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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that | Sign up for Nebula and get access to all my exclusive videos: Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on DEVS: BUY MY BOOK: *SPOILERS:* 0:00 - Atmospheric Memory (Museum Exhibit) 2:50 - Charles Babbage 9:34 - DEVS 14:25 - Story of Your Life/Arrival 19:18 - Slaughterhouse-Five 24:04 - 1000xResist 30:57 - Real-life physics 32:49 - Geographies of Solitude (Documentary) 34:16 - Conclusion Patreon: Merch: Instagram: Twitter: Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: Animation by mothcub: @mothcub Script Consultation by Bobby Broccoli: @BobbyBroccoli *Sources:* Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, 1969 Stories of Your Life and Others,Ted Chiang, 2002 DEVS, Alex Garland, 2020 1000xResist, Sunset Visitor, 2024 Atmospheric Memory, museum exhibit designed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, Charles Babbage, 1837 When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut, 2020 Geographies of Solitude, Jacquelyn Mills, 2023 Arrival, Denis Villeneuve, 2016 Babbage’s Difference Engines- Computer History Museum: False Dawn: The Babbage Engine- Computer History Museum: Pauline Oliveros Performance from Roulette TV: *Music Used (chronologically):* Lear (Pauline Oliveros), Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven via John Michel, Wikicommons), The Occupants (1000xResist), A Teardrop ~Zip (1000xResist), Water Run (1000xResist), Bells of Laguna Bend (Cyberpunk 2077), That Was Only For You To See (1000xResist), Tear Gas (1000xResist), Hiding (1000xResist), The Nomai (Outer Wilds), Watcher Haunted (1000xResist), Smooth Talking (Nocturnal Spirits), Possible Futures (Citizen Sleeper) Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound Additional footage from Getty Images, Storyblocks, and Reuters Archive Thumbnail and Graphic Design by Description Credit: Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory”
