Montreal 2024

Light

• What is Solstice? (2024) by Daniel Speyer
• Always Look on the Bright Side by Monty Python ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things
• X Days of X Risk by Raymond Arnold ◦ Six (or more) ways the world could end
• The Simple Truth by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Adapted by Massimo Gauthier

Dusk

• Space Oddity by David Bowie ◦ A confused account of going into space
• The Sun Is Burning by Ian Campbell ◦ A beautiful but fragile world

Night

• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
• You Can't Save Them All by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg
• Firesong [Not Available]
• The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

Dawn

• International Space Station Time Lapse Video
• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles ◦ A light-hearted celebration of the sun
• Here and Now by Raymond Arnold ◦ A celebration of now

Future

• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• The Singularity Song by Heather Anne Campbell and David Barton Harris ◦ A silly vision of a positive singularity
• Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton ◦ A smug, sociopathic celebration of survival and science