Sci-fi & Tonic: Recent Episodes
Void Armada
This is Sci-Fi & Tonic, a weekly, live podcast hosted by musician and sci-fi lover, Tan Tunçağ and video game designer Doğan Demir. Join us and, our rotating cast of guest hosts, live on Twitter Spaces @Void_Armada Fridays 2pm est/ 6pm utc time.
Sci-Fi & Tonic is a creation of Void Armada, a story-driven digital collectible project built in the Unity game engine. You can find more info on https://voidarmada.space/
In this episode of Sci-fi & Tonic, we're discussing the smart machines with Straylight from Department77 which is a fantastic NFT collection .
We're boldy diving into movies like 2001, Battlestar Galactica, A.I., Her & Ex Machina where we discuss the symbolism behind the AI constructs in each of them.
We're trying to determine the motives for creating an Artificial General Intelligence and how we can inject our (up to date) values and ethics into one.
In this fine episode of Sci-fi & Tonic we talk about space money.
We determine how Darth Sidious can foot the bill for the Death Star and how The First Order...simply can't.
We also fantasize a budding Martian Colony, try to figure out what their social structure could be and what kind of economical framework would they need to have in order to avoid a total collapse.
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
We're talking about ship & transportation design in sci-fi with Joel from Warp.Game. Joel is a Hollywood vfx artist who worked on movies like Avengers, Iron Man and X-men. He also drives a DeLorean, for real.
We're exploring movies like Star Wars, Star Trek & Battlestar Galactica and discussing building the "Enterprise" in real life size...in Vegas!
“If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious s***.”
Tan, Dogan & Chipi discuss time travel in sci-fi movies in the likes of Back to the Future, Terminator, Steins;Gate & Twelve Monkeys. They also argue whether you should go back in time and hoard bitcoin...and if treating velociraptors as poultry will ever be an option.
"In space no can hear you scream."
In this episode of Sci-fi & Tonic, Tan & Toby discuss the Alien franchise, Event Horizon, 3001, Pitch Black and give tips on how to avoid being trapped in haunted houses.
Will humans form a galactic empire one day? Is it even possible?
In this very first episode, we're discussing Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, psychohistory, Fermi Paradox in terms of the evolution of smart species and FTL communication issues in galactic empires.