Released: 18 August 2018

 

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Recorded: 27 July 2018

Released: 29 July 2018

Duration: 72 minutes, 2 seconds

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists David Grigg, Nick Nielsen, and Patrick Festa. The cosmic Lyft driver has pulled up to the curb. Where to next? Moon or Mars, and why? Why anything other than birth, copulation, and death? We get to decide.

 

Links: Liquid water spied deep below polar ice cap on Mars   Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars   NASA Office of Planetary Protection   With planetary protection office up for grabs, scientists rail against limits to Mars exploration   Found it! Ice on Mars   Why Can't we Remake the Rocketdyne F1 Engine?   Sputnik Crisis   Sputnik and the Origins of the SpaceAge   Into the Black Credits: 

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

Linkage: Nick Nielsen

 

 

Recorded: 25 May 2018

Released: 26 May 2018

Duration: 74 minutes, 17 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Sam Lichtenstein, Patrick Festa, and Nick Nielsen to talk about the evolution and extinction of human languages.  

 

Links:

 

List of Endangered Languages   Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (linguistic relativity)   Echoes from My Kodiak Alutiiq Ancestors   The state of the Welsh language: Number of people speaking Welsh fluently falls by 7,000 over the last decade   Revival of the Hebrew language   Who We Are: Europe   Future Strategist: Cochran History Of Europe   Infographic: A World of Languages     Recommendations:   Sam: A History of the Byzantine State and Society   Patrick: Kay Scarpetta Book Series   Nick: The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age   Paul: Desert Oracle Radio   Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

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Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Nick Nielsen and Sam Lichtenstein to talk about - well, just listen

Host Paul Carr welomes panelists Gita Jaisinghani, Sam Lichtenstein, Nick Nielsen and Adam Smith to take about a selection of Existential Risks.

Topics include: nanotechnology, pandemics, AI, and Climate Change. As usual, we let the discussion wander where it will go.

Physics professor and podcaster Chad Davies joins us for a wide-ranging discussion.

Host Paul Carr is joined by special guest panelist and documentary filmmaker Paul Hildebrandt,  director of The Fight for Space. Joining The two Pauls are Mike Mongo, Jon Eckberg, and Nick Nielsen. We talk about kids in space, and how it relates to Paul Hildebrandt's kickstarter for his film First to the Moon.

Host Paul Carr is joined by new panelist Jon Eckberg, and regulars Nick Nielsen, Buck Field, Mike Bohler and Patrick Festa to talk about how the discovery of the interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua affects the terms in the Drake Equation, if at all. As is typical for us, the discussion ranges wide, once again confirming the Drake Equation's role as an excellent mental lens.

 

Recorded: 5 January 2018

Released: 6 January 2018

Duration: 97 minutes, 44 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Adam Smith, Nick Nielsen, Patrick Festa, and Buck Field to talk about the human return to the moon. It seems to boil down to: yes,, but who's going to pay for it? Maybe the Chinese? Maybe American or Asian billionaires? Somehow this drifts into discussion of flat Earthers and joke cults.

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Erratum: the 2017 Federal Budget is 4.1 Trillion dollars.

  Links

Deep Space Gateway

Space Launch System

SpaceIL

Thiel: Google has $50B, doesn't innovate  or the longer version: 2012 - Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel - Debate

  Robert Zubrin - Mars Direct: Humans to the Red Planet within a Decade

"There is a tide in the affairs of men."

Lava tubes as hidden sites for future human habitats on the Moon and Mars

Lunar lava tube

5 Whys

Stalinist gigantism   The World at War  

Ross and Carrie Traverse Flat Earth

Ross and Carrie Go Raelian

Church of the Subgenius

Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

Hardware: Shure, ProArt, Focusrite, Apple, Audio Technica

Postproduction: Auphonic Desktop Application

Hosting: Libsyn

 

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Recorded: 8 December 2017

Released: 

Duration: 97 minutes, 32 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists Nick Nielsen, Sam Lichtenstein, and Patrick Festa to talk about the possible consequences of Active SETI, or METI. Of course, the discussion veers off into religion and just how tasty man flesh is.

 

Links:

Interview with METI.org president Douglas Vakoch

Pascal Boyer

John Romer: Testament

To Serve Man

  Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music; DJ Spooky