Decipher SciFi
432 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsDecipher 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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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Dolphin communication, the babelfish, and bad AI
December 24, 2018 17:00 - 40 minutes - 32.3 MBAdaptations Appreciating the book(s). Bigtime. Adapting Douglas Adams. Remembering the text adventure video game exists. Dolphins Dolphin intelligence. It’s not about how smart they are, it’s about how they’re smart. Mammalian sameness as an avenue into better understanding life in the sea. Dolphin communication. Dolphin “language” and the possibility of translation. The Dolphin C.H.A.T. interface. Betelgeuse Big star! Red supergiant, 9th brightest in our sky. “Brightness” outside ...
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Dolphin communication, the babelfish, and bad AI
December 24, 2018 17:00 - 40 minutes - 32.3 MBAdaptations Appreciating the book(s). Bigtime. Adapting Douglas Adams. Remembering the text adventure video game exists. Dolphins Dolphin intelligence. It’s not about how smart they are, it’s about how they’re smart. Mammalian sameness as an avenue into better understanding life in the sea. Dolphin communication. Dolphin “language” and the possibility of translation. The Dolphin C.H.A.T. interface. […] The post Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Dolphin communication, the babelfish, and bad ...
Akira: mind bullets, evolution, and odd horsepower calculations w/ Jolene Creighton
December 18, 2018 07:45 - 54 minutes - 43.7 MBAkira Hey this movie was really important! Time and place. Budgets. Omg so pretty. Subtitles Subtitling adult anime for the west. Translation vs localization. Different industries and approaches to localization. Software localization in comparison to film localization. Fansubs online before the likes of Crunchyroll. Motorcycles Horsepower! Sweet motorcycles. High-speed motorcycle attacks. Turning people into “mushwater.” Funiculars giant slidey freight elevators. Also mountains...
Close Encounters: alien contact, debunking, and music communication
December 11, 2018 07:45 - 37 minutes - 30.1 MBContact “Levels” of alien contact. Converting anal probes and sex bases to contact “levels.” First kind: visual contact Second kind: evidence of contact Third kind: in-person contact The Devil’s Tower How to pronounce butte. Convention vs personal preference. The awesome nature of structures like The Devil’s Tower, jutting up all inaccessible as they are. Translation errors for fun and profit. Thinking back to Schiaparelli’s canals. Geological origins: igneous intrusions and volcani...
The Titan: adapting vs terraforming Titan, individual adaptations
December 04, 2018 08:45 - 41 minutes - 33.3 MBTitan The most interesting moon ‘round Saturn! Viewing the moon Titan by eye or by telescope. Protip: bincolulars are actually just two tiny telescopes. Saturn The Saturnian hexagonal storm vs the larger Jovian storm. Latitudinal wind gradients. Adaptation Adapting the world to our needs. The possibility of adapting ourselves to a world. Inhospitality. Ethiopian, Tibetan, and Andean elevation adaptation. Andean vampires? Titan Habitability Atmosphere. Temperature. Breathability...
Blade: blood, colloidal silver aposematism, and scoville testing
November 27, 2018 07:45 - 36 minutes - 28.9 MBBlade Enthusiasm! Silver Weaponizing silver. Colloidal silver. Papa Smurf. Blue anti-vampire aposematism. Agyria a la Paul Karason aka Papa smurf. Spray defense Pepper spray. Garlic spray. The difference between bear spray and self-defense pepper spray. The positives and negatives of fog-mode sprays in vampire club fighting. Johnny Knoxville pain ratings. Scoville units Laboratory capsaicin measurement by high-performance liquid chromatography vs the organoleptic method. The ob...
I Origins: rationality, eyeballs, and biometric ID w/ Daniel Barker
November 20, 2018 07:45 - 47 minutes - 37.8 MBEyeball anatomy All the important parts, wherever they are! Who really cares anyway we’re only here for two in particular: the iris and the retina. The retinal blind spot. Creationism And intelligent design. Are wrong. Reaching conclusions and working backwards for fun and profit. Young Earth creationism. Dan’s religious upbringing. Irreducible complexity. Faulty reasoning. The evolution of the modern vertebrate eyeball Fish and their goofy eyeball arrangements. The crazy Charlie e...
