Episode: 31 Xenogenesis - Adulthood-Rites: II: PHOENIX Chapters 1 & 2

Show Notes

In episode 31, Richard and Michael discuss how small mistakes in movies can really be bothering and how irritatingly stupid the humas are in the book.

Timestamps

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:32 - Welcome
00:01:13 - Richard prounances the unprounancable
00:01:43 - Oankali language basis
00:03:07 - If we miss stuff, it will be in the references
00:03:40 - Richard’s nerdiness is glorious - Harris’ Hawk [1, 2]
00:07:20 - Titanic’s sky was wrong [3]
00:12:40 - Nerd rant over
00:13:06 - Chapter 1 predictions
00:13:54 - Chapter 1 summary begins
00:15:13 - The ship larvae
00:17:20 - Oankali construct family - five-being model family
00:21:22 - Chapter 1 ends
00:21:43 - Signalling in Lo
00:22:38 - Oankali looking like Daleks
00:25:03 - Chapter 2 prediction
00:25:34 - Michael wants to rant about the chapter 2
00:26:51 - These people clearly have no idea how to handle a child
00:27:16 - Skull development [4, 5]
00:30:11 - Akin sliding and being mistreated
00:32:01 - Akin is incredibly smart
00:34:09 - Giving child alcohol
00:35:56 - London cholera outbreak [6]
00:39:01 - Men trying to poison Akin
00:39:46 - Michael’s beef with the chapter
00:49:58 - Level of the gun sophistication in the book [7 - 9]
00:59:26 - Outro

References

Harris’ hawk:

• [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris%27s_hawk - About the Harris’ hawk.
• [2] https://britishwildlife.fandom.com/wiki/Harris_Hawk - Harris’ hawk non-native in UK

Titanic’s sky:

• [3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/titanic-night-sky-adjusted-after-neil-degrasse-tyson-criticized-james-cameron/2012/04/03/gIQAZyZItS_blog.html - Article about Neil deGrasse Tyson’s message to James Cameron about Titanic’s wrong sky.

Bone development:

• [4] https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-biology2/chapter/bone-growth-and-development/ - Article describing differences between the intramembranous and endochondral ossification.
• [5] https://open.oregonstate.education/aandp/chapter/6-4-bone-formation-and-development/ - More details about the differences of bone formation.

London cholera outbreak:

• [6] https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowcricketarticle.html - Article on the history of the cholera outbreak in London in 1850-1860.

History of gun development:

• [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_firearm - Wikipedia article on the topic.
• [8] https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/technique/gun-timeline/ - A timeline of gun development.
• [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lah_J8Lj3eg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5OgBPLUjlU - A great youtube vidoes on gun development.

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