Alien Crash Site – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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

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

Learn more about the items discussed in this conversation by clicking on the links below.

The paper discussed: "Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry"

• "Scientists develop new molecular tool to detect alien life" - news article
• "Chemists design alien life detector" - news article

The essay discussed: ($$ paywall) "Art as a Product of Nature, as a work of Art" by Paul K. Feyerabend

Dragon's Egg, by Robert Forward

Related: 

Atlantis's first dispatch on the "Great Phosphine Freakout" of September 2020

Sara Walker and Lee Cronin on the "meaning" of life, as part of 2020 conversation series called "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life."

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

• Natalie Elliot’s Homepage
• Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of Lock”
• Shakespeare’s
  • Julius Caesar
  • Hamlet
  • Romeo and Juliet
• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Tycho Brahe
• Aristophanes’s
  • Clouds
  • Birds
• Fermilab Bison
• Antikythera Mechanism
• “Origin Story” for Aeon
• And two recently published papers on universal life detection that we are WAY TOO EXCITED about:
  • Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
  • Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry

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

InterPlanetary 2018 - Planetary Policy, Law & Regulation Panel

Earth Juijitsu

Environment Now

Ecuador’s recognition of Pachamama

Slavoj Zizek

Santa Monica’s sustainability ordinance, protecting the aquifers

Brown v. Board of Education

US Space Act (1958)

Outer Space Treaty (1966)

Moon Agreement (1979)

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Honeybee Capital

Ever-Widening Circles, by Rilke

Zero sum game

Tom Seeley's work on honeybees

Suzanne Simard's work about tree communication networks

Geoffrey West's lecture on Scaling

I Dream a Highway - Gillian Welch

Ode to Joy - Beethoven

Final scene of Stalker

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Van’s homepage

UCLA-led team of scientists discovers why we need sleep

Watch Van on the “Time Design” Panel from #IPFest2018

Ted Chiang’s Seventy-Two Letters

Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem

“You’re So Cool” by Hans Zimmer

“Don’t Look Back in Anger” by Oasis

“Welcome to the Jungle” and “You Could Be Mine”

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Michael’s webpage

Lauren Ancel Meyers

Carl Bergstrom’s Calling Bullshit

Michael’s work on the Neandertal genome

Information’s impact on fitness

Michael, Sara Walker, Chris Kempes and Lee Cronin, herein the #OriginsOfLifeLeague

Life ≠ Alive

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Philosophy of Werner Herzog

Adam and Eve

Kant’s aesthetics

Oedipus Rex

Pandora Myth

Beatrice Han-Pile

Diego Velázquéz’s Las Meninas

Rothko’s Tate Collection

 Tamara’s Website, Google Scholar Page & Twitter
• InterPlanetary Festival Website
• Alien Crash Site Podcast

• In 72 hours of sci-fi, postdocs transmit parental model of alien civilization [video]
• Greetings from a Triparental Planet 72 Hours of Science Pre-Printby Gizem Bacaksizlar, Stefani Crabtree, Joshua Garland, Natalie Grefenstette, Albert Kao, David Kinney, Artemy Kolchinsky, Tyler Marghetis, Michael Price, Maria Riolo, Hajime Shimao, Ashley Teufel, Tamara van der Does, and Vicky Chuqiao Yang
• Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution by Jaeweon Shin, Michael Holton Price, David H. Wolpert, Hajime Shimao, Brendan Tracey, and Timothy A. Kohler
• SFI’s VP for Science Jennifer Dunne Remembers Ecologist Bob May

• Complexity Podcast

• IPFest 2019 Worldbuilding Panel with Rebecca Roanhorse, Ty Franck, Daniel Abraham, Michael Drout, and Cris Moore
• Anathem by former SFI Miller Scholar Neal Stephenson
• Dark Integers by Greg Egan
• Aliens comic series by Dark Horse