because you're like how is that going to protect us from asteroids this seems crazy this seems totally crazy but it actually makes a little bit of sense because this robotic spacecraft is going to take about six years to go and get get the craft back to place the rock in orbit at the moon and during that time NASA will be learning how the rock moves through space and so they might potentially figure out how to sort of steer asteroids headed to earth away from us so they're gonna have to get the rock over here which means they're gonna have to figure out how it moves through space okay okay so that's an important part of learning sort of like well how can we sort of move these larger asteroids like if there was something that could really cause damage to earth and it was heading for us how could we sort of figure out you know maybe we could send a spacecraft out there to sort of steer it away from us things like that and then the other part of that is they'll be examining and studying the boulder as it comes back not just the way it moves through space but also what it's composed of what you know a lot of things about it they want to learn about it and then there's a second part of the mission which is pretty cool it's a manned mission on the Orion spacecraft and they're gonna send astronauts up to this robotic spacecraft are gonna dock with it and they would inspect the boulder before they put it in that orbit so when the robotic craft arrives near the moon then they would also collect hard samples that they would then bring back down earth to be tested in the lab so there it's not only like learning more about asteroids and how they're composed and what they're made of and all this other stuff but also trying to figure out kind of if there was sort of a catastrophic asteroid headed for us and it looked pretty bad you know maybe this is kind of a way that we might be able to avoid that and they're hoping I think 2020 is the goal on this so it's a few years out but they're already I mean they have to work on it now it's not a little bizarre to you super weird okay I just want to make sure that I was mental but it's like there's a lot of asteroids yeah I like and then the whole like man mission like everything is just like okay but I mean it does get that knowledge to me it makes sense that they would say we want to see how this robotic spacecraft would move this Boulder through space in the event that we would need to sort of guide one away from Earth like we want to make sure there's not any surprises so I think that that's a pretty good idea and to do something on a smaller scale and then say okay now we know this works we can try it on a bigger scale something like that all right pretty phat I got a lot to think about on that one fascinating weird weird it's great that they interviewer just listening it's great that they had all the visuals thing yeah every step of the way they not only have the robotic mission video they have the man dimension video too so you can watch simulations of bones we didn't see that yeah they played they have both on the on NASA's YouTube page which I thought was fantastic so um so yeah that's what they want to do with with asteroid an arm that's the the mission which is pretty awesome all right yeah so tell me about tell me about hey this HD remake rather than tell you I want to show you and tell you I went ahead I went ahead and tried the demo out and I made a little video so take it away kale thanks Ashley and kale today we have a really cool mod to show off and some really cool text so let's get started because it is a mod of a super mario 64 and upper mind anyway so as you can see super mario 64 in HD it looks very beautiful everything's fluffy the grass is green and mowed freshly this is obviously the first level from Mario 64 but let's talk about the tech being used here this is built from the ground up in the Unity engine but this is to show off there's a demo to show off the super character creator created by a guy named Roy Stan Ross now the super character creator is a program that he he built that is supposed to it's supposed to detect ground ground detection where's the detection pushback anything you'd expect from a video game character let's watch me get completely destroyed here let me get ragged boom anyway so you can play this if you have a Mac a PC or Linux it's available through the if you have the unity engine which you can download if you just go to the browser it's available on rice and Ross's WordPress if you look that up he only has the first level you're not gonna build the whole thing he said you've got better things to do he's building freaking engines over here so you can go and check that on his website play the demo I'm gonna try and make it to the bomb King up here if I can in the meantime but yeah it's available and he leaves kind of the the coding up there so you can try and build one of your own or maybe finish this game we're hoping that somebody finishes making Mario 6000 making mario 64 so much somebody at home is watching this and being like kill pillows new Bishnu but yeah like I said he hasn't completed the whole thing there are some things missing but it's a really cool impressive look at what can be done with the super character creator go ahead and check it out on rice and Ross's website thanks again and back to you Cale and Ashley thanks kale thank you kale thank you past present future kale but you should go check it out you should give it a shot that's pretty cool so bringing us to our hashtag of the day TD 64 whoo I'm great you can't stop can you you just can't stop my sorry you actually have a good Mario impression it's pretty good is it yeah yeah I'm enjoying it so basically because Super Mario 64 kind of ruined my life at the time when it was out like I just I wanted to play it non-stop I thought it would be fun to do the hashtag of the day TV 64 what game would ruin your life if you could play it in browser because you can play that in browser yeah like straight up right