The Meg: claspers, megalodon teeth, and shark proponency w/ Melissa Marquez
November 13, 2018 07:45 - 43 minutes - 34.9 MBSharks A sharky public service message/pro-shark propaganda. Sharks get a bad wrap in the media. Eating weird stuff. The importance of sharks in the ocean and their roles in their particular ecosystems. Shark behaviour Biting the internet. Alternative shark species name suggestions. “Exploratory” biting. Claspers! The Megalodon’s likely “biiiiiiiiiig” penis. Shark skin with dermal denticles, aka “teeth paper.” Shark intelligence and how you might measure it. The Megalodon Irl best ...
Decipher SciFi State of the Union 2018
November 08, 2018 07:45 - 28 minutes - 23.1 MBIn which we look at your survey responses and reveal where we’re headed in the coming year Listening habits RPG experience Nerd gatherings and meeting listeners irl Creator support LSG Media appreciation party Guest co-hosts Suggestion box Future expansion recommendations (Decipher History!?) Support the show!
Sorry to Bother You: code switching, indie media, and the power of scifi w/ Eliot Peper
November 06, 2018 07:45 - 43 minutes - 34.9 MBThis movie It gets a bit weird! And we have a bit of a time summarizing it. Storytelling Adventure stories. Social allegory. The power of science fiction in particular to force you to reframe your perception by believably breaking your assumptions. HG Wells and Moreau. Science fiction tropes and the subversion thereof. Christopher is bad at human things. Code Switching Languages, dialect, and speaking to your audience. “Not having to think about it.” Media Mass media vs indie com...
eXistenZ: reality testing, biocomputing, and gross stuff
October 30, 2018 07:45 - 37 minutes - 30.3 MBCronenberg Creepy body horror. Fingers in holes. This is kinda hot. The video game industry Gaming in film. Brainscan. The video game bubble. E.T. The Video Game landfill debacle. AAA Game budgets before people took the industry seriously. AAA Auteur creators of the past. Auteur creators in indie games now. Meat guns Wooden cannons! Wow! Harvesting ammunition from people’s mouths. Bio-based squirt guns as a reasonable alternative. Blood-squirting lizards. Alternative computing ...
Pacific Rim Uprising: drone jamming, the aircraft boneyard, and cerebral organoids
October 23, 2018 07:45 - 41 minutes - 33.2 MBRobot police Keeping the peace when independent operations can make their own giant robots. Staying somewhat prepared for returning existential threats. Jaeger graveyard Stowing expensive purpose-built machinery. Aircraft graveyards. The economics of storing and securing out-of-production technology for later use. Robotics Avoiding trouble with the square-cube law by building smaller robots. Boston Dynamics and the inevitable impression of the coming robot apocalypse. Parkour Atlas...
Gravity: decompression sickness, orbital mechanics, and jet chairs
October 16, 2018 07:45 - 44 minutes - 35.8 MBCriticism Sloppy orbital mechanics and the value of science-adjacent entertainment. Ed Harris Forever the voice of Mission Control. Space is dangerous Almost as scary as the ocean. EVA jet chairs NASA’s MMU. The new tiny one: SAFER! Giant rectal rectangle jet chairs? Where and how things orbit Earth-orbital distances. Where different kinds of man-made satellites operation and how they are not likely to run into each other roughly ever. The utility of geostationary orbits. ...
Skyscraper: vertical cities, holodecks, and personal Dyson clouds
October 09, 2018 07:45 - 40 minutes - 32.8 MBSkyscrapers History. The industrialization at scale of steel. The state of things. Future heights. Arcologies. Vertical cities Hong Kong’s real estate problem. Urban verticality and resource efficiency. Living in coffin pods and sharing utilities. Holodeck IRL holodeck technology. Projecting images for multiple . Your own personal Dyson display cloud. Frickin lasers directly in your eyes. CastAR. Skyscraper materials technology Sand as a rubbish base for huge buildings. Building ...
