Book · recommended on 1 episode
Contact
Carl Sagan ISBN 8401941253
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Carl Sagan ISBN 8401941253
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This book by Carl Sagan came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: guest. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future -- and our own.
“when i was little it was contact the book the carl sagan book i really thought i was just like ellie”— guest
The guest here is Clara Sousa-Silva: A quantum astrochemist at Harvard specializing in the spectroscopy of gases that could be signs of life on other planets. She co-authored the 2020 paper reporting phosphine in Venus's atmosphere, a possible biosignature. A Harvard quantum astrochemist explains the contested phosphine-on-Venus discovery and why life may be everywhere but intelligent life almost nowhere.
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