<description>&lt;h1&gt;Episode 17: Show Us The (Alien) Bodies&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;The closest we get to reality on this podcast&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tangent Space faces reality in this one folks. Or as close of an encounter as we can get. Which of us has seen a UFO in real life? Why would Brandon only be convinced aliens exist if they demonstrated their power? Does John want to join a UFO cult? Find out answers to these questions as we shill for alien sponsorship! We discuss the big questions, wondering if we are alone, if anyone would even believe if aliens showed up, and how to pronounce "fata morgana." We also watch some UFO videos (links below!) and start down the path of alien conspiracies. Join us, little green friends!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lots in the news recently about the US UFO report, for instance: &lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-report.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;the NY Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/in-1947-high-altitude-balloon-crash-landed-roswell-aliens-never-left-180963917/" rel="nofollow"&gt;The Roswell Incident&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Read about the doctor that discovered hand washing and their tragic story: &lt;a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives" rel="nofollow"&gt;at NPR&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.grunge.com/247211/the-tragic-story-of-the-doctor-who-pioneered-hand-washing/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Grunge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://phys.org/news/2016-01-equation-large-scale-conspiracies-quickly-reveal.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Estimates for how many people can keep a secret&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Want to join a UFO religion ("religion")? Not recommended, but here's &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFO_religions" rel="nofollow"&gt;a list on Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaking of, HBO had a docu-series on &lt;a href="https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GX72QuwdZ0yGqwgEAAAY4" rel="nofollow"&gt;Heaven's Gate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter" rel="nofollow"&gt;The Great Filter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/who-could-know-were-here-on-earth/" rel="nofollow"&gt;How many might be listening to us out there?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are lots of videos on YouTube of the declassified Navy videos, we watched &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO_M0hLlJ-Q" rel="nofollow"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; (careful of that rabbit hole!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_%28mirage%29" rel="nofollow"&gt;Fata Morgana&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_phenomena" rel="nofollow"&gt;Optical phenomena&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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The closest we get to reality on this podcast

Ep.17 – Show Us The (Alien) Bodies

<description>&lt;h1&gt;Episode 16: Raised by Ridley&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;On Soviet Kepler, Dice Rolls You&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's like they made a TV show for Tangent Space: sci-fi with androids, some post-apocalyptic faraway planet, monsters, gibberish science...that's right, we discuss HBO's &lt;em&gt;Raised by Wolves&lt;/em&gt;! Oh, and longtime Tangent Space personality Ridley Scott is involved (in the show, not with us), of course, so you know we couldn't pass this one up after we've discussed &lt;em&gt;Prometheus&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Alien: Covenant&lt;/em&gt; extensively. It's a throwback to the very first episodes! There's a lot to talk about here with ancient religion, a cross over with &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt; (hi, Darth Vader), giant snake worm things, and that bonkers season finale. Come have a listen...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Catch up on previous Ridley Scott discussions with &lt;a href="https://tangentspacepodcast.com/post/2017-05-26-episode_01_prometheus/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Episode 1: Prometheus&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://tangentspacepodcast.com/post/2017-06-11-episode_02_covenant/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Episode 2: Covenant&lt;/a&gt; (wow, that was a long time ago now)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GX0WFcAlf5r5cuAEAAADu" rel="nofollow"&gt;Raised by Wolves on HBO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There's an official podcast (if you must listen to another podcast) that you can find everywhere, including on YouTube (here's a link to the &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhcFEujZGTU" rel="nofollow"&gt;first episode&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We mention Futurama's &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfellas" rel="nofollow"&gt;Godfellas episode&lt;/a&gt;, which won the first Writers Guild of America Award for animation; here's &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL7e05pClKM" rel="nofollow"&gt;a clip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Ep.16 – Raised by Ridley

