Podcast appearances and mentions of David Grinspoon

Dr. David Grinspoon discusses the potential for life in the relatively benign clouds of Venus, particularly around 50 km altitude, where conditions are similar to Earth's surface. This idea, once fringe, is gaining acceptance due to intriguing chemistry and clues like the controversial detection of phosphine, a possible biosignature. Life may have migrated from a previously watery surface or arrived via panspermia.

David Grinspoon discusses upcoming Venus missions: DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) and VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR Topography, and Spectroscopy). DAVINCI, the first entry probe with 21st-century instruments, will precisely measure atmosphere composition, like the deuterium/hydrogen ratio, to reconstruct water history. VERITAS, an orbiter, will map the surface in detail, looking for signs of active volcanism and ancient shorelines.

The Habitability of Venus's Clouds: Following Chemical Clues to Possible Life. Dr. David Grinspoon (Planetary Science Institute) and Dr. David Livingston (The Space Show) discuss the growing mainstream focus on the potential for life in the clouds of Venus. Although the surface is too extreme, the cloud layer provides a relatively benign environment with low pressure and cool temperatures, prompting questions about potential habitability. Life might have migrated to the clouds if Venus lost its ancient, biologically promising oceans. The controversial detection of phosphine, a chemical largely produced by life on Earth, serves as an intriguing, strange chemical clue suggesting something "weird" is happening. Grinspoon also addresses panspermia, noting that hardy organisms like tardigrades could potentially survive natural transfers between planets or even interstellar journeys. The ideal altitude, or "sweet spot," for possible life is around 50 kilometers, where conditions resemble Earth's surface.

New NASA Missions DAVINCI and VERITAS Set to Decipher Venus's Atmosphere and History. Dr. David Grinspoon (Planetary Science Institute) and David Livingston (The Space Show) describe the upcoming NASA missions to Venus: DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) and VERITAS. DAVINCI will be the first entry probe with modern instruments since 1979, descending through the atmosphere to sample gases and measure temperature and pressure, also capturing descent photographs. A core scientific goal is obtaining a precise measurement of the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio and noble gas abundances to better reconstruct the history of water loss and the atmosphere. VERITAS, an orbiter, will use radar and infrared mapping to look for signs of active volcanism and geological evidence of ancient shorelines on the surface. These missions aim to collect detailed data that will allow scientists to walk backward through time and understand how Venus transitioned into its current extremely hot state. Retry

Send us a text1 Petrus 3: En julle, mans, behandel julle vroue met respek. Leef saam met jou vrou in die besef dat, al is sy fisiek swakker as jy, sy saam met jou deel in die lewe wat God as geskenk gee. As jy haar só behandel, sal jou gebede nie geblokkeer word nie. (NLV) Dwarsdeur die wêreld, verbrokkel gesinne. Nouja, ons erken dat daar ook nog gelukkige gesinne is, maar hulle word al hoe skaarser, nè? Ons sien almal hoe die invloed van tegnologie en die ek-gesentreerde lewenstyl ‘n ontsettende negatiewe impak op uitgebreide en kerngesinne het.'n Belangrike bydraende faktor is sonder twyfel dat baie mans, om die een of ander rede, hulle pligsbesef teenoor hul gesinne verloor het. In baie dele van die wêreld is gesonde manlikheid glad nie meer belangrik nie. Mans respekteer, beskerm en koester nie meer hulle vrouens nie. Die kinders gehoorsaam nie meer hul ouers nie. En so het baie mans eenvoudig moed verloor. Dit voel asof die samelewing in baie gevalle moed verloor het.Die Amerikaanse astrobioloog David Grinspoon het eendag gesê: Mense word deesdae aangemoedig om sommer maklik moed te verloor en handdoek in te gooi as dinge nie heeltemal na hulle sin verloop nie. Pessimisme word tweede natuur, want mense redeneer deesdae dat as hulle niks aan die saak kan doen nie, dit mos nie hulle verantwoordelikheid is nie!Ag nou ja, dit gebeur oral, so ek kan maar netsowel met die stroom afvaar. Nee, mans, luister!1 Petrus 3:7 En julle, mans, behandel julle vroue met respek. Leef saam met jou vrou in die besef dat, al is sy fisiek swakker as jy, sy saam met jou deel in die lewe wat God as geskenk gee. As jy haar só behandel, sal jou gebede nie geblokkeer word nie. (NLV)Elke man het 'n plig teenoor sy vrou en sy gesin. Kom manne, kry die regte perspektief op die lewe!Dis God se Woord. Vars … vir jou … vandag. Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 23 July 2025: A Cold War Handshake in Space — The 50th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: * Apollo 7 astronaut, Walter Cunningham, shares his unique and candid perspective on the first international joint mission with America's Soviet adversaries. * Terry Virts (@AstroTerry), another former NASA astronaut, shares his forthright reflections on training and working with his Russian counterparts on the International Space Station in more recent times.10th Anniversary of the New Horizons flyby of Pluto:Astrobiologist, Dr David Grinspoon, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and NASA, reflecting on Pluto and the human imagination. A talk about Pluto and the New Horizons spacecraft that flew past the dwarf planet ten years ago. (Courtesy PSI)

