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The Black Cloud
Fred Hoyle ISBN 9780435120474
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Fred Hoyle ISBN 9780435120474
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This book by Fred Hoyle has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Konstantin Batygin, Richard Dawkins. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-04-09 and the most recent from 2021-07-19. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
The novel's plot revolves around the consequences of the Earth's sun being blocked out by an "intelligent" black cloud.
“you know about the black clouds book i think this by fred hoyle this is like this has great connections with sort of a lot of the advancements”— Konstantin Batygin
The guest here is Konstantin Batygin: Planetary astrophysicist at Caltech and a leading proponent of the Planet Nine hypothesis. With collaborator Mike Brown he argued that clustered orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects point to an unseen distant planet about five Earth masses. Caltech astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin explains the gravitational case for Planet Nine and the strange icy frontier at the edge of our solar system.
“Fred hil's the black cloud oh by the way anything by Arthur C Clark I find very very wonderful too”— Richard Dawkins
The guest here is Richard Dawkins: Evolutionary biologist and bestselling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. He coined the word 'meme' and is one of the most influential popularizers of evolutionary science and atheism. Richard Dawkins explores evolution, intelligence, memes, simulation theory, and why we are the lucky ones to be born.
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