Alien Crash Site

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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.”

Learn more about what was discussed in this Alien Crash Site episode by clicking through the links below:

• Lindy’s homepage
• Psyche Mission
• ASU's InterPlanetary Initiative
• Vesta
• Kleopatra
• Maxar
• Henry Stone at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Voyager Mission - Gravity Assist
• Lucy Mission
• DART Mission
• Psyche Inspired

Learn more about what was discussed in this episode by clicking on the links below:

• Gary’s homepage.
• Unfettered journey
• Dan Dennett
• Eugene Wigner
• Michael's Complexity Podcast interview with David Kinney
• 2019 IPFest World Building panel discussion
• Geoffrey West’s Scale
• Hanson's Age of Em
• SFI Symposium AI and the Barrier of Meaning
• ACtioN Climate Change seminar - Complexity of Sustainability
• Peter Turchin
• Bob May's 1972 paper: "Will a Large Complex System be Stable?"
• Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
• Paul Smaldino's work on covert signaling
• Peter Watt’s Blindsight
• Asimov’s Foundation trilogy

• Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
• Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
  • Watch Chris Kempes and David Krakauer discuss multiple life in episode 2 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"
  • Watch Sara Walker's critique of Multiple Life in episode 4 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"
• Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants, by West, Enquist, Brown and Charnov.
  • A related lecture by Geoffrey West
• Atlantis Dispatch 009, in which we contemplate cultural origins...
• Past related ACS episodes - Heather Graham and Cole Mathis on what Chris calls “Chemical Complexity.”
  • Their co-authored paper, Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry.

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New School Policy and Design for Outer Space

SFI’s InterPlanetary Project

Aging, Adaptation, and the Arrow of Time - A James S. McDonnell Foundation funded research track on Complex Time

Complex Time video playlist

InterPlanetary 2019 panel on Complex Time, featuring Sean Carroll