How do astronomers detect the conditions for life and techno-signatures on exoplanets many lightyears away? What conditions on earth give us clues to how life might have formed elsewhere? How do intelligent civilisations evolve to technomaturity before they destroy themselves?So in this episode we have the mysterious arising of life and eventually intelligent life on our planet to try and explain, to then apply that to our search for other intelligent life in the cosmos. So to explain that we're going to be getting into the co-evolution of the geosphere and the biosphere on earth and their corresponding feedback loops; the possibility of planetary level intelligence; the difficulty of laying a technosphere on top of the geo and biosphere, and the risk of civilisations wiping themselves out before learning how to harmonise the technosphere with the biosphere; We'll be looking at the changes in the field of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Terrestrial Intelligence), since we can now identify potentially life sustaining exo-planets in nearer parts of the galaxy; we're going to get into the newly funded search for techno signatures from advanced civilisations, and potential space junk from the many civilisations that presumably didn't make it; lastly we're going to discuss recent claims of ancient and alleged present visitations to earth by extra terrestrial intelligence.Fortunately to face these tough and complex issues, our guest is a world specialist in astrobiology, with a talent for making these topics fun and imaginative, an astrophysics professor at the University of Rochester, Professor Adam Frank. He's the author of over 200 scientific papers and 6 books for the general public including, “The Blind Spot: why science cannot ignore human experience” and “The Little book of Aliens” which we'll be focussing on today. He's also an award winning science communicator, on a mission to raise public awareness about existential risk and science in general.What we discussed:00:00 Intro.05:20 The importance of experience.07:00 The limits between the expressible and the inexpressible.09:10 Semantic Information: life as self organising, autonomous agents.15:00 There's stuff you can't talk about - there's only the silence16:20 The Basian probability of other life in the universe.20:00 The ingredients for life on this earth.22:30 The codependence between Geo and Biosphere.22:60 Gaian feedback loops. 27:00 The earth is not conscious but it is an agent.29:45 Mind is a process, it's not just in the head.33:25 The fluidity of individuality.34:30 Distributed Cognition - bacteria, fungal networks etc.38:30 A fundamental reimagining of what we mean by ‘Nature'.39:30 There is no disembodied perspective.41:00 Geosphere to Biosphere to technosphere maturity.47:30 The biosphere offers a model for what planetary intelligence looks like.48:00 The history of search for extra terrestrial Intelligence, SETI49:00 The Drake equation - 7 requirements for intelligence life.53:45 We've never looked - a tiny amount of the sky has been studied.54:00 Exoplanets: searching for biosgnatures and techno signatures.56:00 Technospheres: Kardeshev scale and Dyson Spheres.59:00 Techno junk from dead civilisations.01:02:30 UFO's need more data to be taken seriously.01:08:20 UFO's could be surveilling their spy tech.01:10:00 Pros and Cons of solar system settlement.References:Adam Frank, Evan Thompson, Marcelo Gleiser, “The Blind Spot: Why science cannot ignore human experience”.Adam Frank, “The Little Book of Aliens”Adam Frank, David Grinspoon, Sarah Walker - Intelligence as a planetary scale process.Lynn Margulis - Evolutionary Biologist.David Krakauer et al, An information theory view of individuality Frank Drake - ⁠Project Ozma⁠Jason Wright - SETI meta-analysisExoplantets.orgAdam Frank - New York Times ‘I'm a Physicist Who Searches for Aliens. U.F.O.s Don't Impress Me' article"The Expanse", Apple TV series

