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	Pub. Date	Title	Duration
	01 Oct 2021	How does size shape our understanding of and search for life? #020 with Chris Kempes	00:48:56
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.
	18 Mar 2021	#009 with Tony Eagan	00:54:15
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: Philosophy of Werner Herzog Adam and Eve Kant’s aesthetics Oedipus Rex Pandora Myth Beatrice Han-Pile Diego Velázquéz’s Las Meninas Rothko’s Tate Collection
	21 Jan 2021	#005 with Armin Ellis	00:52:56
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: 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...
	24 Jun 2021	#015 with Cole Mathis	01:08:56
Learn more about the items discussed in this conversation by clicking on the links below. The paper discussed: "Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry" "Scientists develop new molecular tool to detect alien life" - news article "Chemists design alien life detector" - news article The essay discussed: ($$ paywall) "Art as a Product of Nature, as a work of Art" by Paul K. Feyerabend Dragon's Egg, by Robert Forward Related: Atlantis's first dispatch on the "Great Phosphine Freakout" of September 2020 Sara Walker and Lee Cronin on the "meaning" of life, as part of 2020 conversation series called "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life."
	18 Feb 2021	#007 with Nina Lanza	00:54:12
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: Theme song, "Stalker" by Tortilla The “Living in Space” InterPlanetary Panel from IP Fest 2018 ChemCam and SuperCam Recap of Nina’s time in Antartica Bradbury Museum panel of LANL scientists discussing Today’s Perseverance landing Joerael Numina’s art (The image of the Curiosity Rover behind me is one example of his work)
	10 Jun 2021	#014 with Natalie Elliot	00:50:11
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:Herschel Moon History Natalie Elliot’s Homepage Alexander Pope’s “The Rape of Lock” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Claudius Ptolemy Nicolaus Copernicus Tycho Brahe Aristophanes’s Clouds Birds Fermilab Bison Antikythera Mechanism “Origin Story” for Aeon And two recently published papers on universal life detection that we are WAY TOO EXCITED about: Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry
	04 Feb 2021	#006 with Sasha Samochina	00:52:09
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: Sasha’s website and work Sasha on “Visualization and Designing the Impossible” IPFest 2018 Panel Sasha at IPFest, on open-source space data Jet Propulsion Lab’s page of downloadable 360 and VR/AR videos Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History VITAL Ventilators Virtual tour of the Jet Propulsion Lab Kin Dza Dza
	18 Nov 2020	#002 with Kate Greene	01:06:47
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: 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.”
	03 Sep 2021	What to look for, when we don't know what we're looking for? #019 with Heather Graham	00:54:28
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: Identifying Molecules as Biosignatures with Assembly Theory and Mass Spectrometry. Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications. Time Team Elemental Cycles DNA has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth Bennu Hayabusa Mission Alien Crash Site Episode 015, with Cole Mathis on Assembly Theory. Determination of Azimuth Atlantis Dispatch 001, in which we contemplate the meaning of “past” life. Viking missions 84001 Isua Bob Hazen
	23 Aug 2021	What Governance Structure Best Suits an InterPlanetary Humanity?" #018 with Timiebi Aganaba	01:00:45
Learn more about things discussed in this episode, by clicking on the links below: Timiebi Aganaba's home page And LinkedIn And Twitter Global Space Treaty Artemis Accords Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University's InterPlanetary Project And the Psyche Mission The Court Case: Viasat, Inc (Appellant) Vs. Federal Communications Commission (Appellee) re: Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (Movant-Intervenor).
