The Unseen Podcast

Recorded: 2 December 2016

Released: 3 December 2016

Duration: 78 minutes, 47 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes back panelists Mateusz Macias, Marsha Barnhart, and Nick Nielsen for a discussion that begins with nanotechnology and branches out from there.

For the latest and best show notes for this episode, please visit unseenpodcast.com

 

Links:

Richard Feynman: Plenty of Room at the Bottom

Engines of Creation

  Recommendations:

 Marsha: Aeon Magazine

Nick: Impossibility

Mateusz: Astronomy's Finest

Paul: SETi Talks

 

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Panelists: Marsha Barnhart, Mateusz Macias, Nick Nielsen

Music: DJ Spooky

 

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

Recorded: 28 Ocotober 2016

Released: 29 October 2016

Duration: 94 minutes, 52 seconds

 

Jack Brewer, blogger and author of The Greys Have Been Framed - Exploitation in the UFO Community, joins host Paul Carr and panelists Marsha Barnhart, Ciro Villa, James Garrison and Roger and Wehbe to talk about a modern variation on things that go bump in the night - alien abductions, as made famous by Betty and Barney and Hill, Bud Hopkins, Whitley Strieber , John Mack, and David Jacobs.

There was a problem with Jack's connection to the YouTube hangout, and he had to re-enter the room several times. Since this is is an unedited podcast, you get to endure that right along with us, but Jack was remarkably persistent.

We also had problems with James' connection, and he had to kind of type in his comments.

Links:

The UFO Trail

Jack Brewer's book The Greys Have Been Framed

MK Ultra

Paratopia: The Emma Woods Tapes

Where you can SAFELY report a UFO experience

Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton

People of Earth

Jack Brewer On Podcast UFO

  Recommendations:

Marsha Barnhart: HBO's Westworld

James Garrison: Drunks and Dragons

Ciro Villa: Lightyear.fm

Roger Wehbe: Contact

Paul Carr: Adam Ruins Everything (TV shows + podcast)

  Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Special Guest: Jack Brewer

Panelists: Marsha Barnhart, Ciro Villa, James Garrison, Roger Wehbe

 

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

 

 

Recorded: 14 October 2016

Released: 15 October 2016

Duration:99 minutes, 40 seconds

 

Paul Carr and Adam Smith talk about what has happened in the year since the release of the preprint by Boyajian, et. al. describing a very strange "alien megastructure" star. We talk about the work done so far, the controversies, and where we hope things will go in the area future.

 

Links:

The Wow! Signal Podcast

Where's the Flux?

Planet Hunters

Jason Wright: What Could Be Going on with Boyajian's Star?

Ben Montet Makes a Star Weirder

The Most Mysterious Star in the Universe

Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, part 3

Almost Certainly Wrong

 

 

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Panelist: Adam Smith

Music: DJ Spooky

 

Recorded: 30 September 2016

Released: 1 October 2016

Duration:93 minutes, 39 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists Chris Prophet, Sam Lichtenstein, and Rober Wehbe to talk about the recent SpaceX announcement of a Mars colonization transportation architecture.  What are the risks, and who will pay for it? Why did they go with an all-chemical approach and no nuclear? Will NASA get on board with Space X?

We apologize for the glitches - these were caused by brief power interruptions in Maryland. Fortunately the team were resilient and we only had to edit a little bit of silence out.

We didn't do our usual recommendations this episode, but they'll be ack in Episode 63 in November.

 

Links

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Our Episode Plan

The Wow! Signal

 

Transatomic

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Panelists: Chris Prophet, Roger Wehbe, Sam Lichtenstein

Music: DJ Spooky

Electrical Power: PEPCO

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

 

Recorded: 16 September 2016

Released: 17 September 2016

Duration:

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists Roger Wehbe, Chris Prophet, David Grigg, and Nick Nielsen to talk about the very long stretches of time that reality evolves over vs. the the very local perception of time that we humans have. With a bigger concept of time, could we colonize the galaxy? Wht would we? Has someone else already done this, but left us out of the party?

 

Links:

XKCD: Global Temperatures

James Hutton

Globular Clusters as Cradles of Life and Advanced Civilizations

The Wilderness Hypothesis

Wow! Signal Burst 20 with Tabetha Boyajian

The Transcension Hypothesis

 

 

Recommendations:

David Grigg: The Hunt for Vulcan

Chris Prophet: Elon Musk at Upcoming Conference

Nick Nielsen: Series of Papers by Jay Olson on Aggressively Expanding Civlizations

Paul Carr: Voices from L5

 

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Panelists: Rober Wehbe, Chris Prophet, David Griff, and Nick Nielsen

Music: Dj Spooky

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Panelists: David Grigg, Roger Wehbe, Chris Prophet, and Nick Nielsen

Recorded: 2 September 2016

Released: 3 September 2016

Duration: 77 minutes, 12 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists Chris Prophet, Sam Lichtenstein, and James Garrison talk about what's real, what's commercializable, and what's not in nuclear fusion.  Then we turn our attention to the ostensiblly grave dangers of AI.

