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Part 1 of 2: David Friedberg is All-In on Science (#297)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
You Can't Choose Both
I talked to a very, very famous astrophysicist at Cornell, Lisa Kelteniger recently on the podcast and she's the director of the Carl Sagan Institute there. She asked if you had a chance choice between finding slime mold on an exoplanet or discovering aliens with extraterrestrial technology 1,000 years from now, which would you choose? And I'm like, you can't choose both. We backfill in the narrative to support the innate desires that we have, which I don't think are bad. Bill Murray once said, You know, if you want to be, you know, famous, try being rich first,. Because that gives you most of the benefits of being,
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