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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
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() – Introduction
() – Universe expansion
() – Dark energy
() – Scientific revolutions
() – Asteroid hitting Earth
() – Giant solar flares and the power grid
() – Elon Musk and space exploration
() – Exoplanets
() – Traveling close to the speed of light
() – Traveling faster than the speed of light
() – Intelligent life in the universe
() – Fermi Paradox
() – Finding alien life would be bad news
() – UFO sightings
() – Universe expansion speed
() – The universe is infinite
() – What happened before the Big Bang?
() – Roger Penrose
() – Nobel Prize for the accelerating universe
() – Supernova
() – The greatest story ever told
() – Richard Feynman
() – Meaning of life
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