From June 15, 2021. Contrary to the destructive role supermassive black holes are thought to play in the lives of stars, it turns out that certain types of galaxies benefit from black holes clearing the way and keeping star formation going. Plus, lightning at the edge of space, a landslide in the Himalayas, and an interview with Dr. Darby Dyar and Dr. David Grinspoon about the recent selection of three different Venus missions.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

У новым выпуску падкаста КК Анягож сабраўся ў поўным складзе, каб падзяліцца з вамі найлепшым і найгоршым прачытаным у 2024 годзе. Згаданае ў выпуску: 05:50 — Валянцін Акудовіч «Трэба ўявіць Сізіфа шчаслівым»: https://knihauka.com/sizif 08:06 — Edith Eva Eger «The Choice» 12:14 — Ева Вайтоўская «Гарэзлівы пацалунак»: https://knihauka.com/pacalunak2 16:15 — Brandon Sanderson «The Way of Kings» 25:08 — David Grinspoon, Alan Stern «Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto» 35:09 — Альгерд Бахарэвіч «Капітан Лятучая Рыба»: https://knihauka.com/kapitan_liatuczaja_ryba_baharevich 42:48 — Эрых Марыя Рэмарк «Чорны абеліск»: https://knihauka.com/remarque_corny_abielisk 54:09 — Michael Harris «The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection» 01:07:46 — Георгий Служитель «Дни Савелия» 01:18:46 — Jeanette Winterson «Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?» 01:28:00 — Стывен Кінг «Ззянне»: https://knihauka.com/king_zziannie 01:38:56 — Жазэфіна Марк «Трымайся, Трусік!»: https://knihauka.com/trymajsia_trusik 01:46:09 — Лінэ Нагель Ільвісокер «Мой свет растае»: https://knihauka.com/moj_sviet_rastaje 01:52:29 — Роберт Желязны «Хроники Амбера» 02:01:19 — Крис Смит, Бек Эванс «Дойти до точки: Как преодолеть писательский блок и создавать тексты без мучений и боли» 02:03:53 — Уоррен Эллис, Дэрик Робертсон «Трансметрополитен» *** Падтрымаць праект: — www.patreon.com/bellit — 4916989643601197 (Priorbank) — 726027383 (BLIK) Пытанні, прапановы, заўвагі: forms.gle/FZtd75PsRndYBg199 bellitpost@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/nasta_bellit/

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss some of the great unanswered questions in science: how and where did life on Earth begin, what did it need to thrive and could it be found elsewhere? Charles Darwin speculated that we might look for the cradle of life here in 'some warm little pond'; more recently the focus moved to ocean depths, while new observations in outer space and in laboratories raise fresh questions about the potential for lifeforms to develop and thrive, or 'habitability' as it is termed. What was the chemistry needed for life to begin and is it different from the chemistry we have now? With that in mind, what signs of life should we be looking for in the universe to learn if we are alone?With Jayne Birkby Associate Professor of Exoplanetary Sciences at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Physics at Brasenose CollegeSaidul Islam Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Kings College, LondonAnd Oliver Shorttle Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare CollegeProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list: David Grinspoon, Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet (Basic Books, 1998)Lisa Kaltenegger, Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos (Allen Lane, 2024)Andrew H. Knoll, Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (‎Princeton University Press, 2004)Charles H. Langmuir and Wallace Broecker, How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind (Princeton University Press, 2012)Joshua Winn, The Little Book of Exoplanets (Princeton University Press, 2023)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

