Searching for ET With Pete Worden

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🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Are we alone? The nearly sixty-year effort to answer that question has gotten a big boost from the Breakthrough Initiatives, funded by Yuri Milner and led by former NASA Ames Research Center director Pete Worden, who is our guest this week.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Searching for E.T. this week on planetary radio.
0:09.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our
0:14.9	solar system and beyond. Are there civilizations out there waiting for us to
0:20.3	discover them? That is our theme this week. The best funded search for
0:24.9	extraterrestrial intelligence ever is underway. It's run by former NASA
0:30.0	Ames director Pete Warden and he's our special guest.
0:33.4	We'll have our usual fun with Bruce Betts as he brings us another what's up segment and a space
0:38.4	trivia contest with more cool prizes.
0:41.7	We begin our SETI update with the Planetary Society's digital editor, Jason Davis.
0:47.1	His latest blog post is a fine introduction to this search that has now been sweeping the heavens
0:52.1	for nearly 60 years.
0:54.0	Jason, I was able to read, I don't know if it was an early draft, but I got to read your terrific piece about
1:00.3	SETI, which should now be available at planetary.org as part of your blog.
1:07.1	It is excellent.
1:08.1	I've already recommended it to several people.
1:11.0	And what great timing considering that we'll be talking to Pete
1:14.0	Wharton in a few moments the head of the breakthrough initiatives.
1:16.7	Thanks man really appreciate it I appreciate the plug. Well tell us about this I mean
1:21.9	you you very briefly trace the dramatic and exciting history of our
1:28.0	search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
1:30.0	Yeah, so the concept for this story was to kind of do a past, present, and future look at SETI.
1:37.0	The past, as you mentioned, is kind of the most fascinating part, at least in terms of the planetary society because we have been
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