LatitudineZero

LatitudineZero Medienfabrik™

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Sci-fi criticism with scientific patience.

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LatitudineZero treats genre culture as a route into bigger questions. One episode can linger over Spock's logic in a Roman Empire allegory, while another works through inflation, neutrino decay, Sophia Loren, or women in music history.

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About LatitudineZero

LatitudineZero is an Italian audio and video feed built around sci-fi, science, film, and the wider culture that gathers around imagined futures. It does not behave like a tightly boxed review show. Star Trek may be the most visible anchor, especially in episodes that move through the original series, Discovery, alien civilizations, continuity knots, and the moral machinery inside a single scene. A plot about a planet with Roman-style domination becomes more than recap. The discussion follows Spock's reasoning, Roddenberry's allegorical method, alternate historical outcomes, world wars, eugenic wars, and the uncomfortable habit of treating the real timeline as the best possible one. That is the show's usual move: start with a detail, then widen the frame. Its science strand works the same way. Episodes on the size of the universe, inflation, false vacuum transitions, great unification, and neutrino decay take technical material seriously without losing the conversational texture of a live talk. The language can be dense, but the explanations keep circling back to comparisons, corrections, and plain restatements. Film coverage is more direct. In the discussion of La vita davanti a sé, Sophia Loren's performance is treated as the central strength, while the direction, script, and underdeveloped subplots are judged more sharply. Music-history material adds another register, with Sound Queens framing women in music through barriers, emancipation, sexism, personal difficulty, and cultural change. The feed also includes playful franchise formats such as Onboarding to Oblivion and Vox Imperialis. Because of that variety, LatitudineZero can feel like a network of related rooms rather than one rigid program. The common thread is not format. It is a belief that science fiction, physics, cinema, and music all deserve patient context. The show suits listeners who like criticism with side paths, fandom with fact-checking, and scientific ideas explained without sanding off their complexity. It is warm, nerdy, and sometimes messy in the productive sense. Its best episodes feel like people thinking aloud with enough background to make the detours worthwhile.

Made for: For Italian-speaking listeners who enjoy Star Trek, speculative worlds, cosmology, film criticism, and pop culture treated with context rather than quick reactions. It especially suits patient fans who like digressions that connect scenes to history, physics, and cultural memory.

What sets it apart: LatitudineZero stands out because it lets franchise discussion and science coexist naturally. A Star Trek review, a neutrino explainer, a Sophia Loren critique, and a music-history profile can all belong to the same editorial universe.

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Come la radio, ma senza la radio e meglio della radio. Parliamo di fantascienza, fumetti, libri, cinema, scienza, società, cultura pop e meno pop. Produzioni originali ed esclusive LatitudineZero Medienfabrik™.

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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026

LatitudineZero turns science-fiction screen culture into a thoughtful route through history, bureaucracy, and cosmology.

LatitudineZero approaches TV and film through science fiction, then lets the conversation widen into society, history, and cosmology. The sampled episodes move from Trek Files talk about a Star Trek gladiator-world story to a panel on time-travel bureaucracy, and then into…

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Spock's alternate Rome is one stop; your curiosity can keep going all the way to cosmic inflation.

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  • to hear why Spock's view of a Roman-style society complicates your verdict on history
  • to follow the numbers behind distant galaxies, even when they get enormous
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  1. 1

    Trek Files 43: Nell'arena con i gladiatori

    Trek Files episode 43 features hosts Marcello and Gabriella reviewing the Star Trek TOS episode 'Bread and Circuses,' set on a planet where the Roman Empire never fell and televised gladiatorial combat drives audience ratings.

    ·28m·2 clips
  2. 2

    Star Trek: Discovery 3×07

    Raffaele reviews Star Trek: Discovery season 3 episode 7, titled 'Unification 3'.

    ·21m·2 clips
  3. 3

    Interface 2037 8: Capricorn One

    Sep 24, 2026·1h 2m
  4. 4

    Dune

    Sep 23, 2026·22m
  5. 5

    Muoni magnetici non più anomali?

