Podcasts by The Wow! Signal Podcast
The Wow!Signal Podcast examines a wide range of issues from a scientific perspective through the lens of the search for intelligent life from other worlds.
Further podcasts by Paul Carr
Podcast on the topic Astronomie
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Burst 34 - The Mystery of the Nine Transients from 2021-07-14T04:13:14
Interview recorded: 11 July 2021
Released: 16 July 2021
Duration: 21 minutes, 33 seconds
Beatriz Villarroel discusses her latest VASCO paper in Nature Scientific Reports, "E...
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Episode 49 - Existential Risk from 2021-02-04T23:49:08
Released: 4 February 2021 
Season 3 Episode 3 - The Slow and Fast Dimming of Tabby's Star from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Released: 14 January 2016
Duration: 62 minutes 4 seconds
Host Paul Carr talks to Dr. Bradley Schaefer about his research showing a dramatic dimming of Tabby's Star over a ...
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Season 3 Episode 2 - Martin Elvis on the Science of Asteroid Mining from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Released: 2 November 2015
Duration: 53 minutes, 33 seconds
Host Paul Carr interviews Dr. Martin Elvis of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Martin Elvis has ...
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Episode 48 - Chelsea Haramia on the Ethics of METI from 2020-11-26T05:16:30
Released: 28 November 2020
Duration: 70 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 47 - Arthur C. Clarke, Godfather of Satellites from 2020-11-07T06:00
Released: 7 November 2020
Duration: 57 minutes, 36 seconds
Co hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis welcome space historian David Skogerboe to talk about the pro-space act...
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Released: 6 April 2020
Episode 45 - Among the Space People with Paola Castaño from 2020-03-30T02:15:54
Released: 31 March 2020
Duration: 54 minutes, 8 seconds
Burst 33 - Astronomer David Blank Comments on Episode 41 from 2020-03-20T01:33:13
Released: 20 March 2020
Duration: 31 minutes, 42 seconds
Astronomer David Blank responded to our invitation to comment on the Villarroel+ paper we covered in Listen
Episode 44 - The Night Watch from 2020-01-22T17:45:43
Released: 22 January 2020
Live recording: 20 January 2020
Duration: 66 minutes 45 seconds
Thread: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Episode 43 - Adam Dipert Moves in Zero G from 2019-12-22T11:00
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Duration: 55 minutes, 36 seconds
Adam Dipert is a veteran circus performer and dancer w...
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Episode 42 - Moon bouncing with Julia DeMarines from 2019-12-11T11:00
Released: 11 December 2019
Duration: 48 minutes, 30 seconds
Co-hosts Daniela DePaulis and Pau...
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Episode 41 - The Vanishing Sources with Beatriz Villarroel from 2019-11-15T05:24:04
Released: 15 November 2019
Duration: 42 minutes, 24 seconds
Our guest on ...
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Episode 40 - Extraterrestrial Languages from 2019-10-16T06:00
Released: 16 October 2019
Duration: 54 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 39 - Sofia Sheik and The Nine Axes from 2019-09-29T16:00
Released: 29 September 2019
Duration: 49 minutes, 52 seconds
Download Sofia's paper here: https://arxiv....
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Burst 32 - Become a Boyajian's Star Scientist in Your Spare Time from 2019-02-19T04:13:46
Released: 18 February 2019
Duration: 6 minutes, 48 seconds
Paul Carr summarizes why we want to know more about this star, and how you can get involved.
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Burst 31 Beyond the SETI Paradigm from 2019-02-05T03:58:40
Released: 10 February 2019
Duration: 16 Minutes, 51 Seconds
Abraham Loeb and Shmuel Bialy kicked up a kerfuffle when they wrote a paper suggesting that one possible explan...
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Unseen Podcast announcement from 2018-10-14T19:39:55
A not quite so short announcement from the producer of the Unseen Podcast and the Listen
Burst 30 - The Gaia DR2 Release and Boyajian's Star from 2018-04-26T01:20:14
Released: 24 April 2018
Duration: 10 minutes, 1 second
Paul Carr talks about today's much more accurate distance estimate to Boyajian's Star from Gaia Data Release 2, and ...