Doom: moons of Mars, space marines, and telefragging w/ Josh Effengee of LSG Media
October 02, 2018 07:45 - 49 minutes - 39.7 MBDoom Doom! Nostalgia. The Martian moons Crappy moons that can barely form a potato. Phobos and Deimos. Delineating between moons, planets, and all the other stuff. The likely origin of the Martian moons. Space marines Corporate space settlement and operations. Space Force. Josh reviews space marines; again. Martian weaponry. Settling mars Where to build? The cost of scratch settlement construction. Caves and lava tubes. Teleporting resources changes the game. Ancient aliens ...
Upgrade: biohacking, AI containment, and paralyzation workarounds
September 25, 2018 04:11 - 47 minutes - 37.9 MBImage enhancement Naive vs machine-intelligent image enhancement. “Photorealistic hallucination” and honest technical names. Reconsidering the absurdity of fictional image enhancement in the age of clever neural nets. Creative, artistic “enhancement” vs rigor. Paralyzation workarounds Well, breaking your spinal chord sure seems to suck. Spinal breaks and the autonomic nervous system. Bodily control via brain-machine interface. Transhumanism Extension of human functionality by impla...
Decipher RPG - Mirror Pilot #3 (the finale!)
September 19, 2018 07:45 - 30 minutes - 24.2 MBOur heroes make a real mess of an airship or two, and FINALLY Bodyguard Chris manages to turn the tables and make something of his repeated failures. Emperor Colbert tries not to die before the end. (This podcast is the finale of our pilot series for Decipher RPG where we play Mirror by Sandy Pug Games with Liam Ginty. Previously: Part 1 & Part 2) Support the show!
Decipher RPG – Mirror Pilot #3 (the finale!)
September 19, 2018 07:45 - 30 minutes - 24.2 MBOur heroes make a real mess of an airship or two, and FINALLY Bodyguard Chris manages to turn the tables and make something of his repeated failures. Emperor Colbert tries not to die before the end. (This podcast is the finale of our pilot series for Decipher RPG where we play Mirror by Sandy Pug […] The post Decipher RPG – Mirror Pilot #3 (the finale!) appeared first on Decipher SciFi.
Black Panther: rhino domestication, click languages, and Killmonger overheating
September 18, 2018 07:45 - 40 minutes - 32.4 MBAfrofuturism Wishing there were more of this in popular media. Invisible cities A review of invisibility technology: spatial, temporal, and spectral light cloaking. Vibranium to the rescue. Vibranium Space impactors. Resource Armor Body armor, stationary armor. Avoiding concussive force. Reactive armor in tanks: shaped explosives that explode at the other thing that’s gonna explode! Molecular springs of carbon for storage of mechanical energy from kinetic. How not to turn into ...
Decipher RPG - Mirror Pilot #2
September 12, 2018 07:45 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBEmperor Colbert dresses down and bodyguard Chris rediscovers the joy of the bidet and the German shelf toilet. Then: daring aerial maneuvers! (This podcast is the second part of our pilot series for Decipher RPG where we play Mirror by Sandy Pug Games with Liam Ginty. Previously: Part 1) Support the show!
Decipher RPG – Mirror Pilot #2
September 12, 2018 07:45 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBEmperor Colbert dresses down and bodyguard Chris rediscovers the joy of the bidet and the German shelf toilet. Then: daring aerial maneuvers! (This podcast is the second part of our pilot series for Decipher RPG where we play Mirror by Sandy Pug Games with Liam Ginty. Previously: Part 1) The post Decipher RPG – Mirror Pilot #2 appeared first on Decipher SciFi.
