It's a fascinating sort of geopolitical question what happens if aliens visit us first it means they're more advanced than us. We've been trying to send signals out there and we radio signals are one of them but we're not the first to have thought up a way to communicate. 200 years ago 200 years ago one of the most brilliant mathematicians of them all. Carl Gouse. He remembered his Pythagorean theorem from like oh my you just pulled out the Pythagorean geometry honestly. Neil sometimes you really cure my insomnia. Thank you so much.
Scientists have been searching for aliens in our solar system and beyond, but have not yet found evidence that life exists beyond Earth. SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, has been scanning the stars for alien radio beacons for 50 years. Radio and TV broadcasts have been leaking from Earth’s atmosphere for over a century, and these traveling time capsules could eventually reach a broader audience than ever imagined. Neil and Lynne review the methods used to locate aliens, and discuss what to do if you’re ever abducted.
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