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Thu. 06/17 - Top 10 Best Homes for Extraterrestrial Life & the 20-5-3 Rule

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A ranking of the top ten best places in our solar system to find extraterrestrial life. Plus, you know about the food pyramid, but what about the nature pyramid? Also called the 20-5-3 rule. And, I guess we have to talk about that Jeff-Bezos-Eating-the-Mona-Lisa petition. Sponsors: UTEP Connect, Apply at online.utep.edu or call UTEP Connect at 1-800-684-UTEP Credit Karma, creditkarma.com/podcast Links: The best places to find extraterrestrial life in our solar system, ranked (MIT Tech Review) Aliens Wouldn't Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests (Gizmodo) How Much Time Should You Spend Outside, According to Michael Easter (Men’s Health) Exploring the Nature Pyramid – The Nature of Cities (The Nature of Cities) The Nature Pyramid (Biophilic Cities) People Want Jeff Bezos to Buy the Mona Lisa and Eat it (Hyperallergic) It's time to ponder Jeff Bezos buying and eating the Mona Lisa (A/V Club) Yes, Jeff Bezos Could Buy and Eat the Mona Lisa if He Wanted To (Vice) Petition · We want Jeff Bezos to buy and eat the Mona Lisa (Change.Org) Aussie hosts can't keep straight face over Jeff Bezos' rocket (Today Show Australia, YouTube) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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welcome to the cotkey ride home for for Thursday, June 17th, 2021.

0:40.9

I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.5

A ranking of the top 10 best places in our solar system to find extraterrestrial life.

0:50.0

Plus, you know about the food pyramid, but what about the nature pyramid, also called the 253 rule?

0:58.1

And I guess we have to talk about that Jeff Bezos eating the Mona Lisa petition.

1:04.3

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:10.0

Extrits rest real life is extremely in vogue this year, so the good folks over at the MIT

1:15.6

Technology Review decided to rank the top 10 best places in our solar system to find aliens.

1:22.6

Except, of course, by aliens, they don't mean sentient creatures who are secretly scheming

1:27.4

to become our overlords.

1:29.2

No, we're talking about the good stuff, primitive bacteria, maybe even some microbes.

1:34.9

Maybe less exciting to some, but certainly less terrifying.

1:38.5

We don't have to call up Will Smith to save us from primitive bacteria.

1:42.4

And just to underscore this point, a new computer simulation

1:45.3

published in the American Astronomical Society this month showed that a technologically advanced

1:50.4

civilization could colonize the entire galaxy in a fairly modest amount of time. Which, okay, by

1:57.8

modest, they mean a billion years, but that's only about 8% of the total age of our galaxy,

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