Leading the Search: Bill Diamond of the SETI Institute
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 29 November 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Leader of the SETI Institute, this week on Planetary Radio. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, |
| 0:12.0 | with more of the human adventure across our |
| 0:14.8 | solar system and beyond. You may think that searching for E.T. is all they do |
| 0:20.4 | at the SETI Institute. President and CEO Bill Diamond will be here to set you straight. |
| 0:26.6 | Emily Lochuala is off this week. |
| 0:28.8 | We're going to take a rocket road trip while she's gone, and Bruce Betts will take us to Venus for this week's |
| 0:34.4 | what-up trivia contest that offers yet another special prize. We begin with the |
| 0:40.0 | Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye. |
| 0:43.0 | Bill Nye. Bill, we had for Mars this week, a couple of stories not terribly related. |
| 0:47.8 | I don't know, maybe you'll see a relationship, |
| 0:49.7 | beginning with the announcement made by the European Space Agency that they think they know what went wrong with the Scaparelli lander. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, the missing second in the software, second of time. |
| 1:01.0 | It reminds of me, Matt, just so much, I was there in 1999 when Mars Polar |
| 1:07.6 | Lander became Mars Polar Crasher or impactor. |
| 1:13.4 | When the landing gear deployed, |
| 1:14.8 | the software was written so that it interpreted |
| 1:17.6 | as though the spacecraft had landed |
| 1:20.4 | on the surface of Mars, but it had not. |
| 1:23.1 | And it just went hurtling in and became Mars Polar Crasher. |
| 1:26.7 | And this Caparelli thing sounds really similar, |
| 1:29.2 | not the same, but just where there was some piece of software, |
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