Will alien life look like anything on Earth? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice deep dive into questions about astrobiology, revisiting the Drake Equation, and life beyond Earth with NASA astrobiology strategist, David Grinspoon a.k.a Dr. Funkyspoon.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/revisiting-the-drake-equation-with-david-grinspoon/Thanks to our Patrons Edvardo Cullen, Harriet Harmon, Andre Rivera Hinostroza, David Rolfe, Piotr Toruński, Karen Mills, Ghost Rider, Leonard Leonidas, Beatriz Clemente, Jon Johnson, Loren Blaine, John Bigelow, and Leslie Colonello for supporting us this week. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to new episodes ad-free and a whole week early.

Dr. David Grinspoon was with us to talk about finding and studying fast moving interstellar objects. See the written summary at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024.

1/2: #HOTELMARS: What about the next Oumuamua & What is to be done? David Grinspoon, NASA. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-implications-of-oumuamua-on-the-panspermia-theory/ar-AA1n0T8K Asteroid 243ida

2/2: #HOTELMARS: What about the next Oumuamua & What is to be done? David Grinspoon, NASA. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-implications-of-oumuamua-on-the-panspermia-theory/ar-AA1n0T8K 1837 UK

PREVIEW: #OUMUMUA:  From a conversation with NASA David Grinspoon, Senior Scientist for Astrobiology, re the theory of Panspermia and the interstellar object Oumuamua and its ilk. More later on Oumuamua, what we know and don't know, and what plans to study the next such?  1940

