Are We Alone in the Universe? | 27
Call Me Curious
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🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In a galaxy far, far away — something AMAZING is happening! NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is beaming back to us un-be-liev-able photos of deep space. And you don’t have to be someone with a light saber and a cape to appreciate what we’re learning about our big, beautiful universe. What we’re all seeing for the first time makes it pretty hard to believe there isn’t some kind of intelligent life out there in the stars somewhere. So are we alone? Is Earth the only game in town? Nikki and Malone ponder the possibilities with astrophysicist and Webb Telescope team member Dr. Marcia Rieke, and science comedian (yes… he is!) Brian Malow.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, or just got-a-no questions you have. |
| 0:16.9 | And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is. |
| 0:21.0 | Because I've got 21 questions. |
| 0:23.6 | I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson. |
| 0:28.3 | Call me curious. |
| 0:32.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:34.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:36.2 | So tell the truth. Hi, everybody. |
| 0:51.7 | Oh, I'm so happy you're here. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome to the show today. |
| 0:54.2 | I know I say I'm so happy you're here at the beginning of every show, but I really do mean it. |
| 0:58.5 | Like, thank you for spending time with us today. |
| 1:01.1 | So I have a question. |
| 1:02.3 | Have you noticed that lately on everyone's social media walls, it's just been pictures of outer space, right? |
| 1:10.2 | These amazing, mind-blowing pictures of outer space, which can only mean one thing, that Pete Davidson is dating the planet Jupiter. |
| 1:18.5 | Ah, just kidding. |
| 1:20.0 | Or it actually means that we're getting the first pictures back from the James Webb Space Telescope, |
| 1:25.3 | which astronomy nerds will remember was launched last Christmas, I remember. |
| 1:29.2 | I'm not an astronomy nerd, but I do remember this being kind of a big moment. And it was on |
| 1:33.4 | Christmas, so I was like, and I have a question for you too. Do you remember the Hubble Space |
| 1:38.1 | Telescope from back in the 90s? Right? I remember that. Well, this telescope is actually |
| 1:43.0 | 100 times more powerful than that. |
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