ATLANTIS

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ATLANTIS engages in a conversation about the latest ventures in InterPlanetary science. We talk about the technical specifics and the philosophical significance of our attempts to get to know the universe.

        We are a space-faring ship that travels through the cosmos wondering what humans can and will do with their inquiring minds and technological prowess. We take our name from the old lost city which was said to drown for its hubris, and then rose again to champion the humane use of science. We send these dispatches from our Terran island which might very well be sinking already.

       We hope to give our readers more clarity about the science and technology involved in InterPlanetary missions, as well as the ideas (and ideologies?) motivating moonshot endeavors, presently and across time. Together, we take a deep dive into the nature of our complex universe and the place of life within it.

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Atlantis Dispatch 019:
Atlantis Dispatch 019:

Atlantis dispatch #019 - in which we contemplate the complexity of adaptive systems

Atlantis Dispatch 018:
Atlantis Dispatch 018:

Atlantis dispatch #018 - in which we contemplate inventing the (im)possible

Atlantis Dispatch 017:
Atlantis Dispatch 017:

Atlantis dispatch #017 - in which we contemplate multiple worlds

Atlantis Dispatch 016:
Atlantis Dispatch 016:

Atlantis dispatch #016 - in which we contemplate the power of thought experiments

Atlantis Dispatch 015:
Atlantis Dispatch 015:

Atlantis dispatch #015 - in which we contemplate what a telescope really show us

Atlantis Dispatch 014:
Atlantis Dispatch 014:

Atlantis dispatch #014 - in which we contemplate how we contemplate the future

Atlantis Dispatch 013:
Atlantis Dispatch 013:

Atlantis dispatch #013 - in which we contemplate human ingenuity

Atlantis Dispatch 012:
Atlantis Dispatch 012:

Atlantis dispatch #012 - in which we contemplate analogies…

Atlantis Dispatch 011:
Atlantis Dispatch 011:

Atlantis dispatch #011 - in which we contemplate intelligent life

Atlantis Dispatch: Special Feature
Atlantis Dispatch: Special Feature

Atlantis Featured Art Piece - “The Carousel” by Mario Santanilla. 2021

Atlantis Dispatch 010:
Atlantis Dispatch 010:

Atlantis dispatch #008 - in which we contemplate tempests…

Atlantis Dispatch 010 - path two
Atlantis Dispatch 010 - path two

Atlantis dispatch #008 - in which we contemplate tempests…path two

Atlantis Dispatch 010 - path one
Atlantis Dispatch 010 - path one

Atlantis dispatch #010 - in which we contemplate tempests…path one

Atlantis Dispatch 009:
Atlantis Dispatch 009:

Atlantis dispatch #009 - in which we contemplate cultural origins

Atlantis Dispatch 008:
Atlantis Dispatch 008:

Atlantis dispatch #008 - in which we contemplate space mavericks…

Atlantis Dispatch 007:
Atlantis Dispatch 007:

Atlantis dispatch #006 - in which we contemplate acronyms, ASSEMBLY theory, and the summit of beauty and love…

Atlantis Dispatch 006:
Atlantis Dispatch 006:

Atlantis dispatch #006 - in which we contemplate adaptability

Atlantis Dispatch 005:
Atlantis Dispatch 005:

Atlantis dispatch #005 - in which we contemplate space junk

Atlantis Dispatch 004:
Atlantis Dispatch 004:

Atlantis dispatch #004 - in which we contemplate foundation myths and Ingenuity’s first flight.

Atlantis Dispatch 003:
Atlantis Dispatch 003:

Atlantis dispatch #003 - in which we contemplate a new timescale for InterPlanetary immortality

Atlantis Dispatch 002:
Atlantis Dispatch 002:

Atlantis dispatch #002 - in which we contemplate why on Earth we ever stopped looking for life on Mars

Atlantis Dispatch 001:
Atlantis Dispatch 001:

Atlantis dispatch #001 - in which we contemplate the meaning of “past life”

We are:

Natalie Elliot – Science writer, storyteller, and professor. She writes about the origin of life, the search for extraterrestrial life, and Shakespeare’s dance with science. Her work has been featured in Aeon, The New Atlantis, and Shakespeare Unlimited. She’s the creator of Big Nat, your friendly neighborhood wacky narrator on science, lit, and life, and the author of Megafauna, a forthcoming novel about an experimental wildlife reserve in Montana that reintroduces woolly mammoths into its ecosystem. When she’s not writing, she teaches cross-disciplinary courses in classics, history of science, literature, and philosophy at St. John’s College. She divides her time between Missoula, MT, Santa Fe, NM and New York City.
Caitlin McShea – Director of the Santa Fe Institute’s InterPlanetary Project, host of the Alien Crash Site podcast, and editor (along with SFI President David Krakauer) of the InterPlanetary Transmissions Volumes, published by the SFI Press. She is the program manager for a JSMF-funded research track on Complex Time, and an NSF-funded research track on Life's Origins. She studied evolutionary biology and philosophy before rocketing over to the arts and humanities. She is enamored by creativity: its inevitability, its irrepressibility, and most curiously its origin. When she’s not thinking about creativity, she is employing it – mostly in the kitchen.