Space Policy Edition: The Geopolitics of a Successful SETI Detection

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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How will nations react if (when?) humanity detects the presence of an alien intelligence or civilization? That’s the topic Planetary Society Chief Advocate Casey Dreier takes up with his guest, astrophysicist Jason Wright.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to the October 2022 Space Policy Edition of Planetary Radio. I am Matt
0:20.2	Kaplan, the host of the weekly show, joined as always by the Chief Advocate and Senior Space
0:26.4	Policy Advisor to the Planetary Society and my senior partner in the Space Policy Edition.
0:33.5	That's Casey Dreyer. Casey, welcome and happy continuing resolution season. Yes, happy
0:40.2	fiscal new year to all those who celebrate October 1st as now the fiscal 2023 started. And like
0:47.4	it's been as long as I've been doing this, we did not have congressional appropriations yet.
0:53.6	We have had a continuing resolution. We've extended fiscal year 2022 through December 16th.
1:00.3	It will cover obviously the period upcoming with the U.S. midterm elections, the congressional
1:05.1	elections and they will reconvene right before Christmas to hopefully wrap up that legislation
1:13.6	before the new Congress begins on January 3rd. There is so much more that we could say about this
1:18.4	and we will maybe next month when when we know more, right? Well, next month I believe our show
1:24.2	comes out before the midterm elections. It's always the second Tuesday of November. Our show comes out
1:29.5	in the first Friday and so we will precede that. We will take a look at some of the close races at
1:35.5	the time as usual space is not a big defining topic for most elections coming up in the U.S. Congress.
1:43.1	But we will highlight a couple of competitive races and try to see what consequences they may or
1:47.3	may not have for Congress next year. And of course, which party controls Congress will make an
1:52.4	impact as well. And apologies. That's what I meant to refer to for next month's show. It'll be our
1:57.2	election preview. Is there anything you want to say though now about how things are shaping up?
2:05.2	I'm thinking in particular of the bills that were passed by Congress and the Biden administration,
2:11.2	which did have some impact for NASA and space exploration and science at large.
2:17.1	Well, the biggest bill was the NASA authorization bill that passed within Chipson Science Bill,
2:22.0	this very large industrial science policy. And we've talked a bit about that. We'll dive into that
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