2024.10.11: Our Tony Stark Era

Burnie and Ashley discuss robots, self-driving, zombie mushrooms, the Waffle House Index, Whataburger, Tesla Robotaxis, swearing vacuums, backyard scientists, Joe Penna, OG YouTubers, video slugging averages, breathable atmospheres, and NASA sci-fi tech.
  
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We, Robot

• Tesla Cybercab announced: Elon Musk’s robotaxi is finally here – The Verge
• Tesla’s Optimus bot makes a scene at the robotaxi event (msn.com)
• Tesla’s Robovan is the surprise of the night – The Verge
• Waymo is expanding, but driverless cars still weird people out : NPR
• Optimus (robot) – Wikipedia

Hack The Robot!

• Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple cities, yell racial slurs – ABC News
• The Roomba That Screams When it Bumps Into Stuff (youtube.com)

Fast Food Index

• How Waffle House helps Southerners — and FEMA — judge a storm’s severity (msn.com)
• Texans using Whataburger app as power outage map after Beryl knocks out electricity for millions | KXAN Austin
• RT Life – The Last of Us (youtube.com)
• Whataburger cup in Resident Evil 7? : r/gaming (reddit.com)

Human Terrarium

• How much ALGAE do you need to breathe? TESTED (youtube.com)
• Stowaway (2021) – IMDb
• Stowaway | Official Trailer | Netflix (youtube.com)
• This is the actual hack that saved the astronauts of the Apollo XIII (gizmodo.com)
• How Do CO2 Scrubbers Work? | Atlas Scientific (atlas-scientific.com)