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🗓️ 12 July 2023
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0:00.0 | In humanity there is this obsession with with prizes with honors honors, with glory. |
0:13.5 | And I really, again, trace it to almost a form of religion |
0:16.6 | where you have a worshipful attitude, |
0:20.0 | you have a hierarchy set up. And it's not that competition is bad. |
0:24.4 | I think competition is ultimately can be very healthy, but it can also have a dark side. |
0:29.4 | We are really venerating this prize above almost everything else and the fact that it's really so |
0:34.7 | subjective it's so far straight from what it was originally intended to do a hundred plus |
0:41.0 | years ago and it's now more in such a way that it's affecting the way |
0:45.2 | that science is perceived not only by by the public which is bad enough but by |
0:50.5 | how scientists themselves see it and how they view and their and their committees that give them tenure and their funding agencies are guided in part by the you know by the precedence set by previous Nobel Prizes and I think that's very dangerous |
1:11.6 | Welcome to this replay edition of Into the Impossible featuring your |
1:14.8 | host Brian Keating being interviewed by Mika Hanks. Mika is a writer, |
1:19.1 | producer, podcaster, researcher, adventurer, and adventurer and co-founder of the debrief he delves deep into science technology history and UAP and |
1:27.2 | UFO research in in this interview mica focuses on Professor Keating's first book, |
1:33.1 | Losing the Nobel Prize, and Brian's personal Nobel stories, |
1:36.8 | his outspoken criticisms of the Covenant Nobel |
1:39.4 | and his ideas on how the award process could be improved. |
1:44.4 | You're going to get a fast-paced introduction |
1:46.2 | to the field of SETI, that's the search |
1:48.6 | for extraterrestrial intelligence, its history and evolution. |
1:52.4 | What are the chances of finding life beyond Earth? |
1:55.0 | What are the chances of discovering techno-signatures |
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