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On episode 215 of This Week in Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Susan Carlin spoke with bestselling science-fiction/science-fact author Dr. David Brin.
If you’ve seen “Revelation Day” or “The Age of Revelation,” you may want to join us for this fascinating discussion. Long known for his universe-spanning perspective, storytelling skills, and sometimes contradictory viewpoints, Dr. Brin will not disappoint! Our discussion ranged from reactions to Spielberg’s “Revelation Day” to why people trust AI and much more.
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Rod Pyle is an author, journalist, television producer and editor-in-chief ad Astra magazine. He has written 18 books including space history, exploration and development space 2.0, Innovation on NASA’s way, interplanetary robot, blueprint for battlestar, amazing stories of the space age, first on the moonAnd destination mars
In a previous life, Rod made numerous documentaries and short films for The History Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He also worked on visual effects Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and this battlestar galactica reboot, as well as various sci-fi TV pilots. His most recent TV credit was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic book right stuff.
Responsible for Space.com’s editorial approach, Tariq Malik has been Space.com’s editor-in-chief since 2019 and has covered space news and science for 18 years. He joined the Space.com team in 2001, first as an intern and soon after as a full-time spaceflight reporter covering human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night sky. He became managing editor of Space.com in 2009. As an on-air talent he has presented space stories on CNN, Fox News, NPR and others.
Tarik is an Eagle Scout (yes, he’s earned the Space Exploration Merit Badge), a space camp veteran (4 times as a kid, once as an adult), and has ridden the ultimate “vomit comet” while reporting on a zero-gravity fire. Before joining Space.com, he served as a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering the city and education beats. He has journalism degrees from the University of Southern California and New York University.