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Robots For Eyes Podcast

Sep 28, 2018

Werner von Braun was the mastermind behind the Nazi V2 Rocket program during WW2. He was technical director of a weapons lab near Peenemünde where thousand of Jewish people were worked to death. He and his team used the advanced weapon as a bargaining chip during Operation Paperclip after Nazi Germany fell. Once he was...


Sep 21, 2018

I was drunk. Rob was drunk. Mark was drunk. We got scared by the inevitable rise of AI and pondered how bleak the future is for the human race.We drank more beer. I said some shit about wasps..... Oh yeah, and domestic cats kill billions, that's BILLION'S of bird's every year. My cat killed a frog. Wanna know how much...


Sep 14, 2018

On 13 March 1996 Thomas Hamilton calmly walked into Dunblane Primary School armed with 4 handguns and approximately 1500 rounds of ammunition. He began shooting at 9.30am, By 9.33am , 1 teacher and 16 five year old children were brutally murdered. What caused this man to carry out Britain's worst massacre ? A truly...


Sep 9, 2018

Where are the Aliens ??? The Drake equation attempts to estimate the number of advance alien civilisations that exist in the milkyway galaxy. With current knowledge of exoplanets, revised estimations run into surprisingly high numbers. The Fermi paradox asks, if the universe is teeming with life, where is everyone ? Why...


Sep 1, 2018

On the 12 of August 2000, the Kursk, a Russian nuclear submarine was participating in a major naval exercise in the Barents Sea. It was targeting simulated enemy vessels with cruise missiles and torpedo's when a huge explosion destroyed the front section sinking it. 23 members of the 118 crew survived the blast and died...