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🗓️ 18 October 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Astrobiologist David Grinspoon and his guest, Hugo Award-winning sci-fi author and scientist David Brin weigh the pros and cons of attempting to contact extraterrestrials. Plus, Chuck Nice asks the pair Cosmic Queries about what we’ll do if aliens find us.

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0:00.0	This is StarTalk.
0:03.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:06.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.0	Hi, I'm David Grinchpoon, and this is StarTalk All Stars.
0:12.0	I'll be your All Star host today. And today's co-host is
0:16.0	comedian Chuck Nice. Hey David, how's it going Chuck? Hey man, it's good.
0:20.0	Good to see you again. Yeah, this is great. It's really fun to be with you again.
0:23.0	And today's topic, we're going to be talking about
0:26.0	communicating with extraterrestrials. Yeah. And
0:29.0	not only that, there's a controversial sub topic, which is
0:34.0	the question should we be just listening? Like we've been doing for maybe 50 years.
0:39.0	Right. Or should we actually be sending our own messages? Some people think that's the way to go. Other people think that it's
0:44.0	stupid because we're... We don't know who we're talking to, do we?
0:47.0	We're talking bad guys over. Exactly. You know, you're just kind of putting it out there.
0:51.0	You know, it's kind of like, I don't know, cosmic tender.
0:55.0	Yeah, yeah. You don't get to swipe right or left, you just putting it out there.
1:00.0	Exactly. We can't necessarily choose who we're going to be
1:05.0	dating on the interstellar scene here. So yeah, there's a reason to maybe
1:12.0	forecaution. Maybe not. Some people think it's silly. So we'll get into that.
1:15.0	But today we're going to be fielding your fan questions. We're going to be doing something
1:21.0	that we call cosmic queries. And also to help us get into this subject is a
1:28.0	really knowledgeable and enjoyable scientist and science fiction author, David Brinn,
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