Maybe no one can hear you scream in space, but there’s plenty of news coming from the realms beyond Earth. And like human antennas, we’re here to pick it up, and send it down the wires to you. We’ll enlighten you on missions to both the nearby cosmos – the weird worlds of the outer solar system – and distant space: the efforts to search the deep depths of the universe for exploding stars, dark galaxies and… signs of intelligent life.
Our foray into the latest space research takes us from coast to coast. Molly reports from the American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Florida on the upcoming missions to the outer solar system, and Seth is at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in California, at the dedication of the new Allen Telescope Array.
Guests:
Kevin Baines> – principal scientist in the Planetary Science and Life Detection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Chris Parkinson – research scientist at the University of Michigan
Hunter Waite – Institute Scientist at Southwest Research Institute
Bob Pappalardo – principal scientist in the Planetary Ices Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Paul Allen – technologist and co-founder of Microsoft
Ron Ekers – radio astronomer, former President of the International Astronomical Union
Leo Blitz – radio astronomer, University of California Berkeley
Jill Tarter – Director of SETI Research, SETI Institute
Steve Trimberger – engineer and technologist
Greg Papadopoulos – Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development, Sun Microsystems
Alex Filippenko – astronomer, University of California Berkeley
Bill Oxley – radio host
Mel Wright – astronomer, University of California Berkeley
Gerry Harp – scientist, SETI Institute
Judith Golub – computer industry entrepreneur
David Liddle – technologist and futurist
Frank Drake – Director of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute
