Episodes

  • What can an asteroid tell us about our own Planet. #023 with Lindy Elkins-Tanton
    Dec 24 2021

    Learn more about what was discussed in this Alien Crash Site episode by clicking through the links below:

    • Lindy’s homepage
    • Psyche Mission
    • ASU's InterPlanetary Initiative
    • Vesta
    • Kleopatra
    • Maxar
    • Henry Stone at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    • Voyager Mission - Gravity Assist
    • Lucy Mission
    • DART Mission
    • Psyche Inspired
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    55 mins
  • #022 - Crossover episode with Complexity Pod: Gary Bengier
    Dec 7 2021

    Learn more about what was discussed in this episode by clicking on the links below:

    • Gary’s homepage.
    • Unfettered journey
    • Dan Dennett
    • Eugene Wigner
    • Michael's Complexity Podcast interview with David Kinney
    • 2019 IPFest World Building panel discussion
    • Geoffrey West’s Scale
    • Hanson's Age of Em
    • SFI Symposium AI and the Barrier of Meaning
    • ACtioN Climate Change seminar - Complexity of Sustainability
    • Peter Turchin
    • Bob May's 1972 paper: "Will a Large Complex System be Stable?"
    • Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
    • Paul Smaldino's work on covert signaling
    • Peter Watt’s Blindsight
    • Asimov’s Foundation trilogy
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Co-Ordination: On Time Between Worlds - an InterPlanetary panel on Complex Time
    Nov 18 2021

    Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

    New School Policy and Design for Outer Space

    SFI’s InterPlanetary Project

    Aging, Adaptation, and the Arrow of Time - A James S. McDonnell Foundation funded research track on Complex Time

    Complex Time video playlist

    InterPlanetary 2019 panel on Complex Time, featuring Sean Carroll

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • What are the best strategies for finding life in space? #021 with Natalie Grefenstette?
    Oct 28 2021

    To learn more about items mentioned in this podcast:

    • Natalie's homepage
    • Co-Ordination: On Time Between Worlds - An InterPlanetary Panel discussion on Complex Time
    • Chris Kempes's Alien Crash Site Interview on life detection
    • "Towards a more universal life detection strategy" as submitted to the Planetary and Astrobiology Decadal Survey
    • Arrival
      • Ted Chiang's "The Story of Your Life"
    • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Special Announcement - InterPlanetary Panel on Complex Time
    Oct 16 2021

    For more information, visit this link and register FOR FREE. 

    Alien Crash Site returns after that with an interview with SFI Post-Doc Natalie Grefenstette.

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    4 mins
  • How does size shape our understanding of and search for life? #020 with Chris Kempes
    Oct 1 2021

     

    • Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
    • Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
      • Watch Chris Kempes and David Krakauer discuss multiple life in episode 2 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"
      • Watch Sara Walker's critique of Multiple Life in episode 4 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"
    • Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants, by West, Enquist, Brown and Charnov.
      • A related lecture by Geoffrey West
    • Atlantis Dispatch 009, in which we contemplate cultural origins...
    • Past related ACS episodes - Heather Graham and Cole Mathis on what Chris calls “Chemical Complexity.”
      • Their co-authored paper, Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry.
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    49 mins
  • What to look for, when we don't know what we're looking for? #019 with Heather Graham
    Sep 3 2021

    Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

    • Identifying Molecules as Biosignatures with Assembly Theory and Mass Spectrometry.
    • Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications.
    • Time Team
    • Elemental Cycles
    • DNA has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth
    • Bennu
    • Hayabusa Mission
    • Alien Crash Site Episode 015, with Cole Mathis on Assembly Theory.
    • Determination of Azimuth
    • Atlantis Dispatch 001, in which we contemplate the meaning of “past” life.
    • Viking missions
    • 84001
    • Isua
    • Bob Hazen
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    54 mins
  • What Governance Structure Best Suits an InterPlanetary Humanity?" #018 with Timiebi Aganaba
    Aug 23 2021

    Learn more about things discussed in this episode, by clicking on the links below: 

    • Timiebi Aganaba's home page
      • And LinkedIn
      • And Twitter
    • Global Space Treaty
    • Artemis Accords
    • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
    • Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University's InterPlanetary Project
      • And the Psyche Mission
    • The Court Case: Viasat, Inc (Appellant) Vs. Federal Communications Commission (Appellee) re: Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (Movant-Intervenor).

     

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    1 hr and 1 min