Decipher RPG - Mirror Pilot #1
September 11, 2018 07:45 - 55 minutes - 44.2 MBThis podcast is the first of three episodes of our pilot series for Decipher RPG where we play Mirror by Sandy Pug Games with Liam Ginty. Here is part 2! After some particular fun with character creation, Emperor Colbert’s coronation is interrupted by a sudden attack. With RPG-Colbert still entranced in his ceremonial mask, his bodyguard Chris rushes him to safety, but… airships! Support the show!
Decipher RPG – Mirror Pilot #1
September 11, 2018 07:45 - 55 minutes - 44.2 MBThis podcast is the first of three episodes of our pilot series for Decipher RPG where we play Mirror by Sandy Pug Games with Liam Ginty. Here is part 2! After some particular fun with character creation, Emperor Colbert’s coronation is interrupted by a sudden attack. With RPG-Colbert still entranced in his ceremonial mask, his […] The post Decipher RPG – Mirror Pilot #1 appeared first on Decipher SciFi.
A-X-L: dogs as technology, domestication, and unpleasant sticky materials
September 04, 2018 07:45 - 29 minutes - 23.9 MBDoggo Man’s best friend! And one of (many of?) our best technologies. The level to which we can handicap animals for aesthetics if we put our mind to it. Domesticated foxes. Domestication Domestication. Plants and animals. Bending chosen qualities to better human use. Watermelon as of The Renaissance. Yay selective breeding! We win! Warbot design Implicit and explicit communication channels. Dog human body language-reading. Data connections and cloudy signal processing. Adaptation...
Rampage: gorilla sign language, classic gaming, and the square cube law
August 28, 2018 07:45 - 35 minutes - 28.5 MBClassic arcade gaming Memories of the arcade and the Sega Game Gear. Introduction of Larry the Rat in the Atari Lynx port. How to pick from current social fears for your lazy game plot. Zero-G research Genetics research in spaaaaaace. CRISPR. Bremen Drop Tower. Gorilla sign language Koko the gorilla. Gorilla sign language. Credulity and confirmation bias. Impressive gorilla lexicons. Adventures in signing portmanteus. Yogurt aka “milkfruitcandy food.” Animal fights Comparing th...
Extinction: space stealth, leaving Earth, and the evolution of consciousness
August 21, 2018 07:45 - 34 minutes - 27.3 MBSpoiler alerts Special conditions requiring primary and secondary warnings. Robots How to tell if you are a robot? New Study Finds Best Way To Determine If You Are Android Still Cutting Open Forearm To Reveal Circuitry Within. Self-delusion and mass self-delusion. Earthvacuation Earth is really well-tuned for our needs (or is it the other way around?), and humans should try to maintain this as a base of operations if at all possible. Surviving outside of Earth Key resources on ...
Aliens: hyperlseep, how to terraform, and Blade Runner reconciliation w/ Josh from LSG media
August 14, 2018 04:22 - 49 minutes - 40 MBFeaturing guest co-host Josh from LSG Media Love Love! For James Cameron and Aliens. And the great utilitarian design of the spaceship interiors. Great world-building. Hypersleep Cryosleep? Ice sublimation and mummified Sigourney Weaver. Hibernation. How to shove pine cones up your butt, chug some Nyquil, and turn into a bear. Cryogenic specimen preservations: sperm! DIY […] The post Aliens: hyperlseep, how to terraform, and Blade Runner reconciliation w/ Josh from LSG media appeared first ...
Aliens: hyperlseep, how to terraform, and Blade Runner reconciliation w/ Josh Effengee
August 14, 2018 04:22 - 49 minutes - 40 MBLove Love! For James Cameron and Aliens. And the great utilitarian design of the spaceship interiors. Great world-building. Hypersleep Cryosleep? Ice sublimation and mummified Sigourney Weaver. Hibernation. How to shove pine cones up your butt, chug some Nyquil, and turn into a bear. Cryogenic specimen preservations: sperm! DIY fecal plugs for hibernation. Private space industry The rise of private space industry. Going dystopian. Planetary operations Planet? Moon? The delineat...
