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This is the podcast for April 15, 2016.

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Recorded live from Alpha Centauri, where they're building the wall,

and they're going to make us pay for it.

It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.

Hey, Dr. Glass.

Hey, Blue Gell, we're going there.

We're going there, but they're going to build a wall.

Yeah, I think the wall is basically the speed of light.

That keeps a lot of people out. Yeah, there's a lot of walls between us and Alpha Centauri right now.

But it's a good story.

It is. They're going to, it's a good story. It is.

They're going to, there's a plan anyway.

There's a notion to have a plan to get together with some people.

But it's got some money behind it.

It's got Stephen Hawking behind it.

It's got some Soviet or Russian philanthropist, Mark Zuckerberg.

It's going to take however many years to build the array of lasers they will need,

Earth-based lasers, to fire at a cluster of solar sail-powered chips and shoot them out of the solar system at Alba Centauri.

It's a good old-fashioned concept familiar to all science fiction readers and lovers out there.

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