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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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11:02

Burst 4 - Upper Limits

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2015/02/17

Released 17 February 2015 Paul Carr talks to Daniel Cartin about his test paper "Upper Limits on the probability of interstellar civilization arising in the local Solar neighborhood" Music by Jason Robinson Daniel Cartin's earlier appearance on the Wow! Signal

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01:26:31

Episode 23 - The Noble Ape

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2015/02/16

Release Date: 15 February 2015 Host Tim Jones engages Tom Barbalet in a wide ranging conversation centered around his Artificial Life environment Noble Ape and its applications to space exploration. Music by DJ Spooky and Erika Lloyd. Detailed Show Notes Distributed under Creative Commons AttributionShare-Alike license.

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01:07:55

Episode 22 - Let's Go Explore Venus!

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2015/01/22

Release Date: 21 January 2015 Paul Carr talks to astrobiologist David Grinspoon and NASA physicist Geoffrey Landis about the science and technology of Venus exploration. Detailed Show Notes Music by Dj Spooky and George Hrab

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57:09

Season 2 Episode 9 - Near and Far

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2015/01/14

Release Date: 14 January 2015 Paul Carr and Mike Mongo talk about the near future of the Wow! Signal Podcast and the long term future of humanity. Will we colonize Mars or the Moon? How about starships? Detailed Show Notes Music by DJ Spooky

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14:42

Burst 3 - MISS on Mars?

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/12/20

Release Date: 20 December 2014 Nora Noffke, Associate Professor in the Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Old Dominion University, tells us about her recent hypothesis paper that argues that certain sedimentary structures seen by the Curiosity rover on Mars could be fossilized microbial mats. Ancient Sedimentary Structures in the <3.7 Ga Gillespie Lake Member, Mars, That Compare in Macroscopic Morphology, Spatial Associations, and Temporal Succession with Terrestrial

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09:30

Burst 2 - Through the Lens of the Drake Equation

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/12/07

Release Date: 7 December 2014 In this short Wow! Signal Burst, Paul Carr talks us through where we are on the seven terms in the Drake Equation, which more about what we don't know then what we know - so far. Music: Elbow Grease by Jason Robinson Calculating the Odds of Intelligent Alien Life (video narrated by Jill Tarter)

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01:09:39

Episode 20 - Incoming Asteroid!

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/12/02

Host Paul Carr is joined by James Garrison and Tim Jones. Astronomer JL Galache of the IAU Minor Planet Center and author Duncan Lunan enlighten us about the threat that Near Earth asteroids pose to Earth and what we can do about it. Music by DJ Spooky, Jason Robinson and Erika Lloyd. Detailed Show Notes with Links

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10:07

Burst 1 - The Astronaut Instruction Manual for Preteens

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/11/30

In this short Wow! Signal Burst, Mike Mongo, Astronaut Teacher, tells us about his forthcoming book, which has just completed successful crowdfunding. The Astronaut Instruction Manual for Preteens. The book is available for preorder now. KidAstronaut.com Theme music by Jason Robinson. The Wow! Signal is produced by Dream of the Open Channel and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.

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47:58

Episode 19 - Actually, Wow!

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/11/18

This podcast is named after an event that took place on 15 August 1977 at the Ohio State Big Ear radio astronomy observatory. Astronomr Jerry Ehman noticed a signal that looked exactly like what they were looking for - an ET radio beacon. Was it? We talk to Dr. Robert S. "Bob" Dixon, who was instrumental in bringing the Big Ear instrument to bear on the SETI problem, in his very first podcast interview.

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51:03

Episode 18 - The Habitability Lab

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/11/10

We talk to planetary scientist and astrobiologist Abel Mendez about waht is presently understood about the habitability of exoplanets, and the habitable exoplanet catalog.

