Sara Seager: Search for Planets and Life Outside Our Solar System | Lex Fridman Podcast #116
10,134Sara Seager is a planetary scientist at MIT, known for her work on the search for exoplanets.
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
5:32 - Falling in love with the stars
9:55 - Are we alone in the universe?
15:27 - Seager equation for number of habitable planets
27:48 - Exoplanets
34:44 - Earth-like exoplanets
40:43 - Intelligent life
52:34 - Number of planets per star
55:09 - Space exploration
57:36 - Traveling to Proxima Centauri
1:00:52 - Starshade
1:07:34 - Using the sun as a gravitational lens
1:09:44 - Starshot
1:12:45 - Rogue planets
1:15:44 - The Smallest Lights in the Universe
1:30:15 - Book recommendations
1:37:48 - Advice for a young person
1:39:29 - Meaning of life
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