This amazing podcast from the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination explores ideas of alien contact with Jill Tarter (SETI Institute) and Jeff VanderMeer (bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy). They discuss the Drake Equation, the faulty math of the film Contact, manifest destiny, whether we’re alone, flawed assumptions about the concept of intelligence, what fiction can do to help us think about the very alien-ness of alien contact, and how it may be happening all around us.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Already Out There, and It’s Billions of Years Old” (WATCH Video)
The Alien Observatory –“The Mystery of Where Extraterrestrial Life is Hiding Deepens”
“The Big Rip” –When Matter and Spacetime are Gradually Torn Apart Through Expansion of the Universe
Alien Ocean Worlds–“There May be Life There, but Could It be Technology-Based”
“Humans are the First to Arrive at the Interstellar Stage” –Physicist Answers the Fermi Paradox
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