FTL AF - Intentionally Blank Ep. 156
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells are joined by a surprise guest in this episode where they cover the Fermi Paradox, faster than light issues, and what REALLY is going on with the aliens around earth!
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Chapters
(0:00) - Donald's Special Shirt
(1:10) - Surprise Guest: Ben!
(1:56) - Dragonsteel Nexus Ticket Giveaways
(3:38) - Ben's Missing Invite
(4:40) - The Mysterious Gift
(7:05) - Dan's Badge Ribbons
(8:12) - What Really IS Intentionally Blank?
(8:57) - Dan's Question for Ben
(10:07) - Unapologetically Paranormal
(12:19) - Long Haired Problems
(13:23) - Dans Legit Straight Answer on UFO's
(16:49) - FTL-AF
(18:50) - Different Alien Experiences
(20:08) - Fermi paradox
(23:30) - Only Ones Here Vs Can't Find Them
(24:51) - Nukes Make Better Sci-Fi Worlds
(26:14) - Off Topic Once Again
(26:53) - Brandon's Question for Ben
(27:36) - Writing Group Thievery 
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Hi! I'm the capybara cartoonist! So glad you guys liked them, and thanks Ben for the commission, it was truly so much fun to tackle these very realistic and faithful portraits for such a serious and special occasion. Hope I get to meet everyone at DSN!
(And now I gotta draw Ben in his new shirt as well 😂)
Great work! Your cosplay looks awesome too!
In the end, one must grin and capybar it.
Re copado.
Power to you!
@@spade555 thank you kindly!
Ben with that hair looks suspiciously close to how I imagined Lightsong while reading Warbreaker.
Yes!!! 💯
I'll take it!
Coincidentally (or perhaps not so coincidentally 👀) Lightsong was also considered handsome but unwelcome
I was thinking the exact same things!!!
Ben, I'm a Ben and I'll be at Nexus. If I don't get a Ben badge I will be so upset
I'll do my best!
Ben, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to secure a ticket to Dragonsteel!
Ben is an integral part of the lore I can't believe he doesn't have a ticket. Without him who is Dan meant to ask how's that to?
This has to be an inside joke with them. I can not believe Brandon would not just bring in close friends to his event. These people are his support system. His entire staff probably knows him or at least have seen him. They laugh at no ticket because he won’t need one.
I agree he shouldn’t need one, if you are in the inner circle of the man himself you just get a nod at the door, handed your lanyard (if he doesn’t already have one) and go in.
The capybara portraits are adooorable.
"They are FTL AF" now lives in my quote book.
I love Ben's Bluey shirt!
LMAO Dan's joke about Ben's bag was gold. 12:34
Dan: Ben is Handsome but Unwelcome
Brandon: I knew there was a reason I gave away his ticket!
Love my good gal Len's carpinchos! So proud to see my fellow Argentinian artist get so far. She deserves the recognition🩷 much love
"FTL AF" made me LOL.
I genuinely believe space is so vast it's overwhelmingly likely to be teaming with life, but also so absurdly distant that it will never interact with Earth in any noticeable way. The cosmos is mostly cold and distant with teeny tiny pinpricks of light
Pretty much this. The universe is too big to *not* have life on other planets.
There's also the trick of raw timetables. Earth's been around for billions of years and we've only had spaceflight for a couple of decades... and nothing sustained or super long term yet, and no way of picking up anything far away.
If another planet is exactly on par with us science wise and sending messages out, it'll be centuries before we know. And if they're even 100 years behind us techwise then... or a thousand years? Or a million? All a flash in the pan for the life of a planet.
We can't be the only intelligent life. The only intelligent life that has achieved space tech *at the same time*? That's trickier.
I agree. How ever i think our earth would have contact in the far future.
Agreed, and also so vast in time, if that makes sense. The universe is tens of billions of years old. We as a species in our current form is 100k-200kish years old. Even if we make it for 1 million years before nuking ourselves into oblivion or whatever can happen to end our species, that's still the blink of an eye in cosmological timescales. The scenario that intelligent life would exist close to each other in time and space is incredibly unlikely (we already know that intelligent life evolving is kind of rare, because the dinosaurs were here for hundreds of millions of years before us and they had to die out before we got our chance). That is the answer to the Fermi paradox in my estimation.
nah, plobably noutin
Ben leaving at 8 mins in, and coming back 8:30 is hilarious
Man Ben's over here looking like Carmy from The Bear.
Ben has such Orange Cat energy
what an episode
Given they were first books, I imagine they probably aren't great, but I sort of want to read Brandon's unofficial Dune sequel and Dan's Warhammer book.
