Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? | PODCAST: The Joy of Why

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Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded approach to searching for life beyond Earth, and why it’s rational to believe that we may be alone. “The Joy of Why” is a Quanta Magazine podcast about curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the cosmologist and author Janna Levin take turns interviewing leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time. For more episodes visit Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/the-joy-of-why/ --------- 0:00 Aliens: are we alone? 2:41 David Kipping and the Cool Worlds Lab 6:30 What makes a world habitable 10:41 The Drake equation 12:39 The birth-death model 16:42 The Fermi paradox and SETI 21:34 UFOs and evidence 28:07 Exomoons 37:20 Biosignatures and false alarms 45:06 Why explore the universe? --------- Does intelligent life exist elsewhere in the un

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