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These Vibes are Too Cosmic
Aug 1, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
With DJ AskTheQuestion
Your Weekly WPRB Science Show!
The Computer Simulation Show
Putting your consciousness inside a computer is very, very hard
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10:01 AM |
| Jeff Snyder Happy Swing Jeff Snyder These Vibes Theme Song S/R 2016
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10:02 AM |
| YPY Mild Mind Bending Zurhyrethm EM 2016 Japan
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10:08 AM |
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Show intro: Happy August / delta variant news | |
10:16 AM |
| Angkanang Khunchai Tang Wai Song Chai Thung Thahan (Tang Wai, My Beloved Soldier) Never Forget Me EM 2016
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10:21 AM |
![]() | Sophie Faceshopping SOPHIE Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides MSMSMSM / Future Classic 2018
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10:26 AM |
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Three-way arms race between caterpillars, parasitic wasps and viruses | |
10:34 AM |
![]() | Dereck Higgins CV Dereck Higgins N Future Still FPE Records 2021
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10:38 AM |
![]() | Gamelan Sekar Tunjung Ketawang Angleng, laras slendro, patet sanga Gamelan Sekar Tunjung The Music of K.R.T. Wasitodiningrat Creative Music Productions 1990
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10:43 AM |
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The Oddo-Harkins rule: what makes some elements more common than others? | |
10:55 AM |
![]() | Lena Raine In the Mirror Lena Raine Celeste (Original Soundtrack) Radical Dreamland 2018
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11:04 AM |
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11:14 AM |
![]() | Los Corraleros de Majagual Ocho Dias Los Corraleros de Majagual Coleccion de Oro Vol. 2 Discos Fuentes 2015
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11:17 AM |
![]() | The Orange Peels Mindego Hill The Orange Peels N Celebrate the Moments of Your Life Minty Fresh 2021
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11:19 AM |
| Nuns from Jangchub Choeling Nunnery Gaden Lhagya The Rough Guide to the Music of the Himalayas World Music Network 2006
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11:24 AM |
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Computer simulations: what they can do and why they are hard | |
11:42 AM |
![]() | Malouma Rafi Malouma Dunya Marabi 2003
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11:46 AM |
![]() | Seneca Tribe & Herbert Dowdy, Sr. Alligator Dance Songs of Earth, Water, Fire and Sky: Music of the American Indian New World Records 1976
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11:49 AM |
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Exomoons are now evidenced with real-life images https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-dot-exomo... Littering with plastic microfibers from your clothes and out your washing machine | |
11:58 AM |
![]() | Sofia Kourtesis Dakotas Sofia Kourtesis Fresia Magdalena - EP Technicolour 2021
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Chat is archived.
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Brian (host)
10:04:14 AM
A very happy Sunday to everyone out there, listening or not!
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Richard from Rocky Hill
10:57:54 AM
Hello Brian, and thanks for the tutorial on the significance of odd numbers of protons and neutrons in elements for their abundance or scarcity. That's what I love about your show and WPRB in general -- even the "odd" info and music are valuable! LOL
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Brian (host)
10:59:28 AM
Hi Richard! Thanks for tuning in. I try to be as odd as possible without being completely unintelligible... Hopefully the balance is right! If we are the oddest radio station around, I think we're doing our job
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Richard from Rocky Hill
11:27:03 AM
Yes!
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Richard from Rocky Hill
11:46:18 AM
A question for which the answer may be too large for a chat window (or your time as a multi-tasking host LOL): The people who speculate we may actually be living inside a gigantic commuter simulation (probably created by a fantastically advanced alien civilizaton) ... What indications do they have that this could be true? I'm not asking What proof? I'm asking what indications, what suggestions, leasd them to ask this question?
Shri Amin
11:51:06 AM
@SERIOUS_CACTUS WHEN THE SNAKE EYES IS A COMIN' I BE THERE
Shri Amin
11:52:10 AM
@SERIOUS_CACTUS BILLION SIMULATION IS BILLION CACTUS
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Richard from Rocky Hill
11:58:20 AM
Thanks for replying to my question re: speculating our world is an incredible alien intelligence's computer simulation. If the proponents suggest that there'd be so many of such simulations that, odds are, we'd have to be one of them, reminds me of Anshelm's argument for the existence of God: God is a being such that a greater being than God can't be imagined (or exist). If God did NOT exist, God would NOT be the greatest thing/being that could be imagined. Therefore, God MUST exist, odds are.
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Richard from Rocky Hill
11:58:43 AM
Obviously, I don't accept either argument on either question!
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Richard from Rocky Hill
11:59:09 AM
Thanks for another outstanding show!
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Brian (host)
12:01:04 PM
@Richard I agree that these arguments are indistinguishable at the root... interesting point! Thank you for listening!
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Brian (host)
12:02:15 PM
@Shri I look forward to waking up as a cactus, learning it's been dreaming my life the whole time