Episode 23 - The Noble Ape

Tom Barbalet

Release Date: 15 February 2015

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Host Tim Jones engages Tom Barbalet in a wide ranging conversation centered around his Artificial
Life environment Noble Ape and its applications to space exploration.
Music by DJ Spooky and Erika Lloyd.

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Episode 19 - Actually, Wow!

Release Date: 18 November 2014

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Bob Dixon

This podcast is named after an event that took place on 15 August 1977 at the Ohio State Big Ear radio astronomy observatory. Astronomer Jerry Ehman noticed a signal that looked exactly like what they were looking for - an ET radio beacon. Was it?

We talk to Dr. Robert S. "Bob" Dixon, who was instrumental in bringing the Big Ear instrument to bear on the SETI problem, in his very first podcast interview. Among other things, he tells us about the experimental Argus array, which if built full scale, could help us catch a reoccurrence of the Wow! Signal.

Music by DJ Spooky, George Hrab, Erika Lloyd and Chanticleer.

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The Big Ear Radio Telescope near Delaware, Ohio.

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Episode 17 - The Long Delays

Release Date: 29 October 2014

Alan Penny

Is SETA really just local SETI? It makes sense to me, and to Alan Penny, coordinator of the UK SETI Research Network. We talk to Dr. Penny about the future of SETI. Then, we talk to another Scottish astronomer Duncan Lunan about the scientific mystery of the Long Delay Echoes. Are the LDEs from a Bracewell Probe?

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Episode 16 - Cells, Planets

astrobiologist Betul Kacar

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The study of astrobiology projects current scientific knowledge of the living world into the wide universe and asks the questions we all want to ask: where are the best places to search for life in the universe and what should we look for? Are we searching for exotic microbes, living beings like ourselves, or advanced robots that have taken over from their creators?

In this episode we meet Steven Dick and Betul Kacar, two astrobiologists from different backgrounds who are exploring these questions in different ways.

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Episode 15 - Oblique Strategies

Release Date: 24 June 2014

Heath Rezabek

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Host Mike Mongo talks to futurist librarian Heath Rezabek about preserving humanity's knowledge into the far future.


Paul Carr talks to economist and former AI researcher Robin Hanson about a possible future in which humans exist, but aren't very important. Will AI put us all out of a job, and what will that mean to us if so?


Music by Erika Lloyd and DJ Spooky



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