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Nature Podcast

Nature Extra: Futures April 2016

Nature Podcast

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Science, Technology, News

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Futures is Nature's weekly science fiction slot. Adam Levy and Shamini Bundell read you their favourite from April, ‘Choices, in sequential order’ by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.

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0:00.0

This is a podcast extra from nature. Each week nature publishes a science fiction story in its

0:05.6

futures slot. In the end of every month, we read you our favourite. This month's story is Choices in

0:11.8

sequential order, written by Carlo Yeager Rodriguez, published on April 6th and read by Adam Levy

0:17.5

and me, Charmany Bundell. Single Axis Designs.

0:22.4

The Key to Life.

0:23.9

Copyright 2349.

0:26.6

Start.

0:27.8

Planet.

0:28.9

Earth or Tao Setti E.

0:31.8

Tao Setti E.

0:34.6

Redirecting to xenobiota.

0:37.0

You're killing me. Down in this tunnel you've made, but I feel like I can only talk to you.

0:43.2

Strange, huh? I feel euphoric.

0:47.0

I wonder if it's the low oxygen levels on the planet's surface.

0:50.5

I feel it's because of you.

0:52.4

I'm 12 light years away from home, paralyzed in a hole in the ground, on a hell planet,

0:57.0

but you're everything I ever dreamed in my life.

1:01.0

Can it move? Present or not present?

1:05.0

Present.

1:07.0

Symmetry. Radial or pentamerism or bilateral.

1:11.6

Bilateral.

1:13.6

Because of you, the promise of you, V and Mum agreed.

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