Nightfall by Isaac Asimov - X Minus One (Hard Sci-Fi, Audio Drama) 

Any recommendations? Kind of new to sci-fi radio.

@@EdgarByo I'm still sifting through the recommendations myself. My 3 favourite episodes so far are: 1. X Minus One - A Gun For Dinosaur (29m 37s) 2. Imposter - Philip. K. Díck (31m 56s) 3. Zero Hour - Ray Bradbury (11m 39s).

@@motherflange Gracias!

@@EdgarByo the last question

@@EdgarByo No good audio adaptations but go for THE STARS MY DESTINATION by Alfred Bester

What is this absurd obsession with the sky of cults? The sky is the least interesting aspect of a planet.

@@thekaiser4333 Yet probably the most important.

@@thekaiser4333 Yet all primitive societies - & many 'advanced' ones - have sky gods

The sun, without it, we are not. I could stand the dark, but not the cold.

What is the name of your sci fi channel

Damn straight!!!

*Pail of Air

oker59 it was the sea people, the sea people....

Hello Jeffrey, Seems the Bronze age collapse may have been solved ( could have been solved a long time ago!). This Luwian hieroglyphic inscription says a small city state conquered the Hittites and then went on a rampage after that. They appear to have been having fun bringing down a helpless Bronze age. What could have been their magic powers? I can think of nothing more that that they must have made iron age weaponry practical. phys.org/news/2017-10-luwian-hieroglyphic-inscription-bronze-age.html

Knowledge... or shall we say the ppl who know and the ppl who can interperate the written knowledge. Starting from scratch with just memories

Overpopulation and famine have a way of topling nations , and people plundering objects discover hidden knowledge . The famine eventually ends and the formerly hidden knowledge can be used by the masses.under new governments with lower populations.

I came here to say the same thing as everyone else. Everyone knows it was the sea people. No one really gives a shit what you think about iron rusting away, the scientists say that the Hittites adopted iron weapons in that region, but no one else did, it's frankly hilarious that you jumble up the Sea people burning down cities as people burning down their own cities because of plague. You deal in idiotic inferences and fairy stories relying on other people being lazy and stupid like you to fall for it in this age of Trump. As per usual the rest of us need jobs to pay the rent, meaning we had to read books sometimes, and the fucking sea people were in them, and so was the bronze age collapse because of them. Go fantasise on your own time, and cut your fucking hair, hippy.

In 1980, I took the 'Astronomy Island Cruise' from NYC to Bermuda. Issack Asimov was along for the ride and to give a few talk presentations. Somewhere I have an old slide taken beside him. Something not widely known about him....he was an ass pincher. BHE

Asimov 🛸 is a legend

This is a funny af comment.

Calum Carlyle thank you

I have not read the story so thank you for adding that important bit of information. It really does make a difference in understanding the story. I also appreciate this post I love hearing these old stories, and this one has had superb audio! Thank You for taking the time to add this, your time is greatly appreciated!

I can see that reaction happening. I remember the first time I saw the “Pale Blue Dot” taken by the Voyager 1. I kinda felt overwhelmed that, that was it. Everything that ever took a breath, everything that was ever learned, ever war fought, ever spark of love. Trillions of thinking animals over billions of years. It was all on that tiny dot, barley visible against the background of infinity. I felt so small, so insignificant.

@@brooklyn560 So did I. Even Carl Sagan, by his tone of voice when talking about it, felt small.

"I only read the headlines." That's what I do! Lots of them! Then at least I can see who's selling what as todays reality. And then try and source info elsewhere to find out what's actualy going on. It's a labour of love! I wonder where the idea that everyone is lazy comes from? Probably some headline somewhere I guess ;)

exactly

Yes, that's a huge plot hole. Also, it would require a huge moon to cause a total eclipse of the entire hemisphere. Also implausible is that people never experimented with and became acclimated to dark rooms. Don't these people have eyelids they often close? Don't they ever cover their eyes? Were soldiers never trained to withstand darkness torture? Wouldn't there be lots of teenagers who question dogma and prove themselves brave by going into a room without a torch? Also, their scientists who thought about a planet revolving around a single sun and concluded life would be impossible due to periodic night neglected the possibility of tidal locking, so half the planet would always be lit by its sun and that half could be habitable. We can deduce that the planet most likely orbits one (or possibly two) of its suns, and the other nearby suns account for the lack of night. But I suspect there's no stable configuration for a system with 5 suns, and the planet would at some point in the past have been gravitationally boosted out of the system, similar to how spacecraft trajectories to the solar system's outer planets are designed to take advantage of fly-bys of inner planets for boosts. If you google the 'three body problem' you'll see that many-body systems tend to be very unstable. See also this: manyworlds.space/tag/triple-star-system/

know your ABC's ! Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke!

