Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455

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Published on December 22, 2024 10:31:58 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhZAXXI83-4

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Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:58 - Planet formation
7:08 - Plate tectonics
14:30 - Extinction events
18:41 - Biosphere
21:39 - Technosphere
25:53 - Emergence of intelligence
32:06 - Drake equation
36:20 - Exoplanets
39:04 - Habitable zones
42:06 - Fermi Paradox
51:04 - Alien civilizations
1:00:32 - Colonizing Mars
1:12:48 - Search for aliens
1:29:13 - Alien megastructures
1:35:19 - Kardashev scale
1:40:32 - Detecting aliens
1:47:14 - Warp drives
1:53:21 - Cryogenics
1:56:39 - What aliens look like
2:05:24 - Alien contact
2:16:29 - UFO sightings
2:28:14 - Physics of life
2:54:05 - Nature of time
3:10:29 - Cognition
3:14:53 - Mortality

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