Burst 18 - Nick Nielsen on the Spoor of Civilizations - a podcast by Paul Carr
from 2016-07-04T16:53:40
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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 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 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
Further episodes of The Wow! Signal Podcast
Further podcasts by Paul Carr
Website of Paul Carr