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🗓️ 4 June 2021
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0:00.0 | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
0:07.0 | Mick West, this is Brian Keating, into the Impossible Podcast. |
0:15.0 | How are you today? Where are you joining us from? |
0:18.0 | Doing great. I'm joining you from Sacramento and I must say that after C. Clark was one of my favorite |
0:23.7 | science fiction authors when I was growing up and I was I watched him on TV |
0:27.3 | a lot. He had a TV show in Britain so I'm a big Arthur C. Clark fan. |
0:30.9 | Very good. I am honored to be the co-director of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human |
0:37.1 | Imagination and Arthur had many, many sayings, one of which I use as the title of this |
0:41.7 | podcast, which is the only way of discovering the limits of the possible |
0:45.6 | is to venture a little way past them into the impossible and another one which will come up |
0:51.5 | today undoubtedly is for every expert there's an equal and opposite expert. |
0:57.0 | And the third one which we open all of our regularly scheduled interviews with is that any sufficiently advanced technology is |
1:05.8 | indistinguishable from magic and we're going to talk about some magical |
1:09.6 | technology today perhaps that has been reported and I want to talk about some of the |
1:14.9 | implications of this technology if it's true if it's if it's if it's if it did |
1:21.1 | actually exist and and some of the evidence that we have as a scientist I'm always of course |
1:26.1 | interested not so much in belief but in evidence and I want to hearken back to that great |
1:36.0 | Hunter of evidence and that is Carl Sagan. He was not a knight like Arthur C. Clark was but he did say things such as extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. |
1:45.0 | Now, Mick, I'm a scientist. |
1:46.5 | I never reach into a bag that says, you know, here's the extraordinary evidence. |
1:51.0 | I don't know about you, but first can we get a little quick recap for |
1:54.8 | listeners in my podcast. Can you give me a quick recap of how you came to study |
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