There's 6 - You forgot the father Verne who started it all. Wells and Heinlein too.

@@quonomonna8126 "in no particular order...."

@@mikeshea398 I’ve always loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs as well. His inner World Series, Pelucidar, Mars and Venus series and of course the 24 books of Tarzan.

Frank Bowman without a doubt you are on to something there. Jordan Peterson would pat you on the back. :)

Bonus mark for gratuitous Supertramp quotation

Data ten........one of my all time favorite poems.... As I gaze into the mirror, What is it that I see? A gray-haired old man, (Could be my father) Staring back at me.

Sorry he would not have so considered... obviously.

I don't think you're missing something. However, up to half of the world could be in total eclipse if the moon is large enough.

I guess its pretty warm most of the time seeing as how when there was only one sun in the sky they said it freezing outside. But yeah they didn't really have a lot of artificial lighting on the planet

Piggy Oink Oink 50 years before.

they said they did and that they are some of the peiple who wrote the of revalations

There's no stable structure of stars that this would work for. But in a world without darkness for hundreds or thousands of years there wouldn't be much need for artificial lighting. Windows everywhere, open mining, etc.

With six suns and a sun shining in the sky all day and never any night, you wouldn't need electricity.

A lot is wrong with this comment chain. A plannet does not revolve arround a star, it revolves arround a center of mass. When only one star is present the center of mass and the center of the one star are the same, so the plannet revolves arround the star. When 2 or more stars are present there center of mass forms the orbital center. The most common (and most stable) example of this is binary systems, where 2 stars orbit one another and planets orbit the center that is between the two stars. Also, Asimov addressed the artificial lighting aspect of this. The scientists mention that artificial light had "just been worked out", meaning it was brand new and not accessible to the general populous. Also, the mob and the scientists alike were using torches. It's less about a complete lack of light and more about experiencing the near (if not total) darkness for the first time. To address the other 2 comments: TheMonk72, the highest multiplicity star system currently known has 7 stars. The mathematical stability equations only apply to equal-mass stars (for which the max is 4), but with lower mass stars orbiting a significantly higher mass star a theoretically infinite multiplicity can be achieved. Victoria: Electricity has other uses then light bulbs. The best evidence I have of this is the fact that you're on the internet right now.

@@whyOhWhyohwhy237 Quite right! (I'll forgive the spelling)

@@whyOhWhyohwhy237 Also, shouldn't a total eclipse be experienced by only a small portion of the planet? A total eclipse is the cause for darkness, right?

Why would you need to invent light bulbs if there is always a shining sun?

@@sallyone7029 indoors? underground? tunnel? how could you have anything electric and not have discovered electric light

@@Cr-gf3gn As the sun is always shining, just use a mirror or polished metal to reflect the sunlight, it's how they archived it thousands of years ago.

Do you mean the novel? It started life as a short story and was expanded. This is a radio play, yes, but if you haven’t read the novel it’s pretty good.

@@seabunnyvoyager3524 Nah, it was still only about 15 pages or something the version I read.

Didn’t they don’t a real star system with 5 or 6 stars?

The highest multiplicity (multiplicity in this case means number of stars) star system ever discovered has 7 stars. A theoretically infinite multiplicity can be achieved with many small stars orbiting a super massive star. A 6 star system, while unlikely is by no means impossible. Also, its "sun", not "son". Having 6 sons means you have 6 Male children.

I've not read any. Can you enlighten me?

@@paulbennett772 this one

@@Cr-gf3gn Reckoned to be one of the best SciFi stories ever written, yet you say it's really awful? Words fail me

@@paulbennett772 reckoned by whom? I love a lot of his work, but this one is just nonsensical. How can you have an advanced society that just hasnt invented artificial light yet. Its preposterous. The first words in Genesis almost was let there be light! The concept of darkness being the basis of the destruction of society just seems infantile

@@Cr-gf3gn Reckoned by the Science Fiction Writers of America, voted best short story pre-1968. Perhaps, if you can't think yourself into that world, SciFi isn't for you. Try thinking of it as allegorical, of destruction at any excuse, conflict between duty and honour, anti-science v anti-religion. Enjoy the rest of your life.