Burst 18 - Nick Nielsen on the Spoor of Civilizations - a podcast by Paul Carr

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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:

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

Further episodes of The Wow! Signal Podcast

Further podcasts by Paul Carr

Website of Paul Carr