The Little Book of Aliens (w/ Adam Frank)

Somewhere in the Skies

Ryan Sprague

Unexplained, Paranormal, Ufos, Government, Ufo, Social Sciences, History, Bigfoot, Aliens, Extraterrestrial, Documentary, Unsolved, Alien, Mystery, Uap, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On episode 340, we are joined by astrophysicist and astronomer, Adam Frank. Frank is a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars and his computational research group at the University of Rochester has developed advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and die. Today, Frank discusses his latest book, The Little Book of Aliens, which poses and attempts to answer many questions on the possibilities of alien life, how and where it may exist, how it can search for us and how we can search for it. And perhaps most excitedly: how close are we to finally making contact? Or have we already?

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0:00.0	Today on Somewhere in the Skies, we are joined by Astrophysicist Adam Frank to discuss the little book of aliens.
0:16.4	This is Somewhere in the Skies with Ryan Sprague.
0:31.0	Adam, welcome to Somewhere in the Skies.
0:41.0	It's my pleasure to be here.
0:43.0	Pleasure is all mine, man.
0:44.0	I had the amazing opportunity to read an advanced copy of your new book, The Little Book of Aliens.
0:52.0	And I knew I had to talk to you, man, because not only do you cover one of our obvious favorite topics here,
0:59.0	that's somewhere in the Skies, but you cover it in a very hopeful, optimistic,
1:05.0	but most importantly, scientific way.
1:09.0	So that's really what I want to break down with you tonight is, what are aliens?
1:14.0	What could aliens be if we do eventually somehow make contact?
1:20.0	There's many people on this planet who believe we have already.
1:23.0	That's not really what this conversation is about today.
1:26.0	I really want to dig into a lot of what you believe as an astrophysicist I might add.
1:33.0	What these alien intelligences could be, how they could possibly get here, how we can search for them, all of that.
1:41.0	But obvious question, before we even get to all of that, origin story time.
1:48.0	How did you get interested in astrophysics?
1:51.0	And yeah, if you don't mind, give us a little bit of, I guess, your resume, if that's correct.
1:57.0	So I got started in astrophysics as a five year old.
2:01.0	I found my dad's, I have this really clear memory of this.
2:05.0	I found my dad's, or wandered into my dad's library.
2:09.0	And he was a big science fiction fan. He was a writer.
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