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[Interview+] How Good Was Our Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Really?
· 59 min
Episode [Interview+] How Good Was Our Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Really?
BONUS PART STARTS AT 43:25
Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/izP3FsO9u8o
PBS Spacetime video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OM0zTfdsPo Professor David Kipping's channel: @CoolWorldsLab
We've done a lot of searching for extraterrestrial life over the years. But how good was it? Did we look hard enough or deep enough? Is it too early for conclusions? Could do a better job? If so, how? Figuring out in this interview.
🟣 Guest: Dr. Ben Zuckerman
📜 Broadband Searches for Extraterrestrial Technological Intelligence: a New Strategy To Find Nearby Alien Civilizations https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07333
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00:00 Intro
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01:36 SETI
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05:07 How deep did we look
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24:12 What could we have done differently
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36:57 Most satisfying answer to the Fermi Paradox
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43:25 BONUS PART: pollution of white dwarfs
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53:01 Current obsessions
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57:14 Final thoughts
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