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#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
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Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.
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OUTLINE:
() – Introduction
() – Planet formation
() – Plate tectonics
() – Extinction events
() – Biosphere
() – Technosphere
() – Emergence of intelligence
() – Drake equation
() – Exoplanets
() – Habitable zones
() – Fermi Paradox
() – Alien civilizations
() – Colonizing Mars
() – Search for aliens
() – Alien megastructures
() – Kardashev scale
() – Detecting aliens
() – Warp drives
() – Cryogenics
() – What aliens look like
() – Alien contact
() – UFO sightings
() – Physics of life
() – Nature of time
() – Cognition
() – Mortality
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