[Interview+] How Good Was Our Search for Extraterrestrial Life, Really?

BONUS PART STARTS AT 43:25

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PBS Spacetime video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OM0zTfdsPo
Professor David Kipping's channel: @CoolWorldsLab

We've done a lot of searching for extraterrestrial life over the years. But how good was it? Did we look hard enough or deep enough? Is it too early for conclusions? Could do a better job? If so, how? Figuring out in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Dr. Ben Zuckerman

📜 Broadband Searches for Extraterrestrial Technological Intelligence: a New Strategy To Find Nearby Alien Civilizations https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07333

• 00:00 Intro

• 01:36 SETI

• 05:07 How deep did we look

• 24:12 What could we have done differently

• 36:57 Most satisfying answer to the Fermi Paradox

• 43:25 BONUS PART: pollution of white dwarfs

• 53:01 Current obsessions

• 57:14 Final thoughts