Burst 18 - Nick Nielsen on the Spoor of Civilizations

Released: 4 July 2016

Duration: 20 minutes, 41 seconds

SETI research is much like the traditional task of a tracker, who seeks the spoor of elusive quarry through a wilderness. In the search for life, intelligence, and exocivilizations we find ourselves in the position of seeking the spoor of these higher emergent complexities in the cosmological wilderness.

Links: SETI as a Process of Elimiation (Wow! Signal Burst)  SETI as a Process of Elimination (Medium post) The Eerie Silence: Renewing our Search for Alien Intelligence, Paul Davies  The Wilderness Hypothesis (Wow! Signal Burst) 

The Halos of Vanished Civilizations (Wow! Signal Burst)  Another Astrobiological Thought Experiment (Tumblr post)

Credits:

Writer and Presenter: Nick Nielsen

Producer: Paul Carr

Music: Jason Robinson