It’s always a surprise to go digging in Seth’s basement – who knows what we’ll find! In this forage, tucked between boxes of old radio tubes and an electric banana, we stumble upon a rare view of Uranus’s rings… a preview of the Aurigid meteor shower… claims that we’re living in a computer simulation… and a ticket stub to the movie “Invasion.”
Also, who’s that in the back yard with a funny looking instrument? Science writer Timothy Ferris comes in from the dark.
Guests:
- Peter Jenniskens – Astronomer at the SETI Institute
- Mark Showalter – Astronomer at the SETI Institute
- Nick Bostrom – Philosopher at Oxford University, Director of the Future of Humanities Institute in the U.K.
- Timothy Ferris – Science writer and author of Seeing in the Dark. The PBS special based on this book airs in September.
