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Lisa Kaltenegger discussed her new book, "Alien Earths." She explained that the book explores the new science of planet hunting in the cosmos and discusses how some alien worlds could be similar to Earth, and could potentially be habitable.
Did you put all that in your book?
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Episode: Distant Aliens & Space Dinosaurs with Lisa Kaltene...
Lisa Kaltenegger discussed her new book, "Alien Earths." She explained that the book explores the new science of planet hunting in the cosmos and discusses how some alien worlds could be similar to Earth, and could potentially be habitable.
Did you put all that in your book?
I did. Alien Earths, the new science of planet hunting in the cosmos.
And so the cool thing that when I think about these alien worlds, like some of them could be like ours. So they could be habitats as we just talked about. Hence alien earths, not just alien aliens.
So I think we're biased but in a good way. Because we have to be ultra conservative to tell you that we found life. We don't want to just make it up. And so what we do is we look for something that we cannot explain other than with life.
And then I did put a blank page for your work here.
Episode: Making Stuff, with Adam Savage
Adam Savage mentioned being inspired by "Alien" for five years, specifically H.R. Giger's design work, and recapitulating the aesthetic to understand it.
When I was, you know... When I was 17, I saw Alien. It took me five years to get the aesthetic of H.R. Giger out of my system. I had to recapitulate the aesthetics that he was doing because I found it so powerful until I kind of understood it.
Episode: Breaking Down Oppenheimer with Brian Greene
Neil deGrasse Tyson said they went to the same street corner in London where Leo Szilard had the epiphany that led to the development of the atomic bomb, as described in the book 'Cosmos'.
In fact, in Cosmos, we went to that very same street corner.
And I walked up to the street corner and I had no such epiphany.
Episode: A Conversation With Hank Azaria
It was mentioned as a book related to Carl Sagan's work, and was briefly referenced during a discussion of voices.
Millions and billions of what was it stars? A journey through that's how I remember it anyway. Very deliberate measured kind of wrapped himself around the words.
Episode: Extended Classic – Cosmic Queries: Colonizing Mars
It was mentioned that Neil deGrasse Tyson included the latest calculations for the Drake Equation in one of his recent books, possibly 'Cosmos'.
And right now in one of my recent books, we actually give the very latest calculation for this, and there's like billions, so we're good.
Episode: A Conversation With Hank Azaria
It was mentioned in reference to Carl Sagan, who was known for his work on the TV series and related books.
Millions and billions of what was it stars? A journey through that's how I remember it anyway.