in your browser so what game would ruin your life if you could play it in a browser like you just forget it I'm done well I think for some of us it would it would help if it like had multiplayer to a co-op so yeah cuz I put in some hours you know what Smash Brothers you're gonna say smash bros i'm gonna say Smash Brothers I'm sticking with the Nintendo thing just because yeah you got in my head but I'm saying Smash Brothers because if I could just play with somebody there's on I love like another computer like in the same building even if it was mobile oh it's over what about you I would say gosh there's so many good choices but I would say staying with Nintendo I would say I would probably play a whole lot of I think I would play like Super Mario 3d World if you could connect to like if it wasn't just local multiplayer like I feel like I'd play that game a lot like and like play with other people and just play levels of people over and over again like already the world we're spoiled we want that that connection now it doesn't matter if it's in the browser we want to be able to still connect that's like we can't play without it anymore it's just the way we are I love the idea of being able to just like randomly connect to a group of three other people that wait and like a little like Lobby or whatever and then it's just okay you're all gonna play this random level or you can pick what level or you can randomize like this would be an issue because we no one would get any work done that's my answer was Goldeneye but we got a city you can see you don't have to say Nintendo stuff it's TV 64 or you can say anything you want see was the city before they got it in there I know another good one I would say Diablo like if I could just play that oh yeah my life would end Diablo 3 it would just be over um yeah I don't want to think about that future it's terrible alright so tell us about this fire extinguisher this audio pretty cool so there is an electrical engineering student his name is Seth Robertson and there is a computer engineering major named Viet Tran and they work together at George Mason George Mason George Mason versity in Virginia and they made this really cool fire extinguisher that actually uses low-frequency sound waves to put out fires so check this out so they're lighting this alcohol accelerant induced fire inside a pan and they're going to use what kind of looks like a really cobbled together Ghostbusters pack like but it but not quite like they're gonna use that on the fire to put it out and so there you go see they just put out the fire with sound with sound there's no any know kind of like extinguishing foam or anything like that they did it was sound so here's how it works the idea is if you keep oxygen from the flames long enough the fire would get suffocated right so you need oxygen from one of the three things you need to make fire direct so this uses low frequency sound waves to displace the oxygen in that area so it's between I think it was like minus 20 minus 40 DB or something like that I don't have the exact decibel levels but they basically use that cannister thing to focus the sound waves at the area where the fire is and then it it displaces the oxygen long enough to where there's no oxygen fire suffocates itself and it dies you never run out of infinite infinite extinguishing yeah so this this prototype that they made is portable which we've seen it looked pretty bulky but yeah pretty bulky but here's the thing like we've seen something like this before a fire extinguisher with that uses sound from DARPA but it was huge and it was definitely not portable and these guys kind of took it upon themselves to sort of take it to the next level so there's a sound frequency generator on it an amplifier and then there's the the collimator which is the thing that they're pointing at the fire it's like the Lowell sort of cylinder to that focus as the sound waves so they're saying you can put off small fires with alcohol accelerants which is what you're seeing in the video but they said the real challenge is kind of developing this further to battle different types of fires so of course you have like brush fires you have grease fires there's different kinds of fires and they don't really know like exactly how they might make that work because another challenge would be keeping the fire from reigniting so when you have things like forest fires you have you have hotspots that need to be cooled down with water and so these guys are like we're trying to figure out ways to sort of kind of develop it freaking bigger make it bigger or battle that'll larger fires and that's kind of that's their goal so but it's still really cool that they that they made this sort of portable pack and they're saying this could the idea of this could really revolutionize home fire extinguishers so you would have something like this I like for a small fire you I I liked your angle with the forest fire thing because you get out there and there's not water all the time you're out there and you can't you cannot that's why they have to go and get the plane a lot of stuff and they have to go into people's pools and that takes time yeah and that's just time for the fire to grow so it's which is never good and then of course you have the idea of like putting firefighters lives in danger you have them in these forest fires where they have these situations where the fire can come back into that area and overcome them and it's just it's incredibly dangerous and we have California has an amazing the CDF the California Department of Forestry they're incredible at firefighting this is literally one of our seasons we don't actually have a fall it's just fire like that's that's our season here it's just there's like fire and then there's drought there's a drought fire mudslides like these are our seasons and traffic your traffic all year round so um so yeah I mean it's really dangerous so so to think that maybe they would be safer for not only firefighters but even just people