Hello friends, welcome back to the final modern wisdom of 2019.

Massive thank you to everyone who's tuned in over the last 12 months.

And I will finish up with an episode I actually recorded a couple of months ago

but took quite a bit of editing due to some technical problems.

But finally got it ready and it's definitely a unique one.

Keith Cooper has written his most recent book called The Contact Paradox,

challenging our assumptions in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

So essentially we're learning all about aliens.

How would we know if we received a signal from an alien's civilization?

What sort of language would they be using or how could we decode it?

Should we respond?

What are the dangers associated with that?

Should we tell the general public if we've received it?

What are the implications for religion across the globe?

I have to say that I'm in full nerd mode on this episode with Keith.

And if space and aliens and astrobiology and physics isn't your thing,

then go back and listen to another episode because we're going in deep today.

But for those of you who enjoy this sort of stuff, it's absolutely amazing.

Ah, that's it. The year is over.

We have next week potentially one of my favourite ever episodes that we've released.

Myself, Johnny and Yves have sitting down to say what we would tell our 18-year-old selves

if we were able to give them a 30-second phone call and then analysing why we would do it.

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