Episode 82 - Legends in Our Own Minds

Recorded: 27 October 2017
Released: 29 October 2017
Duration: 77 minutes 16 seconds

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Host Paul Carr is joined by James Garrison, Nick Nielsen, and Mike Bohler to talk about local urban

The Spencer Oklahoma Purple Church

legends and the forces driving them. Stories like Chicago's Resurrection Mary have been told all around the world for centuries. Also, portals keep popping up in modern narratives, and perhaps have also been with us for a long time.

Our conversation ranges from the Purple Church, to Crop Circles, to the Nazca Lines, to the Anasazi to Scotland's Ring of Brodgar, to Skinwalker Ranch, and much more.

Links:

Spooky Oklahoma Legends
Vanishing Hitchhiker
Ring of Brodgar
Nazca Lines
Circle Makers

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky

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Episode 81 - Another year of WTF with Eva Bodman

Recorded: 20 October 2017
Released: 21 October 2017
Duration: 85 minutes, 36 seconds

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Paul Carr and Adam Smith are joined by NASA Postdoctoral Fellow Eva Bodman (who was recommended to us by Tabby), to talk about developments on Boyajian's Star over the last year. A lot has happened, and we covered as much as we could. We also took a couple of live questions from the YouTube chat, which is much appreciated.

Links

Last years's Episode - 1 Year of WTF
Eva Bodman's Research
Where's The Flux? blog
Tabby's Ted Talk
Tabby's Star for the Perplexed
The KIC8462852 Subreddit and its Wiki
A list of papers on Boyajian's Star and related topics
Bodman and Quillen: Cometary Source for the Strange Behavior of KIC 8462852
Tabby on the Gaia Data Release 1

Forgan and Elvis:  Extrasolar Asteroid Mining as Forensic Evidence for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Duncan Forgan answered questions on ET Asteroid Mining
First interview With Brad Schaefer on the Century Long Dimming and the Second Interview
Interview with Josh Grindlay on DASCH Photometry

Aliens, Perhaps, but Not the Aliens of the Gaps
The Absolute, Definitive Truth About Alien Megastructures

Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky

The Unseen Podcast is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.

Episode 80 - We, Martians?

Recorded: 6 October 2017
Released: 10 October 2017
Duration: 80 minutes 12 seconds



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NASA budget as percentage of Federal Budget

Host Paul Carr welcomes Jake Robins of the WeMartians podcast, along with panelists Sam
Lichtenstein, Adam Smith and Nick Nielsen to talk about the current and future state of the human advance upon the fourth stone from the sun.

Links:

WeMartians
WeMartians on Twitter
Pit Crater in Elysium Mons
The Descent Propulsion System

Making Life Multi-Planetary

Credits:

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky

The Unseen Podcast is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license