The Warhammer book was his thesis project, so I think you can find it in the BYU archives. Possibly online?
Ben wearing a Bluey shirt just became everything I ever wanted in life
To Brandon at the 15:00 mark, about how we put arts and culture on our automated exploration craft. We've only done that on Voyager 1 and 2. Most of our landers and our other probs have none to very little of that sort of thing. It's questionable if we would do it at all on anything truly interstellar due to extreme weight concerns. So its far more likely any probes sent here to Earth will be non-descript.
COSMERE ARGENTINA MENTIONEEEEEEEED
NUKE THE MOON!! I haven't heard that in ages. From the website IMAO, a political satire website that had a long -running series called "In My World" that mocked American politics during Bush Jr's administration. Run by Frank J. Fleming.
17:09 this is my favorite bit on this podcast in a long time. I was crying literal tears
Ben with the Bluey shirt is giving serious Uncle Rad vibes
FTLAF is absolutely genius and deserves to be on a t shirt for sure!!!
I’ll be honest. It feels like this podcast was always meant to be a trio. This is the most fun I’ve had listening to you guys!
Bluey is a worldhopper, confirmed!
I like how when we dont have a gang to hang out with, we have the consolation of belonging to brandoms gang on the internet.😊
The part of finding others that is difficult is that their time of capability to communicate and their distance to us and our own capability to receive it must all align. So it can be that we missed a lot of transmissions before we had technology to hear them, or that the distabce is so far it hasn't reached us yet or that they are only soon going to be able to send it and it will reach us much later. It can be that we will get a communication, but once we get it, the source is long gone cause it had taken too long to get hete
"It depends on how 'F' the 'F' is..." clearly high class authors at the top of their game, as always. Another welcome addition to my lexicon.
Bluey shirt!!!!
Well now I want to see them talk about Bluey.
Doesn't matter if they haven't seen any, episodes are 7 minutes, they can binge before the episode.
Wasn't expecting Gene Wilder, lol.
Heya! I came to C2E2 this year to see you Brandon! Thank you so much for your talks and changing my life for the better!
It's always nice to see Ben joining in the fun here on Earth. I know it's a long drive from that small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
Journey before destination!
The apocalypse is just Scrappy Doo 26:01
This is my new favorite theory
Dan's Scrappy-Doo theory, or as it'll be known in scientific circles, the "bark forest" hypothesis. 👍
Great episode as usual and Dan was on Fire with the jokes 😂
ITS A DOCTOR WHO REFERENCE YOU GUYS CMON
"How's that capybaras" is obviously the best shirt to make from this episode
My opinion on recent UAP: I think this has been released to say, secretly, to certain other nations that we have the tech to easily detect and track their top tech.
“have you SEEN signs!!????”
So Brandon's headcanon to the Fermi Paradox is essentially the last few seasons of Star Gate SG1, and the Ancients. I can roll with that, lol
Week 28 of persistently asking for an Intentionally blank episode about Marching Band!
Ben in the Bluey shirt is everything!
Hahaha yes, you did announce before this episode but still great! He was always paid, but unpaid at the same time. He will forever be an unpaid intern lol
After reading The three body problem, I have a lot of fear of Aliens existing in our universe. The damn book creates most believable scenario.
Hello India, I am your wallbreaker.
Does that book make any real arguments about the likeliness of life to exist? In my opinion most alien-optimist sentiments tend to come from the law of large numbers arguments used by physicists. But when you listen to biologists you learn that the later few variable in the drake equation may indeed be far smaller than the galaxy is big.
They sort of ignored the whole interdimensional / extradimentional angle to the phenomenon. Maybe they haven't looked into it. But personally, I feel that's a more likely scenario than aliens from other planets.
Best episode I've seen so far. I too am FTL AF.
The one episode of next gen- i remember fully!
I think it's notable that everyone carrying high quality cameras on them at all times has not corresponded with an significant increase in UFO sightings
Ditto cryptids. It seems the boom time for cryptids was when only some people had cameras, and unless you knew what you were doing and had time to prepare, photos would come out blurry anyway...
Even more suspicious: the frequency of reports has not decremented while the quality of captured images has not incremented.
The only logical conclusion is that all the blurry photos are actually in focus. Cryptids and UFOs are just blurry irl.
"The apocalypses is Scrappy Doo"
Ben Episodes are always so much fun 😆
eyy~ any shoutout to finding the mystery artist at the beginning??
Such a fun episode! Any word on the Food Heist / Bad Story Idea shirts?
