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Decipher SciFi

Decipher SciFi explores the how and why in science fiction with conversations about technology, humanity, and the future. This is not a review show, nor will you see much criticism or snark. It is a rationally optimistic look, through film, at where society and technology are and where they are headed. Also, butts.

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All Episodes

31:00

Isolated BS part 3: ancient tattoos, zombie...

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2020/05/19

Prank’d! Kids and aliens and not understanding how pranks work. Losing your arm to a racoon attack, but then turning into a cyborg so maybe it’s okay. Zombie satellites! Joe shared with us this recent development in zombie satellite communications. The long-term orbital stability og geosynchronous orbit, and ssedpace “ruins” as the longest landing mark of an expired humanity. Joy items Huaraches! Coffe tools and supplies. Colbert’s long lost dinosaur mug. Running Sandals!

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46:30

Picard Season 1: mortality, great filters, and...

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2020/05/12

Nostalgia Like all the things with Star Trek in them - feeling nostalgia for good Trek. Prophecy/Not Prophecy Conquering the Three Body Problem and moving on to the… eight body problem? Breaking your brain. Tidal forces and planetary ejection. Game theory: secret society, or open discussion? Great filters The great synthetic filter from beyond space and time. If that’s the words, then that’s the words Christopher Peterson Synthetic life Classifying the artificial intelligence of

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44:46

Isolated BS part two, the mayonnaisening - volcano...

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2020/05/05

Not just bread anymore.. But also mayonnaise! Definitively “The Best Sauce.” Coolio’s Ghettalian Garlic Bread. Japanese mayonnaise appreciation. Miscellany Dune set photos!. Sting’s codpiece. Manly housework. NVidia RTX Real-Time Noise-Reduction Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA6R9NmZO80 Gaming and computing Magic Leap disappointment and waiting for trickle-down from Enterprise. AR vs VR and chaning expectations. Oculus Quest sold-outness. Half-Life Alyx: game changer? Splatmoji

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59:26

The Three Body Problem: mathy math math and first...

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2020/04/21

Books! A larger time investment, generally… but high idea-load! That one time we did a book in the past. And that next one we’ll probably do in the future. Context Chinese science fiction. This book as the first Asian Hugo Award-winner. The difficulty of translating highly technical, crunchy hard scifi. Translation footnotes or the lack thereof in the audiobook. Prior movie adaptation from the same author on Decipher SciFi: The Wandering Earth. Adaptions, failed or otherwise. Minecraft engine

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30:02

Bloodshot: overdoing nanotech, comics bubbles, and...

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2020/04/14

What if Memento, but with nanites? Movies post pandemic Everything is either postponed or straight-to-streaming now. What do we expect the film industry to do after this debacle? Comics! The 1990s comics bubble. Chromium gimmick covers (Bloodshot was the first?). Nano! The difference between the magic of “nanotechnology” in 1993 and now. Being spoiled by Hollywood nanotech superpowers. Being impressed by self-mending t-shirts. Brute force superhero combat - no tactics whatsoever! Flour

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34:27

Isolated BS: coping with copious amounts of bread

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2020/04/07

Just a conversation in isolation! Things “Free time” for parents working from home with children. Catching up on movies and video games. Stress. Running marathons with bikes. Remote learning, remote work, and video meetings. Bunnies and allergies in springtime. Skyrim! And immunotherapy and poisons. Bread Making bread while locked down! Peanut butter and jelly (jam!). Sourdough cultures. Making bread from actual ancient Egyptian yeast! Seamus Blackley bakes actual Ancient

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30:14

Another Life: visible rogue planets, visible dark...

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2020/03/31

First contact Aliens. Alien intelligence. Alien vessel shapes and what it says about the show you are about to watch. Moebius ships? CETI Crystalline FTL space antennae. The realities of lightspeed communication and why The SETI Institute doesn’t do “Communication with extraterrestrial intelligence.” Unexplained FTL comms. Fumbling about space When your crew is this good, you really should just send a ship without the humans on it instead. MapQuest in spaaaaaace being confounded by

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00:53

On Decipher History: 1917 w/ Josh!

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2020/03/24

The taste of another episode of Decipher History! Featuring Josh 💪😉 1917: trenches, trench rats, and modern war w/ Josh Support the show!

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1:02:30

Contagion: epidemiology, snake oil, and curve-flattening

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2020/03/17

Current events Our world is on the brink of some possibly extreme unpleasantness. Known unknowns threats to civilization. Humanity is bad at planning for statistically-likely-but-not-definite disaster. Bullshit The anti-scientific garbage that starts to overflow in the face of a public health crisis. Goop. Alex Jones. Snake oil. Homeopathy. Price gouging. Levels of understanding and respect for the severity of the current pandemic across age groups. Epidemiology R0, or basic reproduction

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0:31

On Decipher History: Alexander

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2020/03/10

The taste of another episode of Decipher History! Featuring Ryan Stitt of the History of Ancient Greece Podcast 🔱 Alexander: succession, “The Great,” and sooo many Alexandrias w/ Ryan Stitt Support the show!

