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Art Bell sits down with Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, for a conversation spanning the Kepler telescope's demise, new strategies for finding extraterrestrial civilizations, and the implications of first contact. Shostak explains that Kepler's second reaction wheel failure has ended its planet-hunting mission, though years of unprocessed data may yield thousands of new planetary discoveries. Shostak describes a proposal to detect alien civilizations by measuring waste… Full show notes & guests: https://artbellarchive.org/episode/september-24-2013-the-kepler-telescope-and-the-future-search-for-et-seth-shostak