#348 – Nathalie Cabrol: Search for Alien Life
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Nathalie Cabrol is an astrobiologist at the SETI Institute, directing the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Nathalie’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/shasta721
SETI’s Website: https://seti.org
In Her Orbit (article): https://nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/magazine/voyages-nathalie-cabrol-searching-mars-life-on-earth.html
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:47) – Working in extreme environments
(11:26) – Water and life on Mars
(19:31) – Origin of life
(37:00) – Complexity
(40:37) – AI
(49:23) – Extinction
(57:06) – Fermi Paradox
(1:10:48) – SETI research
(1:13:39) – Diving in volcanic lakes
(1:32:57) – Surviving an earthquake on a volcano
(1:43:37) – Resilience of life
(1:51:31) – Life below the surface of Mars
(2:00:26) – Depression
(2:04:08) – Mortality
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Natalie Cabral, an astrobiologist and scientist at the |
| 0:04.7 | SETI Institute, directing the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe. |
| 0:10.3 | She explores some of the harshest places on Earth, including freediving and volcanic |
| 0:15.0 | lakes, all in the pursuit of understanding living organisms beyond Earth. |
| 0:20.0 | For this, she holds the woman's world record for diving at altitude, both scuba and |
| 0:25.8 | freediving. |
| 0:27.6 | She's amazing! |
| 0:30.2 | And now a quick few second mention of a sponsor. |
| 0:32.7 | Check them out in the description, it's the best way to support this podcast. |
| 0:36.4 | We got true classic teas, for t-shirts, Shopify for e-commerce, better help for mental |
| 0:41.9 | health and athletic greens for the best daily multivitamin. |
| 0:46.7 | Choose wisely my friends. |
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| 0:52.0 | I try to make these interesting, but if you skip them, if you must, please still check |
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| 1:00.8 | This shows brought to you by true classic teas, high quality salt, flim-fitted t-shirts |
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