Betting Lots of Quatloos on the Search for Alien Civilizations, Part 1
Science Talk
Scientific American
4.2 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2015
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is presented by eBay. |
| 0:03.7 | Rob, everyone loves a deal and a bargain from time to time, don't they? Absolutely, mate. And you know where you can grab a great deal? Talk to me. Where? The eBay app. Yes, you are correct. You didn't need to talk to me. I already knew it. I love eBay. When you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. there's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. |
| 0:23.7 | Then when you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. There's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. Then when you're selling, it's so simple and most |
| 0:25.9 | importantly, free. It's free, Rob. When it's this easy to sell for free and there's great deals |
| 0:31.6 | on things you love. You can't help but say when it's eBay. It excludes vehicles and business |
| 0:35.9 | sellers. Welcome to Scientific Americans |
| 0:40.2 | Science Talk posted on July 20th, 2015. I'm Steve Murski. Earlier today, entrepreneur and |
| 0:47.5 | former physicist Yuri Milner, founder of the breakthrough prizes in fundamental physics, life |
| 0:52.6 | sciences and mathematics, |
| 1:00.3 | announced a $100 million 10-year initiative to look for signs of intelligent life in the cosmos. |
| 1:03.6 | The announcement took place at the Royal Society in London, |
| 1:06.3 | where Milner was joined by Stephen Hawking, |
| 1:11.8 | Frank Drake of the Drake equation for estimating advanced civilizations in the universe, |
| 1:14.5 | Martin Rees, England's Astronomer Royal, |
| 1:18.1 | Anne Droyon, author and science documentary producer, |
| 1:21.0 | including both versions of the Cosmos TV series, |
| 1:26.4 | and UC Berkeley's Jeffrey Marcy, astronomy's most prolific exoplanet hunter. Here's part one of this morning's event. |
| 1:31.7 | My name is Yuri Milner, and some of you may know me as a technology investor from Silicon Valley. |
| 1:39.8 | But today I want to tell you about a different kind of investment, investment in science. |
| 1:45.5 | But first let me tell you the story behind it. |
| 1:49.3 | In 1961, John F. Kennedy announced his dream of landing man on the moon by the end of the decade. |
| 1:57.9 | And on this very day, 46 years ago, we made the first step onto the moon. The same year |
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