Jupiter Ascending : Episode 44
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Jupiter Ascending
What: Fuedalism in space with Channing Tatum as a dog-person.
Directed by: The Wachowski siblings
Starring: Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean
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Show Notes
Jupiter
Baby naming. Looking through a telescope with the kids and co-bff Joe. Astrology. 😒
Fermi Padadox
Jupiter Jones: Because a dream is the only way any of this make sense.
Caine Wise: Compared to what? The idea that you’re the only intelligent species, on the only inhabitable planet, in a universe so full of planets that you don’t even have a number to describe how many there are.
Civilization Development
“Tersies.” Seeding planets. The “prometheus problem.” Coexistence with dinosaurs??
Harvest
Analogies to our treatment of animals. It can still be “affecting.”
Genetic Modification
Cyberpunk. CRISPR. Animal trait splicing. Channing Tatum with his mouth open.
Space Feudalism
Lots -isms and -igarchies and whatnot. An economy sort-of based on time reminds us of Andrew Niccol’s In Time.
Nihilism
What would you do if you owned whole planets?
Goodbyes
Do you like waffles?
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