Searching For Alien Life

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Are we alone in the universe? Are we one of a crowd? This hour, we travel the cosmos with TED science curator David Biello, exploring where we are in the search for alien life.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:04.4	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:06.8	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.1	Deliver it at Ted Conferences.
0:09.8	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:11.9	Around the world.
0:12.9	To understand who we are.
0:14.8	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.0	You just don't know what you're gonna find.
0:21.8	Challenge you.
0:22.7	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.1	And even change you.
0:26.2	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.7	Do you feel that way?
0:31.1	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.5	From Ted and NPR.
0:39.8	David.
0:41.1	Yes.
0:42.5	Tell me about the Fermi Paradox.
0:46.6	The Fermi Paradox is simply put the question,
0:50.4	why aren't the aliens here?
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