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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