Ep. 610: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Non-Sentient Edition

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 610: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Non-Sentient Edition by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Are we alone in the Universe? It's one of the biggest scientific questions we can possibly ask. And yet, with rovers on Mars, missions planned to visit Europa and Ganymede. Powerful telescopes able to detect the atmospheres of exoplanets, we're closer than ever to finding out the answer.

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0:00.0	A Sronomy Cast Episode 610 Confirming Alien Life
0:12.0	Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where we help you
0:15.5	understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:18.8	I'm Fraser Kaye, publisher of Universe Today and with me is always Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior
0:23.6	scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
0:27.2	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
0:28.4	I am doing well, how are you doing?
0:31.4	Good, although it sounds like you're being baked.
0:35.4	Steam broiled there.
0:37.4	It's steamed.
0:38.4	It is, according to my sensors down here in the basement, it is currently 96% humidity,
0:51.4	and it's 102 degrees outside.
0:55.4	And yeah, yeah.
1:00.4	We're not used to this here and this is as so many people here in the North American
1:07.9	continent are experiencing an unusually hot spring and stay safe.
1:17.1	People get fans, check on your neighbors when I lived in Austin, Texas.
1:21.4	It was normal that everyone had cooling stations that they could go to if they needed to
1:27.0	and couldn't afford AC.
1:29.0	A lot of places aren't designed for that right now and in these still COVID times, I know
1:34.7	people are avoiding crowded situations like air-conditioned shopping malls and movie theaters.
1:41.0	So take care of each other.
1:42.4	Yeah, that's interesting.
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