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Ologies with Alie Ward

Astrobiology (ALIENS) with Kevin Peter Hand

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

ALIENS! EXTRATERRESTRIALS! MARTIANS! Let's. Get. Into. It. The phenomenal Dr. Kevin Peter Hand of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory dishes on the oceans of distant moons, methane rivers, E.T., ice crusts, what might be out there, the timeline of possibly finding them, ghosts, aliens, dark matter, if we should fear making contact with intergalactic beings, if the government is hiding alien secrets, how finding extraterrestrial microbes would change the way we see life on this here tiny blue dot in space. Also: the galactic bulge. Dr. Kevin Peter Hand's JPL profile Dr. Kevin Peter Hand on Twitter: @alienoceans and Instagram @kevin_peter_hand Sponsor links: KiwiCo.com/Ologies, Calm.com/Ologies This week's donations were made to Traveling Telescope & Vermont's Manchester Rescue Squad More links at alieward.com/ologies/astrobiology Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow @Ologies on Twitter or Instagram Follow @AlieWard on Twitter or Instagram Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, it's that guy in your video editing class who choose so much gum.

0:05.8

You're actually worried about him.

0:07.4

Ali Ward, back with another episode of Alleges.

0:10.9

So this episode, I'm just, I'm gonna say this up top, just get out of the way.

0:15.5

It's out of this world.

0:16.5

Okay, I said it, it's out of this world.

0:18.8

Now we're gonna start by talking about the passions that lead to a career in extraterrestrial

0:25.6

alien searches.

0:27.0

As well as lay down some foundations on missions in our solar system, and then we'll get to what

0:33.1

could live where.

0:34.6

But before we get to a live things on distant space bodies, let's thank some earthlings.

0:40.8

So thank you to all the people who make the podcast possible on patreon.com slash allergies,

0:46.2

all my buddies there.

0:47.6

To all the folks sporting allergies swag from allergiesmerch.com, thank you to all the folks who are

0:52.6

rating and making sure you're subscribed and leaving reviews for me to peruse like a

0:57.7

semi-creep, such as for example, one left by anonymous epidemiologist as we said, more

1:03.7

years of grad school than I like to admit, tends to hamper my ability to talk about my research

1:07.7

without being boring, condescending, inaccurate, or worse, all three.

1:12.7

I love this podcast because it helps me figure out how to talk about my own work in a way

1:16.2

that is true, but hopefully relatable.

1:19.0

I'm going to say I think a lot of folks listening probably related to that.

1:22.7

So boom, there you go.

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