I Want to Believe - When We Meet the Aliens - YouTube

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On Episode 206 of This Week In Space , Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Brianne Suldovsky of Portland State University to discuss what happens after the discovery of an alien life form.

Whether it's a fully functioning civilization or a lowly Martian microbe, the implications are vast. Suldovsky has studied this mostly ignored question and come up with some interesting conclusions — and, like the best science, more questions. How this can best be communicated in an age of mistrust in large institutions and science is a vexing one, and the conversation looked at it from a variety of angles. And — it was fun. Join us!

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