Summary: The Movie:<br><br> <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/movie/life/id1207067167?mt=6&at=1001l7hP" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">iTunes<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Ryan-Reynolds/dp/B06XT9L2R8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491273511&sr=8-1&keywords=life+2017&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Life (2017)<br> What: The crew of the ISS faces the first life discovered from outside of Earth.<br><br> Directed by: Daniel Espinosa<br><br> Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare, Olga Dihovichnaya<br> Recommended and Related Media<br> <br> Alien<br><br> The other (classic) movie where folks are trapped on a ship with an alien. It also goes badly.<br><br> Watch it again because it’s so great <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/movie/alien-the-directors-cut/id361991162?mt=6&at=1001l7hP" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">iTunes<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Sigourney-Weaver/dp/B003GXJ072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491283010&sr=8-1&keywords=alien&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> What if… orbital speed?<br><br> <a href="https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">“It’s hard to get to orbit because you have to go so fast.”<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> Also, this:<br> <br> Show Notes<br> The International Space Station<br> Crew of six. Highly trained to do space stuff and… study aliens? Crazy crane-arms.<br> Is this the future?<br> Near-future? Referencing the challenger explosion. A survey of the evidence and the answer: basically this must be taking place now. World population: 8 billion!<br> Origins of alien life<br> Looked rather similar to life on our own planet. Common origins. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Panspermia<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a>. Or is life typical in the universe, and life as we understand it is a somewhat typical example?<br> Time in space<br> In the movie Jake Gyllenhaal claims 473 days in space. That’s a lot! <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-stressful-will-a-trip-to-mars-be-on-the-human-body-we-now-have-a-peek-into-what-the-nasa" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">NASA Twin study<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a>.<br> This alien<br> Wow what a bastard this alien is. “Just trying to survive.” Pluripotency and cell specialization. A brain made of muscles. “A giant piece of murder muscle.” <a href="https://youtu.be/t-3qncy5Qfk?t=51" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">A jet plane made of biceps<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a>. One cell<br> Kill it with fire!<br> Literal firewalls. Temperatures of incinerators. Could we burn it up by tossing it down into the atmosphere (hot!).<br> Kill it with space!<br> Give that alien some space. Aliens love space.<br> <a href="https://i2.wp.com/www.decipherscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/bitches-love-space.jpg" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right"><span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Plan B: Screw it! Push it and they and everything into space! But is the math in the ballpark of reasonable? Escape velocities from earth’s surface vs the ISS.<br> <br> Feedback? Please Contact Us<br> <a href="mailto:contact@decipherscifi.com" target="_blank">contact@decipherscifi.com</a><br> Amazon and iTunes links include our affiliate codes. If you wouldn’t mind helping us out a tiny bit, go ahead and use them to buy/stream something. Thanks!
