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Episode 40 - Extraterrestrial Languages

The Wow! Signal Podcast

Release Date: 10/16/2019

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This is the last recording I will make for this podcast. It is time to finally move on. I began this podcast with Episode 1 near the end of 2012 when I was in my mid 50s. Although we have been on a very long hiatus since , I had the intention that when I retired I would either bring the podcast out of hiatus or permanently end it. As I got closer to that time, I understood that I only wanted to restart the podcast if I could put a fair bit of time and energy into it and put out frequent, quality content. Like the previous episodes, the new ones would be commercial free, audio only, go as deep...

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Released: 16 October 2019

Duration: 54 minutes, 51 seconds

 

Interstellar Languages is a forthcoming book about the human quest to craft messages that can be understood across interstellar distances. We may want to tell ET about  ourselves, or it may be help ET send message to us that we will know how to interpret.

Daniel Oberhaus is a staff writer at Wired Magazine, where he covers space and energy. His first book, Extraterrestrial Languages, will be released by MIT Press on October 22, 2019. 

For more information, please visit wowsignalpodcast.com

Support the podcast at Patreon.com.

Links

MIT Press Page for Interstellar Languages

Daniela DePaulis

The 2017 Sonar message 

There is Here

The Risks of METI and Religious Aliens

The Question: the ontological status of mathematics

Credits

Host and Producer: Paul Carr

Co-Host: Daniela DiPaulis

Music: DJ Spooky, Jason Robinson, George Hrab

Announcer: Erin Carr

 

The Wow! Signal is released under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license