    Sep 23, 2026·38m
  6. 6

    Urania e la fantascienza in Italia - Sognielettrici 2025

    Sep 22, 2026·1h 8m
  7. 7

    Bud Spencer, un colosso tra i mondi possibili

    Sep 18, 2026·19m
  8. 8

    Una Pasqua speciale con... 2: Balle spaziali

    Sep 17, 2026·57m
  9. 9

    Shang-Chi e la leggenda dei Dieci Anelli

    Sep 16, 2026·26m
  10. 10

    Ma quante persone hanno raggiunto la Luna?

    Sep 16, 2026·35m
  11. 11

    Il progetto Coven Riunito - Giornata Æonica

    Sep 15, 2026·46m
  12. 12

    Cliquot: la volpe esce dalla tana - Speciale Marginalia 2026

    Sep 11, 2026·1h 2m
  13. 13

    Fanta-live 7: Ieri, oggi e... domani?

    Sep 10, 2026·1h 57m
  14. 14

    Star Wars: The Bad Batch - stagione 1

    Sep 9, 2026·17m
  15. 15

    Scoperto un nuovo rivoluzionario buco nero!

    Sep 9, 2026·38m
  16. 16

    Oggetti non identificati - Sognielettrici 2025

    Sep 8, 2026·1h 16m
  17. 17

    Maestri del Suono 5: Dr. Dre

    Sep 3, 2026·1h 1m
  18. 18

    Interface 2037 7: Viaggio allucinante

    Sep 3, 2026·58m
  19. 19

    Crudelia

    Sep 2, 2026·24m
  20. 20

    Attaccatutto nucleare!

    Sep 2, 2026·32m
  21. 21

    La fiaba e il fantastico nella costruzione dell’età adulta - Oblivion 2026

    Sep 1, 2026·58m
  22. 22

    Vargas: podcast dall'abisso - Speciale Marginalia 2026

    Aug 28, 2026·43m
  23. 23

    Trek Files 55: Missione Terra

    Aug 27, 2026·39m
  24. 24

    Mortal Kombat

    Aug 26, 2026·18m
  25. 25

    Le fasce di radiazione terrestre

    Aug 26, 2026·46m
  26. 26

    L’occhio nel cielo - Oblivion 2026

    Aug 25, 2026·1h 5m
  27. 27

    WOS - The Past

    Aug 21, 2026·18m
  28. 28

    Trek Files 54: Le parole sacre

    Aug 20, 2026·33m
  29. 29

    Rifkin's Festival

    Aug 19, 2026·18m
  30. 30

    Entanglement quantistico

    Aug 19, 2026·48m
  31. 31

    Dinosauri, alieni, basilischi, diavolerie - Giornata Æonica

    Aug 18, 2026·57m
  32. 32

    La Biblioteca di Lovecraft: scaffali in ombra - Speciale Marginalia 2026

    Aug 14, 2026·44m
  33. 33

    Trek Files 43: Nell'arena con i gladiatori

    Trek Files episode 43 features hosts Marcello and Gabriella reviewing 'Bread and Circuses,' the Star Trek TOS episode set on a planet where the Roman Empire never fell.

    Apr 9, 2026·28m·2 clips
  34. 34

    Star Trek: Discovery 3×07

    This is a review of the seventh episode of Star Trek: Discovery, focusing on content creation.

    Apr 8, 2026·21m
  35. 35

    L'universo oltre le Colonne d'Ercole

    Host Marco Casolino of LatitudineZero presents a detailed calculation showing the total universe is approximately 10^34 light-years across — 10^23 times larger than the observable 92-billion-light-year universe.

    Apr 8, 2026·33m·3 clips
  36. 36

    Oblivion: resoconti e spie cardassiane

    This episode introduces a science fiction podcast exploring cosmic narratives, authors, and potentially harmless cosmic vibrations.

    Apr 7, 2026·32m
  37. 37

    Codex 000: Alle Origini del 41° Millennio – Vox Imperialis

    This episode introduces Vox Imperialis, a podcast series presenting transmissions and chronicles from the Imperium of Humanity in a science fiction galaxy.

