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🗓️ 13 May 2020
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Will humans ever discover intelligent life in space? Since the 1960’s, scientists have been working on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. They have not found it yet but their research is moving up a gear. Better telescopes, faster computers and more funding means that the chances of discovering ET in the next few decades have dramatically increased. Alok Jha hosts.
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0:00.0 | If you want to talk about internet safety with your child, but don't know where to start, |
0:05.0 | Interland from Google is an online game that turns the conversation into an interactive adventure. |
0:11.0 | There's four different levels, each devoted to a different digital skill. |
0:16.0 | So your child can learn how to make smarter decisions on the internet, |
0:20.0 | helping you find a healthier balance for your family online. |
0:24.0 | Search, play Interland and start learning together. |
0:30.0 | When you think of extraterrestrial life, what do you see? |
0:38.0 | Is it little green men asking to be taking to your leader? |
0:43.0 | Perhaps it's a small brown creature with big eyes, riding on the back of a child's bike. |
0:50.0 | The search for extraterrestrial intelligence, often called just seti, |
0:58.0 | has always had something of an image problem. |
1:01.0 | For decades it's been relegated to the fringes of astronomy, |
1:04.0 | something for those more interested in sci-fi than science. |
1:08.0 | Hello and welcome to Babbage on Economist Radio, |
1:11.0 | our weekly podcast about science and technology. |
1:14.0 | I'm Alok Chah, science correspondent for the Economist. |
1:18.0 | By the turn of the 21st century, people were starting to lose interest in seti, |
1:23.0 | and with decades of no results, money for the endeavour was dwindling. |
1:27.0 | But things are now changing. |
1:30.0 | A renaissance in astronomy and astrophysics in the past two decades has transformed how we see the universe around us. |
1:37.0 | Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets that's planets outside our solar system. |
1:42.0 | They could be habitable for life like our own. |
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