On this episode, the governor of WV has tested positive for Covid, yet we trudge forward. A new company is bringing jobs to WV, but is the state being used as a bargaining chip as the governor pays down his outstanding debts? Scientists are casually discussing the idea of momentarily using 1/10 of the US power grid's capacity to fire a laser array that would launch microscopic organisms to the other side of the solar system to see if they can speed up the development of interstellar travel. Yes, really.
