017: Ryan McGranaghan

This week Alien Crash Site brings aerospace engineer Ryan McGranaghan into the Zone. Ryan currently works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab as a Jack Eddy Post-doctoral research fellow. His work focuses on the application of data assimilation, complex systems analyses and data science to space science research…specifically work within the realm of the “space environment.”

We spend this conversation talking about what lies in the “space between.” The space between planetary bodies, the space between research disciplines, the space between intention and expression, the space between interlocutors attempting to communicate, the “space between” that’s all around us.

Learn more about everything referenced in this episode by clicking the links below:

• Ryan’s website

• Ryan on Twitter

• The Carrington Event

• Parker Solar Probe

• Mars MAVEN

• Ushering in a New Frontier in Geospace through Data Science

• Dictionary of Obscure sorrows

• What is an Individual?

• Jorge Luis Borges

• “Talk on Indolence” by the Avett Brothers

• "Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix