Episode 31 - Journey Into the World of Alien Hunting

Released: 22 June 2016
Duration: 41 minutes, 19 seconds

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SETI scientists featured in Earthling's Quest

Daniela De Paulis hosts a conversation with the team producing the crowdfunded feature-length SETI documentary Earthling's Quest, and one of the scientists profiled in the film, Douglas Vakoch. We urge you to consider contributing to the Kickstarter for this film.

• opening
• Daniela's intro
• introduction to the Earthling's Quest team: Alexander Ryneus and Per Bifrost (film co-directors), and Malla Grapengiesser (producer).
• Introduction of Douglas Vakoch
• Introduction on SETI and METI
• What is the focus of the documentary?
• Why is SETI so timely
• Possibilities of finding extraterrestrial intelligent life
• Why should we contact other life forms?
• Should we be afraid?
• closing remarks and discussion
• Brief announcements
• outro

The Earthling's Quest team

Links:

METI International
The SETI Institute
The Earthling's Quest Kickstarter

Our updated Team page

Credits:

Host: Daniela De Paulis
Producer: Paul Carr
Announcer: Erin Carr
Music: DJ Spooky, Erika Lloyd, George Hrab

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.

Detailed Show Notes with links

The Big Ear Radio Telescope near Delaware, Ohio.

Actually,Wow! by Paul Carr is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://traffic.libsyn.com/wowsignal/S2_E7_WowActually.mp3.

Episode 6 - Conversation with an Alien Hunter

We talk to Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute about the past, present and future of the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence.  Seth discussed why he doesn't think the Eerie Silence may be all that eerie, and his own optimism and doubts about detecting ET in the next generation or so.

We also award the third Wow! Signal podcast podcasting seal of approval to: the Weekly Weinersmith.  Music is mostly by Cuneiform artist Jason Robinson.

Links

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The script for this episode
The SETI Institute
Donate to the SETI Institute
Big Picture Science
Seth's book: Confessions of an Alien Hunter
Seth Shostak on the last term in the Drake Equation (page 399)
A Google Hangout with Seth Shostak (video)
Carl Sagan explains the Drake Equation (video)

About the Wow! Signal
Is SETI Silly?
A review of Paul Davies' An Eerie Silence.
The Fermi Paradox with Geoffrey Landis

The Weekly Weinersmith

Subscribe to the Wow! Signal Podcast

The Music

Jason Robinson
Cuneiform Records

John Baez and Greg Egan's Telesto

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