{"id":185,"date":"2008-06-18T23:51:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2008-06-18T23:51:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T12:51:59","slug":"066-seth-shostak-the-search-for-extra-terrestrial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"066 &#8211; Seth Shostak &#8211; The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Seth Shostak is a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute &#8211; we discuss the SETI program and about the possibility of intelligent life out there; the Drake Equation and how soon it might be before we find extra terrestrial life of some form.<\/p>\n<p>Also featured on today&#8217;s show are the Brain Teaser, Pin of the Episode, Listener Feedback, and some questions on climate change answered by Professor David Karoly, one of the lead authors of the last IPCC report.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM066-SethShostakSETI.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 66<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This episode of Brains Matter is brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\">Swinburne Astronomy Online<\/a><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/SAOLogo.png?t=1212883097\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nPlease vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~f\/BrainsMatter?a=laNGSi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/digg.jpg\"> digg this<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This episode&#8217;s podcast promo is of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variantfrequencies.com\/\">Variant Frequencies<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Seth Shostak is a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute &#8211; we discuss the SETI program and about the possibility of intelligent life out there; the Drake Equation and how soon it might be before we find extra terrestrial life of some form. Also featured on today&#8217;s show are the Brain Teaser, Pin of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-climate","category-interview","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}