What to look for, when we don't know what we're looking for? #019 with Heather Graham

Learn more about what was discussed in this Alien Crash Site episode by clicking through the links below:

• Lindy’s homepage
• Psyche Mission
• ASU's InterPlanetary Initiative
• Vesta
• Kleopatra
• Maxar
• Henry Stone at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Voyager Mission - Gravity Assist
• Lucy Mission
• DART Mission
• Psyche Inspired

Learn more about what was discussed in this episode by clicking on the links below:

• Gary’s homepage.
• Unfettered journey
• Dan Dennett
• Eugene Wigner
• Michael's Complexity Podcast interview with David Kinney
• 2019 IPFest World Building panel discussion
• Geoffrey West’s Scale
• Hanson's Age of Em
• SFI Symposium AI and the Barrier of Meaning
• ACtioN Climate Change seminar - Complexity of Sustainability
• Peter Turchin
• Bob May's 1972 paper: "Will a Large Complex System be Stable?"
• Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
• Paul Smaldino's work on covert signaling
• Peter Watt’s Blindsight
• Asimov’s Foundation trilogy

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

New School Policy and Design for Outer Space

SFI’s InterPlanetary Project

Aging, Adaptation, and the Arrow of Time - A James S. McDonnell Foundation funded research track on Complex Time

Complex Time video playlist

InterPlanetary 2019 panel on Complex Time, featuring Sean Carroll

To learn more about items mentioned in this podcast:

• Natalie's homepage
• Co-Ordination: On Time Between Worlds - An InterPlanetary Panel discussion on Complex Time
• Chris Kempes's Alien Crash Site Interview on life detection
• "Towards a more universal life detection strategy" as submitted to the Planetary and Astrobiology Decadal Survey
• Arrival
  • Ted Chiang's "The Story of Your Life"
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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Alien Crash Site returns after that with an interview with SFI Post-Doc Natalie Grefenstette.

• Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
• Multiple Paths to Multiple Life
  • Watch Chris Kempes and David Krakauer discuss multiple life in episode 2 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"
  • Watch Sara Walker's critique of Multiple Life in episode 4 of "Andromeda Strain and the Meaning of Life"
• Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants, by West, Enquist, Brown and Charnov.
  • A related lecture by Geoffrey West
• Atlantis Dispatch 009, in which we contemplate cultural origins...
• Past related ACS episodes - Heather Graham and Cole Mathis on what Chris calls “Chemical Complexity.”
  • Their co-authored paper, Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry.

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

• Identifying Molecules as Biosignatures with Assembly Theory and Mass Spectrometry.
• Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications.
• Time Team
• Elemental Cycles
• DNA has Four Bases. Some Viruses Swap in a Fifth
• Bennu
• Hayabusa Mission
• Alien Crash Site Episode 015, with Cole Mathis on Assembly Theory.
• Determination of Azimuth
• Atlantis Dispatch 001, in which we contemplate the meaning of “past” life.
• Viking missions
• 84001
• Isua
• Bob Hazen

Learn more about things discussed in this episode, by clicking on the links below: 

• Timiebi Aganaba's home page
  • And LinkedIn
  • And Twitter
• Global Space Treaty
• Artemis Accords
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University's InterPlanetary Project
  • And the Psyche Mission
• The Court Case: Viasat, Inc (Appellant) Vs. Federal Communications Commission (Appellee) re: Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (Movant-Intervenor).

To learn more about the items discussed in this interview, click through the links below. 

• Ryan’s website
• Ryan on Twitter
• The Carrington Event
• Parker Solar Probe
• Mars MAVEN
• Ushering in a New Frontier in Geospace through Data Science 
• Dictionary of Obscure sorrows
• What is an Individual?
• Jorge Luis Borges
• “Talk on Indolence” by the Avett Brothers
• "Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix

For more information on items mentioned in this interview, click through the links below.

• Vanessa’s Website
• InterPlanetary 2018 Festival panel "Intelligent Systems and Cognitive Assistance" featuring Vanessa, David Krakauer, Jonah Nolan, Graham Spencer & Kurt Squire.
• Dan Sperber 
• Norman Rockwell's painting "The Gossips" 
• Giant dragonfly - Meganeura
• Alien Crash Site interview with Tamara van der Does
• Dune witches
• Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan 
• Jil Jilala
• Nass El Ghiwane