Wall-E: biodegradable plastics, waste management, and space cattle
August 07, 2018 06:13 - 35 minutes - 28.1 MBSpace settlement The economics of leaving Earth. Settling the inner and outer solar system. The Expanse. Space cattle and other space resources (water, mineral). Garbage - in spaaace! Garbage in space aka space junk. Cleaning up space junk. Giant nets as a major cleanup strategy. Garbage - on Eaaaarth! Modern waste management. What to do with municipal solid waste. Leachate. The difference between dumps and landfills and the interesting energy-reclamation technology involved in cut...
Ready Player One: virtual reality haptics, digital economies, and optical trickery
July 31, 2018 07:45 - 52 minutes - 42 MBFandom Identity according to interests. Fiction as personal and social mirror. Cultures and subcultures and super-niches. The “Stacks” Ad-hoc city large-scale construction. Kowloon Walled City. Virtual Reality immersion technology VR treadmills vs slippy-feet (Virtuix Omni). Looking silly. Scaling and translation from real-world input to virtual worlds. Manual and body haptics. Simulating moistness. Nard-stimulation for good and ill. VR spatial awareness Directional trickery in...
Ready Player One: virtual reality haptics, digital economies, and optical trickery w/ Jolene Creighton
July 31, 2018 07:45 - 52 minutes - 42 MBFeaturing guest co-host Jolene Creighton Fandom Identity according to interests. Fiction as personal and social mirror. Cultures and subcultures and super-niches. The “Stacks” Ad-hoc city large-scale construction. Kowloon Walled City. Virtual Reality immersion technology VR treadmills vs slippy-feet (Virtuix Omni). Looking silly. Scaling and translation from real-world input to virtual worlds. Manual and body haptics. […] The post Ready Player One: virtual reality haptics, digital economies...
Man From Earth Holocene: hunter gatherer nostalgia and trading intestines for brains w/ Adrian Falcone
July 24, 2018 07:45 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MBFeaturing guest co-host Adrian Falcone The Man From Earth Our love for the original. Considering the sequel. People talking in a room. Nostalgia The coming-on of the bronze age. Grocking the rate of progress w/ Dominick Perry. “Free time” in hunter-gatherer societies. Nostalgia as a way to bridge from what was old and comfortable to […] The post Man From Earth Holocene: hunter gatherer nostalgia and trading intestines for brains w/ Adrian Falcone appeared first on Decipher SciFi.
Man From Earth Holocene: hunter gatherer nostalgia and trading intestines
July 24, 2018 07:45 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MBThe Man From Earth Our love for the original. Considering the sequel. People talking in a room. Nostalgia The coming-on of the bronze age. Grocking the rate of progress w/ Dominick Perry. “Free time” in hunter-gatherer societies. Nostalgia as a way to bridge from what was old and comfortable to what is new and scary. Cro-magnon Anatomically modern humans vs socially modern humans. The evolutionary advantage of controlled fire and beginning to cook food. Getting away from all-day ma...
Predator : preposterone, light manipulation, and Aliens vs Predator vs Blade Runner
July 17, 2018 07:45 - 44 minutes - 35.5 MBTestosterone Preposterous amounts of testosterone. Preposterone. Ahhnold and Carl Weathers. The muscles from Brussels in spaaaaace. Invisibility Picking a chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum to be invisible within. Spatial light manipulation Temporal light manipulation Spectral light manipulation Predator vision Seeing in infrared! Interactions between optical camouflage and optical receivers. Why doesn’t all the life on […] The post Predator : preposterone, light manipulation, and Aliens...
Predator : preposterone, light manipulation, and Aliens vs Predator vs Blade
July 17, 2018 07:45 - 44 minutes - 35.5 MBTestosterone Preposterous amounts of testosterone. Preposterone. Ahhnold and Carl Weathers. The muscles from Brussels in spaaaaace. Invisibility Picking a chunk of the electromagnetic spectrum to be invisible within. Spatial light manipulation Temporal light manipulation Spectral light manipulation Predator vision Seeing in infrared! Interactions between optical camouflage and optical receivers. Why doesn’t all the life on Earth have heat vision? Heat-tracking evolution. Pit vip...
