Q&A 118: Are We In a New Space Race? And More... Featuring Dr Jessie Christiansen
In this week's questions show, I talk about how we're in a new space race, and what this means for returning to the Moon. Of course, lots of follow up answers about the Fermi Paradox. Could Betelgeuse release gravitational waves if it explodes? And what is our responsibility if we are truly alone in the Universe?
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Fraser--your ongoing discussion of the Fermi Paradox is fascinating! Have you read the article by Caleb Scharf in the January Scientific American? He reports on some work by him and others to the effect that the galaxy could be teeming with advanced civs, but there would still be areas like ours isolated enough that no civs would have been here for a million years or more. Very interesting twist on the whole discussion!
Does anyone remember a TV show Space 1999? On my thoughts about aliens, it is possible. If the human race never kills itself off, it would take millions of years to explore just this galaxy.