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August 24, 2020: Katie Mack, author, "The End of Everything"
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Tonight: Katie Mack, author, "The End of Everything"
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• The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), by Katie Mack
• Katie Mack's website
• @astrokatie (Twitter)
• Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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Katie Mack, author of "The End of Everything," on the end of the universe | ||||||||||
Tomaš Dvořák | Game Boy Tune | Machinarium Soundtrack | No label | |||||||
Mark's intro | 0:00:55 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
Interview with Katie Mack | 0:17:32 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
Mark's comments after the interview | 0:42:50 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
Eric Bibb and Needed Time | Just Keep Goin' On | World Playground - A Musical Adventure For Kids | Putumayo Kids | 0:55:33 (Pop-up) |
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@KfHP you'll want to stay tuned to the playlist to the end of the show
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Mark, have you ever read anything by Greg Egan?
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...our little world, as far as we can imagine it may end.
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they really should come up with a term that makes sense.
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(((Murakami Whywolf):
However, I must say that I am a transhumanist. Why? Because I've met humans, and I know one of them from the inside, and I don't think a Serengeti Mark II brain is adequate to the level of power we've got.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- but to discount the astonishingly unique Jewel that is Earth & the evolution of Life - the whole Environment right here - is a catastrophic vacuum event within the mind, heart & conscience of Homo Sapiens here already & now.
Terraforming another undeserving planet is so far out ahead of us @ present it's essentially Captain Nemo pathology to consider it within our foreseeable grasp in any probable way.
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Their argument is that it's as much death as falling asleep and waking-up. I'll reserve judgement until I get the opportunity.
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No, I think Pournelle might have hammed it up to better troll decent folk, but I think he devoutly (he was some sort of Catholic, I gather, even though there's this story I heard in which he was bent on adultery) believed in the opinions of the 'Good' Guys in that book.
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The heroes use nuclear power, fight with poison gas, and wind up enslaving the bad guys, who are mostly black.
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As an example, I'd say that he would firmly deny being racist, but blame their culture and White Liberals for making those black people the bad guys not up to Saving the World.
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