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Listening for Aliens, with Carolyn Porco - StarTalk All-Stars

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4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Explore SETI and the Breakthrough Listen Initiative, the most comprehensive search for extraterrestrial intelligence ever, with host Carolyn Porco, co-host Chuck Nice, and Dan Werthimer, the Initiative’s principal investigator and SETI@home co-founder.

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0:00.0

This is StarTalk.

0:02.5

Hello, and this is StarTalk All Stars edition.

0:12.6

I'm your All Star host this evening, Carolyn Porco,

0:15.1

and I'm a planetary scientist and leader

0:17.8

of the imaging science team of the Cassini mission

0:21.3

in orbit around Saturn as we speak.

0:24.2

My co-host today is Chuck Nice.

0:26.1

Thanks, Mr. Allen.

0:27.1

Being here, Chuck.

0:28.1

Thank you.

0:28.9

And who else do we have with us as well?

0:31.4

Well, today we're talking about the search

0:33.5

for extraterrestrial intelligence, which

0:35.4

is an ever-popular topic, and the new Breakthrough

0:39.0

Listen project, which is the most comprehensive, well-supported

0:44.2

search for alien life to date, and to help us dig deeper

0:48.2

into this enormous topic I've brought on VSKIP,

0:51.9

the principal investigator of this project,

0:53.8

Dan Worthheimer.

0:54.8

Welcome.

0:55.4

Dan to StarTalk.

0:57.6

Thanks, Carolyn.

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