Bjoern Benneke's guest appearances

Bjoern Benneke

Probably Science

Bridget Phetasy

Chris Ryan

Erin Gibson

Joyelle Johnson

Moshe Kasher

Fahim Anwar

David Epstein

Wil Anderson

Cameron Esposito

Adam Savage

Ryan North

Kulap Vilaysack

Duncan Trussell

Karen Kilgariff

Nick Turner

OwlTail

Lee Billings

This week Matt, Jesse and Andy are joined by Caltech Planetary Science Postdoctoral Scholar Bjoern Benneke and author Lee Billings to talk about the many topics covered in Lee's new book, Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars, including: Hunting for exoplanets! Dating sites for farmers! The Drake equation! Earth's recent trend toward radio silence! Oxygen: The first great pollution crisis! Harold Urey's pessimistic time capsule predictions! Energy-hungry alien civilizations creating Dyson spheres! Competition in the exoplanet field! The philosophical reasons for searching for extraterrestrial life!

<p>This week Matt, Jesse and Andy are joined by Caltech Planetary Science Postdoctoral Scholar Bjoern Benneke and author Lee Billings to talk about the many topics covered in Lee's new book, Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars, including: Hunting for exoplanets! Dating sites for farmers! The Drake equation! Earth's recent trend toward radio silence! Oxygen: The first great pollution crisis! Harold Urey's pessimistic time capsule predictions! Energy-hungry alien civilizations creating Dyson spheres! Competition in the exoplanet field! The philosophical reasons for searching for extraterrestrial life!</p>

Episode 096 - Lee Billings and Dr. Bjoern Benneke