Q&A #3: glacial surge, myth vs legend, and underground nukes
July 10, 2018 07:45 - 50 minutes - 40.3 MBA collection of responses to feedback and addenda from supporter Jeremy. Basically, a review of some things we missed in a few episodes and an expansion on others. :-) Volcano Fault types review. Flood basalts as hot spot lava spam. The Deccan Traps. Vulcanism as a possible explanation for dinsoaur extinction (Wargames). The Last Jedi Progress in millitary tactics. The triumph of guerrilla tactics. Politeness in chess. Mt St Helens sound waves. High-energy events. Black Mirror Seas...
A Quiet Place: echolocation, cochlear implant vs hearing aid, and aliens
July 03, 2018 07:45 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MBSurviving without sound Deafness. How loud is a fart? Cochlear implants. Alien defense engineering. Cochlear implants How cochlear implants differ from hearing aids. How a cochlear implant works. The difficulties of hearing loss. Grain Entrapment Ughhhhhhhhh. Compression and suffocation. Echolocation The strangeness of terrestrial echolocation. Frequency adaptations for different types of prey. Signal rate at different distances. The creatures Planetary orbit situations wit...
Escape From New York: ultralight aircraft, escape pods, and fusion reactors
June 26, 2018 04:00 - 34 minutes - 27.5 MBDystopia New York city post WW3. Crime in the US in the early 80s. Airplane failure recovery The good old days when Presidents could be bald. Plane escape mechanisms. Parachutes vs ejection seats vs ejection pods. Jet injectors Vaccinations by high-pressure jet. Finding out these are real-life. Polio vs Hepatitis. Gliders Large wingspan, light body. The Twin Towers. Clever practical FX for wireframe nighttime navigation display. Comparing budgets with Tron. Fusion Time proj...
Universal Soldier : face-kicking cyborg technologies and micro drone insects
June 19, 2018 07:45 - 42 minutes - 34.3 MBStream the movie: iTunes | Amazon Universal Soldier The government turns sometimes-naked Jean-Claude into a cyborg sorta. And hijinx ensue! Recommended and Related Media Universal Soldier alternate ending Show Notes Cyborgification Remote-controlled cockroaches. Engineering cyborg cats with tape and servos. Search and rescue rats. What counts as a cyborg? Insects with eyebrows. Non-cyborgification Whirring servos […] The post Universal Soldier : face-kicking cyborg technologies and micro dr...
Universal Soldier: face-kicking cyborg technologies and micro drone insects
June 19, 2018 07:45 - 42 minutes - 34.3 MBCyborgification Remote-controlled cockroaches. Engineering cyborg cats with tape and servos. Search and rescue rats. What counts as a cyborg? Insects with eyebrows. Non-cyborgification Whirring servos and motors. Wearable technology and where to draw the line on cyborgs. The cyborg olympics. Determining the limits of human performance. Thermoregulation Mammalian heat regulation. Humans are the best distance runners AND car-pushers. Pain Pain response and learning. Pain and athl...
Enemy Mine : space dogfights, alien wildlifem and interstellar slavery economics
June 12, 2018 07:45 - 41 minutes - 32.9 MBOld-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 por...
Enemy Mine : Episode 146
June 12, 2018 07:45 - 41 minutes - 32.9 MBStream the movie: iTunes | Amazon Enemy Mine What: A human and an alien struggle to get past their differences. Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen Starring: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James Show Notes Old-school space dogfighting Stealth and the economics of close-distance space combat. Ship designs for different combat settings. Space vs atmosphere travel. […] The post Enemy Mine : Episode 146 appeared first on Decipher SciFi.
Tron : 70s computing, object digitization, and death-frisbees
June 05, 2018 05:26 - 44 minutes - 35.3 MBProduction Early 80s VFX. So much rotoscoping. The dawn of computer generated graphics. Disney and art assets. Computational limitations creating art styles. Late-70s computing Hard drives! Huge ones.Huge mainframes. Pre-internet networks. Anthropomorphised computing Sentient computer antagonists. Legal protections for artificial life. Chess as the soon-to-be-obliterated pinnacle of artificial intelligence. AI Takeovers Master Control program.Skynets. Conflicting interests betw...