TONIGHT: The show begins in the future after a Russian victory in Ukraine, asking what would Ukraine look like, what would Europe look like, what of NATO?  From the panicky factory managers of Shanghai to the new Senior Scientist of Astrobiology at NASA in DC.  From the tunnels of Gaza to the Yemen mountains hiding the Houthis.  From the evacuated North Border of Israel to the stringest horse in the Middle East.  From Ottawa to Santiago.  From the Red Sea to the South China Sea.  With special attention to the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. 1849 China cat market CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 1/2::  #Ukraine: Simon Kuper aska what a Russian victory means for Ukraine, for Europe, for NATO? Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute. https://on.ft.com/3NAyIim 915-930 2/2::  #Ukraine: Simon Kuper aska what a Russian victory means for Ukraine, for Europe, for NATO? Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute. https://on.ft.com/3NAyIim 930-945 #PRC: #ScalaReport:  Factory managers panic; Beijing blocks rare earth exports. Chris Riegel, Scal.com #Stratacache. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-21/china-bans-exports-of-some-rare-earth-processing-technologies-lqf1pzw8?sref=5g4GmFHo 945-1000 #"HotelMars: #NASA: Welcoming the new Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy, Dr. David Grinspoon, NASA. https://funkyscience.net/news/# SECOND HOUR 10-1015 #Gaza:  Sinwar in his private tunnels.  Major Doron Spielman is a reservist spokesman in the IDF's spokesperson's unit. In his capacity as an IDF spokesperson,.. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1     https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-offers-one-week-cease-fire-in-exchange-for-more-hostages-336ae59a?mod=hp_lead_pos4 https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gazans-are-starting-to-blame-hamas-for-wartime-suffering-066256b0?mod=mhp 1015-1030 #Houthis: Thugs from the mountains looking for pelf.  Haisam Hassanein, FDD. .His current research focuses on commercial diplomacy in the Middle East..  Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1   https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-saudi-arabia-forge-israel-palestine-peace-208044 https://www.reuters.com/world/us-red-sea-taskforce-gets-limited-backing-some-allies-2023-12-20/   1030-1045 #Hezbollah: "It's not normal." Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi is the founder and president of Alma – a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specialized in Israel's security challenges on its northern border. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1   https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-hits-hezbollah-with-fresh-strikes-after-attacks-on-north/ https://israel-alma.org/2023/12/20/daily-update-israel-at-war-day-75-dec-20-2023-2000-pm-israel-time/ https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/mapping-clashes-along-israel-lebanon-border   1045-1100 #Israel: The strongest horse.  Jonathan Ruhe- Jonathan Ruhe is Director of Foreign Policy at JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1   https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gaza-diplomacy-cements-qatars-global-mediator-role-29e0ffb7 https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/red-sea-attacks-on-ships-are-alarmingbut-markets-arent-panicking-07f32936?mod=hp_lead_pos5 https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2023/12/20/deterring-the-houthis-wont-be-easy-for-the-red-sea-maritime-task-force/     THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 #Canada: #Israel: Justin Trudeau disappoints with a ceasefire remark. Conrad Black, National Post. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/no-excuse-for-trudeau-turning-his-back-on-israels-just-war 1115-1130 Two steps forward, two steps back. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-chile-escape-stagnation-new-constitution-economic-deregulation-freedom-6c165b0c 1130-1145  The number of ships at sea cannot meet guarantee the freedom of the seas. Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-naval-deterrence-is-going-going-maybe-even-gone-iran-houthi-attacks-red-sea-097cf61f?mod=commentary_article_pos7 1145-1200  #USN: #RedSea: What is to be done? Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute. Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-naval-deterrence-is-going-going-maybe-even-gone-iran-houthi-attacks-red-sea-097cf61f?mod=commentary_article_pos7 FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 1/4 The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain Hardcover by  Matthew Longo  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Picnic-Dream-Freedom-Collapse-Curtain/dp/0393540774/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic―it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German “vacationers” packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting an opportunity, fearing prison, surveilled by lurking Stasi agents. The Pan-European Picnic set the stage for the greatest border breach in Cold War history: hundreds crossed from the Communist East to the longed-for freedom of the West. Drawing on dozens of original interviews―including Hungarian activists and border guards, East German refugees, Stasi secret police, and the last Communist prime minister of Hungary―Matthew Longo tells a gripping and revelatory tale of the unraveling of the Iron Curtain and the birth of a new world order. Just a few months after the Picnic, the Berlin Wall fell, and the freedom for which the activists and refugees had abandoned their homes, risked imprisonment, sacrificed jobs, family, and friends, was suddenly available to everyone. But were they really free? And why, three decades since the Iron Curtain was torn down, have so many sought once again to build walls? Cinematically told, The Picnic recovers a time when it seemed possible for the world to change. With insight and panache, Longo explores the opportunities taken―and the opportunities we failed to take―in that pivotal moment 1215-1230 2/4 The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain Hardcover by  Matthew Longo  (Author) 1230-1245 3/4 The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain Hardcover by  Matthew Longo  (Author) 1245-100 am 4/4 The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain Hardcover by  Matthew Longo  (Author)

#HotelMars: #NASA: Welcoming the new Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy, Dr. David Grinspoon, NASA. https://funkyscience.net/news/# 1963

PREVIEW: From a longer conversation with longtime colleague Dr. David Grinspoon, now the newly named NASA Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA HQ.  Delighted!  Dr. Grinspoon describes expanding the search for life and life habitats beyond the assumptions of our creature requirements.  Part of a Hotel Mars episode with Dr. Space, David Livingston. 1961

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow PROBES IN PREP: 1/2  #HotelMars: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted September 22, 2021) https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci

Photo: 1946 Greenwich No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow PROBES IN PREP: 2/2  #HotelMars: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted September 22, 2021) https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci

Photo: 1910 ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH. No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow NO PROBE MISSION SCHEDULED. #Bestof2021: The ice-skating rink of Jupiter beckons a probe: HotelMars: Jupiter's unexplored giant icy moon Ganymede. Planetary Society. David Grinspoon @Funkyspoon Pl anetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasas-jupiter-probe-beams-back-first-pictures-of-ganymede/ar-AAKQjHs

