Burst 18 - Nick Nielsen on the Spoor of Civilizations

Released: 4 July 2016
Duration: 20 minutes, 41 seconds

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SETI research is much like the traditional task of a tracker, who seeks the spoor of elusive quarry through a wilderness. In the search for life, intelligence, and exocivilizations we find ourselves in the position of seeking the spoor of these higher emergent complexities in the cosmological wilderness.

Links:

SETI as a Process of Elimiation (Wow! Signal Burst) 

SETI as a Process of Elimination (Medium post)

The Eerie Silence: Renewing our Search for Alien Intelligence, Paul Davies 

The Wilderness Hypothesis (Wow! Signal Burst) 

The Halos of Vanished Civilizations (Wow! Signal Burst)
Another Astrobiological Thought Experiment (Tumblr post)

Credits:

Writer and Presenter: Nick Nielsen
Producer: Paul Carr
Music: Jason Robinson

Episode 3 - A Conversation with Socrates - The Future of Humanity, part 1 with Nikola Danaylov

Release Date: 22 January 2013

I speak to Nikola Danaylov of the Singularity Weblog about the future of humanity.  This is the first in a series on the future of humanity for this podcast.

Nikola and I discuss transhumanism, the singularity, colonization of the universe, Lance Armstrong, the war on drugs, those who choose not to participate, and more.

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