SETI and Beyond: A discussion with Brian Keating, Paul Davies, Jim Benford and Mat Kaplan - Replay (#289)

This brain trust of SETI experts was hosted in February of 2020,
back when live, in-studio conversations happened, and discussions
of alien artifacts and UAPs was fringe science. The discussion
includes James Benford's strategy for finding ETI artifacts and a
proposition for both passive and active observations by optical and
radio listening, radar imaging and launching probes. A debate on
the implications of our own technosignatures. And what if we find
nothing? A profound result: suggesting that, perhaps, no ET
intelligence has yet come to look at Earth, or perhaps other
civilizations are simply not as curious as we, good at concealing
their activities, or simply lost to deep time. Many of the topics
covered have now become mainstream science! The Director of
National Intelligence has just released the second Annual Report on
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. NASA has commissioned an
independent study on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs)
led by Professor Keating’s friend and colleague, Former chair of
Princeton’s astrophysics department, and President of the Simons
Foundation, David Spergel.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-set-up-independent-study-on-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena/
And of course, our friend, Harvard Astronomy Professor Avi Loeb's
Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence
of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts (
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo/home ). See our latest
episode with Avi here: https://youtu.be/N9lUceHsLRw Our Aliens,
UFOs, & Extraterrestrial Intelligence playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJGKdZD30K__D6oamWCq9uvSFKVoatsCf
James Benford is President of Microwave Sciences, Inc. in
Lafayette, California, specializing in High Power Microwaves and
their space applications. His interests include electromagnetic
power beaming for space propulsion, and experimental intense
particle beams. He has a PhD in Physics in plasma physics (UCSD
1969). He co-edited Starship Century, dealing with the prospect of
star travel, an anthology of fact & fiction. See
jamesbenford.com. Paul Davies is Director of the Beyond Center for
Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University. His
research spans cosmology, astrobiology and theoretical physics. He
has made important contributions to quantum field theory in curved
spacetime, with applications to inflationary cosmology and black
holes. He was among the first to champion the possibility that
microbial life could be transferred between Mars and Earth in
impact ejecta. He is the author of 28 books, including most
recently The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien
Intelligence. Mat Kaplan was the host of Planetary Radio from the
Planetary Society from its' 2002 premiere through 2022. He was a
Planetary Society staff member for more than 15 years, He hosts
live events for Southern California Public Radio called NEXT, and
frequently serves as moderator or speaker at space and science
gatherings. Video of this episode: https://youtu.be/nCXV3PSQGAY
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