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Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Subject: The Search for Life in the Universe
IBM ENTERS SETI@HOME'S GAME
December 6, 2004 Guests: David Anderson Select Format: MP3 Windows Media With the announcement of its World Community Grid, Big Blue may have paid a compliment to SETI@Home, the five year old Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project that relies on millions of home... more »
SETI@HOME CHIEF SCIENTIST DAN WERTHIMER SAYS SORRY, WRONG NUMBER
September 20, 2004 Guests: Dan Wertheimer Select Format: MP3 Windows Media The rumors of a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence have been greatly exaggerated, according to Dan Werthimer. He updates us on this and lots of other recent developments, including a... more »
SETI@HOME TURNS FIVE!
May 17, 2004 Guests: David Anderson Select Format: MP3 Windows Media SETI@Home, the world's largest computing project, has just completed five years of its Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. We celebrate by visiting with the project's Director, David Anderson.... more »
LIFE ON MARS...AND EARTH
April 5, 2004 Guests: Andrew Knoll Select Format: MP3 Windows Media We visit Harvard biologist Andrew Knoll for a conversation about finding life on the red planet. Emily Lakdawalla is seeing red on another of Earth's neighbors, and Bruce Betts spins a tale of Death... more »
COLUMBIA EXPERIMENT RECOVERED!
May 5, 2003 Guests: Louis Friedman, David Warmflash Select Format: MP3 Windows Media A special interview with Lou Friedman and David Warmflash, who reported in from the Kennedy Space Center. They had just witnessed the opening of the container that carried the "Growth of Bacterial... more »
DEEP SPACE 1 / ET PHONES HOME!
April 7, 2003 Guests: Marc Rayman Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Deep Space 1 has just won an award. Project manager Marc Rayman talks about the ion-engine powered spacecraft that visited Comet Borrelly. Emily looks forward to TV from Mars. SETI@home's Dan... more »
SETI@HOME AIMS ARECIBO AT THE BEST ET CANDIDATES
March 17, 2003 Guests: Dan Wertheimer Select Format: MP3 Windows Media After four years of data analysis, with four million personal computers on the job, SETI@home takes over the Arecibo radio telescope this week. Chief scientist Dan Werthimer talks about aiming the... more »
LIFE IN THE EXTREME
March 10, 2003 Guests: Chris McKay Select Format: MP3 Windows Media On Earth, life always seems to find a way to thrive. Could the same be true on Mars? NASA planetary scientist Chris McKay wants to know. Chris also talks about Europa and Titan on this week's... more »
OPTICAL SETI HAS AN EYE FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL MESSAGES
February 17, 2003 Guests: Paul Horowitz Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Could an extraterrestrial intelligence use a giant laser to communicate between the stars? Harvard professor Paul Horowitz is part of the search for such illuminating signals. Also, diamond rain, and... more »
INTERVIEW WITH FREEMAN DYSON
December 16, 2002 Guests: Freeman Dyson Select Format: Windows Media Freeman Dyson pays a visit to the Planetary Society for a wide-ranging conversation with Board Chair Bruce Murray and Executive Director Lou Friedman. Also, more Random Space Facts, and Bruce Betts... more » |
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