    Apr 3, 2026·20m
  38. 38

    Sound Queens 3: Debbie Harry

    This episode of Sound Queens explores Debbie Harry's life and career as a pioneering woman in music who challenged gender barriers and contributed to female emancipation.

    Apr 2, 2026·1h 1m
  39. 39

    Fanta-live Special 14: Moonbase '99

    Apr 2, 2026·2h 6m
  40. 40

    La vita davanti a sé

    Apr 1, 2026·15m
  41. 41

    Decadimenti neutrinici!

    This episode explores nuclear decays involving neutrinos, including standard, exotic, and zero-neutrino decays, with a focus on the Majorana neutrino hypothesis.

    Apr 1, 2026·43m
  42. 42

    Iter e loop - Stranimondi 2025

    Hidden gem

    This panel from the Stranimondi 2025 convention, hosted by Fantascientificast, brings together three authors whose novels share a common premise: bureaucratic institutions that manage time travel.

    Mar 31, 2026·44m·3 clips
  43. 43

    Excelsior!

    Mar 27, 2026·1h 2m
  44. 44

    Fanta-live 5: Ieri, oggi e... domani?

    Mar 26, 2026·2h 24m
  45. 45

    Alla ricerca del fotone oscuro

    Mar 25, 2026·42m
  46. 46

    Star Trek: Discovery 3×06

    Mar 25, 2026·19m
  47. 47

    Realismo magico - Stranimondi 2025

    Mar 24, 2026·1h 9m
  48. 48

    WOS - The Past

    Mar 20, 2026·27m
  49. 49

    Fanta-live Special 13: Star Trek Italian Club - Alberto Lisiero

    Mar 19, 2026·2h 8m
  50. 50

    Star Trek: Discovery 3×05

    Mar 18, 2026·19m
  51. 51

    Le reali dimensioni dell'universo

    Mar 18, 2026·50m
  52. 52

    Incontro con Cosimo Argentina - Stranimondi 2025

    Mar 17, 2026·1h 22m
  53. 53

    Mostri, tumuli e connessioni

    Mar 13, 2026·50m
  54. 54

    Fanta-live 4: Ieri, oggi e... domani?

    Mar 12, 2026·2h 8m
  55. 55

    Dove si inginocchiano i raggi cosmici

    This episode discusses high-energy cosmic rays, their extra-galactic origins, and recent findings from the LASO observatory in Tibet, as published in Physical Review Letters.

    Mar 11, 2026·44m
  56. 56

    The Boys - Seconda stagione

    Mar 11, 2026·20m
  57. 57

    Speciale Marginalia

    This episode features an interview with the minds behind Marginalia, a small, micro, weird, horror, and fantastic publishing fair taking place in Milan on March 21-22.

    Mar 10, 2026·43m
  58. 58

    Introduzione 03: Leggere il 41° millennio - Vox Imperialis

    This episode introduces Vox Imperialis, a podcast series exploring the Warhammer 40k universe through transmissions from the Imperium of Humanity.

    Mar 6, 2026·20m
  59. 59

    Trek Movie Files 1: Star Trek - The Motion Picture

    Mar 5, 2026·1h 58m
  60. 60

    Maestri del Suono 3: Brian Eno

    This episode explores Brian Eno's revolutionary career as a conceptual artist and music producer who invented ambient music and transformed pop culture through collaborations with artists like David Bowie and Roxy Music.

    Mar 5, 2026·1h 1m
  61. 61

    Energia oscura senza fiato?

    Host Marco Casolino of LatitudineZero presents the April 2024 DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) results, which surveyed over 5 million galaxies and 856,000 quasars across 12 billion years of cosmic history using Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations as a standard ruler.

    Mar 4, 2026·54m·4 clips
  62. 62

    Star Trek: Discovery 3×04

    The host introduces a video review of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Episode 4 while expressing uncertainty about continuing to make reviews.

    Mar 4, 2026·29m