This week Frank Lantz – game designer, director of NYU’s Game Center, founder of Area/Code Games and the soon to be launched Hello Planet – joins us to talk about the role of art for progress (or contra-progress!), the possibility space of limitation, metarationality, and a mysterious Zone-find of his own, which he actually possesses…

This week Kate Greene – scientist, science-writer, poet, essayist and crew member of the original HI SEAS Mission, a NASA funded Mars Simulation – joins us to talk about life on Mars, and what she’d hope to uncover from a Zone on Earth.

This week we speak with world-record holding, back-to-back Olympic Gold Medalist for decathlon, engineer and friend, Ashton Eaton about his hopes for the Zone. Information on texts referenced can be found below:

SFI President, David Krakauer, considers the producers of an object, the receivers of said object, and the qualities of the object itself in this first episode of Alien Crash Site...a sci-fi technology pod that pushes people out of their comfort Zones, and into Alien Crash Site Zones, in pursuit of a truly transformative object.