Listen "Burst 18 - Nick Nielsen on the Spoor of Civilizations"
Episode Synopsis
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: SETI as a Process of Elimiation (Wow! Signal Burst) SETI as a Process of Elimination (Medium post) 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
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