A New Era For SETI Research: More on the Breakthrough Initiatives

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We follow last week’s conversation with Ann Druyan about the $100 million funding of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by visiting with two of the scientists who will do the work: Dan Werthimer of UC Berkeley and Karen O’Neil of the Green Bank Telescope.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Breaking through to ET, this week on planetary radio.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:12.7	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:15.1	We continue our exploration of the Breakthrough Listen Initiative this week, the project that
0:20.3	will put $100 million toward answering the greatest of all
0:23.8	questions in science. Are we alone? This time we'll hear from Dan Wertheimer of
0:29.0	the SETI at home project and radio astronomer Karen O'Neill at the Green Bank Telescope.
0:34.7	The whole regular gang is also back beginning with the Planetary Society's senior editor
0:39.8	Emily Lochuwala.
0:41.2	Emily welcome back from Vacation.
0:42.7	Thank you very much.
0:43.9	Lots of catching up to do,
0:45.2	and I guess you've got that on the website
0:47.5	with one of your regular What's Up contributions.
0:50.2	Bruce doesn't own that. So let's begin with how about the moon? Anything
0:56.3	happening with the lunar missions we should know about? Yeah you know there's a
1:00.0	lunar reconnaissance arbiter is still active. The U2 rover is against all odds still communicating with a lunar
1:03.2	lunar orbiter is still active. The U2 rover is against all odds still
1:04.3	communicating with Earth, but there's actually a lunar mission that we
1:07.0	didn't know we had the Discover mission which is designed to study
1:11.5	solar activity and also to gaze at Earth, caught the moon passing in front of Earth's
1:15.7	disk and oh my God is an amazing animation.
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