Tue. 09/07 - Mars Rocks, A Billionaire's Utopia, & The Free Blockbuster Movement

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Mars Perseverance Rover has secured its first rock sample, with big promise for insights to come. A billionaire is working on plans to build a new sustainable city “for the people” somewhere in America. And you may have heard of Little Free Libraries, but what about Little Free Blockbusters? Links: Mars rover grabs first rock sample, a major step in hunt for alien life (National Geographic) "I've got it!" (NASA’s Perseverance Rover, Twitter) NASA says the Mars Perseverance rover has collected its first sample (Engadget) Telosa: Marc Lore and Bjarke Ingels unveil plans for 5-million-person city in the American desert (CNN) How Diapers.com Founder Marc Lore Plans to Build Utopian City Telosa (Bloomberg) Telosa Forget Netflix, Some Movie Fans Rewind to VHS Tapes (Wall Street Journal) Free Blockbuster Is Bringing Back the Community Video Rental Hub (Thrillist) FreeBlockbuster.org Want A Free Dental Cleaning? Beat This Dentist At Smash Bros! (Neatorama) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We know, we know, music interruptions aren't fun.
0:03.4	But real quick, heard of Labara Mobile.
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0:27.7	Labara, the smarter mobile network.
0:35.8	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Tuesday, September 7th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:42.4	The Mars Perseverance Rover has secured its first rock sample with big promise for insights to come.
0:49.8	A billionaire is working on plans to build a new sustainable city for the people somewhere in America.
0:57.7	And you may have heard of Little Free Libraries, but what about Little Free Blockbusters?
1:04.4	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:10.1	Over the weekend, it was confirmed that the mars perseverance rover successfully retrieved the
1:16.1	first ever rock sample from mars NASA says that this and subsequent samples will be
1:21.6	quote the first set of scientifically identified and selected materials returned to our planet
1:27.0	from another."
1:28.3	End quote.
1:29.6	But don't get too excited just yet.
1:32.7	The samples won't return to Earth for quite a while.
1:36.0	Perseverance is currently holding the sample, hermetically sealed inside a sample tube,
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