Seth Shostak: Alien Hunter 👽

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Since the first Martian “canals” were charted in 1877, space aliens have captivated sky-gazers, night travelers, and television watchers worldwide. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans believe in extraterrestrials, and many are convinced they’ve visited Earth. A fair number of scientists also suspect that aliens exist, and for decades they’ve been seriously searching—using powerful antennas and computers to scan for radio waves coming from other star systems. Recent interest in alien craft sightings, documented in my interview with @Mick West is at an all time high: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJtTgIKDUZw. Thanks to our sponsors! https://magbreakthrough.com/impossible http://betterhelp.com/impossible Please join my mailing list to get *FREE* notes & resources from this show! Click 👉 http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php Dr. Seth Shostak (@SETI Institute) joins me to discuss his engaging memoir revealing the true story of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and discloses what we may very soon discover. Chronicling the program’s history with insight and humor, SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak assures us that if there is sentient life in the universe, we are within decades of picking up its signal. Methodically busting urban legends about alien crash landings, crop circles, and the like, Shostak pits scientific truth against speculation and delivers important news on the state of our knowledge. He answers a host of questions about SETI, including where its antennas are aimed…how we know which frequency to monitor…what our response might be…and why, if a signal is detected, “it will be one that’s deliberately beamed into space, not the Klingon equivalent of I Love Lucy.” Contrary to popular opinion, any aliens found by SETI will not resemble the squishy, big-eyed creatures on cinema screens. Rather, they will have already invented their successors: super smart post-biological thinking machines vastly beyond our own capabilities. Edgy, amusing, and remarkably profound, Confessions of an Alien Hunter addresses the startling possibilities awaiting us in deep space and in humankind’s own future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:08.8	From the SETI Institute in Mountain View.
0:11.4	How are you Seth? Well I'm possibly okay. I think I'm
0:15.2	all right. Still above ground. That's what people tell me is the correct answer.
0:20.3	Yeah I always say you know people oh, that's my birthday.
0:23.0	And I'm like, well, another year older, but I guess it's better than the alternative of not getting older.
0:28.0	You're perennially juvenile, but in a good sense, youthful, Seth Seth you never seem to age it must be studying you know the
0:35.8	billions of year old cosmos that you and I both study it's always a treat to be with
0:41.2	you and I thank you this is is Alien Week on the Into the Impossible
0:45.2	Podcast yesterday we had on Mick West noted debunker or classifier of unidentified alien phenomena or unidentified flying phenomena.
0:57.8	And I made note today on Twitter that he got his start.
1:01.0	He was a video game designer and he started off by making Tony Hawks a
1:06.4	video game, which has to do with an identified flying object.
1:09.8	If you ever seen Tony Hawk, he hovers space and like orbits and rotates around. So that's pretty cool. And I thought we talk a little bit about it because, you know, in the news lately are all these phenomena have to do with with potential alien techno
1:26.4	signatures in the form of of UFOs and I'm hoping to have on some of the
1:30.9	some of the pilots of various military aircraft that have come to to be featured in 60
1:38.8	minutes and other fora and hopefully we'll get some of your feedback on it.
1:43.8	So have you had a chance to see any of the footage
1:46.4	from these military infrared cameras
1:49.6	or any of the other eyewitness accounts?
1:51.8	Have you followed any of that stuff well I have looked at
1:54.9	the better known videos maybe they're the only ones at least three different maybe
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