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#154 – Avi Loeb: Aliens, Black Holes, and the Mystery of the Oumuamua
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Drake Equation and the Conservatism of the Mainstream in Astronomy
The Drake equation is again quantifying our ignorance. We can look for artifacts that they left behind, you can look for industrial pollution in the atmosphere supply. Even with these billions of dollars, the mainstream community will never be confident whether there is life there. There is actually a way. If instead of looking with the same instruments, if you look for molecules that indicate industrial pollution, for example, CFCs, that are produced by refrigerating systems or industries here on Earth, that they do the ozone layer, you can search for that.
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