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The Wow! Signal Podcast

Release Date: 10/04/2015

Episode 50 - Arecibo Wow! with Professor Abel Mendez show art Episode 50 - Arecibo Wow! with Professor Abel Mendez

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We welcome back from the University of Puerto Rico to tell us about recent research into data from the Arecibo radio telescope focused on cold hydrogen clouds and a proposed natural explanation for the Big Ear Wow! Signal that we covered in depth in . We recommend so you can follow along. Links: Astrophysical MASERs (microwave lasers) Credits Host, editor, producer: Paul Carr Music: (Black Swan), (Far), by is licensed under

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Burst 34 - The Mystery of the Nine Transients show art Burst 34 - The Mystery of the Nine Transients

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Beatriz Villarroel discusses her latest VASCO paper in Nature Scientific Reports, "Exploring nine simultaneously occurring transients on April 12th 1950."

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Episode 49 - Existential Risk show art Episode 49 - Existential Risk

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Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela DePaulis are joined by author Thomas Moynihan. The subject is the idea of human extinction and how it evolved into our present day understand of Existential Risk.

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Episode 48 - Chelsea Haramia on the Ethics of METI show art Episode 48 - Chelsea Haramia on the Ethics of METI

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Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis engage philosopher Chelsea Haramia on the ethics of sending signals into space that might be received by intelligent beings in the cosmos.

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Episode 47 - Arthur C. Clarke, Godfather of Satellites show art Episode 47 - Arthur C. Clarke, Godfather of Satellites

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Co hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis welcome space historian David Skogerboe to talk about the pro-space activism of Arthur C. Clarke.

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Episode 46 - Extraterrestrials show art Episode 46 - Extraterrestrials

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Author and podcaster Wade Roush talks about his forthcoming book from MIT Press, Extraterrestrials. The book covers astrobiology, SETI, the Fermi paradox and more for a literate but non-specialist audience.

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Episode 45 - Among the Space People with Paola Castaño show art Episode 45 - Among the Space People with Paola Castaño

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Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela DePaulis welcome Dr. Paola Castaño to talk about her research among the science teams working on the international Space Station.

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Burst 33 - Astronomer David Blank Comments on Episode 41 show art Burst 33 - Astronomer David Blank Comments on Episode 41

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Astronomer David Blank responded to our invitation to comment on the Villarroel+ paper we covered in Episode 41, which he describes as "very fascinating."

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Episode 44 - The Night Watch show art Episode 44 - The Night Watch

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Astronomer Stella Kafka of the AAVSO

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Episode 43 - Adam Dipert Moves in Zero G show art Episode 43 - Adam Dipert Moves in Zero G

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Adam Dipert is a veteran circus performer and dancer who recently received his PhD in physics from Arizona State University.  Her has brought his various interests together by researching human movement in microgravity. We are going to let him tell you all about that.

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