56 episodes

Spaced Out is a weekly podcast focused on the wonderful world of science fiction! From video games to robotics, GMO's to asteroid landers, this podcast covers all of today's top science headlines. Interviews with sci-fi professionals more your thing? Spaced Out covers that too!

Spaced Out with Lisa Caskey Lisa Caskey

    • Science
    • 4.0 • 4 Ratings

Spaced Out is a weekly podcast focused on the wonderful world of science fiction! From video games to robotics, GMO's to asteroid landers, this podcast covers all of today's top science headlines. Interviews with sci-fi professionals more your thing? Spaced Out covers that too!

    Episode 53: Supervolcanos, Hyperloops, and Whale Sharks, Oh My!

    Episode 53: Supervolcanos, Hyperloops, and Whale Sharks, Oh My!

    Back after a brief hiatus!
    In episode 53, Lisa and Justin talk about the predictability of Supervolcanoes, the probability of Hyperloops hitting the States any time soon, and the 40,000 miles Whale Sharks travel. 

     
     

    • 15 min
    Episode 53: Meet Melissa Koberlein, YA Author

    Episode 53: Meet Melissa Koberlein, YA Author

    In Episode 53, Lisa broadcasts LIVE from the Tucson Festival of Books! She interviews fellow YA author, Melissa Koberlein, her festival "boothmate." Check it out!!

    • 4 min
    Episode 52: TV Review - ALTERED CARBON

    Episode 52: TV Review - ALTERED CARBON

    In episode 52, Lisa and Justin review the new Netflix original series, Altered Carbon. 
     
     

    • 26 min
    Episode 51: Lisa and Justin React to the Live SpaceX Heavy Falcon Launch!

    Episode 51: Lisa and Justin React to the Live SpaceX Heavy Falcon Launch!

    In episode 51, Lisa and Justin react to the live SpaceX Heavy Falcon launch. 

    (This is a posted recording of a Facebook Live video.)

    • 17 min
    Episode 50: The Halftime Show, Smelly, Air-Polluting Soil, and the SpaceX Launch

    Episode 50: The Halftime Show, Smelly, Air-Polluting Soil, and the SpaceX Launch

    It's episode 50! Lisa and Justin discuss the Halftime Show, the upcoming SpaceX Heavy Falcon launch, soil so rich with nitrogens it's polluting the air, and the likelihood of atmospheres on two of the recently discovered planets in the Trappist system. 

    • 35 min
    Episode 49: The Super Blue Blood Moon, WiFi Radiation on Living Cells, and the Healing Powers of Tilapia

    Episode 49: The Super Blue Blood Moon, WiFi Radiation on Living Cells, and the Healing Powers of Tilapia

    In episode 49 of the Spaced Out podcast, Lisa and Justin chat about the Super Blue Blood Moon on Jan 31st, the effect of wifi radiation on living cells (spoiler alert: it isn't good), and using sterilized Tilapia skin to heal third-degree burns on rescued black bears in California.

    • 22 min

Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5
4 Ratings

4 Ratings

Jo Angi ,

Entertaining Informative

Topics still relevant easy to listen to Enjoyable

RCC1984 ,

Interesting, informative and so much FUN!

I'm not even a true sci-fi"er" and this podcast has me googling about things I never knew even interested me! Lisa is just as knowledgeable about this stuff as she is entertaining and fun to listen to. Definitely subscribing and adding this podcast to my weekly line-up!

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