{"podcast":{"title":"Galactic Horrors","slug":"galactic-horrors-6264033","podcast_index_feed_id":6264033,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/66477018b68429001342b9a2","website_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/galactic-horrors","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/66477018b68429001342b9a2/show-cover.jpg","author":"Galactic Horrors","episode_count":622,"summary":"Original dark science fiction stories, told as standalone narrated episodes. Ships, stations, labs and border worlds; deep-space missions, black projects, quarantined facilities and forgotten sectors where the plan makes sense on paper right up until it doesn’t. These are slow-burn, grounded stories about technology, secrecy and the people caught in the gap between what was promised and what actually happens. If you like quiet dread, institutional cover-ups and futures that feel uncomfortably plausible, this is your channel. All stories, artwork, and thumbnails are original to Galactic Horrors. We do not accept submissions. Disclosure: This show includes AI-generated elements. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T18:17:03.405144+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033"},"episode":{"title":"I Am A Scientist On Pluto. We Have 4 Months Left Before Matter Dies | Sci-Fi","slug":"i-am-a-scientist-on-pluto-we-have-4-months-left-before-matter-dies-sci-fi","published_at":"2026-05-22T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/i-am-a-scientist-on-pluto-we-have-4-months-left-before-matter-dies-sci-fi","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033","url":"https://shows.acast.com/galactic-horrors/episodes/i-am-a-scientist-on-pluto-we-have-4-months-left-before-matte","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/66477018b68429001342b9a2/e/69faf2b72a1dd3f1a873b33a/media.mp3","summary":"📖 Written by Galactic Horrors On a Pluto research base built to study the outer dark, an astrophysicist helps confirm a proof that should be impossible: the solar system is drifting toward a region where the weak nuclear force ceases to function. It is not an explosion, invasion, or visible catastrophe. It is a mathematical weather front in deep space, one that will eventually make ordinary matter stop behaving like matter. The team has four months to refine the calculation, search for any survivable loophole, and decide how much of the truth humanity can bear before panic destroys the observatories and data networks they still need.      The first real contact with the phenomenon comes through a test probe sent across the invisible boundary. For thirteen seconds, it transmits from a state where matter no longer bonds in any meaningful human sense, yet the signal remains patterned, coherent, and horrifyingly self-descriptive. The probe reports itself as “still conscious” after physical dissolution, forcing the team to confront the possibility that identity may briefly persist as a loose informational echo even when the body has come apart at the particle level. The proof is no longer abstract. Something can pass through the end of matter and continue long enough to describe it.      Then Pluto loses contact with Earth for six hours and receives a complete reply dated four months after the predicted dissolution. The future Earth transmission does not beg for rescue. It calmly instructs the Pluto team to stop trying to save matter. This is the premise’s central fracture: either the message is a fake, a physical echo created by the boundary, or evidence that humanity’s future has already passed through the event and become something…","meta_description":"📖 Written by Galactic Horrors On a Pluto research base built to study the outer dark, an astrophysicist helps confirm a proof that should be impossible: t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3343,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/galactic-horrors-6264033/episodes/i-am-a-scientist-on-pluto-we-have-4-months-left-before-matter-dies-sci-fi/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/galactic-horrors-6264033/i-am-a-scientist-on-pluto-we-have-4-months-left-before-matter-dies-sci-fi.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}