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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Fraser Cain: Let’s Find Aliens in Our Solar System! (#268)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Join me and Fraser Cain (https://www.youtube.com/c/universetodayvids) for a wide-ranging romp through the Universe of ideas! We'll take questions and hopefully answer a few. Don't miss this chance to chat with a legend! @FraserCain Space and astronomy news comes fresh three times weekly from Fraser Cain, publisher of Universe Today and co-host of Astronomy Cast. If you're a fan of space, sci-fi, and pop culture, you'll love his Guide to Space. These short videos come out every Monday and Thursday and answer a burning question that astronomy fans want to know. We talk about black holes, galaxies, the Universe, and the search for aliens. If you want the latest news in space and astronomy, Fraser records the Weekly Space Hangout live every Friday afternoon at 12:00pm. Join the live broadcast and ask your questions to his team of space journalists and special guests.He's had astronauts, science fiction authors, and space scientists on the show. Watch the video with slides here: https://youtu.be/q1cPyE9rAD4 Connect with me: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! Can you do me a favor? Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. 🎙️On Spotify it’s here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2G3PRMUhxGQkyQzLiiCqlf?si=8656119458df4555 🎧 On Audible it’s here : https://www.audible.com/pd/Into-the-Impossible-With-Brian-Keating-Podcast/B08K56PXJX?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShar Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast - Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Are there artifacts of alien civilizations here in the solar system, that's a really good question.

0:15.5

And it's a really, like if there was one way that aliens would travel from star system

0:20.4

to star system, they would send self-replicating robot probes that would be pumping out more robot

0:25.3

probes that would be in a place where there's a lot of minerals.

0:28.4

Let's look in the asteroid belt.

0:31.1

That's a really compelling idea to me.

0:36.0

Welcome friends to the Into the Impossible podcast.

0:39.0

I'm Brian Keating, the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics

0:42.0

at the University of California, San Diego,

0:44.0

where I'm also the Associate Director of the Arthur C. Clark Center for Human Imagination,

0:49.0

and today you'll hear not a few callbacks to Sir Arthur C. Clark. You'll stay tuned for that because

0:56.2

we're talking to a fellow science communicator, a journalist, and the proprietor ofore of the Universe Today Empire,

1:05.0

and that's Fraser Kane.

1:07.0

He's well known for his YouTube channel,

1:09.0

and as I said, as the publisher and founder of Universe Today,

1:12.0

a reformed computer programmer, you'll hear a little bit about that.

1:15.2

And we really talk shop about science, communication, and also bringing authenticity and veracity to both science and science

1:26.2

podcasting as well. I know you'll like that as much as I did. Frazier's

1:30.5

inspiration and really kind of been a mentor to me although I think we're about the same age.

1:36.4

So I love having conversations like this, going deep, taking questions.

1:40.9

So I took questions both on Twitter, Dr Brian Keating and on YouTube at Dr Brian Keating and you can

1:48.2

subscribe to both of those feeds to interact with me and my guests and I always love taking questions from you, my beloved audience.

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