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S2 E9: You Gotta Have Faith
Season 2 Episode 9
Our views on aliens can often be uplifting, offering a glimpse of a better, technologically-bright future, or a glimmer of hope about our ability to survive. In some cases, our thoughts about them ar…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
S2 E9: You Gotta Have Faith
Season 2 Episode 9
Our views on aliens can often be uplifting, offering a glimpse of a better, technologically-bright future, or a glimmer of hope about our ability to survive. In some cases, our thoughts about them ar…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
S2 E8: Popular Science (Fiction)
Season 2 Episode 8
American culture is saturated with extraterrestrial and UFO references—and we still can’t get enough. Hollywood has raked in billions on alien-themed programming and it comes in every flavor you can …
Published on 5 years ago
S2 E7: E.T. Phone Home
Season 2 Episode 7
We’ve been broadcasting our presence for about 85 years now, with radio, television, and radar, essentially spamming space with all kinds of messages. What would we do if someone answers back? What i…
Published on 5 years ago
S2 E6: Hear No Aliens, See No Aliens
Season 2 Episode 6
To really look for intelligent extraterrestrial life, say scientists, we have to look way far out into space. A new set of initiatives—the Breakthrough Initiatives—are experimenting with cutting-edge…
Published on 5 years ago
S2 E5: Independence Day
Season 2 Episode 5
In 2017, the nation’s prominent newspapers published outlandish-sounding stories about a secret UFO program run by the Pentagon. We talk to retired Navy pilot Ryan Graves who recalls seeing some weir…
Published on 5 years ago
S2 E4: Roswell
Season 2 Episode 4
For all the people who think there’s life somewhere out there in space, there are also those who think the best place to look for it is closer to home. Thousands of people claim to have seen UFOs or …
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
S2 E3: Doing The Math
Season 2 Episode 3
What’s the actual likelihood of extraterrestrial life? Especially intelligent life? 60 years ago, astronomer Frank Drake took a crack at calculating those odds and his famous Drake Equation still res…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
S2 E2: What Is Life?
Season 2 Episode 2
We’re surrounded by life here on Earth—and given how huge the galaxy is, it’s got to be out there on other planets, too, right? But where to look? What to look for? And would life on other planets be…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
S2 E1: Out Of This World
Season 2 Episode 1
'Oumuamua almost slipped past Earth before an astronomer caught sight of this weird object. What was it? Some scientists thought it was just a comet; others, like Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, theoriz…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago