Calling All Aliens

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Are we alone in the universe? Is there other intelligence out there? COSMIC, the most ambitious SETI search yet, hopes to answer that. We hear updates on this novel signal detection project being conducted on the Very Large Array in the desert of New Mexico. Also, we chat with award-winning science fiction writer Ted Chiang about how he envisions making contact with aliens in his stories, including the one that was the basis for the movie Arrival. And find out why some scientists don’t want only to listen for signals, they want to deliberately transmit messages to aliens. Is that wise and, if we did it, what would we say? Guests: Chenoa Tremblay – Postdoc researcher in radio astronomy for the SETI Institute and member of COSMIC science team Ted Chiang – Nebula and Hugo award-winning science fiction writer, best known for his collections, Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation Douglas Vakoch – Founder and president of METI International, a nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to transmitting intentional signals to extraterrestrial civilizations Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Please take our listener survey! Help us get to know you and enter to win a $500 Amazon gift card! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.6	The experiment known as SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence,
1:17.6	is getting a boost, as the use of a large radio telescope in northern New Mexico
1:22.3	is scanning the skies for signals from alien
1:24.9	civilizations. This experiment, known as Cosmic, will be the most ambitious SETI search
1:31.3	ever undertaken. Could it lead to the detection of a civilization
1:35.0	elsewhere in our galaxy? And if so, what would be the consequences? This is
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