So glad to see the return of Dan’s beard
@dan wells you gotta check out asymmetrical capacitors, and the announcements at A.P.E.C Dec 23rd 2023.
"Handsome but now welcomed" pretty much sums up Moash
Idk, maybe Brandon should write a few more Moash POV's of him being an indefensible evil traitor who kicks children and puppies. I really don't think that has been communicated throughly enough, he's just such an ambiguous character! /s
@@sefflikejeff1917 have you considered that he didn’t kick the child THAT hard? /s
Next space age book needs to have FTL AF in it.
I'm a scientist who works in an astrobiology lab where I study some of the oldest fossils on Earth and how they are preserved. For 88% of Earths history, the planet was dominated by microbes (still is tbh), because the environment was uninhabitable by anything more complex. The Earth was basically uninhabitable to human life until about 400 million years ago, and even then it would have been a struggle.
There is a tiny window of time on a planet like Earth where more complex life can arise. Even then the Earth is a dynamic planet and has been *really* good at killing stuff off in mass extinctions so the window for sentient life to arise and to survive long enough to make contact is even smaller. So while I have no doubt that the universe is squirming with microbial life, I think complex life is relatively rare. This means that sentient races are also probably rare and probably miss each other by tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years.
The other thing is, out of all the thousands of solar systems we have found around other stars, ours is pretty unique in the size, composition, and arrangement of the planets. So if we need an Earth-like planet, in an Earth-like solar system to get complex life, then complex life may be even rarer still.
So I guess in this view, the universe is not so much a dark forest, as an empty station where everyone keeps just missing each other.
Another way to think about it, is that life does not need to become complex and evolve intelligence. Those early microbes did just fine as single cells for the first 3 billion years or so of our planets history. The more evolved an organism is, the simpler it becomes because it is more specialised. An earth worm is pretty simple for an animal, but it's highly evolved compared to its ancestral marine worms.
Super interesting questions to think about.
"I [heart] moash"....... I never thought I'd hear those words
I haven't had this much laugh in a long time. Ben should be a invited more in the podcast.
There was a scientific paper recently that studied possible Dyson spheres, apparently they found a handful possible stars that have some signs of Dyson spheres. It is called Project Hephaistos.
Funnily enough I just ordered myself a "Moash Hate Club" hat, and having an "I
I'd like to recommend Corridor Crew's Videos on UFOs. Visual Artists take apart the video "proof" ;)
First time I see Ben. Handsome guy.
Ben is very folicclely competent.
I usually don't find these guys particularly funny, but FTL-AF made me chuckle.
@BrandSanderson could we get a link to the Capybara artist's socials?
My friend got Chat GPT to do an intro as well lol
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But he doesn't know about intentionally blank so the podcast name is different
A comic? About apocalypse survival? If they talk about Romantically Apocalyptic next week I’m going to laugh XD
How's that, Capybarandon?
Well now I'm just disappointed in myself for missing that one.
A sign off could be a way to challenge/invite another one of your friends to participate in your podcast.
Anyone else think Ben looks like a younger Eric Idle from Monty Python?
A few thoughts:
- it's not just encryption that produces what looks like random noise: data compression does too. If your signal looks like anything other than random noise, then you can exploit those patterns to compress it further without losing any data.
- There are two reasons why Asimov's Foundation novels don't have any aliens. The Watsonian reason is possibly apocryphal, but legend has it that people learned how to time travel, found a way to choose between timelines beyond the obvious causal reach of their earthbound interventions, and then erased time travel from the time line, leaving a galaxy where there were no aliens to challenge humanity, which appears to be an allusion to Asimov's novel The End of Eternity, wherein the meddling time-travel organisation imposes increasing social stasis upon humanity until, in the far distant future, aliens do dominate the galaxy.
The Doylist reason is that Asimov was primarily writing for Campbell, and Campbell only liked aliens that were in some way inferior to the (white American male) humans, so, rather than writing stories where Captain Lanternjaw saves technologically advanced but incompetent aliens from their own stupidity, or Captain Smith comes to the rescue of entire planets of backward natives, Asimov opted to just avoid the issue entirely and not include any aliens in the first place.
- For the Fermi paradox, I tend to come back to "someone has to be first". The Dark Forest argument strikes me as another in a long line of arguments that we shouldn't be "wasting" resources on exploration when we could be using them at home. Maybe there really is some cosmic culling force out there waiting to strike down anyone who draws attention to themselves, but it seems at least as likely that everyone argued that it's so quiet out there in the universe that there must be dragons out there and stayed quiet themselves...
I am with Brandon on the aliens.
