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Browse Past ShowsProgram ArchivesBrowse by Subject: The Search for Life in the Universe
RAFAEL NAVARRO-GONZALEZ AND CHRIS MCKAY SAY THE VIKINGS PROBABLY DID DISCOVER ORGANICS ON MARS
January 24, 2011 Guests: Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez, Chris McKay Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Almost thirty-five years ago, two sophisticated Mars landers appeared to find no evidence of organic compounds on Mars. The discovery of perchlorates by the Phoenix lander in 2008 led to new... more »
ARSENIC AND ODD LIFE
December 6, 2010 Guests: Mary Voytek Select Format: MP3 Windows Media PlanRad talks with NASA Astrobiology Program Director Mary Voytek about last week's announcement about the first lifeform that substitutes arsenic for phosphorous to support many basic life... more »
GREGORY AND JAMES BENFORD ON BENFORD BEACONS FOR SETI
October 4, 2010 Guests: Greg Benford, Jim Benford Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Greg and Jim Benford return to Planetary Radio, this time to talk about their rethinking of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The twin brothers believe "classical" SETI may not have been... more »
SPECIAL COVERAGE OF SETICON
August 23, 2010 Guests: Seth Shostak, Jill Tarter, Frank Drake Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Join us for a day at the first public conference dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, featuring Frank Drake, Seth Shostak and Jill Tarter. Bill Nye salutes the SETI... more »
LOOKING FOR E.T.'S LASER BEAM: AN OPTICAL SETI UPDATE
July 12, 2010 Guests: Paul Horowitz, Curtis Mead Select Format: MP3 Windows Media An update on the Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence from Harvard's Paul Horowitz. more »
PAUL DAVIES, AUTHOR OF "THE EERIE SILENCE"
April 26, 2010 Guests: Paul Davies Select Format: MP3 Windows Media After 50 years of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, could it be that we are not listening for the right signal? Or are we alone? Cosmologist and prolific writer Paul Davies makes a... more »
THE MEANING OF LIFE
August 24, 2009 Guests: Bruce Betts Select Format: MP3 Windows Media LIFE is the Planetary Society's Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment. Our own Bruce Betts is the Experiment Manager. He tells us about this attempt to send living organisms to Mars' moon... more »
LOOKING FOR ET'S FLASHLIGHT: OPTICAL SETI
January 12, 2009 Guests: Paul Horowitz Select Format: MP3 Windows Media Harvard's Paul Horowitz returns with a status report on the All-Sky Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, looking for the laser flash that will tell us we are not alone. Bill Nye on... more »
WHERE TO LOOK FOR LIFE ON MARS
October 6, 2008 Guests: Roger Buick Select Format: MP3 Windows Media University of Washington Professor Roger Buick has good advice about where a new rover should look for life on the Red Planet. He also looks for the origin of life on this planet. A double helping... more »
ASTROPULSE: A NEW WAY FOR ET TO PHONE HOME
September 15, 2008 Guests: Dan Werthimer Select Format: MP3 Windows Media SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer returns to tell us about a new search now underway on many of SETI@home's one million computers. Astropulse is looking for signals that may reach us as quick,... more » |
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