in their houses like this is pretty cool yeah that is cool I like the idea that off on a kale tangent that they would be playing a song you have to pick a song drop like which one puts out fires the best yeah just Avicii put out better fires so funny they tried music but but they said it didn't displace the accident and nothing no there was too much chaos in the variation of the sound waves and I said we couldn't use musica has to be a set like low frequency range that would be able to displace the oxidant I'm gonna create my own TD here no I'm sorry to TD dubs and then tell me which song you used to put out fires perfect yeah sorry pardon sorry uh so we're gonna take a quick break and we will be right back with a backer Hackett it's pretty fun it's a robot okay just straight up full disclosure is this a one that you think free if you have an idea whatever that's pretty cool I mean it could be really fun and we have your user feedback from last week and then of course we have our phone tired for the day but before we go check out this break video of a CD basically exploding in and of itself it gets rotated so fast that it warps and then explodes at a hundred and seventy thousand frames per second that is amazing welcome back to the show it is it is Monday which means it's time to discuss a crowdfund effort that we are interested in and but we're not quite sure if we're gonna give it a go or maybe just not so much so it is time as always we're Beckett or hack it okay so today I'm back at her Hackett we have plenty plenty is a robot okay I love me some robot yeah we both like some robots on our robot babies knives our Robo babies plenty they claim to be the world's first printable open-source humanoid robot printable how adorable plan to is that oh my god it was mere robot so it's so what this comes with is it's a robot kit with an Arduino control board got some servos in it accessories that people can assemble so here's the cool part about plenty - is that you don't actually need special tools or technical knowledge to assemble this fantastic so anybody just need a screwdriver you get the kit you can assemble your little robot it's about seven point eight inches tall when it's when it's finished okay bringing each other coffee it's adorable they also give you the 3d printing data so you can actually make your own custom parts and/or like make your own custom like shells so this is the basic and then you can make it whatever you want the dev Edition I love this one I use on the treadmill the developer editions gonna have the Intel Edison chip on board so really like good for developers be able to kind of expand what it does we saw the spider dress was Intel power to Intel Edison chip powered it is fully open source it will be iOS and Android compatible they want to deliver it and they want to deliver it by November 2015 and they're saying like as you can see in this video they're giving all sorts of reasons why you could use this robot you could do it for rehab you could rehabilitation you could do it for fun you could have it for different uses like mes yeah it's ridiculous like we have all these like coal Ares this video if you're just listening is the best robot video I've ever the most adorable adorable it makes robots look like they're not going to take over the world but they're going to take over our eyes hearts they're gonna they're gonna take them over I love it so yeah this is end this so there's somebody assembling it right there it looks pretty straightforward I mean there's all kinds of stuff you can do with this robot they're saying like it is extremely open-ended what you can accomplish with it and they have this sort of interface that sure you can help teach you what to do there's one where yeah you have connect you're teaching you how to move and stuff oh he's reading his faces so it looks like that you can it can read your motions there's that arm band thing that we uh that we showed earlier on the head there's a headband so you can you send over like your brain waves to like have it do activity and three facial features very opening phone very opening okay so looks adorable looks adorable no Genghis it ain't she is here Angus the robot Angus has no movement at all but what about the price it's a little it's a little pricey it's a little pricey it's not gonna be $1.99 like you would you know walk into and walk into an Apple store and buy some accessory for 200 bucks it's uh right now the early over 350 the the lowest priced early bird kit which only has one spot left last I checked is $6.99 good lord and that's almost sold out then they have one an early bird thing that has 11 spots left and that's $7.99 and then the regular kickstart Kickstarter price is $8.99 so it's not cheap but it does look like it has a pretty wide range of programming abilities right so if your developer or you're into robotics if you want to teach robotics this seems like a pretty open-ended project that you would be able to sort of you maybe you every semester you'd reset it I think schools yeah that'd be cool yeah so um apparently they've already met their goal they have over 40,000 so plenty well we'll hopefully go into production at some point they've got 35 days ago so they met their goal pretty fast but yeah that's that's plenty and they have all kinds of like developer special developer editions and like all sorts of stuff so and they even have cheaper tiers if you want to print out the robot shell yourself so let say you have a 3d printer at home you just need the boards like the the circuit boards and stuff that you can get them for cheaper but the fully like the assembly kit where you get the robot all the 3d printed parts everything to put it together is six starts at $6.99 so bad so if you a 3d printer if you know someone who dies you could do that yeah Tom I'm coming your house and using your 3d printer yeah yeah so what do you think back at her away to why should I answer first yeah I think you should answer first I said back it I love that sort