The Dark Age of Science: Avi Loeb and the Search for Alien Life | MHP 03.11.25.
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Micah Hanks
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🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Are we entering a "Dark Age of Science?" Recent controversies involving phenomena in our universe that include the ongoing debate over dark matter and dark energy, as well as the existence of what some astronomers call "dark comets", have led to controversy about our perspectives on the cosmos... but to what end? Further, are recent cultural and societal events in the world spelling doom for science, including efforts to determine whether we're alone in the universe?
Joining us this week on The Micah Hanks Program is Avi Loeb, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, where since 2007 he has been Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Center for Astrophysics. He is founder of The Galileo Project, and author of books that include Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth and Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars. Avi joins us to discuss his latest work, the search for ET, scientific dogma, and much more.
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Show Notes
Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:
- NEWS: Introducing the 'Woolly Mouse': Colossal Unveils Latest Breakthrough in De-Extinction Technology
- Rodent for dinner? US residents encouraged to eat invasive nutria
- STAND UP FOR SCIENCE: Official Website for “Stand Up for Science”
- SCU CONFERENCE: 2025 SCU Conference
- AVI LOEB: Avi Loeb | Department of Astronomy
- DARK AGES: The Dark Age of Science. Names do not constitute knowledge
- COMMENTARIES: Avi Loeb’s Essays on Medium
- BOOKS: Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
- Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
- TEXTS: How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form?
- The First Galaxies in the Universe
- Life In The Cosmos: From Biosignatures To Technosignatures
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| 0:00.0 | reports of unidentified flying objects unidentified aerial phenomena are they secret weapons being tested by our own or foreign governments the american people are becoming most interested and in many instances very alarmed by the UFO stories so why do you suppose that all of this has been kept from the world? |
| 0:23.2 | Exploring our past, our future, and the mysteries of our universe. |
| 0:27.7 | Where do they come from? |
| 0:28.5 | Why can't you explain it? |
| 0:29.7 | Everybody in uthology is screaming for disclosure. |
| 0:32.8 | The future is now. |
| 0:34.5 | This is Micahanks. |
| 0:36.7 | From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground. |
| 0:40.5 | Welcome, one and all. |
| 0:41.2 | It is the Micahanks program. |
| 0:42.6 | Glad as always to be getting behind the microphone |
| 0:44.5 | and going in pursuit of the anomalous, |
| 0:47.2 | as we do every week, |
| 0:49.1 | listen on demand via podcasting apps everywhere. |
| 0:52.2 | And of course, courtesy of our friends at the UnX Radio Network. |
| 0:56.3 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:57.1 | Hope you're all doing great out there in these ever-interesting and also slightly concerning times. |
| 1:03.4 | Things were a little concerning right here at my Mountain Stronghold over the weekend because we had power outages. |
| 1:09.8 | Those began on Friday morning. Didn't last very long, but it was enough to knock the internet offline for several hours, finally got things back online, got things restored. And just in time to see this article published by The Guardian about my hometown, Asheville. And they're saying essentially that because of all the trees that fell, |
| 1:30.3 | all of the damage to this region, |
| 1:32.5 | it has essentially left Asheville susceptible to future climate issues. |
| 1:37.8 | And of course, in addition to everything this town has been through |
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