Life in Space

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2015

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Discovering bacteria on Mars would be big news. But nothing would scratch our alien itch like making contact with intelligent life. Hear why one man is impatient for the discovery, and also about the new tools that may speed up the “eureka” moment. One novel telescope may help us find E.T. at home, by detecting the heat of his cities. Also, the father of modern SETI research and how decoding the squeals of dolphins could teach us how to communicate with aliens. Guests: • Lee Billings – Journalist and author of Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars • Oliver Guyon – Optical physicist, astronomer, University of Arizona and Suburu telescope; 2012 McArthur Genius award winner • Jeff Kuhn – Physicist, Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Colossus Telescope • Frank Drake – Astronomer, SETI Institute • Denise Herzing – Behavioral biologist and research director of the Wild Dolphin Project Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:12.0	everything from strange diseases and biological breakthroughs
0:15.6	to interesting tech and mysteries in outer space.
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0:29.6	full of deadly creatures that can shred you to pieces. It becomes kind of like a game of
0:34.2	throne's political arena where everyone's trying to murder you to get your job.
0:38.7	My family doesn't come from corporate backgrounds so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that.
0:43.2	This is not your typical work podcast.
0:45.4	Sometimes you need to be empathetic and then there are times that you ask for input
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0:56.6	Since humans first looked at the sky and wondered whether anyone or anything was up there,
1:02.0	we've asked the question.
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