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Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Subject: The Search for Life in the Universe
THE MEANING OF LIFE
August 24, 2009 Guests: Bruce Betts Select Format: MP3 Windows Media LIFE is the Planetary Society's Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment. Our own Bruce Betts is the Experiment Manager. He tells us about this attempt to send living organisms to Mars' moon... more »
LOOKING FOR ET'S FLASHLIGHT: OPTICAL SETI
January 12, 2009 Guests: Paul Horowitz Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Harvard's Paul Horowitz returns with a status report on the All-Sky Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, looking for the laser flash that will tell us we are not alone. Bill Nye on... more »
WHERE TO LOOK FOR LIFE ON MARS
October 6, 2008 Guests: Roger Buick Select Format: MP3 Windows Media University of Washington Professor Roger Buick has good advice about where a new rover should look for life on the Red Planet. He also looks for the origin of life on this planet. A double helping... more »
ASTROPULSE: A NEW WAY FOR ET TO PHONE HOME
September 15, 2008 Guests: Dan Werthimer Select Format: MP3 Windows Media SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer returns to tell us about a new search now underway on many of SETI@home's one million computers. Astropulse is looking for signals that may reach us as quick,... more »
A NEW GENERATION LOOKING FOR ET
December 10, 2007 Guests: Curtis Mead Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Young scientists and engineers in training are vital contributors to many research projects, including the All-Sky Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Harvard University. That's... more »
GOING SOUTH TO LOOK FOR ET
June 25, 2007 Guests: Guillermo Lemarchand Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Southern SETI Director Guillermo Lemarchand describes from Buenos Aires why his search for extraterrestrial intelligence is uniquely exciting. Emily Lakdawalla sheds light on how spacecraft take... more »
SPACEWARD BOUND: CHRIS MCKAY LEADS SCIENTISTS AND TEACHERS IN THE MOJAVE DESERT
April 16, 2007 Guests: Chris McKay Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Mat visits NASA's program that put middle and high school science teachers together with planetary scientists in California's desert to research how we'll detect life elsewhere in the solar system. ... more »
LIFE ON MARS, VENUS, AND TITAN? MAYBE.
October 9, 2006 Guests: Steve Benner Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Steve Benner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution is figuring out how alien life could exist in places where Earth life would be seriously challenged or impossible. Emily Lakdawalla... more »
JOHN RUMMEL: PROTECTING THE PLANETS FROM EARTH INVADERS
July 10, 2006 Guests: John Rummel Select Format: MP3 Windows Media John Rummel has one of the world's most impressive job titles: Planetary Protection Officer. We talk to him at his NASA HQ office about defending Earth from extraterrestrial contamination, and more... more »
BOB PAPPALARDO AND THE MYSTERIES OF EUROPA
June 26, 2006 Guests: Bob Pappalardo Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Newly-arrived at the Jet Propulsion Lab as a Principal Scientist, Bob Pappalardo is prepared to continue his investigations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, including the push for a dedicated mission. ... more » |
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