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Should We Search for Extraterrestrial Life? September 11, 2022 5:34 am ER

Every Saturday morning, when my alarm clock radio goes off, the NPR station I am tuned to runs a debate show called “Intelligence Squared”.

Today’s debate topic was “Should We Search for Extraterrestrial Life?”, and it featured SETI researcher Jill Tarter and cosmologist Paul Sutter.

You can listen to this debate at

https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/

  • Life and Intelligent life by BuckGalaxy 2022-09-11 14:20:10
    • We've gone over this ground pretty thoroughly here on the Zone. by ER 2022-09-11 16:28:03
      • "...we are already doing that indirectly by broadcasting our entire civilization out to the universe..." by ER 2022-09-11 16:52:26

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