	28 Oct 2021	What are the best strategies for finding life in space? #021 with Natalie Grefenstette?	01:03:34
To learn more about items mentioned in this podcast: Natalie's homepage Co-Ordination: On Time Between Worlds - An InterPlanetary Panel discussion on Complex Time Chris Kempes's Alien Crash Site Interview on life detection "Towards a more universal life detection strategy" as submitted to the Planetary and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Arrival Ted Chiang's "The Story of Your Life" Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
	07 Dec 2021	#022 - Crossover episode with Complexity Pod: Gary Bengier	01:00:53
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
	28 May 2021	#013 with Linda Sheehan	00:50:59
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: InterPlanetary 2018 - Planetary Policy, Law & Regulation Panel Earth Juijitsu Environment Now Ecuador’s recognition of Pachamama Slavoj Zizek Santa Monica’s sustainability ordinance, protecting the aquifers Brown v. Board of Education US Space Act (1958) Outer Space Treaty (1966) Moon Agreement (1979)
	24 Dec 2021	What can an asteroid tell us about our own Planet. #023 with Lindy Elkins-Tanton	00:55:09
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
	09 Jul 2021	How Do Artifacts Inform Cultural Evolution? #016 with Vanessa Ferdinand	00:49:19
For more information on items mentioned in this interview, click through the links below. Vanessa’s Website InterPlanetary 2018 Festival panel "Intelligent Systems and Cognitive Assistance" featuring Vanessa, David Krakauer, Jonah Nolan, Graham Spencer & Kurt Squire. Dan Sperber Norman Rockwell's painting "The Gossips" Giant dragonfly - Meganeura Alien Crash Site interview with Tamara van der Does Dune witches Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan Jil Jilala Nass El Ghiwane
	18 Nov 2021	Co-Ordination: On Time Between Worlds - an InterPlanetary panel on Complex Time	01:28:11
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: 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
	04 Nov 2020	#001 with Ashton Eaton	00:54:57
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: 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)
	06 Aug 2021	What lies in the space between? #017 with Aerospace Engineer Ryan McGranaghan	00:55:22
To learn more about the items discussed in this interview, click through the links below. Ryan’s website Ryan on Twitter The Carrington Event Parker Solar Probe Mars MAVEN Ushering in a New Frontier in Geospace through Data Science Dictionary of Obscure sorrows What is an Individual? Jorge Luis Borges “Talk on Indolence” by the Avett Brothers "Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix
	12 Oct 2020	#000 with David Krakauer	00:50:29
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.
	16 Oct 2021	Special Announcement - InterPlanetary Panel on Complex Time	00:03:50
For more information, visit this link and register FOR FREE. Alien Crash Site returns after that with an interview with SFI Post-Doc Natalie Grefenstette.
	29 Apr 2021	#011 with Van Savage	00:48:11
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: Van’s homepage UCLA-led team of scientists discovers why we need sleep Watch Van on the “Time Design” Panel from #IPFest2018 Ted Chiang’s Seventy-Two Letters Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem “You’re So Cool” by Hans Zimmer “Don’t Look Back in Anger” by Oasis “Welcome to the Jungle” and “You Could Be Mine”
	13 May 2021	#012 with Katherine Collins	00:45:09
Learn more about the things we discuss in this episode by clicking through the links below: Honeybee Capital Ever-Widening Circles, by Rilke Zero sum game Tom Seeley's work on honeybees Suzanne Simard's work about tree communication networks Geoffrey West's lecture on Scaling I Dream a Highway - Gillian Welch Ode to Joy - Beethoven Final scene of Stalker
	02 Dec 2020	#003 with Frank Lantz	01:03:07
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: 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
	04 Mar 2021	#008 with Tamara van der Does	00:54:05
Tamara’s Website, Google Scholar Page & Twitter • InterPlanetary Festival Website • Alien Crash Site Podcast • In 72 hours of sci-fi, postdocs transmit parental model of alien civilization [video] • Greetings from a Triparental Planet 72 Hours of Science Pre-Printby Gizem Bacaksizlar, Stefani Crabtree, Joshua Garland, Natalie Grefenstette, Albert Kao, David Kinney, Artemy Kolchinsky, Tyler Marghetis, Michael Price, Maria Riolo, Hajime Shimao, Ashley Teufel, Tamara van der Does, and Vicky Chuqiao Yang • Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution by Jaeweon Shin, Michael Holton Price, David H. Wolpert, Hajime Shimao, Brendan Tracey, and Timothy A. Kohler • SFI’s VP for Science Jennifer Dunne Remembers Ecologist Bob May • Complexity Podcast • IPFest 2019 Worldbuilding Panel with Rebecca Roanhorse, Ty Franck, Daniel Abraham, Michael Drout, and Cris Moore • Anathem by former SFI Miller Scholar Neal Stephenson • Dark Integers by Greg Egan • Aliens comic series by Dark Horse
	01 Apr 2021	#010 with Michael Lachmann	00:59:43
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: Michael’s webpage Lauren Ancel Meyers Carl Bergstrom’s Calling Bullshit Michael’s work on the Neandertal genome Information’s impact on fitness Michael, Sara Walker, Chris Kempes and Lee Cronin, herein the #OriginsOfLifeLeague Life ≠ Alive
	30 Dec 2020	#004 with David Stout	00:59:51
Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below: 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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