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Alien Crash Site

By: Caitlin McShea
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  • A new InterPlanetary interview series from the Santa Fe Institute takes a page from the Strugatsky brothers' classic Soviet sci-fi novel, Roadside Picnic, to discuss a variety of transformative alien artifacts. Thirteen years ago, an alien civilization visited our planet, and left behind myriad, mysterious materials in their crash sites. These areas, Zones, behave very strangely, but the interplanetary items they contain could change the trajectory of our technological advancement. What appears as a hoop might actually be a perpetual-motion machine. What appears as a slime might alter space-time. Spend too much time in the Zone and your genes might mutate, your bones might dissolve, your body might be ground into meat. If you’re lucky enough to make it out alive, you’ll likely be imprisoned. But a successful trip in and out of the Zone could alter human history. Do you dare? And for what? Hosted by Caitlin McShea.
    Licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial License.
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Episodes
  • What can an asteroid tell us about our own Planet. #023 with Lindy Elkins-Tanton

    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

    #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

    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
Philosophy Social Sciences Science Fiction
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