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🗓️ 6 April 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, hey, welcome. You are three episodes in now to Pop Culture Petri dish with myself A Bepperson who is a baby and joining me as always is |
0:18.3 | Christian who knows more about science than I do, so say hello. |
0:24.0 | Hello, I am a slightly older baby. |
0:28.0 | If Abe is a true baby, then I guess I'm a toddler. |
0:32.0 | Yeah, so we're just two babies going to be talking at you for the next half hour. |
0:37.0 | This is where we talk about science fiction and where it meets reality and how they inform each other and what philosophical and cool questions |
0:46.7 | might come up from reading them or experiencing them, whatever. But But today we're calling this episode where is everybody? |
0:56.3 | Yeah. Yeah. Yeah where we're talking about aliens. |
1:00.5 | Yes, extraterrestrial life. |
1:03.0 | And what's the deal with it? |
1:05.0 | You know, like where are they at? |
1:07.0 | Where are they? |
1:08.0 | Because we're here and we're waiting. |
1:10.0 | Yeah. |
1:11.0 | So, uh, give us the intro walk us through some stuff. All right, so this entire |
1:19.0 | subject can gonna be summed up with something called the Fairme paradox. Basically, Abe has a story |
1:26.7 | about Enrico Fairme that he's going to share, but the story, this specific one goes that Enrico Ferme was a scientist working on the nuclear program, and one day over lunch, they had been talking about the massive size of the universe and the potential for life. And he said, if the odds are so in |
1:48.6 | favor of extraterrestrial life, then where is everybody? And that tiny little question encompasses a bunch of |
1:57.4 | different ideas and here they are. There are billions of stars in the galaxy |
2:01.6 | that are similar to our sun. Many of those stars are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to our sun. |
2:03.4 | Many of those stars are billions of years older than the solar system, |
2:07.3 | with the high probability that some of these stars have Earth-like planets, |
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