Episode: 21 Xenogenesis - Dawn: IV: The Training Floor Chapters 3 & 4

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In Episode 21, Richard and Michael discuss how the chapters are raising more and more red flags.

Timestamps

00:00:32 - Intro
00:01:12 - Michael tells how he is scared more and more of what may happen
00:01:52 - Chapter 3 predictions
00:03:30 - Chapter 3 summary begins
00:03:55 - Stilt houses [1]
00:04:52 - Survival skills in specific environments are vastly underestimated
00:07:14 - Unique thing about humans as species
00:08:31 - Story of Greenland [2, 3]
00:10:12 - Venus
00:13:01 - Archery and swordfighting skills lost through time
00:14:03 - It’s one thing to write a protocol, and another to perform it
00:18:51 - Back to Chapter 3
00:24:01 - The simulation of the Earth on the ship is so realistic that it’s impossible to know if they are on a spaceship
00:27:55 - The problem with the Oankali and humans - the approach does not teach humans anything
00:36:10 - Chapter 3 summary ends
00:36:45 - Michael telling what was on his mind for a long while
00:47:03 - Chapter 4 predictions
00:47:34 - Chapter 4 summary begins
00:49:55 - Lilith calls on Gabe’s bullshit
00:51:13 - Chapter 4 finishes
00:51:45 - Michael thinks Gabriel is going to be the cause of a disaster
00:56:03 - Chapter 5 predictions
00:58:04 - The Red flags
01:02:01 - Outro

References

Stilt houses:

• [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house - Wikipedia article about houses built on poles to prevent flooding.

Greenland:

• [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland - Wikipedia article about Greenland.
• [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_the_Red - The man who scammed people by making naming Greenland, telling them of fertile land and not ice covered landscape.

Venus:

• [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus - The carbon dioxide atmosphere with sulphuric acid clouds and rain on Venus.

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