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Burst 29 - Caral Supe and Evangeline from 2018-04-24T02:47:19
Released: 23 April 2018
Duration:12 minutes, 21 seconds
Paul Carr reviews what has been happening over the Winter and early Spring with respect to Boyajian's Star. We revi...
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Burst 28 - The Cosmic Archipelago, part III from 2018-02-07T03:40:01
Released: 6 February 2018
Duration: 24 minutes, 48 seconds
Burst 27 - The Cosmic Archipelago - Part 2 from 2018-01-26T03:34:48
Released: 25 January 2018
Duration: 21 minutes, 51 seconds
A hundred years ago cosmologists were struggling to understand the nature and structure of the universe, and at ...
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Burst 26 - The Cosmic Archipelago, Part 1. from 2018-01-21T22:38:43
Released: 21 January 2018
Duration: 19 minutes
A hundred years ago cosmologists were struggling to understand the nature and structure of the universe, and at the heart of...
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Burst 25 - The Elsie Paper from 2018-01-03T15:00
Released: 3 January 2018
Duration: 15 minutes, 37 seconds
Host Paul Carr goes over the new paper by Tabetha Boyajian and 206 coauthors: Listen
Episode 38 - The Overview Effect from 2017-12-17T06:05:32
Released: 31 December 2017
Duration: 65 minutes, 20 seconds
Daniela DePaulis and Nick Nielsen in conversation with Frank White on the Overview Effect.
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Burst 24- The Summer of Tabby's Star from 2017-12-03T06:37:43
Released: 3 December 2017
Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds
Host Paul Carr covers some recent developments with respect to Boyajian's Star, especially the 4 dips of the Summ...
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Episode 37 - Sonar Calling GJ 273B from 2017-11-16T11:00
Released: 16 November 2017
Duration: 48 minutes, 5 seconds
Host Paul Carr talks to Douglas Vakoch of METI.org about a...
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A short note for listeners - November 2017 from 2017-11-15T04:05:29
Released: 14 November 2017
A short note from Paul Carr to please stay tuned for more content. Sorry for the lull, but we are not fading - we wouldn't do that to you.
Meanwhile, if ...
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Episode 36 - The One Earth Message from 2017-09-03T22:11:04
Released: 3 September 2017
Duration: 62 minutes, 37 seconds
Host Daniela De Paulis along with P...
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Burst 23 - Tabby Boyajian talks about the May 2017 dip from 2017-06-06T03:28:11
Released: 5 June 2017
Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds
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Burst 22 - Tabby's Star is Dimming from 2017-05-19T23:38
Released: 19 May 2017
Duration: 12 minutes 57 seconds
Host Paul Carr provides some brief remarks and one or two speculations about the dimming of Tabby's Star that began t...
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Episode 35 - There is Here from 2017-02-13T05:20:40
Released: 13 February 2017
Duration:90 minutes, 38 seconds
In this episode we explore Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI, with METI.org President Douglas Vak...
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Burst 21 - The Absolute, Definitive Truth about Alien Megastructures from 2017-01-02T18:59:39
Released: 2 January 2017
Duration: 15 minutes, 37 seconds
Based upon a Listen
S3 Ep. 10 - Human Up from 2016-11-29T03:22:35
Released: 28 November 2016
Duration: 59 minutes, 2 seconds
Astrobiologist and Author David Grinspoon joins us to talk about...
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Burst 20 - The Gaia Data Release 1 and the WTF Star from 2016-09-15T02:54:13
Recorded: 14 September 2016
Released: 14 September 2016
Duration:22 minutes, 22 seconds
Astronomer Tabetha "Tabby" Boyajian joined Paul Carr, Roger Wehbe, and Rusty...
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Season 3 Episode 9 - Ben Montet Makes a Star Weirder from 2016-08-08T17:47:03
Released: 8 August 2016
Duration:47 minutes 44 seconds
Host Paul Carr talks to CalTech astronomer Ben Montet,who has, with his colleague Joshua Simon, just published the r...