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Bestof2022: #HotelMars: Working through the Mars astrobiology scenarios. David Grinspoon @funkyspoon. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted January 20, 2022) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/possible-sign-of-mars-life-curiosity-rover-finds-tantalizing-red-planet-organics/ar-AASUxNx

Episode Title and Show Notes:106 - Michael Garfield & David Krakauer on Evolution, Information, and Jurassic ParkWelcome to Complexity, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm Michael Garfield, producer of this show and host for the last 105 episodes. Since October, 2019, we have brought you with us for far ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe. Today I step down and depart from SFI with one final appearance as the guest of this episode. Our guest host is SFI President David Krakauer, he and I will braid together with nine other conversations from the archives in a retrospective masterclass on how this podcast traced the contours of complexity. We'll look back on episodes with David, Brian Arthur, Geoffrey West, Doyne Farmer, Deborah Gordon, Tyler Marghetis, Simon DeDeo, Caleb Scharf, and Alison Gopnik to thread some of the show's key themes through into windmills and white whales, SFI pursues, and my own life's persistent greatest questions.We'll ask about the implications of a world transformed by science and technology by deeper understanding and prediction and the ever-present knock-on consequences. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify and consider making a donation or finding other ways to engage with SFI at Santa fe.edu/engage. Thank you each and all for listening. It's been a pleasure and an honor to take you offroad with us over these last years.Follow SFI on social media: Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1917 Fraternization  #Venus: Lander on the continent. David Grinspoon, Planetary Science Institute. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.livescience.com/venus-volcano-map

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Enceladus: #Saturn: The unknowns of the water vapor plumes,David Grinspoon, Planetary Science Institute. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com  https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/saturns-moon-enceladus-has-all-the-ingredients-for-life-in-its-icy-oceans-but-is-life-there/ar-AA1cyOfb

We welcomed back Dr. Grinspoon to discuss finding phosphorous on Enceladus and then in Part 2, we talked more about volcanos on Venus. Read the full summary of this program at www.thespaceshow.com for this date, Wednesday, June 21, 2023.

Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard  –  John  –  Mark – Keith  – Kynthea –  Ron  –  Robert Fast links to Bios:   John – Mark – Kynthea – Keith – Ron – Robert    Support The Other Side of Midnight! “Finding extraterrestrial artifacts in our own solar system is, at least, [now scientifically] plausible ….” — Dr. David Grinspoon, NASA How the NASA “UAP Revolution” BEGAN …. It began … with “the Independent Mars Investigation” — the first known scientific study (in 1983) of possible “ET artifacts on Mars”; artifacts photographed by NASA's earlier unmanned Viking Mission during the 200th “Bicentennial Summer Celebration” of the Nation's formal separation from its colonial owner, England. It began … with my still somewhat unbelievable success in convincing upper management of the prestigious west coast “think tank” SRI (the Stanford Research Institute) to sponsor “an informal investigation” of a set of “highly geometric land forms” [...]

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Bestof2022: #HotelMars: Working through the Mars astrobiology scenarios. David Grinspoon @funkyspoon. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted January 20, 2021) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/possible-sign-of-mars-life-curiosity-rover-finds-tantalizing-red-planet-organics/ar-AASUxNx

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Bestof2021:  #HotelMars: Ice skating on the gigantic Galilean moon Ganymede. David Grinspoon @Funkyspoon Planetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com (Originally posted June 21, 2021) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasas-jupiter-probe-beams-back-first-pictures-of-ganymede/ar-AAKQjHs

Guest Page Fast links to Items: Richard  –   Ron  –  Jonathan  –  Robert Fast links to Bios:     Stephen  –  Ron  – Jonathan  –  Robert  –  Ruggero  –  Barbara   Support The Other Side of Midnight! “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” NASA Study Group: First Report …. MAJOR Breakthrough!! Well, it's finally happened …. Earlier this week, at NASA'S 4-hour (!) “UAP Study Group” first public meeting, one of the veteran Panel members, Dr. David Grinspoon, key figure in the NASA and global “astrobiology community,” casually announced– “As part of future UAP [“Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena”] research … NASA finding extraterrestrial artifacts in our own solar system is at least, [now scientifically] plausible ….” As that old “Mikey” commercial used to say– “This changes EVERYTHING!!” The NASA Group's formal recommendations aren't due until late July, 2023; but the sudden, striking change in NASA's previous, totally negative “ET artifacts policy position,” is like the Sun [...]