Tron : Episode 145
June 05, 2018 05:26 - 44 minutes - 35.3 MBStream the movie: iTunes | Amazon Tron What: People but with lasers and in a computer. And light bikes! Directed by: Steven Lisberger Starring: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner Recommended and Related Media Mainframes and the Unix Revolution – Computerphile Show Notes Production Early 80s VFX. So much rotoscoping. The dawn of computer generated […] The post Tron : Episode 145 appeared first on Decipher SciFi.
Superman (1978) : Episode 144
May 29, 2018 07:45 - 57 minutes - 46.3 MBKrypton Where did the Superman “S” as family symbol come from? Kryptonian Planetary OSHA. Retroreflective materials. Planet-‘sploding backstories. Shifting orbits. Tidal forces. Planetary superstructures. Space baby Intergalactic space travel. Time dilation. Launching an intergalactic spaceship from your living room.Time dilation and relative experience of time. Hyper-intellectual aliens. Space baby temper tantrums. Space is big, but then the space between the less empty empty spaces ...
Annihilation : Episode 143
May 22, 2018 07:45 - 44 minutes - 35.3 MBAlex Garland ❤️. Ex Machina. Abominable mutants Shark-gators. Flower-deer. Man-bear-mole-pig. Dr Manhattan-style animal transformations. Big blue tree phalluses. Horizontal gene transfer Micro vs macro. Continuous mutation Plants. The shimmer Exponential understanding. Deciphering the puzzle of Earth life. Clams with human faces. Desctructive/transformative information processing. They’re Made Out of Meat Micro-life in the shimmer Boa constrictors in your gut. Tapeworm ...
Avengers Infinity War: space mapping, Dyson spheres, and the purple coin purse
May 15, 2018 04:51 - 46 minutes - 36.9 MBThanos Josh Brolan was so good! And the character itself too! Coin purse chin. The story of how a light flick to the coin purse could have saved the world. Economic modeling Thanos breaks out the Excel spreadsheets. Productively employing the bottom trillionty billion around the galaxy. Ultimate utilitarianism. The upper atmosphere Atmospheric pressure. Hypoxia. Space mapping and orienteering Visualizing three-dimensional routes as two-dimensional on Earth-maps. Visualizing fou...
Avengers Infinity War : Episode 142
May 15, 2018 04:51 - 46 minutes - 36.9 MBStream the movie: iTunes | Amazon Avengers Infinity War What: Thanos goes glove-shopping Directed by: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo Recommended and Related Media Megastructures 1.1: Dyson Spheres by Isaac Arthur Show Notes Thanos Josh Brolan was so good! And the character itself too! Coin purse chin. […] The post Avengers Infinity War : Episode 142 appeared first on Decipher SciFi.
Zathura : Episode 141
May 08, 2018 07:45 - 48 minutes - 38.8 MBStream the movie: iTunes | Amazon Zathura What: Jumanji in space. Directed by: Jon Favreau Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart Recommended and Related Media If Earth had Rings… Show Notes Science words Jumanji in space. Card-by-card science words. Light pollution The night sky “never looked that close before.” The majority of […] The post Zathura : Episode 141 appeared first on Decipher SciFi.
Zathura: planetary ring lifecycles, science words, and light pollution
May 08, 2018 07:45 - 48 minutes - 38.8 MBScience words Jumanji in space. Card-by-card science words. Light pollution The night sky “never looked that close before.” The majority of Americans being unfamiliar with a real view of the night sky. Light pollution. Dark sky preserves. The LA blackout and the milky way. Light pollution and the effect on wildlife. And the effects on us. Sky glow. Light pollution! Royal Astronomical Society CC-BY Planetary rings 100% ring rate on gas giants in our solar system....