What We Really Know About Life in Outer Space

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In recent years, the search for extraterrestrials has been accelerated by a wave of new technologies that allow us to better probe distant reaches of the galaxy. Meanwhile, a pair of events have generated enormous excitement among those who believe that aliens might already be among us. In 2017, when the first interstellar object was detected in our solar system, a highly respected Harvard astrophysicist suggested it might be a probe that was sent by aliens. That same year, the public learned about a secret program by the U.S. military that was investigating potential threatening UFOs. All of this was enough to spur journalist Laura Krantz to launch an investigation of her own into what we really know about extraterrestrials. The result is a new season of Wild Thing, a podcast that explores the strange and unusual things that capture our imaginations. This week, we talk to Laura about the challenges of doing rigorous reporting on a topic that a lot of people don’t take seriously and share the kickoff episode of her otherworldly new series. This episode of the Outside podcast is brought to you by Whoop, the fitness tracker that gets you training smarter by giving you feedback on every moment of your day. For a limited time, Outside Podcast listeners get 15 percent off a membership; just enter the code "outside" at checkout.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Whoop,
0:03.5	the fitness tracker that gets you training smarter
0:06.0	by giving you feedback on every moment of your day.
0:09.0	Whether you're an elite athlete or just someone looking to get in better shape. The truth is that your
0:14.4	workouts are only one part of a fitness routine. To reach your true potential, you need to
0:19.3	understand what's going on with your body all the time. You know, your competitive advantage is in your downtime.
0:25.6	And if you're not measuring the impact of your downtime,
0:29.6	you're simply missing a massive piece of the performance puzzle.
0:33.6	That's Kristen Holmes, a former member of the US
0:36.4	National Field Hockey team and also one of the most successful coaches
0:40.0	in Ivy League history.
0:41.6	She's now the vice president of Performance Science at Woop.
0:44.7	And as she explains it, many athletes make the mistake
0:47.8	of working out based simply on how they feel,
0:50.5	or what their training schedule says they're supposed to do that day.
0:53.0	The problem with this is that we're not reacting to our actual
0:56.8	physiological state which is determined by many factors.
1:00.8	How you're eating, how you're hydrating, you know, are you buffering stress and rest throughout the day?
1:06.0	What does your sleep look like? Are you getting into deeper stages of sleep? All of these things are massively influential on how you're going to show up tomorrow.
1:15.0	Whoop allows you to easily track all of these variables.
1:18.0	It's a lightweight 100% waterproof wrist strap that calculates recovery, strain, and sleep metrics so you really know what
1:25.9	you're ready for and can learn how to take better care of yourself between workouts.
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