Skeptical Sunday: The Gospel According to SETI

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2006

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	The world is filled with many questions such as, did giants exist?
0:09.0	What is junk DNA?
0:10.4	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:11.9	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:16.8	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:20.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
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1:07.0	If I were to listen to what the critics say about my job, I would get discouraged in a hurry.
1:14.9	Some are sure our attempts to eavesdrop on alien signals is a quixotic quest.
1:20.3	Others say we rely on belief more than science, and that SETI is no more than a religion in a technical
1:25.6	setting.
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