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The Wow! Signal Podcast

The Wow!Signal Podcast examines a wide range of issues from a scientific perspective through the lens of the search for intelligent life from other worlds.

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Burst 17 - The Where's The Flux Kickstarter

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2016/05/19

Released: 18 May 2016 Durations: 3 minutes, 33 seconds A short Burst to briefly explain today's development and to ask listeners to seriously consider donating to the new Kickstarter to monitor KIC 8462852 with a network of telescopes using standardized photometry. The hope is that we will reliably catch the star in the act of dimming. Please share this and the link to the kickstarter widely. Together, we can catch Tabby's Star in the act. Links: The Most Mysterious Star in the Universe Tabby's

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35:44

Season 3, Episode 5 - Catching Tabby's Star in the Act

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2016/05/03

Released: 3 May 2016Duration: 35 minutes, 43 seconds Stella Kafka, director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) tells us about how her organization observes variable stars and how they hope to catch Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) in the act of dimming. Also, a brief update on Bradley Schaefer's work. Intro music: Dark Skies by DJ Spooky Intro announcement Welcome and quick summary Brief update on Bradley Schaefer's updated preprint Stella Kafka bio Interview with Stella

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43:46

Season 3 Episode 4 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed,...

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2016/04/07

Released: 6 April 2016 Duration: 43 minutes, 45 seconds Thread: Astronomy and Astrophysics In Tabbys' Star for the Perplexed Part 1, we explained why this is puzzling star. In Part 2, we talked about some of the explanations put forth and their weaknesses. In the third and last (for now) part of the series, we talk to Tabby herself, and she answers several reasonably informed questions about her team's work, past, present and future. Introduction Interview with Yale's Tabetha "Tabby" Boyajian

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13:22

Burst 16 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 2.

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2016/04/01

Released: 31 March 2016 Duration: 13 minutes, 21 seconds Paul Carr continues with our series explaining just what is so puzzling about Tabby's Star, aka KIC 8462852. In this part we talk about some of the candidate explanations, including alien megastructures, including a Dyson Swarm. Links Please see wowsignalpodcast.com The Slow and Fast Dimming of Tabby's Star AstroWright Credits: Written, Produced, and Voiced by Paul Carr Music: Jason Robinson

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13:26

Burst 15 - Nick Nielsen on the Social Context of SETI

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2016/03/17

Released: 16 March 2016 Duration: 13 minutes, 25 seconds Science does not occur in a vacuum, and this is doubly true in the case of SETI, which is said to suffer from a "giggle factor." How does social context shape the scientific research program of SETI? The public at times shows great interest in SETI, but this attention can cut two ways, both benefiting and harming the discipline. Nowhere is this more true than in funding for SETI research. Credits: Written and Read by: Nick Nielsen Producer

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22:56

Burst 14 - Jason Hessels on the Repeating Fast Radio...

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2016/03/14

Released: 14 March 2016 Duration:22 minutes, 55 seconds We talk to Netherlands astronomer Jason Hessels, corresponding author on a recent paper in Nature describing a repeating fast radio burst. For more information please visit wowsignalpodcast.com Links: A Repeating Fast Radio Burst The Unseen Podcast Discussion of FRBs Credits: Host and Producer: Paul Carr Music: Jason Robinson

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18:02

Burst 13 - Tabby's Star for the Perplexed, Part 1

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2016/03/10

Released: 10 March 2016 Duration: 18 minutes, 1 second In Part 1, Paul Carr provides a non-technical explanation of why the star informally known as Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) is so perplexing after all. What was observed, and why doesn't it fit a conventional explanation? Please see our companion blog post at Dream of the Open Channel. Written, Produced and Read by Paul Carr Music by Jason Robinson

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20:36

Burst 12 - Nick Nielsen on SETI as a Process of...

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2016/02/13

Released: 13 February 2016 Duration:20 minutes, 35 seconds Nick Nielsens's show notes: In so far as SETI is a science -- and it aspires to be a science even as its critics argue that it falls short -- should its emphasis fall upon confirmation or disconfirmation? I argue that the falsification of narrowly formulated hypotheses about exocivilizations can both demonstrate the scientificity of SETI as well as refine our conception of exocivilizations, hence refining our idea of the exact nature of

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22:19

Burst 11- DASCH Photometry with Dr. Josh Grindlay

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2016/02/06

Released: 6 February 2016 Duration: 22 minutes, 18 seconds An edited interview with Dr. Josh Grindlay concerning the use of measurements of star brightness from the Digital Access to a Sky Century @HArvard to measure the dimming (or not) of Tabby's Star over a Century. Grandly critiques Hippke's paper that found dimming in several stars in the DASCH data, and also Schaefer's claim that Tabby's Star (KIC 8462852) is slowly dimming. Links: Boyajian, et. al. Planet Hunters X. KIC 8462852 - Where's

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Episode 27 - The Slow and Fast Dimming of Tabby's Star

