METI: Existential Threat? Probably Yes
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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We've wanted to contact extraterrestrials for as long as we've suspected they're out there. But as we get better and locating potentially inhabited planets, beaming messages their way is suddenly posing a threat.
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| 0:00.0 | America loves its founding fathers, but that's a tough act to follow as a founding son. |
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| 0:41.2 | Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're just doing what we can. |
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| 0:52.4 | Wow. Ed, what is that up? I wanted to make sure the bar was really low. |
| 0:58.6 | We'll hold on a second. Before we get going, we don't often plug shows, but there's a new one on |
| 1:04.4 | our network called Inter Cosmos that we wanted to plug that sounds super awesome. |
| 1:09.3 | You know, I've ever heard of David Eagleman. He's a neuroscientist. |
| 1:13.4 | Seems like he might have come up before, but he's from Stanford. He's a best-selling author. |
| 1:18.4 | He explores these insightful questions about modern brain science, how it intersects our lives. |
| 1:24.6 | It's just kind of right up stuff you should know as Ali. Definitely. |
| 1:27.7 | And I think the listeners would really dig checking it out. |
| 1:30.9 | So go check it out. What's it called again? It's called Inter Cosmos. It's awesome. |
| 1:34.2 | Very nice. I'm excited about this one. I think this may button up our sort of talking to aliens |
| 1:43.7 | suite. I think you're absolutely right. Because we've done one on SETI. Yes. |
| 1:49.2 | Which is called the search for Estra terrestrial jerk. |
| 1:56.6 | Intelligence. Yeah. Yeah. |
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