Stopping by Earth on the way to Jupiter this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Scott Bolton last joined us as his I met Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

Scott Bolton last joined us as his Juno probe was leaving Earth the first time.

He's back to tell us about a brief rendezvous last week that has sent the solar-powered spacecraft speeding

toward the King of planets. We're going to mix things up a bit at the top of this

week's show as we check in first with Bill Nye, the science guy.

Bill, I think you want to talk about something that's a little bit different on the Planetary

Society website.

We're so used to these pictures of planets and moons and they're beautiful, but this is a blog

entry from Bruce Betts with a photo of

printed circuit boards. Well it's a photo of patterns from photo multiplier

tubes yeah so the planetary size the only from photomoplier tubes. Yeah.

So the planetary site is the only organization that does an all sky search for extraterrestrial intelligence

looking for beams of light, probably laser light.

So everybody, you can say, come on, you're not really searching for extraterrestrial and

telling us, what a waste of resources time after an energy and we say oh no my friends. There's one way to make sure

you do not detect a signal from another civilization and that's to not go looking.

This is a worthy pursuit it It's not, you don't take all of your resources, your entire government, every bureaucrat ever hired in the history,

or aerospace engineer in the history of humankind.

No, it's something you do all the time in the background.

You maintain this search because you just don't know what you're going to discover.

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