Can there be life on planets without magnetic fields? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice discuss exoplanets, extraterrestrials, and answer extraordinary questions from our fans with astrobiologist, David Grinspoon. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-queries-silicon-aliens-with-david-grinspoon/Thanks to our Patrons el EC Podcast, neutronforce, Jim Crutcher, S Mokry, and Sly Sparkane for supporting us this week.Photo Credit: NASA/Goddard/Francis Reddy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1975 1975 stamps of the united states commemorative stamps of the united states mariner 10 @Batchelorshow #Bestof2021: 1/2  #HotelMars: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted September 22, 2021) https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1990 topographic map of Venus surface @Batchelorshow #Bestof2021: 2/2  #HotelMars: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted September 22, 2021) https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon

Photo: No known restrictions on publication.Pathfinder 1997 @Batchelorshow 1/2: #HotelMars: Phobos falls into Mars in 50 million years. David Grinspoon, Planetary Institute. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://t.co/J83Amz5TMT https://twitter.com/nasagoddard/status/1609349400576552960?s=51&t=p1Arb9Wlh88cp07nSr6TrA

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/2:  #HotelMars: Squishy lid tectonics on the surface of Venus. . David Grinspoon, Planetary Institute. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://phys.org/news/2022-12-venus-earth-like-lithospheric-thickness.html

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1981 @Batchelorshow #Bestof2021: Two for Venus. VERITAS and DAVINCI to Venus.  David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon, Planetary Science Institute (Originally posted November 30, 2021) https://www.space.com/nasa-davinci-venus-mission-video David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. Rubens 1635, Adonis and Venus @Batchelorshow #Bestof2021:  Plans before the war: Venera-D to Venus from Roscosmos and NASA. David Grinspoon @DrFunkySpoon, Planetary Science Institute (Originally posted November 30, 2021) https://news.am/eng/news/673487.html David Grinspoon , astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  .. *Venera-D will be the first Venus probe launched by the Russian Federation (the earlier Venera probes were launched by the former Soviet Union). Venera-D will serve as the flagship for a new generation of Russian-built Venus probes, culminating with a lander capable of withstanding the harsh Venusian environment for more than the 11⁄2 hours logged by the Soviet probes. The surface of Venus experiences average temperatures of 462° Celsius (864 Fahrenheit), crushing 90 bar (89 atm; 1,300 psi) pressures, and corroding clouds of carbon dioxide laced with sulfuric acid. Venera-D will be launched on an Angara A5 rocket.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #Bestof2021: The ice-skating rink of Jupiter beckons a probe: #ClassicHotelMars: Jupiter's unexplored giant icy moon Ganymede. Planetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com David Grinspoon @Funkyspoon Planetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasas-jupiter-probe-beams-back-first-pictures-of-ganymede/ar-AAKQjHs

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1/2: #ClassicHotelMars: Life on Venus. . David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally aired September 22, 2021) SpaceShow.com https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @BatcPhoto: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/2: #ClassicHotelMars: Life on Venus. . David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally aired September 22, 2021) SpaceShow.com https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon helorshow

