This is part two of a special episode, a conversation with Lee Cronin, Professor of Chemistry,

at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

And this debate took place in January and was held on Kurt Jaimungold's Theory of Everything channel.

He could find out more about that in the show notes below.

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And this audio conversation was quite wide ranging as you can tell this is

part two of the two-part episode that we recorded and I think it really gets to the

heart and the meaning of what it means to be alive, how could we detect life elsewhere in the solar system in the universe, and beyond, well, I don't know about beyond the universe, but certainly beyond our solar system into the galaxy and other

galaxies.

And Lee's quite optimistic about it, and you'll see some special questions in this episode from

the audience on Kurt's channel. We read some questions and took some

chat and feedback. Got a lot of views on his channel and you can check it out. The video

version on my channel as well, Dr. Brian Ke Keating and I hope you enjoy this special

part two of two with Lee Cronin on Kurt Jammungal's Theory of Everything

Channel.

Any sufficient? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Open the pod bay doors now.

And so I'm curious to know why if life is so abundant and then you sprinkle in some Darwinian evolution, why isn't, you know,

a technological life abundant and why isn't it more plausible than not?

It seems like you're saying you're kind of a life maximalist but a

UFO minimalist so so tell me what how can you rectify those two things because it would

seem to me unless there's a no-go theorem against it that maybe there is more hope.

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