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Reflecting on our First Attempt to Speak with the Stars

Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of a transmission from the Arecibo Observatory, intended as our first attempt to send a message to intelligent life across the universe. Journalist Nadia Drake talks about the careful crafting of the signal and her personal connection with the astronomer who auth…

Reflecting on our First Attempt to Speak with the Stars

Tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of a transmission from the Arecibo Observatory, intended as our first attempt to send a message to intelligent life across the universe. Journalist Nadia Drake talks about the careful crafting of the signal and her personal connection with the astronomer who auth…

Nadia Drake on The Arecibo Message our "Selfie of Humanity"

On November 16, 1974, the first message meant for the stars was broadcast into space, using a series of zeros and ones to encode an image. This image was designed by Frank Drake, an astronomer who helped develop the modern field of SETI as well as the Drake Equation, a formula which helps scientist…

NASA Under the Axe

The White House has proposed unprecedented cuts to NASA’s budget - the largest in the agency’s history. If approved, this withdrawal of funding would force the cancellation of many major programs, including the long anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope as well as others involved in the sea…

What Has New Horizons Disclosed About Pluto?

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonate Pluto's not just cool… it's ICE COLD Tweet ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSpluto Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSplutoFB ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Since New Horizons flew by Plut…

#423 - "Sent Them Map to Earth" Alien Contact, NASA Moon Base & Uncontacted Tribes | Nadia Drake

Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Nadia Drake is an award-winning science journalist who specializes in space exploration, astrophysics, the search for alien life, along with jungle and wildlife reporting for National Geographic. She is the daugh…

"Extraterrestrial Officers": Inside NASA's File a Hacker Opened | Nadia Drake

In 2002 a bored kid in the UK spent a night guessing his way into United States government computers. The Pentagon held. NASA did not. Inside one NASA machine he opened a folder and watched a single image crawl down the screen a bar at a time on dial-up, until he was looking at a metallic cigar sha…

Searching for life in the universe

If scientists ever found evidence that we are not alone in the universe, what would happen next? I posed that question to Bill Diamond, CEO of the SETI Institute in 2023 during an interview for our podcast Are We There Yet?. “Well,” he told us “we’d probably call a press conference.” For what is …

NASA Found Something on Mars and Can't Bring It Home | Nadia Drake

NASA has a rover parked on Mars holding the rock cores that could finally answer whether anything ever lived there, and right now there is no way to get them back. Nadia Drake explains how the agency pulled back from ambitious life detection after Viking's results came back ambiguous, spent years c…

The Message

When we discover life in the universe, how will we find out? Most likely, through the news. An example of that is from a CBS radio broadcast from October 30, 1938. A series of news bulletins chronicled the discovery of something unusual happening on Mars. As the broadcast continued, the event esc…