One In A Million!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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UC Berkeley SETI researcher Andrew Siemion and his colleagues have put an upper limit on the number of civilizations in our galaxy that are capable of giving us a call. He’ll explain their reasoning and provide other search updates.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your one and a million in a million this week on planetary radio. Radio.
0:20.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:22.0	It's a remarkable proposition really.
0:25.0	Fewer than one in a million stars in our galaxy hosts a civilization advanced enough
0:31.0	to transmit a radio beacon we could hear.
0:34.6	Lead author Andrew Seemian will tell us how he and his colleagues arrived at that figure.
0:39.6	Bill Nye is on the road this week, but Bruce Betts is here with our weekly look at the night sky
0:44.6	and a new space trivia contest.
0:47.2	In the lead in a photo finish is Emily Lachto-Wala.
0:50.6	She has more than one great new photo to share.
0:53.0	Emily, let's start with Big News for Curiosity,
0:57.0	which has been on Mars now for quite a while,
1:00.0	but really is, I guess, still just getting started?
1:02.0	Yeah, we're going on. We're very close to the 200th. really is I guess still just getting started?
1:02.6	Yeah, we're going on.
1:03.4	We're very close to the 200th day of the mission,
1:05.9	and last week curiosity finally completed the very last
1:10.0	first-time activity.
1:11.8	That's what they call all of these engineering operations that makes curiosity so complex.
1:16.7	The very last thing that it had to do for the first time was after it drilled into the
1:22.0	Martian rock.
1:22.8	It does that in order to create a rock powder that I can put inside of its instruments.
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