<description>&lt;h1&gt;Episode 15: Boyz 2 (Watch)men&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Lube Man will save the day&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just two men watching boys (and grownups) wearing masks and punching people. We discuss two very entertaining and pertinent shows, &lt;em&gt;The Boys&lt;/em&gt; on Amazon and &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt; on HBO, which we highly recommend. We cover a lot of stuff in this one, from masks and being anonymous, to policing, race, privilege and encryption. It's not all serious of course, as Brandon reveals his love for Wonder Woman and his distrust of tall people. Meanwhile John continues throwing shade at J.J. (Abrams) and wonders about Lube Man (answer in the Links!).&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GOyHKwocOk" rel="nofollow"&gt;Superman vs. Aliens - SMBC Theater&lt;/a&gt; (and &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1096zR03f4" rel="nofollow"&gt;Superman is a Dick&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/empirical-evidence-that-nice-people-dont-always-finish-last/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Empirical evidence that nice people don’t always finish last | Ars Technica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain...&lt;/a&gt; and the many responses online&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;: the &lt;a href="https://www.hbo.com/watchmen/watchmen-listen-to-official-podcast" rel="nofollow"&gt;TV show official podcast&lt;/a&gt;, Wikipedia links for &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen" rel="nofollow"&gt;the comic series&lt;/a&gt; and HBO &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow"&gt;TV series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Boys&lt;/em&gt;: Wikipedia links for &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(comics)" rel="nofollow"&gt;the comic series&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_(2019_TV_series)" rel="nofollow"&gt;Amazon TV series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Tulsa Massacre has been coming more to the mainstream (after 100 years), here is a recent &lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/tulsa-greenwood-massacre.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;article in The New York Times&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There were hints to Lube Man in the extra materials, called the &lt;a href="https://www.hbo.com/peteypedia" rel="nofollow"&gt;Peteypedia&lt;/a&gt;, on the &lt;a href="https://www.hbo.com/content/dam/hbodata/series/watchmen/peteypedia/09/memo-dale-petey.pdf" rel="nofollow"&gt;last entry&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/12/16/watchmen-actually-answered-its-most-pressing-question-who-was-lube-man/" rel="nofollow"&gt;‘Watchmen’ Actually Answered Its Most Pressing Question: Who Was Lube Man?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Lube Man will save the day

Ep.15 – Boyz 2 (Watch)men

<description>&lt;h1&gt;Special Message and Preview of Episode 15&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Vote, or we will read our diaries to you&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We're hard at work on the next episode, but wanted to remind everyone in the US to vote! Rather than just record ourselves saying "Vote!" and loop it, we present to you a special preview from our upcoming episode on the anti-superhero shows &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Boys&lt;/em&gt;. Or more like a random tangent that may get buried in editing. Consider this fair warning to catch up on watching before the episode comes out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Get it while it's hot! And vote! (And if you can't vote, pray and/or sacrifice to your favorite god.)&lt;/p&gt;
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Special Message and Preview of Episode 15

<description>&lt;h1&gt;Episode 14: Star Wars, Good God Y'All!&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many stars, many wars, but only one podcast episode. We take a meandering look at the religion/fandom/industry/empire that is &lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;. Somehow we remain mostly spoiler free, though we jump between all the movies (even the unmentionable ones) and even a little of the games. John throws some shade on J. J. (Abrams) while Brandon falls for the wookies and their trees and champions robot rights. We coin (discover?) the term "robophobe."&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ducrossy folks, most ducrossy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The character Brandon mentions from the game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreia" rel="nofollow"&gt;Kreia&lt;/a&gt; (or read on &lt;a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Kreia" rel="nofollow"&gt;the Wookieepedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/vegan" rel="nofollow"&gt;SMBC vegan comic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics" rel="nofollow"&gt;Asimov's Laws&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The op-ed John mentions, &lt;a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/opinion/sunday/christianity-religion-hell-bible.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;Why do people believe in hell?&lt;/a&gt; in the NY Times&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is a mod for Knights of the Old Republic II to &lt;a href="https://www.gamebanshee.com/news/110423-star-wars-kotor-ii-m4-78ep-planet-restoration-mod-released.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;restore the droid planet&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/M4-78" rel="nofollow"&gt;read about it here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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