<p>Learn more about things discussed in this episode, by clicking on the links below: </p><ul><li>Timiebi Aganaba's <a href="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/3344008">home page</a><ul><li>And<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/timiebi-u-aganaba-dcl-681a3014/"> LinkedIn</a></li><li>And <a href="https://twitter.com/Timiebi89">Twitter</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introouterspacetreaty.html">Global Space Treaty</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-accords/index.html">Artemis Accords</a></li><li>Maslow's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs">Hierarchy of Needs</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Elkins-Tanton">Lindy Elkins-Tanton</a> of Arizona State University's InterPlanetary Project<ul><li>And the <a href="https://psyche.asu.edu/">Psyche Mission</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-373276A1.pdf">The Court Case</a>: Viasat, Inc (Appellant) Vs. Federal Communications Commission (Appellee) re: Space Exploration Holdings, LLC (Movant-Intervenor).</li></ul><p> </p>

What to look for, when we don't know what we're looking for? #019 with Heather Graham

A new InterPlanetary interview series from the Santa Fe Institute takes a page from the Strugatsky brothers' classic Soviet sci-fi novel, Roadside Picnic, to discuss a variety of transformative alien artifacts.

Thirteen years ago, an alien civilization visited our planet, and left behind myriad, mysterious materials in their crash sites. These areas, Zones, behave very strangely, but the interplanetary items they contain could change the trajectory of our technological advancement. What appears as a hoop might actually be a perpetual-motion machine.  What appears as a slime might alter space-time.

Spend too much time in the Zone and your genes might mutate, your bones might dissolve, your body might be ground into meat. If you’re lucky enough to make it out alive, you’ll likely be imprisoned. But a successful trip in and out of the Zone could alter human history. Do you dare? And for what?

Hosted by Caitlin McShea.