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S8 Ep1129: Bob Zimmerman — SETI has tightened protocols for announcing alien life to prevent "clickbait" claims lacking evidence, with scientists encouraged to be more transparent about mistakes and maintain anonymity during discoveries; future missions include depl

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 14 July 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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  Bob ZimmermanSETI has tightened protocols for announcing alien life to prevent "clickbait" claims lacking evidence, with scientists encouraged to be more transparent about mistakes and maintain anonymity during discoveries; future missions include deploying helicopters to Mars and launching the Habitable Worlds Observatory in the 2040s. (16)

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This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Batcher. Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman is here. It is an annual July

0:51.1

sustaining Bob as he watched commercial space go up. Not only Hollywood, they're now

0:56.3

Wall Street. There's money in them there hills, investment money. At the same time, there's big space

1:02.1

still putting up its ideas of how to get to the moon, what to do in low Earth orbit, how to work

1:07.9

together with commercial space. All that's on Bob's site. There's a lot of

1:11.6

discovery, and that's what we're about to do, because it's not just space engineering, it's

1:15.8

space discovery. $49 is my recommendation. Bob, you want to tighten the protocols of SETI.

1:24.2

All right. Well, quickly, I want to tighten the proclose. $49 subscription sounds to me like about

1:28.8

four bucks a month, which I think is reasonable, John, and very nice, and I appreciate that.

1:32.7

But people can subscribe for two, for ten. I have one guy 100 a month, so it's up to you,

1:37.9

or you can just donate. Either way, I really thank people. Now, tightening protocols from

1:42.9

SETI. SETI is the search for extraterrestrial

1:46.2

intelligence project. It's been around for a long time. It recently issued a paper where they

1:52.5

tightened the protocols for announcing any evidence of alien life. And this was almost a direct

1:57.9

without naming him attack on Harvard scientist Avi Loeb, who,

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