Alien Crash Site

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Exploration Institute

Ocean Planet

What Armin on the 2018 InterPlanetary Festival Panel “The End of the World?” with Annalee Newitz, and Lauren Oliver.

Read Armin’s introduction to that ^ panel in IP Transmissions Volume One: Genesis

Read up on Star Trek, if you’re unfamiliar for some reason...

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Visit David’s new website

Learn more about SFI’s recent Complexity and Structure of Music Workshop.

Watch the 2018 InterPlanetary Festival Panel, Autonomous Ecosystems, where David (and past guest, Kate Greene) contributes to the conversation.

Listen to some of David’s Sonic work.

Watch David’s Hypnomancy performance from the 2020 Currents New Media festival.

Aucourant Records.

Ardy SixKiller Clarke.

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2019 InterPlanetary Festival’s “Game Design Panel,” moderated by Frank

InterPlanetary Transmissions. Volume 2: Stardust, featuring an introduction to the Game Design panel by Frank

NYU Game Center

Claude Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.”

Alien Crash Site interviews with GPT-3

Frank’s Universal Paperclips

David Chapman

Marcel Duchamp

Caitlin’s favorite Jonathan Richman performance

Monday begins on Saturday by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Hard to Be a God also by the Strugatsky Brothers

Stanislaw Lem

Philip K. Dick

J.G. Ballard

SCP Wiki

Antimemetics

qntm

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Kate’s new book of essays, Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars.

The 2017 InterPlanetary Panel, which launched the project.

The 2018 InterPlanetary Festival Panel, “Autonomous Ecosystems.”

All About Eggs, published by Lucky Peach.

“Ova Easy” egg crystals, for your solo-Sunday omelettes.

“The Aleph” by Jorge Borges

Rocannon’s World by Ursula Le Guin.

“Hey, Elon Musk, What about Toilet Paper on Mars?” by Eric Mack.

New Yorker article, “Roommates on Mars,” which outlines the “Nutella Incident.”

Endurance.

“King Arthur Flour’s Baking Hotline Has Never Been Busier — and the Questions Are Getting Personal.”

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Ashton’s 2018 InterPlanetary Festival Appearance, “Living in Space”

Ashton’s 2019 InterPlanetary Festival Appearance, “Zen and the Art of Space Exploration”

Sam Harris podcast interview with David Krakauer

General Systems Theory - Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Limits to Human Performance Research at the Santa Fe Institute

Ursula LeGuin’s Rocannon’s World (pdf)

Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game

Arrival (trailer)

Contact (trailer)

SFI President David Krakauer joins Caitlin McShea to consider 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.