Arrival – part 1 (feat. Jolene & Adrian) : Episode 64
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Arrival
What: Aliens arrive, and talk communicate with a human linguist.
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Featuring guest co-hosts
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| Jolene Creighton, managing editor at Futurism.com | Adrian Falcone (@AdrianBFalcone), internet nerd |
Recommended and Related Media
Darmok
The classic ST:TNG tale of alien communication.
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Everything by Ted Chiang
In the episode Adrian recommends The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate for its treatment of travel, but I’m expanding on that here to recommend everything by friend-of-the-show Ted Chiang.
The story on which the movie is based, Story of Your Life, in this collection iTunes | Amazon
Ted’s guest co-host appearance on decipherSciFi
Ted’s author page at Amazon
Alien Math
UI guru Jeff Raskin’s alien arithmetic brain-teaser from forever ago. Adrian’s white whale. 🙂
Jef Raskin’s Alien Arithmetic Problem
The NSA article that informed Raskin and Guertin’s project here
Show Notes
Alien Ship Technology
Ship materials construction. Anti-gravity technologies. Tesseracts. Shadows looking into other dimensions.
Alien Math and Physics
Superdimensionality. Imagining alien understanding of maths and physics. Different perspectives forcing different approaches. The physics of alien arrivals.
Linguistic Relativity
The strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is not backed by good evidence. Superdimensional alien languages. Gaining new perspective into the reality of the universe.
Preparation
Military secret-keeping. General Whitaker’s Morpheus operandi: “I cannot tell you what the matrix is. I have to show you.”
Goodbyes
bwaaaaaaaaahooooooooo *wub wub*
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