{"id":17780,"date":"2012-01-26T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T22:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=17780"},"modified":"2012-01-26T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T23:25:05","slug":"podcast-listens-shameless-plug-edition-blast-shields-down-episode-2-moon-hard-scifi-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/podcast-listens-shameless-plug-edition-blast-shields-down-episode-2-moon-hard-scifi-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Listens: Shameless Plug Edition: Blast Shields Down, Episode 2: MOON, Hard-SciFi at It&#8217;s Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hold on to your spacesuits, faithful listener. The Blasters get incredibly nerdy and philosophical on this one. <\/p>\n<p>Discussed in this episode: Mellow Sam vs Angry Sam, the future of energy, will robots become better liars than humans and why <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/C_Duncan\" class=\"external external_icon\">@C_Duncan<\/a> is wrong about his &#8220;improvements&#8221; to this hard science fiction classic.<\/p>\n<p>This episode has the distinction of being the most popular download in the Blast Shields Down series. Find out why.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blastshieldsdown.com\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BSD-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Who is Sam Bell.\" width=\"539\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BSD-moon.jpg 539w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/BSD-moon-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>HOST :<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/groonk\" class=\"external external_icon\">@Groonk<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b>LISTEN:<\/b> [powerpress]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Talk at us on:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/bsdpodcast\" class=\"external external_icon\">@bsdpodcast<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google+ <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/114189663589129878845\/posts\" class=\"external external_icon\">Greg MacGuffin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google+ Pages <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/b\/104203728187686334076\/104203728187686334076\/posts\" class=\"external external_icon\">Blast Shields Down<\/a><\/li>\n<li>iTunes <a href=\"itpc:\/\/blastshieldsdown.libsyn.com\/rss\" class=\"external external_icon\">Where you can be kind and rate us highly<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Our Web House <a href=\"http:\/\/blastshieldsdown.com\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">http:\/\/blastshieldsdown.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Official Trailer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WWoDBcSW4_c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hold on to your spacesuits, faithful listener. The Blasters get incredibly nerdy and philosophical on this one. Discussed in this episode: Mellow Sam vs Angry Sam, the future of energy, will robots become better liars than humans and why @C_Duncan is wrong about his &#8220;improvements&#8221; to this hard science fiction classic. This episode has the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,56,53,57],"tags":[4777,4931,1127,4802,1152,4801,4666,4778,4780,930,4779,65,985],"class_list":["post-17780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloning","category-movies","category-podcast","category-trailers","tag-blast-shields-down-film-review-society","tag-cloning","tag-duncan-jones","tag-gerty","tag-hard-science-fiction","tag-kevin-spacey","tag-podcast-2","tag-podcast-listens","tag-review","tag-sam-rockwell","tag-shameless-plug","tag-streamed-goodness","tag-tears-of-a-clone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17780"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17802,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions\/17802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}