Adam Frank (physicist and astronomer)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Adam Frank (The Little Book of Aliens) is a physicist, astronomer, and writer. Adam joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he dealt with being an outsider in school, why he was drawn to science fiction, and how he discovered a secret language in mathematics. Adam and Dax talk about what the search for intelligent life outside Earth looks like, how common it is for other planets to have water, and what the concept of a liquid brain is. Adam explains why people are so obsessed with UAPs, why looking into space is like looking back in time, and how he thinks climate change is affecting the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman
0:07.6	Hello. Tis the season for aliens. It sure is. That would be one of the many things we do that
0:16.2	the aliens like Christmas and snowflakes and Hanukkah. Yes watching all the little
0:21.6	primates gather around.
0:23.2	They've moved a, they're like, oh, they've moved a tree inside.
0:26.7	Yes.
0:27.7	That's weird.
0:28.7	They've moved some outside to the inside and now they've gathered around it.
0:31.9	They would probably think it was like some appreciation for nature holiday.
0:35.6	And Hanukkah, I mean the, I guess lighting up, like the ritual of lighting the
0:39.3	manure, they'd be like, what's going on there?
0:40.8	They would just think the power was out there.
0:42.8	They go like, oh, these people, the power is out. They've had the lights are on.
0:46.4	Are the lights on when you're lighting the menorah? Now. Now days, okay.
0:49.8	But this is our first time having an alien expert on.
0:54.8	Yeah.
0:55.8	Which is so fun.
0:56.8	It was really fun.
0:58.1	I was really happy with the takeaway, like his takeaway. Yes, me too. Jived with how I feel which is I always enjoy. Yeah, me too. Okay Adam Frank that's who's here Adam Frank is an astrophysicist and author in the principal investigator on
1:14.9	NASA's first grant to study techno signatures signs of advanced civilizations
1:20.9	on other Worlds.
1:22.6	His books include Light of the Stars,
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