Episode: 30 Xenogenesis - Adulthood-Rites: I: LO Chapter 7

XenoThesis

In Episode 30 Michael and Richard discuss Akin’s cool under pressure. Tangents include: transformative works in copyright, Deep sea creatures, Uranium enrichment, and Swiss neutrality.

Timestamps

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:31 - Intro
00:01:28 - Length of the books
00:02:14 - F&*K the DMCA [1]
00:03:00 - Transformative works Google Vs Perfect 10 [2]
00:04:00 - Chapter 7 Predictions
00:05:00 - Chapter Summary
00:05:39 - Tino takes Akin out to gather wood
00:06:00 - LO’s pseudo-trees are hard
00:06:50 - Truly Macro scale molecules in biological systems
00:10:40 - Border’s of the LO entity
00:11:30 - LO the village, the protoship, the part name
00:13:35 - Akin can sense the border of LO
00:13:59 - The path less trodden
00:14:40 - Oral fixation
00:15:47 - “Son”
00:16:09 - We won’t let go the Broken Bow
00:17:00 - Oankali begrudingly tolerate Hunting/Fishing
00:18:07 - Writting down of knowledge from before the war
00:18:50 - Sensation of chemical communication with a foetus
00:20:00 - Tree murderers!!
00:20:50 - Human need for physical contact
00:22:04 - Akin/Constructs as a bridge between the Humans and the Oankali
00:23:00 - Three-way bonding in an Oankali reproductive unit
00:27:06 - Poisonous catapillar/Peripatus [3]
00:29:40 - Caterpillars [4]
00:30:25 - Evolutionary example classic the peppered moth [5]
00:30:25 - GCSEs (for the benefit of international listeners [6])
00:31:24 - Number of Species in the sea [7]
00:32:24 - F%*K mosquitos
00:34:30 - Characteristics of species that survive mass extinctions [8]
00:35:34 - Deep sea life [9]
00:39:18 - Blob Fish, before and after decompression [10, 11]
00:40:40 - Grabbed by resisters
00:41:50 - Akin Being Astute
00:42:20 - Tino skolds gun wielding resisters
00:44:16 - This ends poorly
00:47:45 - Resister Weapons
00:48:30 - Nuclear Weapons are hard [12]
00:52:30 - Swiss bomb shelters [13]
00:56:16 - Crazy swiss gun [14]
00:57:30 - Next chapter predictions
00:58:47 - Outro

References

• [1] (DMCA) Digital Millennium Copyright Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
• [2] Transforative Works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_(law)#Ninth_Circuit_decisions
• [3] Peripatus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatus
• [4] Heather like camoflage in Emperor Moth Caterpillar http://www.wildlifeinsight.com/british-moths/emperor-moth-and-caterpillar-saturnia-pavonia/
• [5] Evolution - The Peppered moth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
• [6] General Certificate of Secondary Education, exams taken at 16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Certificate_of_Secondary_Education
• [7] Estimates of the number of species in the sea have varied https://www.deepseanews.com/2019/03/how-many-species-are-in-the-deep-sea/
• [8] Characteristics of species that survive mass extinctions https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/caos-run031319.php (https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0902)
• [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq_polymerase
• [10] https://myanimals.com/animals/wild-animals-animals/fish-wild-animals-animals/the-blobfish-habitat-and-characteristics/
• [11] Apparently temperature is more of an issue than pressure, but pressure is sometimes still a problem https://www.deepseanews.com/2016/03/under-pressure/
• [12] Enrichment https://www.nrc.gov/materials/fuel-cycle-fac/ur-enrichment.html
• [13] Swiss National Redoubt Strategy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtnwyTICTx4
• [14] stgw 57 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm16Cjy_pzA

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