176 Hitchhiking The Galaxy

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Isaac Arthur

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🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The Galaxy is an enormous place, and moving from your planet to worlds in a different solar system over vast interstellar distances will be no easy voyage. Today we'll consider how someone would go about hitchhiking around on spaceships, as a tribute to Sci-fi's master of humor, Douglas Adams. Watch the Video Version: https://youtu.be/vFdx1Hs71iA Sign up with Skillshare for 2 months of Free classes: https://skl.sh/isaacarthur8 Visit our Website: http://www.isaacarthur.net Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IsaacArthur SFIA Merchandise available: https://www.signil.com/sfia/ Social Media: Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1583992725237264/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsaacArthur/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Isaac_A_Arthur on Twitter and RT our future content. SFIA Discord Server: https://discord.gg/53GAShE Credits: Hitchhiking the Galaxy Episode 176, Season 5 E10 Written by: Isaac Arthur Editors: Darius Said Gloria Meadows Keith Blockus Mark Warburton Matthew Campbell Olly Epsom Cover Art: Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier Graphics by: Bryan Versteeg http://spacehabs.com Darth Biomech https://www.artstation.com/darth_biomech Fishy Tree https://www.deviantart.com/fishytree/ Jarred Eagley Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_losdiajana Justin Dixon Ken York https://www.facebook.com/YDVisual/ Kristijan Tavcar https://www.miragedereve.com LegionTech Studios https://hades9.com Sergio Botero https://www.artstation.com/sboterod?fref=gc Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur Music Manager: Luca De Rosa - lucaderosa2@live.com Music: Paradox Interactive, Andreas Waldetoft, "Utopia (Main Titles)" https://www.paradoxplaza.com Chris Zabriskie, "Divider" http://chriszabriskie.com Marcus Warner, "After the Rain" https://marcuswarnermusic.bandcamp.com Scott Buckley, "Static" & "Titan" http://www.scottbuckley.com.au See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello, SFIA audio listeners.
0:02.5	In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory,
0:05.2	we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.
0:10.5	To hear it and every episode early and ad-free, plus hours of bonus content,
0:15.1	check out go.nebola.tv slash Isaac Arthur and use my code, Isaac Arthur.
0:20.3	This episode is sponsored by Skillshare
0:22.6	To quote Douglas Adams
0:24.8	I may not have gone where I intended to go
0:28.1	but I think I have ended up
0:30.1	where I needed to be
0:31.6	When it comes to traveling the galaxy
0:33.9	in the future this might be the normal
0:36.5	order of business.
0:50.5	This episode will be coming out a few days before Douglas Adams' birthday, the late great
0:55.1	author of the famous Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and also our Book of the Month,
1:00.7	or series for the month, as we'll be discussing his works throughout March.
1:05.7	I don't think there's any series I've read, or rather reread and listened to as much
1:10.5	as the Hitchhiker's guide,
1:12.2	and it's a great example of how humor and satire in science fiction often get more bits
1:18.1	right than even very sober and hard science fiction works. As we're going to see today,
1:24.0	there's a decent chance that in the future, if you want to travel to other worlds,
1:28.6	you're likely to have to hitchhike to get there.
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