Summary: Stream it:<br><br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Oasis/dp/B06X96YZTP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493708397&sr=8-1&keywords=oasis&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Oasis (Amazon Original Pilot)<br> What: A Chaplain is called to help out on a space settlement. Based on Michel Faber’s ‘The Book of Strange New Things’.<br><br> Directed by: Kevin Macdonald<br><br> Starring: Richard Madden, Flora Spencer-Longhurst, Moshidi Motshegwa, Haley Joel Osment<br> Recommended and Related Media<br> <br> Oasis<br><br> The show we’re covering on the episode!<br><br> Stream it | <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Oasis/dp/B06X96YZTP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493708397&sr=8-1&keywords=oasis&tag=decsci05-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Amazon<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Veritasium and Minute Physics on Magnets<br> Show Notes<br> Amazon Pilot Model<br> Amazon’s practice of putting out a pile of different pilots and letting the cream rise via actual user data.<br> London 2032<br> Environmental collapse. Precipitous economic drop, at least locally. Population collapse maybe?<br> Space is big<br> The Oasis settlement is on “the edge of the galaxy.” That’s really far! Nearest edge to Earth still thousands of lightyears. So, magic FTL. Stasis and muscle-wasting. FTL comms may be couriered by the ships.<br> Preacher man<br> The role of a man of God on a space station where resources are scarce and engineers are in high demand.<br> The Oasis Settlement<br> Not as advertised! We’re still in the early stages of building <a href="http://www.decipherscifi.com/elysium-movie-podcast-episode-17/">Elysium</a> here; it’s still being settled. Gravity and weather systems and water. Tectonic activity and proximity to other bodies. Breathable atmospheres and how they get there.<br> One-way trips<br> Expense and complexity of designing for return trips in space travel. The nature of the magic FTL seems to still need normal rocket launches to get up there. Processing passenger vessels for materials.<br> *Ponics<br> Hydroponics. Aeroponics. Lower energy and water requirements, fine control of variables. Haley Joel is our <a href="http://www.decipherscifi.com/the-martian-podcast-episode-12/">Mark Watney</a> botanist.<br> <a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.decipherscifi.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/haley-joel-osment-give-me-your-poop-so-i-can-grow-potatoes.jpg" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right"><span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a><br> Space Dementia<br> Ala <a href="http://www.decipherscifi.com/armageddon-feat-daniel-barker-science-communicator-episode-83/">Armageddon</a>? Mundane explanations, Occam’s Razor, and magnets. Or supernatural. We’ll see!<br> Magnets. How do they work?<br> Please see the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKSfAkWWN0" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Veritasium<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAOXdXZ5TM" target="_new" rel="nofollow external noopener noreferrer" class="ext-link wpel-icon-right">Minute Physics<span class="wpel-icon wpel-image wpel-icon-3"></span></a> videos above. This has little (nothing) to do with Oasis, really, but it’s a cool thing we wanted to share.
