Unusual Encounters #1

Published: April 24, 2017, 4:45 a.m.

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On this episode of Expanded Perspectives the guys start the show off talking about how\\xa0it looks like something out of \\u201cStar Wars\\u201d or \\u201cTerminator\\u201d: an actual robot capable of walking and shooting guns with both hands.\\xa0It\\u2019s called FEDOR (stands for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) and it can now fire guns with both hands.\\xa0Terrifying, right? Well, Dmitry Rogozin, Russia\\u2019s deputy prime minister and the deputy head of the country\\u2019s military-industrial commission, insisted on Twitter that the project is about artificial intelligence and not creating a Terminator. Then,\\xa0as it turns out, some of the best cooks in the world think lion fish, a venomous predatory fish which is breeding out of control and destroying marine ecosystems in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, is delicious.\\xa0The chefs gathered in Bermuda on Wednesday for a competition dubbed the "Lionfish Throwdown" where they challenged one another to come up with the tastiest solution to the problem of invasive lion fish. A man named Colin\\xa0Angle, who recently founded Robots In Service of the Environment (RSE), a nonprofit organization set up to protect the oceans, built a machine named the Guardian specifically designed to hunt and capture lionfish.

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Then, Lon Strickler over at Phantoms and Monsters recently posted a very strange and unusual sighting! Then,\\xa0The Loch Ness Monster has been \'declared missing\' by its official recorder admitting he is \'worried\' that there has been no sightings of her for eight months. After the break Kyle and Cam report on some listener stories originally submitted for the show titled Unusual Encounters. All this an more on this weeks installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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  • Pretty Lights vs. Led Zeppelin
  • My Only Hope
  • Aimin At Your Head
  • Finally Moving
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