Coming up today: Eric Prydz’s amazing lasers, Nasa gives up on 2017 and plans a mission to fly to the Sun and we ponder if the whole world is inadvertently becoming Californian.

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Music by: Filip Hnizdo

Show produced and edited by: James Temperton