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Burst 19 - Lost Stars from 2016-08-01T04:01:46
Released: 31 July 2016
Duration: 24 minutes, 11 seconds
Host Paul Carr discusses the recent paper "Our Sky ...
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Season 3 Episode 8 - Nathaniel Comfort and the Biography of DNA from 2016-07-29T01:59:06
Released: 28 July 2016
Duration: 43 minutes, 45 seconds
James Garrison speaks with latest holder of the Library of Congress Listen
Burst 18 - Nick Nielsen on the Spoor of Civilizations from 2016-07-04T16:53:40
Released: 4 July 2016
Duration: 20 minutes, 41 seconds
SETI research is much like the traditional task of a tracker, who seeks the spoor of elusive quarry through a wilderness. In ...
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S3 Episode 7 - Journey Into the World of Alien Hunting from 2016-06-23T02:26:02
Released: 22 June 2016
Duration: 41 minutes, 19 seconds
Daniela De Paulis hosts a conversation with the team producing th...
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Season 3 Episode 6 - Not a Glimmer of an Idea from 2016-05-27T04:43:16
Released: 27 May 2016
Duration: 67 minutes, 16 seconds
We interview LSU astronomer Bradley Schaefer about why is sticking to his guns about the century-long dimming of Tab...
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Burst 17 - The Where's The Flux Kickstarter from 2016-05-19T02:57:37
Released: 18 May 2016
Durations: 3 minutes, 33 seconds
A short Burst to briefly explain today's development and to ask listeners to seriously consider donating to Listen
Season 3, Episode 5 - Catching Tabby's Star in the Act from 2016-05-03T17:33:38
Released: 3 May 2016
Duration: 35 minutes, 43 seconds
Stella Kafka, director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) tells us about how her organiza...
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Season 3 Episode 4 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, part 3 from 2016-04-07T01:46:37
Released: 6 April 2016
Duration: 43 minutes, 45 seconds
Thread: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Burst 16 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 2. from 2016-04-01T02:36:26
Released: 31 March 2016
Duration: 13 minutes, 21 seconds
Paul Carr continues with our series explaining just what is so puzzling about Tabby's Star, aka KIC 8462852. In th...
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Burst 15 - Nick Nielsen on the Social Context of SETI from 2016-03-17T03:03:24
Released: 16 March 2016
Duration: 13 minutes, 25 seconds
Science does not occur in a vacuum, and this is doubly true in the case of SETI, which is said to suffer from a "g...
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Burst 14 - Jason Hessels on the Repeating Fast Radio Burst from 2016-03-14T17:07:39
Released: 14 March 2016
Duration:22 minutes, 55 seconds
We talk to Netherlands astronomer Jason Hessels, corresponding author on a recent paper in Nature describing a repe...
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Burst 13 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 1 from 2016-03-10T05:15:31
Released: 10 March 2016
Duration: 18 minutes, 1 second
In Part 1, Paul Carr provides a non-technical explanation of why the star informally known as Tabby's Star (KIC 8462...
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Burst 12 - Nick Nielsen on SETI as a Process of Elimination from 2016-02-13T21:38:59
Released: 13 February 2016
Duration:20 minutes, 35 seconds
Nick Nielsens's show notes:
In so far as SETI is a scien... Listen
Burst 11- DASCH Photometry with Dr. Josh Grindlay from 2016-02-06T20:36:06
Released: 6 February 2016
Duration: 22 minutes, 18 seconds
An edited interview with Dr. Josh Grindlay concerning the use of measurements of star brightness from the Digital Access ...
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Episode 27 - The Slow and Fast Dimming of Tabby's Star from 2016-01-15T04:35:05
Released: 14 January 2016
Duration: 62 minutes 4 seconds
Host Paul Carr talks to Dr. Bradley Schaefer about his research showing a dramatic dimming of Tabby's Star over a ...
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Burst 10 - Nick Nielsen on the Wilderness Hypothesis from 2015-12-04T03:48:45
Released: 3 December 2015
Duration: 13 minutes, 43 seconds
Is the cosmos a trackless wilderness in which apex predators, in the form of advanced extraterrestrial intellige...
