Transhumanism, Latvian style
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades!
I was planning a civil defence episode, using that book I recently acquired…but it turned out to be actually very good and competent. Which probably will go into another episode, but it wasn’t fun enough for my birthday episode (turning 29 tomorrow) So, I grabbed the chairman of the Latvian Transhumanist Association, and we had a discussion about what transhumanism is, and a bunch of funny really hard science stories. Because Astronomy can be fun, comrades!
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| 1:30.3 | See, this week I was planning to do an episode on this book made in Soviet Union in 1983 called |
| 1:38.3 | It Dozoznaz Kajedi, or this should be known by everyone. |
| 1:42.3 | The problem is I was about to make fun of the book. |
| 1:46.0 | You know, it's a kind of civil defense book, but it's actually not funny because the book is really good and useful and actually has valid scientific information on how to survive nuclear blasts and chemical assaults and whatever. |
| 2:02.6 | So, yeah, it just wouldn't make for a funny episode. |
| 2:06.4 | I'd make like a duck and cover thing from the 50s, except better, because this one's actually good. |
| 2:12.8 | And I know that it's good because I have my friend here. |
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