October 22, 1975. After traveling millions of miles through space, a Soviet spacecraft plunges through thick clouds of sulfuric acid to land on Venus. Its goal: take a photograph of another planet's surface and send it back home—history's first up-close glimpse at a world other than our own. Venus, our closest neighbor, is similar in size to Earth and may even share some planetary material. It's why scientists sometimes call it our twin planet. Yet its rock-melting temperatures and poisonous atmosphere make it profoundly different. If anything, it is our evil twin. What's behind humanity's long fascination with Venus? And what can the differences between these cosmic twins teach us about our home planet…its present, and its possible future?Special thanks to our guests, David Grinspoon, author of Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet, and Sally's twin sister, Eliza Helm. Grinspoon's latest book is called Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #ClassicHotelMars: Juno takes snapshots: Ice skating on the gigantic Galilean moon Ganymede. David Grinspoon @Funkyspoon Planetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com (Originally posted June 21, 2021) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasas-jupiter-probe-beams-back-first-pictures-of-ganymede/ar-AAKQjHs

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #ClassicHotelMars: Searching for Venus unknowns: #HotelMars: Three robots for Venus. @Funkyspoon David Grinspoon. Planetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com (Originally posted June 21, 2021). https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/02/world/venus-nasa-discovery-missions-scn/index.html

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1/2: #ClassicHotelMars: What of the Second Planet in the Habitable Zone? . 1/2: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci (Originally posted January 9, 2022) David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 2/2: #ClassicHotelMars: What of the Second Planet in the Habitable Zone? . 2/2: The Clouds of Venus and the Search for Life. David Grinspoon @@DrFunkySpoon , Planetary Science Institute; David Livingston, SpaceShow.com https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/davinci (Originally posted January 9, 2022) David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #ClassicHotelMars: Planetary missions of tomorrow:  Ice skating on the gigantic Galilean moon #Ganymede. David Grinspoon @Funkyspoon Planetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com (Originally posted June 21, 2021) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasas-jupiter-probe-beams-back-first-pictures-of-ganymede/ar-AAKQjHs

Nori is the carbon removal marketplace that  helps organizations, companies, and individuals meet their climate goals with high-quality carbon removal offsets. They are early advocates of carbon removal (as opposed to avoided carbon offsets), advocates of the intersection of blockchain technology and climate, and purveyor of regenerative agriculture projects.  Ross is a former political philosophy PhD student who decided playing with filmmaking was more fun than graduate school. He is a screenwriter, producer. He's also worked in technology communications in the blockchain space. And he is a cofounder of Nori as well as their their Creative Editor where he leads the development of Nori's podcasts and other types of media. If you'd like to get in touch with Ross, you can follow him on LinkedIn or follow Nori on Twitter.  Keep up with the show by following The Net Zero Life on Twitter and Instagram (@thenetzerolife). You can also get in touch at www.thenetzerolife.com or via email at nathan@thenetzerolife.com. Season three of The Net Zero Life is powered by Climate People. If you are a software engineer looking to get into climate tech, Climate People is the best place to start. You can reach Brendan Anderson, CEO of Climate People, at brendan@climatepeople.com. References During the Show: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry - https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/michael-e-mann/the-new-climate-war/9781541758223/ -https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/220698/the-wizard-and-the-prophet-by-charles-c-mann/ -https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Human-Hands-Shaping-Planets/dp/1455589128 (David Grinspoon)    

Photo:  SECOND GENERATION MARS ROVER WITH FIRST GENERATION MARS ROVER #Mars: The rovers on Mars; & What is to be done? David Grinspoon, astrobiologist, Planetary Institute. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com  https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/ David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon

Photo:   Bouvier's familiar astronomy 1857, page 40  #Venus: Six probes in the next ten years. David Grinspoon, astrobiologist, Planetary Institute. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_Venus David Grinspoon, astrobiologist; Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute; was the former inaugural Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.  @DrFunkySpoon

Astrobiologist, planetary scientist, author and science communicator David Grinspoon has just been named a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He returns to Planetary Radio for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of our search for life across the solar system and beyond. We also learn what it was like to grow up in a home visited regularly by Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov. Plus, get out your pencils and calculators! Bruce Betts delivers another cosmic arithmetic challenge in the space trivia contest. Discover more at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/2022-david-grinspoon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.