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Burst 9 - The Halos of Vanished Civilizations from 2015-11-22T03:10:36
Released: 21 November 2015
Duration: 15 minutes, 30 seconds
Nick Nielsen talks about wha...
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Burst 8 - Questions about Asteroid Mining from 2015-11-18T04:30
Released: 17 November 2015
Duration 6 minutes, 18 seconds
Paul Carr briefly discusses a few issues that asteroid mining raises, at least in part responding to an Unseen Podcast blo...
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Episode 26 - Martin Elvis on the Science of Asteroid Mining from 2015-11-02T17:04:41
Released: 2 November 2015
Duration: 53 minutes, 33 seconds
Host Paul Carr interviews Dr. Martin Elvis of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Martin Elvis has ...
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Please listen to the Unseen Podcast from 2015-10-04T04:12:49
Paul Carr very briefly pleads with you to listen to the Unseen Podcast if you are not already doing so. That is all.
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Burst 7 - Why Interstellar space flight is hard. from 2015-10-02T03:12:53
Recorded: 30 September 2015
Released: 1 October 2015
Paul Carr walks us through a simple explanation of why we can't travel to the nearby stars - yet. Sorry, but space is big. Rea...
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Episode 25 - Breakthrough Listen from 2015-09-21T15:43
Released: 21 September 2015
Duration: 56 minutes, 40 seconds
Paul Carr talks to UC Berkeley SETI scientist Andrew Siemion about the exciting new SETI initiative called Bre...
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Burst 6 - The Caves of the Moon from 2015-07-12T21:55:22
Release Date: 12 July 2015
Duration: 19 minutes, 58 seconds
Mike Mongo has a brief conversation with Jeff Nosanov about his innovative PERISCOPE concept to explore the cav...
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Burst 5 - What about these FRBs? from 2015-04-09T03:26:14
Releast Date: 8 April 2015
A recent paper, Discrete Steps in Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts, has gen...
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Episode 24 - SETI at the SKA from 2015-03-08T05:52:14
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Burst 4 - Upper Limits from 2015-02-17T22:11:20
Released 17 February 2015
Paul Carr talks to Daniel Cartin about his test paper "Upper Limits on the probability of interstellar civili...
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Episode 23 - The Noble Ape from 2015-02-16T02:14:33
Release Date: 15 February 2015
Host Tim Jones engages Tom Barbalet in a wide ranging conversation centered around his Artificial Life environment Noble Ape and its applications to space e...
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Episode 22 - Let's Go Explore Venus! from 2015-01-22T03:04:25
Release Date: 21 January 2015
Paul Carr talks to astrobiologist David Grinspoon and NASA physicist Geoffrey Landis about the science and techno...
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Season 2 Episode 9 - Near and Far from 2015-01-14T03:18:52
Release Date: 14 January 2015
Paul Carr and Mike Mongo talk about the near future of the Wow! Signal Podcast and the long term future of humanity. Will we colonize Mars or the Moon? How a...
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Burst 3 - MISS on Mars? from 2014-12-20T07:14:47
Release Date: 20 December 2014
Nora Noffke, Associate Professor in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Old ...
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Burst 2 - Through the Lens of the Drake Equation from 2014-12-07T03:42:58
Release Date: 7 December 2014
In this short Wow! Signal Burst, Paul Carr talks us through where we are on the seven terms in the Drake Equation, which more about what we ...
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Episode 20 - Incoming Asteroid! from 2014-12-02T02:09:42
Host Paul Carr is joined by James Garrison and Tim Jones. Astronomer JL Galache of the IAU Minor Planet Center and author Duncan Lunan enlighten us about the threat that Near Earth asteroids pos...
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Burst 1 - The Astronaut Instruction Manual for Preteens from 2014-11-30T03:56:42
In this short Wow! Signal Burst, Mike Mongo, Astronaut Teacher, tells us about his forthcoming book, which has just completed successful crowdfunding. The Astronaut Instruction Manual for Pretee...
