Recorded: 19 February 2016
Duration: 93 minutes, 16 seconds
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Host Paul Carr and Panelists Adam Smith, Ciro Villa, Nick Nielsen, and Patrick Festa discuss some scenarios for contacting ET civilizations and what could happen, including some of the protocols that have been defined by the SETI community, and the discovery of a Bracewell Probe.
Note: while we remain an uncensored podcast, we did edit out about 30 seconds of a strange audio glitch that sounded horrible and was of no interest. We left in about 2 seconds of it so you can be glad you didn't hear the whole thing.
Links
Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial IntelligenceProtocols for an ETI Signal Detection
Bracewell Probes
Ben McGee on the Search for Alien Artifacts
The Rio Scale
Almar and Tarter: The discovery of ETI as a high-consequence, low-probability event
Recommendations
Adam Smith: Future in Space HangoutNick Nielsen: After Contact by Albert A. Harrison
Ciro Villa: If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel
Patrick Festa: Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
Paul Carr: Scary Monsters by David Bowie
Credits:
Host and Producer: Paul CarrMusic: DJ Spooky
This appeared on the BBC a few days after this episode was recorded: "What would happen if aliens contacted Earth?" by Chris Baraniuk http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160223-what-would-happen-if-aliens-contacted-earth
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