The Wow! Signal Podcast

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 Jaso…

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.

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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

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 starshi…

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 tha…

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 …

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 …

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. T…

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…

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 …

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 t…

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, B…

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,…

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'…

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 listne…

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,o…

The Fermi Paradox, Part 2, with Unverse Today's Fraser Cain and University of Edinburgh's Duncan Forgan.

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Episode 2 - the Fermi Paradox with Geoffrey Landis

Universe Today

Duncan Forgan

Duncan…

Release Date: 25 June 2013

The subject is asteroid mining by humans and others.

Guests:

Duncan Forgan, scientist at the University of Edinburgh, talks about how we could detect ET asteroid mining.

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