How to Talk to Aliens

Mysteries of Science

Fun Kids

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ciaran and Dan delve into one of the biggest mysteries of all time: Are we alone in the universe?

With the help of Voyager Golden Record artist Jon Lomberg and more, we try to discover how we might know if something else was out there and if we ever did discover alien life, how would we talk to it?

Plus, we tell you about a very special project called Mission Transmission. Fun Kids is sending your voice to space. Enter now at FunKidsLive.com.

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0:00.0	Hello, can you hear me?
0:02.0	It's Dan here, the editor of Science and Nature, the finest magazine ever made on Earth.
0:07.0	Calling all intelligent life out there in the universe, all aliens and extraterrestrials.
0:12.0	Can you hear me?
0:13.0	Dan, it's Kearen, the Features Editor of the Finest magazine ever made on Earth.
0:18.0	What's going on?
0:20.0	Oh, hello. I'm just trying to make contact with distant
0:23.2	civilizations in the stars right any luck so far um no not yet okay well um seeing as we're here shall we
0:34.4	shall we make a podcast maybe we could do it about talking to aliens and see if we
0:38.8	can help you out a bit. Ah, that sounds like a very good plan, Kieran. Okay, well, let's do that then,
0:44.8	because we are returning to a topic that we looked at very early on in the first season of
0:50.2	mysteries of science, which was extraterrestrial life. I remember you being equally desperate to
0:56.0	find aliens in that episode as well. But as you know, we didn't find anything. Humans have never
1:02.8	found any living things on any planet other than Earth. But that is not from a lack of trying,
1:08.9	and all sorts of research is still being done to find our galactic neighbours.
1:13.9	So, are you saying there might be a better way of contacting aliens than screaming hello into my microphone?
1:21.2	I think there might be.
1:23.1	And maybe we can find out together, thanks to some...
1:26.9	Bear with me here. out of this world guests.
1:30.1	And, clunky, and we'll even discover a new mission launching later this year
1:35.6	that will send more human voices out into space in search for aliens.
1:40.5	This sounds right up my street. I'm ready. Let's begin. This is Mysteries of Science.
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