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2016/01/15

Released: 14 January 2016 Duration: 62 minutes 4 seconds Host Paul Carr talks to Dr. Bradley Schaefer about his research showing a dramatic dimming of Tabby's Star over a century. This all but rules out any explanation anyone has put forth so far for the short term dimming of the star found in the Kepler data by Boyajian, et. al. Links KIC 8462852 Faded at an Average Rate of 0.165+-0.013 Magnitudes Per Century From 1890 To 1989 Credits Host and Producer: Paul Carr Music: Dj Spooky, Jason

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13:55

Burst 10 - Nick Nielsen on the Wilderness Hypothesis

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2015/12/04

Released: 3 December 2015 Duration: 13 minutes, 43 seconds Is the cosmos a trackless wilderness in which apex predators, in the form of advanced extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs), roam at will, and vulnerable civilizations (like ours) learn to maintain a low profile? Nick Nielsen considers some variations on the theme of the 'zoo hypothesis' of John Ball, each being a response to the Fermi paradox, and how we might prefer to 'play dead' as a civilization given the potential dangers of the

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15:31

Burst 9 - The Halos of Vanished Civilizations

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2015/11/22

Released: 21 November 2015 Duration: 15 minutes, 30 seconds Nick Nielsen talks about what we might observe from long dead ET civilizations. Links Nick Nielsen's Blog Post How Old is ET? The Relative Rate of LGRB Formation as a Function of Metallicity Observational Signatures of Self Destructive Civilizations Credits Written and Read by: Nick Nielsen Producer: Paul Carr Music: Jason Robinson

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06:19

Burst 8 - Questions about Asteroid Mining

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2015/11/18

Released: 17 November 2015 Duration 6 minutes, 18 seconds Paul Carr briefly discusses a few issues that asteroid mining raises, at least in part responding to an Unseen Podcast blog post comment by "Khani": Mining operations around PHAs Conflicts over claims Conflicts over the same asteroid What exactly is necessary to establish a claim? An interplanetary court Music by Jason Robinson Links: The Science of Asteroid Mining with Martin Elvis Unseen Podcast Episode 33 - Extract the Resource

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53:33

Episode 26 - Martin Elvis on the Science of Asteroid...

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2015/11/02

Released: 2 November 2015 Duration: 53 minutes, 33 seconds Host Paul Carr interviews Dr. Martin Elvis of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Martin Elvis has a substantial background in high energy astronomy and astrophysics, studying quasars and other huge, highly energetic phenomena deep in the universe. He tells us why he has turned his attention to asteroid mining, and explains his model for determining how many asteroids we should be going after, and how we can find them. There

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01:56

Please listen to the Unseen Podcast

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2015/10/04

Paul Carr very briefly pleads with you to listen to the Unseen Podcast if you are not already doing so. That is all.

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10:24

Burst 7 - Why Interstellar space flight is hard.

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2015/10/02

Recorded: 30 September 2015 Released: 1 October 2015 Paul Carr walks us through a simple explanation of why we can't travel to the nearby stars - yet. Sorry, but space is big. Really big. For more information, please visit the blog entry at: http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2015/10/burst-7-why-interstellar-space-flight.html Music by Jason Robinson The Wow! Signal is distributed under the Creative Commons Attributions/Share Alike license.

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56:41

Episode 25 - Breakthrough Listen

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2015/09/21

Released: 21 September 2015 Duration: 56 minutes, 40 seconds Paul Carr talks to UC Berkeley SETI scientist Andrew Siemion about the exciting new SETI initiative called Breakthrough Listen. Introduction and context Interview with Andrew Siemion on Breakthrough Initiative Interview wrapup Begging and nagging Outro Links The Unseen Podcast Breakthrough Inititative SETI@Home The Unseen Podcast on the Breakthrough Announcement Andrew Siemion on SETI at the Square Kilometer Array Credits Host and

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19:58

Burst 6 - The Caves of the Moon

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2015/07/12

Release Date: 12 July 2015 Duration: 19 minutes, 58 seconds Mike Mongo has a brief conversation with Jeff Nosanov about his innovative PERISCOPE concept to explore the caves of the moon with lasers. For more information, please see the blog entry for this Burst: http://www.wowsignalpodcast.com/2015/07/burst-6-caves-of-moon.html Music by Jason Robinson.

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09:07

Burst 5 - What about these FRBs?

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2015/04/09

Releast Date: 8 April 2015 A recent paper, Discrete Steps in Dispersion Measures of Fast Radio Bursts, has generated a lot of excitement. Paul Carr reviews the basic facts about the 11 known FRBs and what this strange pattern might imply.

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52:55

Episode 24 - SETI at the SKA

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2015/03/08

Thread(s): SETI Host: Paul Carr We talk to UC Berkeley’s Andrew P.V Simeon, lead author of a recent paper on what will change about SETI when the Square Kilometer Array comes online Intro Announcement and music (“Dark Skies” by DJ Spooky) Host intro to show topic Interview with Andrew P.V. Siemion on SETI at the SKA Andrew Siemion answers questions on SETI@Home Host wrapup Promo for Under the Microscope Begging, nagging and announcements Music - “Stratum 3”

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