We gathered in At Bristol's wonderful planetarium to watch and discuss The Day the Earth Stood Still (Klaatu, not Keanu). We were raising money for Age UK for this, our third live Cosmic Shed recording.
Andrew, Maddy, Ti and Steve were delighted to be joined by Professors Francesca Stavrakopoulou and Bruce Hood.
As we've discussed SETI and life in the universe quite a bit recently, we thought we'd look at Supernatural Belief this time...following on from our Ghostbusters episode. A revelation about R2D2, Moses and a fair bit about Jesus followed.
show notes
Francesca mentions animals appearing to have rituals attached to an "afterlife" belief. As it happens, the BBC's Emma Napper was in the audience (and in the shed the next day) and has filmed an elephant funeral which you can see here.
Andrew didn't mention this in the episode but had this song in his head for most of the evening...particularly when Professor Francesca was speaking.
Steve mentions Stop Killer Robots, Deep Mind and Tay, the racist, sexist, misogynist AI who only has humanity to blame.
Francesca mentions Ex Machina which we also loved
Mission to Mars - Sensoria
Tron - The Cosmic Shed Live in the We The Curious Planetarium
HBO's Chernobyl
Destination Star Trek and ESA
An alien planet with water and Ad Astra
Life After the Navigator (and on the Moon)
Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
HBO's From The Earth to the Moon
Explorers - The Spirit of Apollo
Mika McKinnon - Science Adviser to Star Trek and SGU
Sheddy McShedFace - A trip to the Antarctic
Jim Al-Khalili - Sun Fall
Lost in a Good Game
Godzilla
May the Fourth be with Mark O'Connell
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Robert Llewellyn (Kryten)
Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse
Science & Religion:Exploring the Spectrum
The Meg
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