Enemy Mine : space dogfights, alien wildlifem and interstellar slavery economics
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English - June 12, 2018 07:45 - 41 minutes - 32.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsNatural Sciences Science TV & Film Film Reviews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Old-school space dogfighting
Stealth and the economics of close-distance space combat. Ship designs for different combat settings. Space vs atmosphere travel. Underwater?
Alien planets
Hostile, but really lucky to have breathable air and drinkable water. Storms. Periodic heavy meteor showers. Comet tails vs close planetary bodies for meteor shower material.
Alien wildlife
Space horseshoe crabs. Sarlac antlions. Half-Life 2 interpretations. Antlion larvae.
Drac
The aliens as portrayed by Louis Gossett Jr. Alien physiology. Evolutionary body-heat dissipation adaptations. The spectrum of binocularity in Earth-life.
Space-faring civilization
Time scales for change on the technological curve.
Alien reproduction
Hermaphroditism? Asexuality? Parthenogenesis? This pregnancy is a weird situation. One man and an alien baby.
Interstellar enslavement economics
Transporting slaves to remote mining colonies. Where are the robots? Possible Dune connections.
Space Warfare by Isaac Arthur: YouTube