Aliens w/ Keith Cooper

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by science journalist and editor Keith Cooper to talk about his new book, "The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." They talk about the history of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), and how attempts at understanding potential alien civilizations may help us better know ourselves.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, July 6th, 2020 and I'm
0:20.0	the host of the show Kara Santa Maria And before we dive into today's episode,
0:24.3	I just want to thank those of you
0:25.4	who have made TalkNurdy possible over the last week.
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1:04.6	Patreon.com slash talk nerdy. All right let's talk about this week's episode so I
1:11.6	had the opportunity to sit down with a freelance science
1:15.9	journalist and editor. His name is Keith Cooper. He's actually the editor and lead
1:20.9	writer of Astronomy Now magazine.
1:24.3	He's also previously worked as the editor of Astrobiology magazine.
1:28.6	He's written for New Scientist, Physics World, Science Focus,
1:33.4	Sky and Telescope.
1:35.0	Are you guys noticing a theme?
1:36.4	And he's got a new book out called The Contact Paradox,
1:41.2	Challenging Our Assumptions in the search for extraterrestrial
1:45.1	intelligence. Ooh. So we're going to talk all about that. What is SETI? How far
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