The pandemic has forced my friends at Rural Grit Happy Hour back in Kansas City to move their weekly open mic session online. It's sad that they can't meet in person, but it has allowed me, three years after moving to the East Coast, to join in on something I've sorely missed. It's great to (virtually) hang out with these folks once again.

A couple of weeks ago, the theme was Songs About Food, and it prompted me to complete an idea that had been floating untethered in my head for a while.

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Egg Salad Sandwich

snippet of a A1oo jam.
kix from the doepfer resonant vcf a-120 the first filter in eurorackworld.

Instruktion 0x90(snippet)

Searching

Our future in space may be one of millions or even trillions of vast space station, space habitats, and megastructures. How would a space-faring civilization going about traveling around such an immense solar empire?

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Coming and Going: Navigating Space Between Megastructures
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 251; August 13, 2020
Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur


Written by:
Isaac Arthur
Jerry Guern
Tristan Underwood


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Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier


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Udo Schroeter


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Markus Junnikkala, "We Roam the Stars" 
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Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran" & "Windmill Forests"
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Miguel Johnson, "So Many Stars" & "Into the Wormhole"
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Coming and Going: Navigating Space Between Megastructures

Forgotten city(忘れられた街) inspired by Fernand Khnopff

One possible solution to the Fermi Paradox, the big question of where all the aliens are, is that some ancient galactic disaster wiped out extraterrestrial civilizations, and we're among the first to arrive back on the spacefaring scene.

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The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Disasters
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 252; August 20, 2020
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Darius Said
Jerry Guern

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Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

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Mihail Yordanov

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The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Disasters

Spaceships and fleets of the future may host their own unique civilizations of nomads, traveling the space lanes or venturing deep into interstellar space to colonize the galaxy or flee peril. What would such cultures be like?

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Nomadic Space-Based Civilizations
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 254; September 3, 2020
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Jerry Guern
S. Kopperud

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Mihail Yordanov

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Nomadic Space-Based Civilizations

Nuclear Fission was once hailed as the solution to our power & energy needs, but has grown unpopular of fears of radiation, meltdowns, and radioactive waste. However, advances in science and reactor design may make atomic energy safer and more attractive in the future.

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The Future of Fission
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 256; September 17, 2020
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Cass Graham
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
S. Kopperud

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Udo Schroeter

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The Future Of Fission

Science Fiction delights in showing us grim, dark, giant, and dystopian future cities of covered in garbage and where life is cheap, but how realistic are such metropolises and how can we avoid living in them?

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Mega-Cities
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 259; September 17, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

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Mega-Cities (Narration Only)

sometimes i think i'm making sounds just to distract myself from something other thing.