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Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 10:11 pm
by Shaps-cloud
If anyone is interested in finding a really good podcast/radio drama to listen to (or even just find the concept interesting, I sorta stumbled onto it accidentally myself), Wolf 359 is a really good podcast to listen to. From the about section:
Life's not easy for Doug Eiffel, the communications officer for the U.S.S. Hephaestus Research Station, currently on Day 448 of its orbit around red dwarf star Wolf 359. He's stuck on a scientific survey mission of indeterminate length, 7.8 light years from Earth. His only company on board the station are stern mission chief Minkowski, insane science officer Hilbert, and Hephaestus Station's sentient, often malfunctioning operating system HERA. He doesn't have much to do for his job other than monitoring static and intercepting the occasional decades-old radio broadcast from Earth, so he spends most of his time creating extensive audio logs about the ordinary, day-to-day happenings within the station. But the Hephaestus is an odd place, and life in extremely isolated, zero gravity conditions has a way of doing funny things to people's minds. Even the simplest of tasks can turn into a gargantuan struggle, and the most ordinary-seeming things have a way of turning into anything but that.
If want a really brief comparison, it's a lot like SS13 ministation: the podcast. The first season is pretty light and comedic for the most part and has a ton of shenanigans you could picture happening in a normal round of SS13, but after that it starts to take pretty dark turns and gets insanely engaging on a dramatic level. I'd absolutely recommend digging into it, personally I'm at around episode 26 right now. Anyone else following along with this?

Website: http://www.wolf359.fm/

Re: Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 3:01 am
by ThanatosRa
So what is this, like Welcome to Night Vale in space?

Re: Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:14 am
by Shaps-cloud
I haven't listened to Night Vale, but I have heard that comparison made between the two before, apparently it diverges from NV after a few episodes though, not that I know what that entails specifically.

Re: Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 2:07 pm
by Super Aggro Crag
Isn't wolf 359 where the Borg fucking murdered star fleet?

Re: Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 7:26 pm
by ThanatosRa
Super Aggro Crag wrote:Isn't wolf 359 where the Borg fucking murdered star fleet?
Yes. It's also one of the closest stars to us, so undoubtedly a place we'll go once we figure out how to quickly get there.

Re: Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 8:07 pm
by ColonicAcid
i.e never.

FTL travel is science fiction.

Re: Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 8:23 pm
by DemonFiren
Eh, much of what we take for granted today was science fiction not thirty years ago.
I'll give it some decades, probably longer than I'm alive, but it's gonna happen.

Re: Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 10:42 pm
by ThanatosRa
I think the main school of thought these days is not so much violating the speed to light, but getting around it. Bypassing it. The problem is, we have no idea how or even IF it is possible.

But come on Colonic, don't be so negative. Keep up the hope that even if we won't see the stars ourselves, we'll get lucky enough that our descendants will either survive blowing ourselves up and get to the stars, or hoping on a hoping, never blow ourselves up to begin with and still get to the stars.

Re: Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:16 pm
by aranamor


Never forget.

Re: Wolf 359: Your home eight light years away from home

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:48 pm
by Timbrewolf
Colonic Im surprised you're so pessimistic about space travel after you've allowed so much exploration into your own blackhole.