 

Links:

The Unseen Podcast Blog

 

The National Ignition Facility

Lawrencville Plasma Physics

Not Even Wrong - Fusion Energy at Lawrenecville Plasma Physics

RationalWiki: Fusion Woo

Eric Lerner: The Big Bang Never Happened

 

 

 

Recommendations:

Chris Prophet - Iain Banks

James Garrison - Scott Sigler Generations Trilogy

Sam Lichtenstein - Uluru in Austraila

Paul Carr - Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart: Bongo Fury

 

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Panelists: James Garrison, Chris Prophet, Sam Lichtenstein

Music: DJ Spooky

 

Recorded: 19 August 2016

Released: 23 August 2016

Duration:65 minutes

 

Host David Grigg welcomes Chris Prophet, Patrick Festa, and (eventually) Nick Nielsen to talk about the future of humanity.

 

Producer's Note: about 1 minute of content-free technical difficulty was edited out.

 

Links: Technologies of Life Extension Dyson Dots and Geoengineering   A Cost/Benefit Analysis of the End of Civilization as we Know It   Making Silent Stones Speak     Credits: Host: David Grigg Panelists: Chris Prophet, Patrick Festa, Nick Nielsen Producer: Paul Carr Music: DJ Spooky      

 

Recorded: 12 August 2016

Released: 13 August 2016

Duration: 86 minutes, 20 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr is joined by planetary scientist and science communicator Morgan Rehnberg. Our panel consists of Adam Smith, Marsha Barnhart, Chris Prophet, and Mateusz Macias. We talk about the weird rings and moon of Saturn and the search for life in the universe - on Mars, Enceladus, Europa, titan, and even Venus.

 

Links:

Morgan Rehnberg

Interview with Ben Montet

 

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Special Guest: Morgan Rehnberg

Panel: Adam Smith, Chris Prophet, Marsha Barnhart, and Mateusz Macias

Music: DJ Spooky

Recorded: 15 July 2016

Released: 16 July 2016

Duration:97 minutes

 

It's our Summer hiatus, so we just had a free from conversation hosted by Paul with Mike Mongo, Nick Nielsen, and Patrick Festa. James Garrison was with us in spirit.

 

Links:

George Clinton

Sun Ra

Bernie Worrell

Big Lebowski

Episode 54

Daniela De Paulis

Sarah Jane Pell

Nick Nielsen: The Spoor Of Civilizations

Astronaut instruction Manual

Natalie Cabrol's new paper on SETI

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Panelists: Mike Mongo, Nick Nielsen, Patrick Festa

Music: DJ Spooky

Recorded: 4 July 2016

Released: 4 July 2016

Duration: 74 minutes, 44 seconds

 

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists Adam Smith, Gita Jaisinghani, and Daniela De Paulis (our first completely non-American and majority female panel), to talk about the relationship between art and science, SETI, and METI.

• Encouragement to contribute to "Earthling's Quest" kickstarter.
• Daniela's work to unite art and science
• Confusion about art - should art be explained?
• Daniela has published papers about hert work.
• Visual Moonbounce
• STEM to STEAM
• Daniela's technical team
• METI and Breakthrough Messaging and the artist's role.
• METI as a human exercise
• Should we put our best foot forward in the ET message or tell the ugly truth?
• Is any advanced ET highly evolved? Do they have a violent past?
• DO we know that alien consciousness would be like ours?
• Advanced civilizations likely to be long lived.
• Is ET leaving us alone for a good reason?
• The terms in the Drake Equation and the fourth term in particular
• Martian life?
• Communicating with technological ET - is there a universal?
• Technological progress not correlated with language complexity
• Consciousness and SETI do we need to understand consciousness better?
• Past human conceptual revolutions
• Philosophers plugged into science and vice versa?
• Morality and science - are there questions science shouldn't ask?
• Resistance to science in the US
• The evolution of scientific ethics in recent generations
• The importance of ethics
• Human sex differences should be researched?
• There will always be ethics "cheaters."
• Wrapup
• Recruiting, nagging, promoting
• Goodbye

 

  Links:

Daniela De Paulis

The Earthling's Quest Kickstarter

METI International

The Pioneer Plaque

The Drake Arecibo Message

Carrie Peterson

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Drake Equation

Shadow Biosphere

Wights on Game of Thrones

The Tuskeegee Syphilis Study

  Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Panelists: Adam Smith, Gita Jaisinghani, Daniela De Paulis

Music: DJ Spooky

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Software: Loopback, Reaper, OS X Yosemite

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