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269 – Fun Ruiners

269 – Fun Ruiners

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In a departure from our normal format, Blake and Karen discuss how science ruins all the fun of some very popular Sci-Fi/Horror tropes. 

Alternate Realities and the Multiverse

Some thoughts about multiverses from SciAm

Body Swapping

Gilligan’s Island Body Swapping

Russian Dog Head Experiment (journal)

More on the Dog Head (wikipedia)

Aliens in our Solar System

SciAm on Aliens

Looking for “alien” artifacts

Cryonics

This American Life segment on cryonics (powerful but disturbing)

In reSearch of… Cryogenics  (Note – Cryonics is freezing people for hypothetical later thawing, Cryogenics is the legit study of freezing all sorts of things.)

Time Travel

Twin Study Confirms Einstein

Simulation Hypothesis

Just how many bits would be in a model of the universe?

Some pro-simulation speculation (I am not remotely convinced)

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