This episode begins our look at solutions to the Fermi Paradox - the question of why the Universe appears empty of intelligent life besides ourselves - by looking at some of the reasons why life may simply be very uncommon. Before we can contemplate what might be special about Earth, we first need to consider what might be special about our region of space, and even our epoch of time, or our Universe itself.

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Music:
Lombus, "Cosmic Soup"
Markus Junnikkala, "A Memory of Earth"
AJ Prasad, "Aether"
Lombus, "Hydrogen Sonata"
Dan McLeod, NeptuneUK, "Mysterious Universe"
AJ Prasad, "Staring Through"

Great Filters: Space & Time

From 1988, it's the One O'Clock News from the BBC

Transdiffusion Broadcasting System

BBC One O'Clock News

Шамати (Бааль Сулам) Статья 107. Два ангела

United Instruments of Lucilin | Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg, Neumünster Abbey, 30.11.19

Earthscape I - Watermark

Parallel Universes, Multiverses, Alternate Timeline & Realities are the focus of many theories of physics and popular science & science fiction.  

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Parallel Universes & Alternate Realities
Episode 238; May 14, 2020

Writers:
Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jerry Guern
Keith Blockus
Matthew Acker

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Isaac Arthur

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

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

Parallel Universes & Alternate Realities

Ancient cultures long thought the Sun had a mind of it's own, but could life form in stars by nature or exist by artificial origins, and what would star with a mind of its own be like?

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Credits:
Conscious Stellar Objects
Episode 238a, Season 6E20a

Written, Produced, and Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur

Editors
Andy Nelson
S. Kopperud

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Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana
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Tristan3D

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Isaac Arthur

Music by Aerium
"Visions of Vega"
"Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
"Waters of Atlantis"
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Conscious Stellar Objects (Narration Only)

Our solar system contains many planets, moons, and asteroid that we may one day call home, but the future might instead be artificial space habitats, stations, and megastructures of vast size and numbers, using all those celestial bodies as raw materials to be dismantled for construction.

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Let's Dismantle the Solar System!

Episode 247; July 16, 2020
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Darius Said
Jerry Guern
Matthew Acker
S. Kopperud
Daniel Paul Bobo

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

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Bryan Versteeg http://spacehabs.com
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Mihail Yordanov
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Tristan3D
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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Lets Dismantle The Solar System! (Narration Only)

New song written in corporation with John W Joergensen late July 2020.

1)
It's early in the morning
I stir the coffee in my cup
when the very first chords of a waltz are written
with ink on my lined paper block

2)
I imagine the music from ballrooms
where they dance under waves of light
where they sing and they swing to the music
sipping wine in the hot summer night

Ch/

Tell me
Tell me all of your stories
about candles the music and the lights
yes show me
show me all of your glory
in a waltz  - in the kitchen here tonight

Show me
show me the secret steps
show me the thing
between couples when it swings
souls on the fly
so very much alive
in a kitchen waltz
with my wife.

3)
The song progress on paper
and chords fall in love with the text
I knock the bell and call the waiter
please refill my coffee
and you will be blessed

4)
To write this song as a waltz
is an almost finished task
From Vienna to my Kitchen I sing
when my publisher calls me and ask

The Kitchen Waltz

The Kitchen Waltz - Rysoe&Joergensen 2020

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

Cover Art:
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Udo Schroeter

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Mega-Cities (Narration Only)

Heute fege ich den Boden,
Haushaltsarbeit mag ich sehr.
Hurtig schwinge ich den Besen,
feiner Staub fliegt hin und her.
So geht es durch jedes Zimmer,
auch in dieser Ecke war ich schon.
Fegen lebt von Wiederholung,
wie aktive Meditation.

Ach, des Nachbars' Sauger
ist ein wahres Ungetüm:
durch die Wand kann man ihn hören,
Hund und Katze hassen ihn.
Ich bevorzuge den Besen,
der ist ruhig, brauch keinen Strom.
Heute fege ich den Boden -
aber das sagte ich ja schon...

DJ Deppenhorst
Frankfurt, Oktober 2020

Heute fege ich den Boden

I sat down to make music with the intention of finding a way to express my emotions at the moment, and I was confronted with a wall of mental noise, presented to me by all the music technology at my disposal. While I struggled to find my heart, my mind was busy thinking about technology and technique. After a bit of discussion with @dr.no and @Hawthorn, decided to run with that as the concept for the piece. This is the result. 

I decided to also take inspiration from #disquiet0460 and start with a tortured, complicated sound (evocative of the mental "noise" that comes from using music tech for expression) and transitions to the starting point, then returns to the chaos. 

I started with a simple arpeggio on a nylon guitar (which I later changed to a synth sound). Added a Bitwig Micro-pitch device set to an obscure Wilson scale, and added a send track with Output Portal (granulated pitch transformations in this case) & Thermal (more glitchy feedback fx) on it. Added automation to start with Micro-pitch wet, FX send volume, and global tempo set very high, decrescendo, and then re-crescendo, over the course of the track.