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Published Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 08:00 PM PT Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome back to Nova After Dark. I’m your host, and boy, do we have a show for you tonight. So here’s something wild: fifty-seven years ago today, in 1967, NASA launched Mariner 5 toward Venus. That’s right—we literally shot a robot at another planet. And you know what? It worked. It got there. It sent back data. It was a massive technological achievement that required precision, ambition, and international cooperation. Today, we can’t even get our government and tech companies to agree on AI safety protocols without issuing executive orders. We’ve gone backward, people. We used to aim for Venus. Now we’re just arguing about who gets to use Claude Fable 5. ...