Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #455

Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.
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*OUTLINE:*
0:00 – Introduction
1:58 – Planet formation
7:08 – Plate tectonics
14:30 – Extinction events
18:41 – Biosphere
21:39 – Technosphere
25:53 – Emergence of intelligence
32:06 – Drake equation
36:20 – Exoplanets
39:04 – Habitable zones
42:06 – Fermi Paradox
51:04 – Alien civilizations
1:00:32 – Colonizing Mars
1:12:48 – Search for aliens
1:29:13 – Alien megastructures
1:35:19 – Kardashev scale
1:40:32 – Detecting aliens
1:47:14 – Warp drives
1:53:21 – Cryogenics
1:56:39 – What aliens look like
2:05:24 – Alien contact
2:16:29 – UFO sightings
2:28:14 – Physics of life
2:54:05 – Nature of time
3:10:29 – Cognition
3:14:53 – Mortality

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