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30:09

Altered Carbon Season 2: memory, facial recognition,...

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2020/02/25

A review We don’t normally do this, but… Memory Priming. Retrieval cues. Memory encoding, sotrage, and retrieval. Context-dependent memory. Getting drunk and finding your keys. Digital memory retrieval Facial recognition heuristics. Recognition vs reproduction. Xenoarchaeology Living amongst the runes. More AI! Deciphering alien technology. Altered Carbon: Zoltan Istvan on transplant immortality, identity, and consciousness uploading: Decipher Scifi Support the

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30:45

Evolution: panspermia space rocks, periodic tables,...

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2020/02/18

Asteroids etc Revisiting: asteroids vs meteors vs meteoroids vs meteorites vs who knows. Still confusing! How much space stuff hits Earth? Like, not just dust but things big enough to be impressed by. Who gets claim to Earth-impacting space rocks? Panspermia The idea that life can spread between worlds. Or maybe even stars (maybe not.)? The “soft hypothesis” of panspermia and the utility of primoridla ooze. The possibility of panspermia bringing life to primordial Earth. Cowboy scientists

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44:01

Picard: the moral center of Trek, supernovae, and...

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2020/02/11

In which we discuss the first three episodes Picard We missed you Jean-Luc! Picard as the moral center of Star Trek, and the greatest of its captains. Romulan supernova Romulans. How to tell a Vulkan from a Romulan? Exploding stars. Detecting supernovae. The death cycle of a red supergiant. The reliability of physics across timelines/universes. The dangers of cleaving planets. Federation Economics “Post scarcity” with holodecks and replicators, and the realization that there is still a

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47:45

Halo: first contact, power armor, and how does master...

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2020/02/04

Importance Nostalgia: wow Halo has really been around for a minute. Hundreds of hours of that one level of local multiplayer but never playing the story. Turning an RTS into a TPS and then an FPS and then getting that Microsoft money. Figuring out the importance of Halo CE in the history of gaming. PC gaming master race. Tank-controlled console FPS games. Unseating Goldeneye. Establishing a timeline of FPS quality on consoles and PC. First Contact Humanity honing its warfare skills by just

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58:16

The Secret of the Ooze: turtles, pizza, and irl toxic...

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2020/01/28

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles An incredible indie success story. Pizza Pizza popularity in the US post-WWII. Pizza classification arguments. Bread sauce cheese vs bread cheese sauce and the DRASTIC difference between the two. NYC Pizza ftw. Wtf is a turtle Turtles, tortoises, terrapins, and the difficulty with colloquial names. Putting them in the water to see which ones drows. Telescoping vs hinging necks. Toxic ooze Realizing the horrifying reason “toxic sludge” was in all of our

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45:29

The Thirteenth Floor: Yo dawg I heard you liked the...

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2020/01/21

This movie Yo dog, I heard you liked simulations. Server-room LAN rave parties. choosing your simulated period for fun, profit, and lack of complications. Simulation Plato’s shadows on a cave wall. Maybe shadows all the way down, and turtles all the way up! The simulatability of our perceived reality. The argument The simulation argument made distinct from the simulation hypothesis. Considering possible “great filters” that could prevent technological progress reaching the point where a

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01:00:28

Highlander 2: time travel, aliens, and complete and...

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2020/01/14

Mythology Taking a simple mysterious mythology and explaining it for fun and profit*. Meta The original Highlander’s original, surprising success story. Deciding to make a sequel. Budgets and revenues and how did we get here, really? Versions Aliens vs time travel. The clincher: neither actually makes any more sense than the other. People Not only Connnor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod, but ALSO his best friend who totally just died in the last movie. but hey, lol jk it’s a kind of

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43:36

Decade in Review: privacy, computing everything, and...

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2020/01/07

No spoilers this week! Just looking at all the scientific discoveries of the past decade and how that has or hasn’t played into the scifi we’ve covered. 1. Privacy & Cyberpunk … and the illusion thereof. Snowden and the shattering of the illusion of privacy in the digital age. The world becoming the less awesome-looking irl version of cyberpunk. Workers as a resources. Torture toilets. 2. Machine learning The biggest huge development in the pats decade which underlies every other things

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45:20

The Rise of Skywalker: the force, fan service, and...

Decipher SciFi ·

2019/12/31

Whoops, a movie review So the movie didn’t put in any cool science things and the only thing left to do is review it and talk about… feelings? Different viewing experiences between opening night and subsequent viewings. Franchises Fan service. Coherent extended story arcs. Reconsidering the prequel triloges in light of the new one. Indie IP ownership with one person in charge vs Disney. Realizing what a truly satisfying job disney did with Marvel. What made Star Wars different? Oy vey

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00:21

No episode this week - happy holidays!

Decipher SciFi ·

2019/12/24

In this Christmas story, Christopher gets very ill and then we are forced to push back our new Star Wars episode. Sorry! Happy holidays! Support the show!

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