The Unseen Podcast

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

 

The Unseen Podcast is released under the Creative Common Attribution/Share-Alike license

 

 

 

Recorded: 20 April 2018

Released: 21 April 2018

Duration: 88 minutes, 9 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr is joined by panelists Nick Nielsen and Sam Lichtenstein to talk about - well, just listen (or browse the links).

 

Links The Insight Podcast by Insitome   Homo Naledi   The Hand of Homo naledi Homo floresiensis   Indonesian divers have evolved bigger spleens to hunt underwater Weapon of mass destruction The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record? (official journal link) conservation lagerstätte Discoveries May Rewrite History of China's Terra-Cotta Warriors The Secret Tomb of China's 1st Emperor: Will We Ever See Inside?   The "Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project" New digital map reveals stunning hidden archaeology of Stonehenge   The 10,000 Year Clock 10,000 Year Clock  Atomic Priesthoods, Thorn Landscapes, and Munchian Pictograms: How to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to future civilizations Permanent Markers Implementation Plan   How the Baiju Sea Nomads Evolved for a Life of Diving   Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

The Unseen Podcast is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.

Recorded: 6 April 2018

Released: 7 April 2018

Duration: 91 minutes, 56 seconds

 

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.

 

Links   Future of Humanity Institute (exrisk think tank) Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom Nanotechnology: Armed resistance   Orthogonality Thesis The Paperclipper Gray Goo Controversial US scientist creates deadly new flu strain for pandemic research

Engineered Avian Flu Could Kill Half the World's Humans

  Asilomoar AI Principles NASA on Climate Change   Early climate action has big effect on rising sea levels     Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

Links: Nick Nielsen

Recorded: 16 February 2018

Released: 17 February 2018

Duration:  85 minutes, 8 seconds

Host Paul Carr welcomes special guest Chad Davies of the Scientific Odyssey podcast, and panelists Sam Lichtenstein and Patrick Festa, to talk about the history and philosophy of science. 

erratum: at the end, the host says it's the 16th of September. It was February.

Links:

the Scientific Odyssey Podcast:

Blog

On Facebook

On Apple Podcasts

On Stitcher

On player.fm

 

The Doom of Spacetime

 

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

The Unseen Podcast 

 

Recorded: 26 January 2018

Released: 27 January 2018

Duration: 104 minutes 39 seconds

 

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.

  Links

Fight for Space

First to the Moon Kickstarter

 

Eric S. Raymond on Google Plus

Linus Torvalds on Google Plus

Valentina Tereshkova

Who Was Sally Ride?

Christa McAluliffe

Apollo 8

Thomas Selfridge, first person to die in an airplane crash 

Blanche Scott  Stowaway to the Moon Schoolgirl sailor triumphs after battle with authorities Fight for Space Earthrise   The Overview Effect

 

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

 

 

 

 

Recorded: 19 January 2018

Released: 20 January 2018

Duration:126 minutes, 28 seconds

 

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.

 

Links:

The Drake Equation

Through the Lens of the Drake Equation

Claudio Maccone - The Statistical Drake Equation

David Jewitt - Oddball Visitor from Outer Space

Early trace of life from 3.95 Ga sedimentary rocks in Labrador, Canada

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Case for K Dwarf Stars

This Humpback Whale Saved a Woman's Life, But Probably Not on Purpose

Face to Face with a Leopard Seal

 

A Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracy

Oh, No Ross and Carrie

 

Credits: 

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Music: DJ Spooky

 

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.

See unseenpodcast.com for detailed show notes

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

 

The Unseen Podcast is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.

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