Episode 5 - Farms, Galaxies, Same Thing

Recorded: 1 May 2015
Released: 2 May 2015

Duration: 84 minutes, 20 seconds

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NASA's Ellen Stofan

Host Paul Carr welcomes panelists James Garrison, Ciro Villa, and Nick Nielsen. First, we talk about the recent findings of the GHAT team from their mining of the WISE survey, looking for galaxies with anomalously high mid infrared  emission, indicating that most of the free energy in the galaxy was being harvested. This has been in the press a lot lately, and easily misinterpreted. What is a Kardashev level III civilization, and how would we know it?

We also discuss the recent optimistic declaration by NASA Chief scientist Ellen Stofan about the search for microbial life in the solar system, and this leads us to several other topics,  including robot farming and how hard revolutions can be.

Links:

The Ĝ Infrared Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large Energy Supplies. III. The Reddest Extended Sources in WISE

Jason Wright - Ĝ Paper III Part VI: Five Anomalous Red Spirals—Signs of Galactoengineering?

N.S. Kardashev - Transmission of Information by Extraterrestrial Civilizations

Nick Nielsen - What Kardashev Really Said

Ellen Stofan's Predictions

Credits:

Produced and hosted by Paul Carr

Panelists: James Garrison, Nick Nielsen, Ciro Villa

Music: DJ Spooky