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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Sarah Rugheimer: Searching for Extraterrestrial Life ​(#191)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Sarah Rugheimer is a Glasstone Research Fellow and a Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College Oxford. Her research interests are modeling the atmosphere and climate of extrasolar planets with a particular focus on atmospheric biosignatures in Earth-like planets as well as modeling early Earth conditions. She is interested in anything related to the field of Astrobiology: the study of origin of life on Earth and the pursuit of detecting life on other planets/moons in the Universe.The questions of our origins and the distribution of life in the Universe are the main driving inspiration for her day-to-day work. Her Audible Exclusive book Searching for Extraterrestrial Life reveals what we know about detecting life on other planets. Over 10 eye-opening lectures, she will uncover the strides we’ve made in our search for finding habitable Earth-like planets. You’ll gain first-hand insights into how scientists search for signs of life and our latest attempts to find potential life on Mars, Venus, Europa, Titan, and other moons and planets in our solar system. As she recaps how life started on Earth, you’ll see how our evolution informs our search for detecting life on exoplanets. And, you’ll examine the current search for extraterrestrial intelligence, looking at potential responses to the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox. https://www.audible.com/pd/Searching-for-Extraterrestrial-Life-Audiobook/B08N5CHQF8 http://www.sarahrugheimer.com/ LinkedIn Jobs is the best platform for finding the right candidate to join your business this fall. It’s the largest marketplace for job seekers in the world, and it has great search features so that you can find candidates with any hard or soft skills that you need. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit linkedin.com/impossible to post a job for free. Audible is hands-down my favorite platform for consuming podcasts, fiction and nonfiction books! With an Audible membership, you can download titles and listen offline, anytime, anywhere. The Audible app is free and can be installed on all smartphones and tablets. You can listen across devices without losing your spot. Audible members don’t have to worry about using their credits right away. You can keep your credits for up to a year—and use them to binge on a whole series if you’d like! And if you’re not loving your selection, you can simply swap it for another. Start your free 30-day trial today: Audible.com/impossible or text “impossible” to 500-500 Please contact [email protected] to learn more about sponsoring Into the Impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

0:07.0

Dr. Soon to be Professor Sarah O'Kimer, welcome to the Into the Impossible Podcast.

0:12.0

How are you today? I'm doing great. Thank you for having me.

0:14.7

So great to have you. I just absolutely devoured your book, audio book, which is an audible

0:20.5

exclusive. We're going to talk a lot about that and I want to just read a brief

0:25.5

bio. If I read the whole bio you're so impressive Sarah that it will take the whole hour

0:29.7

that you have generously and graciously and allotted me. But currently you're Sarah

0:35.2

Rugheimer is an astrophysicist at Oxford working on how to detect life on

0:38.8

an exoplanet, by look exoplanet atmospheric biosignatures.

0:43.4

In 2020, she was selected as a Ted Fellow, and she has a wonderful TED Talk,

0:48.8

which has been seen by almost a million people in just a couple of weeks.

0:52.7

And you can find that.

0:53.4

It's called Searching for Microscopic Aliens.

0:55.7

I'll put a link to that here.

0:57.4

Maybe we'll put some highlight.

0:58.7

They do a great job.

1:00.2

And your wonderful audio book is an Amazon audible original,

1:04.0

searching for extraterrestrial life.

1:06.0

And I wanted to start there with Amazon,

1:08.0

because as you know, today it was the first voyage

1:11.0

of the new shepherd spacecraft piloted by the proprietor of Amazon, Mr. Jeff

1:18.6

Bezos, and his brother and an astronaut in Wally Funk, who was one of the original Mercury 13, I think.

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