Episode
Selects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
54:05
Published: Sat Oct 23 2021
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In 1960 physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that in the hunt for alien life, we should search for evidence of massive engineering projects that encapsulate stars with solar arrays to harness their energy. Could we humans ever make one ourselves? Find out in this classic episode. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Ben Boland and Alex French tell the story of Smedley Butler, a Marine who prevented a group of wealthy Americans from overthrowing the US government in the 1930s.
00:00 - 01:10 (01:10)
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Ben Boland and Alex French tell the story of Smedley Butler, a Marine who prevented a group of wealthy Americans from overthrowing the US government in the 1930s.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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In a podcast episode, it was revealed that Keith Richards doesn't use any pedals anymore and instead plugs his guitar directly into the amp.
01:10 - 03:41 (02:31)
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In a podcast episode, it was revealed that Keith Richards doesn't use any pedals anymore and instead plugs his guitar directly into the amp.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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With a predicted 1% growth in energy consumption annually, we risk exceeding the earth's solar energy resources in just a thousand years, and no viable alternatives to fossil fuels exist as of yet.
03:42 - 07:07 (03:25)
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With a predicted 1% growth in energy consumption annually, we risk exceeding the earth's solar energy resources in just a thousand years, and no viable alternatives to fossil fuels exist as of yet.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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The speaker describes a terrible bathroom stall experience in which none of the stall doors were secure and the gap between the door and the wall was two to three inches wide.
07:07 - 09:57 (02:50)
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The speaker describes a terrible bathroom stall experience in which none of the stall doors were secure and the gap between the door and the wall was two to three inches wide.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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The scientists mentioned in the podcast is believed to have controversial views about energy.
09:58 - 16:12 (06:14)
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The scientists mentioned in the podcast is believed to have controversial views about energy. According to other scientists, while he is undeniably brilliant, his ideas about energy are not accurate, as all potential sources of energy are already being harnessed by us.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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The podcast hosts talk about their struggles with recording an episode about the sun as well as the different types of civilizations and how they harness energy.
16:12 - 21:59 (05:46)
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The podcast hosts talk about their struggles with recording an episode about the sun as well as the different types of civilizations and how they harness energy.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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Even though we could run out of non-renewable resources, the sun provides enough energy that it could run our current energy usage for half a million years in just one second.
21:59 - 26:34 (04:35)
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Even though we could run out of non-renewable resources, the sun provides enough energy that it could run our current energy usage for half a million years in just one second.
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In this episode, the concept of Dyson Spheres is discussed, which are massive hypothetical structures that could potentially harness the energy output of a star, and how different variations of the idea have been proposed.
26:34 - 31:43 (05:08)
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In this episode, the concept of Dyson Spheres is discussed, which are massive hypothetical structures that could potentially harness the energy output of a star, and how different variations of the idea have been proposed.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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As the technology to create Dyson spheres advances, independent nations could take it upon themselves to create their own Dyson spheres in the form of swarms or bubbles, formed organically by self-interested nations developing this technology independently of one another.
31:43 - 35:05 (03:21)
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As the technology to create Dyson spheres advances, independent nations could take it upon themselves to create their own Dyson spheres in the form of swarms or bubbles, formed organically by self-interested nations developing this technology independently of one another. This could lead to the creation of luxuriant satellites and statites as solar rays to orbit around the sun independently to help in the world's energy consumption.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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The construction of the first Dyson Sphere would result in an exponential spread that could potentially lead to colonizing an entire galaxy within a million years.
35:05 - 45:08 (10:03)
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The construction of the first Dyson Sphere would result in an exponential spread that could potentially lead to colonizing an entire galaxy within a million years. However, a centralized government involved in such a project would quickly lose control of the colonies due to the distance between them.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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The amount of energy needed to disassemble and reassemble Jupiter would take approximately 800 years' worth of the sun's energy output.
45:08 - 49:18 (04:10)
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The amount of energy needed to disassemble and reassemble Jupiter would take approximately 800 years' worth of the sun's energy output. We need to harness more energy on earth and develop technologies like a Dyson sphere to become less reliant on living exclusively on earth.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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Learn about the Dyson sphere, a theoretical structure surrounding a star to capture all its energy, in this episode.
49:18 - 52:23 (03:05)
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Learn about the Dyson sphere, a theoretical structure surrounding a star to capture all its energy, in this episode.
EpisodeSelects: Will We Find Evidence of Aliens by Their Engineering Projects?
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Navigating Narcissism is a podcast that guides you to spot a narcissist and cope up with abusive relationships, whereas Main Accounts chronicles the rise and fall of MySpace, the first major social media company, through the people who lived it.
52:23 - 53:29 (01:05)
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Navigating Narcissism is a podcast that guides you to spot a narcissist and cope up with abusive relationships, whereas Main Accounts chronicles the rise and fall of MySpace, the first major social media company, through the people who lived it.