Episode 50 - Arecibo Wow! with Professor Abel Mendez
The Wow! Signal Podcast
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
The Wow! Signal Podcast
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
The Wow! Signal Podcast
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
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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
The Wow! Signal Podcast
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
The Wow! Signal Podcast
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
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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
The Wow! Signal Podcast
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
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Astronomer Stella Kafka of the AAVSO
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Episode 43 - Adam Dipert Moves in Zero G
The Wow! Signal Podcast
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.
info_outlineReleased: 11 December 2019
Duration: 48 minutes, 30 seconds
Co-hosts Daniela DePaulis and Paul Carr welcome Julia DeMarines (@LifeNSpace) to talk about bouncing radio signals off the moon. Julia is involved in a moon bounce research project for Berkeley SETI, and Daniela has used moonbounce in her art projects, including Cogito.
We also get into a discussion of METI, and the importance of message composition to humans.
For more information, please visit https://wowisgnalpodcast.com
Guest bio:
Julia DeMarines is an Astrobiologist and science communicator working at the UC Berkeley SETI Research Center and with Blue Marble Space. She is a 2019 National Geographic Explorer and 2018 Grosvenor Teacher Fellow, and a 2019 AGU Voices for Science advocate. Her research involves detecting life in the Universe through biosignatures and technosignatures and the ethics of sending powerful, intentional messages into space. She is passionate about inspiring the next generation of scientists and teaches to underserved students around the world through the Ad Astra Academy. Julia also runs her own outreach events called “Space in Your Face!” – a space variety show involving comedy, local artists, and cover songs.
Twitter: @LifeNspace
Instagram: @mote_of_dust
Facebook: @JuliaDeMarines
Links
Sullivan (1979), Radio leakage and eavesdropping
Sullivan and Knowles(1985), Lunar Reflections of Terrestrial Radio Leakage.
DeMarines+ (2019), Observing the Earth as a Communicating Exoplanet
David Grinspoon's appearances on this podcast: first, second, third.
Andrew Siemion's appearances: first, second.
Credits:
Co-hosts: Daniela DePaulis and Paul Carr
Producer: Paul Carr
Music: DJ Spooky, Jason Robinson, George Hrab
Software: Zoom, Loopback, Reaper, Focusrite, Auphonic, OS X Mojave
Hardware: Shure, Cloud,Focusrite, Apple.
This podcast is released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license.