First Contact with Professor Avi Loeb

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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👽🤖👀 Get ready for a mind-bending special episode of Chinwag, where Paul Giamatti and Steven Asma dive deep into the future and the search for alien life with Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb! But that's not all—Dr. Loeb also takes us on a cosmic journey through his cutting-edge research on interstellar objects and alien space trash. Could we be on the verge of discovering ancient tech from another civilization? Is a "first contact" with extraterrestrial life closer than we think? It’s a thought-provoking mix of aliens and imagination, sprinkled with humor and wild ideas about our future. Don’t miss this exciting chat that could change how you think about science, technology, and our place in the cosmos! Paul Giamatti is a Golden Globe award winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. Avi Loeb is a renowned astrophysicist and author of the groundbreaking books Extraterrestrial and Interstellar, exploring the scientific search for alien life. He is a Professor of Science at Harvard University, founding director of The Black Hole Initiative and has published over 700 research articles. 👽🤖👀 ========= Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod Send your stories, Qs, or thoughts to 📧 questions [at] chinwagpod [dot] fm ========= Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:10.4	but guess what? That's right, five pounds.
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0:19.0	Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply,
0:21.0	participating restaurants subjects of availability. Hello this is Paul Giamotti speaking. This is Stephen Asma.
0:46.0	Late co-host. There you are. Also speaking, you're late, you just got in.
0:52.0	He just arrived.
0:54.0	Here we are, this is, as promised, this is a continuation, this is a bonus wag, an addendum with theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist, Frank B. Baird
1:08.7	junior professor of science at Harvard University, author of the books Extraterrestrial and Interstellar,
1:15.0	Dr. Avi Lobe from our amazing conversation with him previously.
1:21.4	Correct, Steve?
1:22.4	Yeah, this guy is really worth your time and he's also one of the few people that can explain
1:29.0	dense astrophysics in a way that involves like marriage counseling and dating and all kinds of
1:35.2	great metaphors. Very very basic ways of thinking about things that are really
1:38.9	helpful. Yeah. So here we go. I was interviewed on radio and about a meteor that landed near Kamchatka in December 2018.
1:59.7	And then, so on January, I was asked about it, and I checked on
2:03.7	I checked online and I found a catalog of meteors that NASA compiled based on data that
2:10.1	came from US government satellites.
2:12.8	Every now and then they see an object
2:14.8	colliding with Earth and generating a fireball.
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