Friday, December 11, 2015

Episode 36 - Exoplanets and the Drake Equation



Recorded: 11 December 2015
Released: 12 December 2015
Duration: 81 minutes

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Host Paul Carr and panelists Marsha Barnhart, Adam Smith, Nick Nielsen and James Garrison talk
The Kepler Space Telescope
about exoplanet discoveries and what all the exoplanets might mean for understanding the likelihood of us finding other technological civilizations. We talk about Kepler, and the upcoming TESS and PLATO missions, as well as the cancelled Terrestrial Planet Finder.

Links

The Wow! Signal: The Golden Age of Exoplanets
Kepler Space Telescope: Exoplanet Hunter
NASA TESS Mission
ESA's PLATO Mission
Moon Microbe Mystery Finally Solved
The Drake Equation
Fossil Microbes on Mars?
ESA's PLATO Concept
Dynamical Considerations for Life In Multihabitable Planetary Systems
Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature
Episode 24 - Define Panspermia
Jerry Coyne: Why Evolution is True

Recommendations

James Garrison: Gaelic Storm
Paul Carr: What If? by Randall Munro
Adam Synergy:

Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Panelists: Marsha Barnhart, James Garrison, Nick Nielsen, and Adam Smith
Music: Dj Spooky








2 comments:

  1. This was an interesting chat. The concept of lithopanspermia is actually a subject (sort of) of my latest youtube vid. I'll be elaborating further on the idea in a new video coming soon.

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  2. This was an interesting chat. The concept of lithopanspermia is actually a subject (sort of) of my latest youtube vid. I'll be elaborating further on the idea in a new video coming soon.

    ReplyDelete