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01:00:26

Episode 17 - The Long Delays

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/10/29

Is SETA really just local SETI? It makes sense to me, and to Alan Penny, coordinator of the UK SETI REsearch Network. We talk to Dr. Penny about the future of SETI. Then, we talk to another Scottish astronomer Duncan Lunan about the scientific mystery of the Long Delay Echoes. Are the LDEs from a Bracewell Probe? Music by DJ Spooky, Jason Robinson, Erika Lloyd and George Hrab Detailed Show Notes

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01:00:21

Episode 16 - Cells, Planets

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/08/02

The study of astrobiology projects current scientific knowledge of the living world into the wide universe and asks the questions we all want to ask: where are the best places to search for life in the universe and what should we look for? ARe we searching for exotic microbes, living beings like ourselves, or advanced robots that have taken over from their creators? In this episode we meet Steven Dick and Betul Kacar, two astrobiologists from different backgrounds who are exploring these questions

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entire_conversation_skeptics.mp3

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/08/01

This is the conversation between Paul Carr and "Eric the Red" previsiouly split into two parts, not provided here in a single part, with no additional edits. This is not an official episode.

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01:21:33

Episode 15 - Oblique Strategies

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/06/24

Host Mike Mongo talks to futurist librarian Heath Rezabek about preserving humanity's knowledge into the far future. Paul Carr talks to economist and former AI researcher Robin Hanson about a possible future in which huans exist, but aren't very important. Will AI put us all out of a job, and what will that mean to us if so?

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01:01:52

Oh No, Not Again - Douglas Adams Special

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/05/25

A special Towel Day episode of the Wow! Signal featuring a roundtable discussion of the work, inspired ideas and philosophical jokes of Douglas Adams. Panelists are Nichols Joll, Jeremy Hunsberger, Ben Brockert, Mike Mongo and Jim Cavera. Music by Stephen Moore and Eben Brooks See Detailed Show Notes

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51:01

Episode 13 - The Great Voids

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/05/18

We talk to Dr. Daniel Cartin about his recent follow up to Geoffrey Landis' percolation framework for understanding the Fermi Paradox. We also talk about the life span of technological civilizations, and how accidental contact could be important to understanding how this life span could increase over time. See the Detailed Show Notes

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53:47

Episode 12 - The Golden Age of Exoplanets

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2014/03/20

Season 2, Episode 1 Released 19 March 2014 Exploration for exoplanets with the Kepler telescope and trying to find laser pulses from distant civilizations with planet hunting legend Geoff Marcy. ESA's Ana Heras tells us about the science goals of ESA's proposed PLATO mission. See Show Notes

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42:54

Season 1 to Season 2 - meet the new team

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2013/12/01

In this special hiatus episode, we present an edited recording of a hangout the team had on November 24th 2013, in which we discussed ideas for topics and guests in Season 2. It's a chance for listners to meet the new team and get a sense of what's coming up. The Wow! Signal Podcast team members are: Paul Carr, Jim Cavera, Jude Hollingsworth, Ron Jeffries, and Mike Mongo. We hope you'll comment here or join our Google+ community. Links: Icarus Interstellar 100 Year Starship The B612 Foundation

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55:11

Episode 10- the Serendipity Schema

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2013/08/12

This episode again picks up the thread of Episode 5 - the Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts, or SETA. We talk to scientist and space entrepreneur Ben McGee about this paper on Xenoarchaeology,or the search for ancient alien artifacts, and to Dr. H. Paul Shuch about the experimental website Invitation to ETI at ieti.org. Music by Sleep Research Facility, Curlew and DJ Spooky. The Wow! Signal Podcast podcasting seal of approval for this episode: Singularity 1-on-1 by Nikola Danaylov.

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01:05:19

Episode 9 - Listening to the Silence

The Wow! Signal Podcast ·

2013/07/27

The Fermi Paradox, Part 2, with Unverse Today's Fraser Cain and University of Edinburgh's Duncan Forgan. Links: Episode 2 - the Fermi Paradox with Geoffrey Landis Universe Today Duncan Forgan Duncan Forgan et. al. , The Effect of Probe Dynamics on Galactic Exploration Timescales The Music Ahleuchatistas DJ Spooky Jason Robinson John Baez and Mark Egan's Telesto

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