Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.
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Light of the Stars: <a href="https://amzn.to/4iMKC6C">https://amzn.to/4iMKC6C</a>
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) &#8211; Introduction
(14:22) &#8211; Planet formation
(19:32) &#8211; Plate tectonics
(26:54) &#8211; Extinction events
(31:04) &#8211; Biosphere
(34:02) &#8211; Technosphere
(38:17) &#8211; Emergence of intelligence
(44:29) &#8211; Drake equation
(48:43) &#8211; Exoplanets
(51:28) &#8211; Habitable zones
(54:30) &#8211; Fermi Paradox
(1:03:28) &#8211; Alien civilizations
(1:12:55) &#8211; Colonizing Mars
(1:25:11) &#8211; Search for aliens
(1:41:37) &#8211; Alien megastructures
(1:47:43) &#8211; Kardashev scale
(1:52:56) &#8211; Detecting aliens
(1:59:38) &#8211; Warp drives
(2:05:45) &#8211; Cryogenics
(2:09:03) &#8211; What aliens look like
(2:17:48) &#8211; Alien contact
(2:28:53) &#8211; UFO sightings
(2:40:38) &#8211; Physics of life
(3:06:29) &#8211; Nature of time
(3:22:53) &#8211; Cognition
(3:27:16) &#8211; Mortality

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