of open source and all the potential they showed hopefully it's actually you know you can actually do all that but yeah I would love to see that schools like I wish I had a class where I got to learn sort of like that programming aspect I mean it's gonna come into play more and more angry so yeah definitely back it I looks like I don't have to so I just get to wait for plenty to come to a home near me yeah yeah my my recommendation on this would be if you have the money back it and you're into it if not wait and then find a friend who got one find somebody who backed it look through the comment section and make friends with them on the internet so that you can hang out with plenty yeah that seems like a nice or you can steal it from them or you teach it to love me and no but see it's gonna steal your heart you want to be the person who owns its friends so you can hang out it's all positive so we're both back in on it I see yeah ok yeah no this is awesome cool yeah it's one of my favorite robots super cute yeah kind of reminds me of like a tiny baymax yeah a little bit ups and there's not a squishing oh cute really blend to plan - Oh plenty - okay guys we got to talk about your user feedback for TV joke last week we talked about the Chinese guy and his son who's bill who are building transformers in China that's right junk transformers super super cool and we asked you guys to use hashtag tt junk to tell us what you would want to build up junk if you could build anything and you guys gave us some pretty good answers Frank wrote and said I always wanted to build a life-size bender with some Boston Dynamics tech oh my god you're gonna get in the pit man Tech and yes Megaton I'm back baby see my Mario impression is better than my vendor impression but yeah that's a great one bender questioning bender Rick Rhoden said I want to create a life-size Megas XLR ironically coupe finds Megas in a junkyard nice Matt wrote in and said TD junk I would like to see a machine that turns scrap pieces flat and then use those for buildings oh wow he actually wants to use yeah I can save the world yep using your noodle there that's smart uh Gail wrote in and said Simon Cowell already took some junk and made a boy made a boy band called 1d oh oh he'll be here all week be sure to tip your waitress there's one less piece there's one less junk in one direction you know one of them quit I saw saw the news and then Charles wrote in and said a 200 foot tall Galactus to eat space junk no he is planets he eats planets you'd build him and then he would eat earth which I guess if you are his owner and you get too cool like travel around but he's kind of a jerk fare okay fine and then finally we got an email from Rob saying dear Ashley I thought that was a funny idea that you came up with about making Jupiter Earth's landfill now the only problem is now the planet is filled with space junk how do we get rid of the junk we burn it or find a way to repurpose the junk okay here's my plan we wait for asteroids big earth-shattering asteroids to go by Jupiter gravitational pull sucks the asteroids in asteroid impact destroys all space junk we start over it's a clean slate we just keep it self-sustaining problem solved actually for space president you wrote them everybody 28 28 16 thank you feeling pretty good about it I thought about it a lot today and then it came to me but yeah the answer was right in from my face the whole time that's right there Jupiter is the answer they will solve their own Jupiter can solve its own problems okay cool yeah great so uh all right guys it is time for our very last piece to user feedback which is always our photogra for the day alright so this comes from Mars own lot of fun Marton nice pronounciation thank you muchas gracias he writes in and he says dear TD I am Martin from Hungary and I have taken this photo of the main building of the University of Debrecen in Hungary with a samsung galaxy trend plus I've never heard of this yeah I've never heard of it either but it's a nice picture the structure which is much more tremendous than it looks in the picture was built more than 80 years ago the fountains in front of it will be turned on soon anyway I'm learning English and I tea here and I absolutely love this university I like your show very much best wishes Martin what a nice picture I've never heard of that phone before but it looks like it takes like amazing photos better than my phone my phone I'm dying to know what the what the fountain looks like like when it's turned on Martin's got his work cut out for him he's got sent us some more photos what fountain there's so much space here for a photo shop I mean what could we add to this picture I mean it's pretty good but I feel like somebody getting some book learnin done feels like maybe maybe like a Bruce Banner reading a book in front of the Bruce Banner Mark Ruffalo Bruce Banner I want George Clooney playing basketball oh good I like it you can find those pictures on the inner line Oh play basketball I want him playing basketball at this University I wish we know what Marth on look like we could put him playing against Marth on Martin put if you have a picture just Photoshop yourself playing basketball against George Clooney and send that in yeah this is getting weird but yeah it's getting super specific but I I dig it all right um so that is that is Martin's picture and like I said at the samsung galaxy trend plus very introverted that phone before so pretty cool if you guys want to send in your phone tog Rafi send us your picture a little bit about it and what device you took the picture with and you can email it to tomorrow at cnet.com we'll also take other stuff old family recipes tips tricks story ideas no April Fool's story ideas I will not accept them I'll yell at you over email but if you absolutely hate you want to use social media you can do that too snapchat tumblr twitter facebook instagram for tomorrow daily on all those things and 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