Cixin Liu and the Dark Forest made me terrified of Earth being discovered.
When it comes to scifi alien stuff, I like the stories where it always turns out to be something of human creation. The game Warframe has that, these aliens called the Sentients are attacking and it turns out they are super advanced AIs that were sent to the Tau system to set it up for humanity to spread to it, found something there that they decided it is in everyone's best interest to keep us from going there, and returned to wipe out humanity. But they advanced so much they became alien to us.
Another like this was in the TTRPG Aberrant and AEON Trinity. Aberrant takes place in modern times with super heroes much like Marvel and DC. Things keep advancing until it is decided that anyone with the Aberrant gene needs to be removed from the planet for everyone's safty. Fast forward to the far future, Humanity evolved into a techonlogically advanced psychic race when this race of aliens attack... and it turns out it was the natural progression of the people with the Aberrent gene and they changed so much and didn't have anyone with non-aberrant genes to cross breed with.
First book of final Mistborn era: FTL AF
Dan, you spoiled "I Am Not a Serial Killer" before I could read it! You can apologize with a Dragonsteel Nexus ticket.... 😁
Ben looks like curly haired Anton Chigurh.
Mixed with a healthy dose of Jeremy Allen White. Anton The-Bear.
I have Wax and Kaladin in carpincho (Capybara) as stickers in my Kindle. Best investment of my life
Have you heard about the Starshot Initiative? They plan on using lasers to propel microdrones to 20% the speed of light using solar sails, and they are being sent to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, to observe an explanation, and will reach alpha centauri in ~20 years time!
I got Chat GPT to make an outro insulting Ben from your podcast video a year ago on ai
Alright folks, that's a wrap for today’s episode. We covered a lot of ground, had some great laughs, and shared some insightful thoughts. But before we go, let's take a moment to talk about Ben. Ah, Ben. If there were a competition for being the most consistently irritating person, Ben would be the reigning champion. His talent for missing the point is only surpassed by his ability to ruin a perfectly good conversation. So, Ben, thanks for giving us all something to laugh about and a reason to feel grateful for our own sanity.
Remember to subscribe, rate, and leave a review-unless you're Ben. We don’t need your input, buddy. Catch you all next week!
And also another one
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Currently watching lots of the old podcasts epidsodes and they are great
Interdimensional fallen angels
Did anyone else spend the entire podcast obsessively watching Brandon chaotically stacking the autographed pages without a consistent system/order? 😂 Sitting here like "No Brandon! That one should have been top right! Top right dang it!" 😅
I still just want to know why we can't have a dimension full of talking bananas?
Very few people consider the fact that aliens can be much less advanced than humans, because not every planet would have everything you need to make technology and things.
I think we consider it, it just wouldn't be possible to communicate with them or detect them easily from Earth, so we wouldn't be aware of it. It's also more satisfying to imagine an interaction with beings "like us" that were able to make complex tools.
The estimate of that is part of the Drake Equation:
N = R* × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L
fc is the fraction of planets with intelligent life that develops technologies such as radio transmissions that we could detect
For the most part, if aliens were coming to earth, they are probably more advanced. Plus, countless series involving aliens include alien wildlife, so i think people considered it lol.
You’re wrong about this. All you need to make progress on science and tech is 1) Energy/Matter, 2) People and 3) Evidence.
@@El_Diablo_12 so close, I think you mean:
1) Energy/Matter
2) Intelligent beings
3) Evidence
THEY WILL REVEAL THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN TIME
That encrypting technology sounds like the militant nature of humanity. If they are human like in mentality then it makes more sense to go to backwater planets if they have resources they want to exploit.
ben is giving cassius bellona
I don’t really have an opinion on glowing ball people and surely there is life out in the universe but I find it highly suspicious now that every person has high quality cameras in their hands at all time the only sightings of extra terrestrial comes from our benevolent “protectors”
Intentionally Blank episode under 30 minutes? Did Dragonsteel hire Jason Kehe to run the podcasting division or something?...but great episode!
You never mentioned False Vacuum Decay, that's an interesting theory.
I dunno how interesting it is. As I understand it, it's just "At any time, the universe as we know it could cease to exist, with no way to see it coming before it happens." There's not really anything you can do with that - there's nothing to prepare, and no way to preserve anything through the event, so you can either worry about it or just ignore it.
The obvious answer is time traveling tourists not extra-terrestrials.
It seems to me that conspiracies exist in Brandon's works
Capybrandon Sanderson
I believe… Adonlsium is real confirmed!
Dan is wearing a bluey shirt.
Well, we'll just have to wait until 2063 to see what happens.