Ep. 611: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Intelligence Edition

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 611: What is Required to Confirm Alien Life: Intelligence Edition by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Last week we talked about what it's going to take to confirm basic biological life across the Solar System and the Milky Way. This week, we'll discuss what it's going to take to detect intelligent life out there in space.

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0:00.0	A astronomy cast episode 611 confirming intelligent alien life.
0:12.8	Welcome to Astronomy Castor, weekly facts based journey through the Cosmos where we help
0:16.0	you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.
0:18.9	I'm Priser Kain, publisher of Universe Today with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior
0:23.5	scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic Quest.
0:27.5	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
0:28.5	I am doing well.
0:30.5	It is thunderstormy here but so far the tornadoes have stayed on the other side of the river
0:36.2	which I call a win especially when I look at your weather.
0:40.2	Yeah, yeah.
0:41.2	I'm just, we were talking about this before the show that we are going to be experiencing
0:45.4	extreme heat here on the west coast of Canada.
0:50.2	In normally in June temperatures are 20 to 25.
0:56.8	It's cool, it's really nice, it's perfect weather usually but yeah we're supposed to get,
1:01.6	we're supposed to hit 34 degrees today and 39 by Monday which is like what you might experience
1:08.7	in Phoenix.
1:09.7	It's crazy.
1:10.7	Yeah, yeah, it's going to be outrageous and nobody has air conditioning in, you know, in
1:14.8	this part of the world.
1:16.6	So we are going to, it's going to be an interesting couple of days for sure.
1:20.6	Yeah, we're going to be huddled up in the one room that we have an air conditioning unit
1:25.2	in or huddled down in the basement.
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