Bunker Gold: First contact – We’ll meet aliens soon, then what?

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this week’s Bunker Gold we revisit an out of this world episode from May 2022… As scientists seek extraterrestrial life, what would we do if we actually found it? How would we manage first contact, and could we even communicate with aliens? Franck Marchis, a senior planetary astronomer from the SETI Institute, unpacks the prospect with Andrew Harrison – and the idea aliens might already know we’re here, but we’re too boring for them to care. “The most important question is intelligent life.” “This discovery will not be a big surprise for a lot of humans on this planet.” “If we find a civilisation slightly more advanced to us, maybe 100 years, they may be much more intelligent in terms of technology.” “We may not see them because perhaps their technology is invisible to us.” Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant Producer: Elina Ganatra. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.0	In this episode from May 2022, Andrew Harrison spoke to Frank Marshy from the SETI Institute to ask what would happen if we were to encounter
1:24.4	aliens and consider if they know we're already here but just think we're too boring to bother
1:29.3	with. Hello I'm Andrew Harrison welcome to the bunker daily. If like me believe, or maybe you wish that we're not alone in the universe,
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1:55.0	identify the Congress identify mysterious flying objects that American military pilots had observed,
2:00.0	including whether they were unidentified Earth technology,
2:02.0	atmospherics, or alien in origin.
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