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Episode 19 - Actually, Wow! from 2014-11-18T04:31:34
This podcast is named after an event that took place on 15 August 1977 at the Ohio State Big Ear radio astronomy observatory. Astronomr Jerry Ehman noticed a signal that looked exactly like what...
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Episode 18 - The Habitability Lab from 2014-11-10T03:20:55
We talk to planetary scientist and astrobiologist Abel Mendez about waht is presently understood about the habitability of exoplanets, and the habitable exoplanet catalog.
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Episode 17 - The Long Delays from 2014-10-29T10:33:01
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 Scot...
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Episode 16 - Cells, Planets from 2014-08-02T04:54:58
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...
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entire_conversation_skeptics.mp3 from 2014-08-01T19:43:54
This is the conversation between Paul Carr and "Eric the Red" previsiouly split into two parts, not provided here in a single part, with no additional edits. This is not an official episode.
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Episode 15 - Oblique Strategies from 2014-06-24T14:13:04
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 po...
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Oh No, Not Again - Douglas Adams Special from 2014-05-25T01:05:06
A special Towel Day episode of the Wow! Signal featuring a roundtable discussion of the work, inspired ideas and philosophical jokes of Douglas Adams. Panelists are Nichols Joll, Jeremy Hunsberg...
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Episode 13 - The Great Voids from 2014-05-18T13:12:52
We talk to Dr. Daniel Cartin about his recent follow up to Geoffrey Landis' percolation framework for understanding the Fermi Paradox. We also talk about the life span of technological civilizat...
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Episode 12 - The Golden Age of Exoplanets from 2014-03-20T01:49:58
Season 2, Episode 1
Released 19 March 2014
Exploration f...
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Season 1 to Season 2 - meet the new team from 2013-12-01T02:21:37
In this special hiatus episode, we present an edited recording of a hangout the team had on November 24th 2013, in which we discussed ideas for topics and guests in Season 2. It's a chance for l...
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Episode 10- the Serendipity Schema from 2013-08-12T02:17
This episode again picks up the thread of Episode 5 - the Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts, or SETA. We talk to scientist and space entrepreneur Ben McGee about this Listen
Episode 9 - Listening to the Silence from 2013-07-27T05:37:56
The Fermi Paradox, Part 2, with Unverse Today's Fraser Cain and University of Edinburgh's Duncan Forgan.
Episode 8 - Cosmik Debris from 2013-06-26T03:23
Release Date: 25 June 2013
The subject is asteroid mining by humans and others.
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Duncan Forgan, scientist at the University of Edinburgh, talks about how we could det...
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Episode 7 - My Dinner With Garthright from 2013-05-23T01:59
On May 11th 2013 I sat down with skeptic Bing Garthright to talk about his impressions of UFOCon 13. This led to some interesting stories of his days as a NICAP UFO investigator, as well as som...
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Episode 6 - Conversation with an Alien Hunter from 2013-04-09T02:33:28
We talk to Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute about the past, present and future of the Searchfor Extraterrestrial Intelligence. We alos award the third Wow! Signal podcast podcasting seal of a...
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Episode 5 - Superior Galactic Communities from 2013-03-07T11:45
The Search for Bracewell Probes, Part 1.
An introduction to the Search for Bracewell Probes, with ...
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Episode 4 - All the Lonely Planets from 2013-02-17T03:49
A conversation about alien life with Dr. David Grinspoon, author of Lonely Planets. We talked about his career as ab astrobiologiest, about the habitability throughout the solar system...
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Episode 3 - A Conversation with Socrates - The Future of Humanity, part 1 with Nikola Danaylov from 2013-01-23T04:42
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. We discuss transhumanism, the singu...
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Episode 2 - What About Fact A? from 2013-01-17T02:15
There is no persuasive evidence that aliens from other star systems have ever visited our planet - situation Michael Hart dubbed "Fact A." However, as Enrico Fermi pointed outi n 1950, this is ...
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Episode 1 - Antonio Paris is Not From Outer Space from 2012-12-05T05:09
Episode 1 of the Wow!Signal Podcasts is out and available! Author and researcher Antonio Paris of aerial-phenomenon.org joins us to discuss what is wrong with UFOlogy and what can be done to re...
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