I’d heard lava tubes pitched as one of the more straightforward ways of building a moon base, fascinating to learn that this would actually be a return to form for human dwellings.

Humans: we just like living in lava tubes.

If anyone wants to do some play-money betting on who wins, I’ve got a prediction market here.

I thought it was a nice first episode, watching Sophie try to hop across a lake was a highlight.

Did anyone else think that Gary was going to turn out to be the scarecrow and the boat gorilla would be a deliberate bluff?

You can’t afford it now. This tech is going to be something people can do in their sheds within a decade.

This is insane. Right now I’m reading The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman (formerly of DeepMind) and I’d been a bit concerned that he was all hype, but giving humanity a 45-fold increase in materials we know about? That’s enormous. The future is going to be a crazy place.

I set up a play-money prediction market on whether this would happen, and it doesn’t look like many people have faith in Musk to pull this one off.

I swear I cannot decide if Lucy Beaumont is actually a comedian or if she’s had head trauma and someone incredibly cruel is giving her out for us to laugh at. I can’t think of any comedian I’ve ever felt more like saying “are you alright, love?” to.

In the last task Julian was prodding her to actually pretend to hold the pineapple behind her terser.

You are aware of the British slang word “muffed”, right?

I hope Superkins continues to call Alex a shit, it made me laugh every single time. Great episode all round.