Techtonic with Mark Hurst is a weekly radio show from WFMU about technology, how it's affecting us, and what we can do about it.

"Red Heaven" directors Lauren DeFilippo & Katherine Gorringe

Oct 25, 2021

Show Notes

Above: The HI-SEAS dome, as shown in "Red Heaven"
Links:

Red Heaven film site

Red Heaven on Altavod. It's also on Apple Plus (though, as always, "avoid Apple.")

HI-SEAS, the NASA project

• The phrase "red heaven" is based on the Dark Mountain essay Openings: Freeing Space for a New Cosmology, by Tim Fox

• Related references:
- Space Madness, the Ren & Stimpy episode
- Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach
- The Martian, by Andy Weir
- Moonbase 8, TV show
- Spaceship Earth, documentary about Biosphere 2
- Techtonic interview of Toby Ord (April 20, 2020), giving odds on humanity's existential crises
- ...and of course, anything about Ernest Shackleton.