Adam Frank discusses UFOs, exoplanets and the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
If intelligent alien life did exist out there in the cosmos, how would we find it?
In this episode of the Radio Astronomy podcast, astrophysicist Adam Frank discusses his latest book The Little Book of Aliens, reveals how scientists can now detect signs of life on other planets, discusses the implications of making contact, and what he really thinks about UFOs.
Adam Frank also reveals how close we may be to finding intelligent life beyond Earth, the problems with UFO sightings in the smartphone era, what aliens might look like, how evidence of life can become confirmed detection, and what might happen if we did make contact with an extra-terrestrial civilisation.
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