How to Find Aliens | Jaime Green (#327)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Watch the full video on youtube here: https://youtu.be/EY8b5g31j44 Welcome author Jaime Green! We discuss her moving and delightful book about the possibility and actuality of alien life. The discussion covers a range of topics, from the role of waste of space to the significance of life on Earth. The episode also delves into other scientific questions, such as the definition of a planet, the simulation of the Drake equation, and the morality of abortion from a religious perspective. The episode concludes with a discussion on the potential impact of discovering alien life on society. Jaime Green is a science writer, essayist, editor, and teacher, and she is series editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia, and her writing has appeared in Slate, Popular Science, The New York Times Book Review, American Theatre, Catapult, Astrobites, and elsewhere. Jaime Green is interested in the fundamental nature of life and how it arises. She is working to abstract from Earth's chemistry to gain a broader understanding of what distinguishes living matter from inanimate matter. Jaime recognizes that defining life is a difficult task and that traditional definitions may not be useful in understanding the complexity of living systems. Her work is focused on unraveling many of the mysteries surrounding the origins of life, and she is regarded as a leading author in this field. https://www.jaimegreen.net/ Related Episodes: Life’s Edge with Carl Zimmer: https://youtu.be/s8B4eHcsWKQ Lee Cronin assembly theory: https://youtu.be/aC8yIU7gE5w Sarah Rugheimer extrasolar planets with a particular focus on atmospheric biosignatures :https://youtu.be/w5DxU-lPYK4 Sara Seager: Life in the Galaxy search for exoplanets the smallest lights in the univ.: https://youtu.be/88FMsX745rs Paul Davies the Goldilocks enigma what is life: https://youtu.be/KgK0RW5GeoA Sara Walker is deputy director of the pioneering Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science:https://youtu.be/0Iklfzmqz88 Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review: On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v Find 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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0:00.0	There are researchers who are working on this is how life in general arises in general.
0:09.3	Trying to abstract from Earth's chemistry and look at what life fundamentally is, what is the distinction between
0:18.3	when matter is ruled by the laws of physics and when something else kicks in.
0:25.0	One of the big challenges to that is that we don't have a theoretical understanding of what life is.
0:31.0	I talk in the book and people often ask me about like we don't have a
0:35.6	definition for life and it's true we don't but that's not because we haven't found it
0:41.2	yet it's because life isn't the sort of thing for which definitions are useful.
0:47.0	Welcome to our listeners to this new book edition of Into the Impossible with author Jamie Green discussing her book The Possibility of Life, Science, Imagination, and our quest for kinship in the Cosmos.
1:02.0	If you're a regular listener, you know that your
1:05.0	host Professor Keating has done many episodes addressing the big questions of life.
1:08.8	What is it? How did it start? Are we alone in the universe? Although Brian maintains that life is unique
1:15.2	to Earth, in recent years the discovery of exoplanets and the field of astrobiology has exploded.
1:21.2	This discussion covers the possibility of alien life, the
1:25.2	origin and nature of life and the significance of life on Earth. The episode
1:29.8	delves into religious and moral questions Jamie gravels with.
1:33.0	What would happen to society if life was proven to exist beyond Earth?
1:37.0	If you love pondering the big questions like The Origin of Life,
1:42.0	please keep into the impossible and your feeds by
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1:48.6	curious friends. To see the video version of this interview, jump over to our YouTube channel at Dr. Brian Heating, and subscribe there to.
1:57.0	There you can find many more episodes on the topics of astrobiology, exoplanets, and the origins of life,
2:02.6	with Carl Zimmer, Sarah Seiger, Sarah Rookheimer,
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