Munk Debate: Is there anybody out there in the cosmos?

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Avi Loeb and Stephen Webb debate whether we are alone in the universe

We are born into this world as actors being put on a stage without a script. And the first question to ask is: are there other actors so we can ask them what the play is about? Over the past year, we’ve learned that about half of the sun-like stars have a planet the size of the Earth, roughly at the same separation.

One thing to keep in mind is many of the civilizations that existed in the past may not be around anymore. They may be dead. And so the best way for us to search for them is not through Drake’s equation, looking for radio signals, because that requires them to be around, alive. The best approach is space archeology, searching for relics that they left behind. And we have not done that as of yet.

Here’s another big number: perhaps five billion different species have lived on Earth, but only one can contemplate the question, are we alone? There’s nothing inevitable about the emergence of a species that’s curious about the cosmos. Crows, octopuses and dolphins are remarkably intelligent creatures, but if humans go extinct, crows are not going to go on to build a radio telescope.

 

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