Alien Crash Site
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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..
Alien Crash Site
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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 ..read more
Alien Crash Site
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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 ..read more
Alien Crash Site
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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 ..read more
Alien Crash Site
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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 ..read more
Alien Crash Site
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Alien Crash Site returns after that with an interview with SFI Post-Doc Natalie Grefenstette ..read more
Alien Crash Site
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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 - Heat ..read more
Alien Crash Site
2y ago
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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 ..read more
Alien Crash Site
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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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Alien Crash Site
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Ryan’s website
Ryan on Twitter
The Carrington Event
Parker Solar Probe
Mars MAVEN
Ushering in a New Frontier in Geospace through Data Science
Dictionary of Obscure sorrows
What is an Individual?
Jorge Luis Borges
“Talk on Indolence” by the Avett Brothers
"Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix ..read more
Alien Crash Site
2y ago
To learn more about the items discussed in this interview, click through the links below.
Ryan’s website
Ryan on Twitter
The Carrington Event
Parker Solar Probe
Mars MAVEN
Ushering in a New Frontier in Geospace through Data Science
Dictionary of Obscure sorrows
What is an Individual?
Jorge Luis Borges
“Talk on Indolence” by the Avett Brothers
"Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix ..read more