You look at the numbers that when you think it's got to exist.

When can I live out my Dr. Louise Banks, a rival fantasy?

There is an earth or carbon or anthropic bias, whatever you want to call it here.

Pod racers would be pretty great.

But it would have to be environmentally friendly.

If that's how we end up communicating with them, I'll be very happy.

I'll be like, this is not intelligent life.

Hello, welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me,

science journalist Izzy Clark and award-winning astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smeatherhurst. Congratulations. Thank you. So share your

news with the team. I have been awarded the Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship for 2020.

Which I'm very excited about. It's a prize from the William Herschel Society, and it means I'll be giving a lecture in November at the University of Bath and won at the Royal Astronomical Society as well. You know, COVID permitting anyway. We'll see what happens, but hopefully they'll be in person. I'm just absolutely thrilled because Caroline Herschel was just an incredible astronomer, so to win something with her name attached is a real honour. Yeah, that's amazing. Am I allowed to turn out with just like one of those

foam fingers in the background? Like, yeah. If you don't, I'll be disappointed. So shall we get

to it for this month? Yeah, probably should. So I can't believe we've actually pulled this off. So we've got

a full report into Area 51. It's been a lot of hard work. We've had an astrophysicist who works there

and they've been secretly recording things and sending us updates. And so we've got so much information for you.

Not really.

No.

You tried to make that so serious.

I couldn't.

I get it.

But we are exploring extraterrestrial life this month.

Yeah.

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