Big Picture Science - Calling All Aliens
Are we alone in the
universe? Is there other intelligence out there? COSMIC, the most ambitious
SETI search yet, hopes to answer that. We hear updates on this novel signal
detection project being conducted on the Very Large Array in the desert of New
Mexico.
Also, we chat with
award-winning science fiction writer Ted Chiang about how he envisions making
contact with aliens in his stories, including the one that was the basis for
the movie Arrival.
And find out why some scientists don’t want only to listen for signals, they
want to deliberately transmit messages to aliens. Is that wise and, if we did
it, what would we say?
Guests:
- Chenoa Tremblay – Postdoc researcher in radio astronomy for the SETI Institute and member of COSMIC science team
- Ted Chiang – Nand Hugo award-winning science fiction writer, best known for his collections, Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation
- Douglas Vakoch – Founder and president of METI International, a nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to transmitting intentional signals to extraterrestrial civilizations
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