Episode 27 - The Slow and Fast Dimming of Tabby's Star

Released: 14 January 2016
Duration: 62 minutes 4 seconds

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Host Paul Carr talks to Dr. Bradley Schaefer about his research showing a dramatic dimming of

Bradley Schaefer

Tabby's Star over a century. This all but rules out any explanation anyone has put forth so far for the short term dimming of the star found in the Kepler data by Boyajian, et. al.

Links

KIC 8462852 Faded at an Average Rate of 0.165+-0.013 Magnitudes Per Century From 1890 To 1989
Where's the Flux? (paper by Boyajian, et. al.)

Centauri Dreams Discussion
KIC 8462852 - The Infrared Flux
IRTF/SPEX Observations of the Unusual Kepler Lightcurve System KIC8462852
Constraints on the Circumstellar Dust Around KIC 8462852

DASCH

I'm Not Saying it Was Aliens (Unseen Podcast panel discussion of Tabby's Star)

The AAVSO

No Signal Found from KIC8462852

Bradley E. Schaefer

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Update: Hippke and Angerhausen disagree:  KIC 8462852 did likely not fade during the last 100 years

Further Update: Schaefer responds to Hippke on Centauri Dreams.

Further, further update: Hippke paper is revised in response to comments & We interview DASCH PI Josh Grindlay.

Credits
Host and Producer: Paul Carr
Music: Dj Spooky, Jason Robinson, Mike Griffin, George Hrab

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?

Music by DJ Spooky, Jason Robinson, Erika Lloyd and George Hrab

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Detailed Show Notes




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Episode 10- the Serendipity Schema

Release Date: 11 August 2013

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Ben McGee

The final episode of Season 1 picks up the thread of Episode 5  - the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Artifacts, or SETA. If we find something that looks odd while exploring the solar system, how can we separate an authentic artifact from wishful thinking? If ET uses the internet to contact us, how could we be sure it was authentic?

We talk to scientist and space entrepreneur Ben McGee about his paper on Xenoarchaeology, or the search for ancient alien artifacts, and to Dr. H. Paul Shuch about the experimental website Invitation to ETI at ieti.org.

Music by Sleep Research Facility, Curlew, DJ Spooky, Ahleuchatistas and Jason Robinson.

The Wow! Signal Podcast podcasting seal of approval for this episode: Singularity 1-on-1 by Nikola Danaylov.

Links:

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Dr. H. Paul Shuch, SETI Researcher

The Wow! Signal Podcast on iTunes
Episode 10 Script

Ben Wright McGee
Ben's paper on Xenoarchaeology
Ben's NatGeo blog.
Ben McGee on Twitter

Dr. H. Paul Shuch
Invitation to ETI
The SETI League

Episode 5 - Superior Galactic Communities

Nikola Danaylov

Doubt is a Core Value

Space Archaeology

Singularity 1-on-1 Podcast

Musical Contributors:

Curlew on Free Music Archives
Sleep Research Facility
DJ Spooky
Jason Robinson
Ahleuchatistas
Cuneiform Records

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Episode 8 - Cosmik Debris

Release Date: 25 June 2013

Duncan Forgan

The topic for Episode 8 is asteroid mining - the prospects for asteroid mining by humans in our solar system and for detecting its traces should an ET civilization be doing it in a nearby planetary system.  I spoke to scientist Duncan Forgan, entrepreneur Isaac Stott, and Ben Wright McGee, who wears a lot of hats.

Of course, the title refers to a Frank Zappa song about a New Age charlatan, but as you will hear, I don't think asteroid mining is a con.  It's just that asteroids are - debris.

The fifth Wow! Signal Podcast podcasting seal of approval is awarded to: Sid Smith's Podcast from the Yellow Room.

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Isaac Stott

The Episode 8 script

Guests:

Dr. Duncan Forgan is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh.  His research interests include planetary system formation and theoretical SETI.

• Duncan Forgan and Martin Elvis, "Extrasolar Asteroid Mining as Forensic Evidence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence"

Isaac Stott is CEO of Stott Space, a company that aims to be the first to mine an asteroid.

• Stott's architecture for robotic asteroid mining

Ben Wright McGee is a scientist, writer and space entrepreneur

Ben Wright McGee

• Calling the Space Privateers.

Other Links

Planetary Resources
Deep Space Industries
Near Earth Object (NEO) Catalog
The Wow! Signal Podcast on iTunes

The Music

Ahleuchatistas
Jason Robinson
Mike Griffin
DJ Spooky






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Episode 5 - Superior Galactic Communities

The Search for Bracewell Probes, Part 1

An introduction to the Search for Bracewell Probes, with a liberal sprinkling of music by DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller) from his album "Songs of a Dead Dreamer."  Also, a song by George Hrab.

In part 1, I cover what the hypothetical thing called a Bracewell Probe is, and discuss some of the variables that might affect whether or not it would be possible for us to to detect one in our own solar system.  We don't know whether they exist, but if they do, we want to find them....

The second Wow! Signal Podcast seal of approval for podcasting is awarded to Oh, No, Ross and Carrie!

Links
download the mp3 file directly
Subscribe to this Podcast
The script for Episode 5 (not followed exactly)
Bracewell Probes, part 1 and part 2
A paper on SETA.
SETA and 1991 VG

Oh No, Ross and Carrie.

The Music
DJ Spooky
Jason Robinson
Sleep Research Facility
George Hrab