Searching for Extraterrestrial Life

By: Sarah Rugheimer

Narrated by: Sarah Rugheimer

For decades, books, movies, television shows, and conspiracy theories have speculated about the existence of life on other planets. But how possible is it that we are alone in the universe? How likely is it we’ll find a habitable, Earth-like planet? How come we have not already seen signs of extraterrestrial life?

Join astrophysicist Sarah Rugheimer to reveal what we know about detecting life on other planets. Over 10 eye-opening lectures, she will uncover the strides we’ve made in our search for finding habitable Earth-like planets.

You’ll gain first-hand insights into how scientists search for signs of life and our latest attempts to find potential life on Mars, Venus, Europa, Titan, and other moons and planets in our solar system. As she recaps how life started on Earth, you’ll see how our evolution informs our search for detecting life on exoplanets. And, you’ll examine the current search for extraterrestrial intelligence, looking at potential responses to the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox.

Whether you have an academic investment or a general curiosity about life on other planets, this course will provide you with the most current insights into what signs of extraterrestrial life may be found.

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An up date of astrophysics and related subjects.

Very well presented. It deals with astrophysics and living organisms. Easy to read with essential up date on practical current thinking.

Highly Interesting

I loved this lecture! If you are expecting the sort of sensationalist, ancient alien content of something like the “history” channel this is not for you. This was a thoughtful and engaging exploration into the scientific fields that are searching for possible life in the universe and the implications that it may have on science, culture, and life as a whole. I recommend this to anyone interested in space in general!

Astrobiology

This book was an interesting presentation on astrobiology. Very thought-provoking. It was time well spent.

Clear and interesting

This set of talks was consistently informative and fun to listen to. One would get a lot out of these talks whether or not you had a science background.

Fascinating and Approachable

A really interesting series of lectures that together give a great overview of the current state of the field of Astrobiology. I particularly appreciated the tone of the lectures, they were welcoming and approachable without being patronizing. They avoided using unnecessary technical jargon or deep diving into esoteric/expert topics, but still respected the audience and didn't resort to pop science style surface level fun facts. I also really appreciated how the author explains and champions the scientific method, and makes sure to illustrate how every discovery or announcement is rightly up for scrutiny from the scientific community, and how many things we cannot know for certain. It was a refreshingly honest and humble take.

Fun listen, while it made my mind wander/wonder

This was true enjoyment from beginning to end. I gave myself and employees some good topics for discussion (fun topics)
- the book was informative and not in a 'lecturing way' more of a "check this out, isnt this exciting/interesting?"

- I am hoping to find something that I enjoyed as much as this (also see "The Science of SciFy") type of audiobook.

well done !

Great book and worth the credit

Very good set of lectures and very interesting. I find all of this very interesting and Dr. Sarah Rugheimer does a great job of not over doing it like some authors do. She sticks to the facts it seems and does a great job of helping people like me start to understand things that are way over my head! I definitely recommend this book.

Eye-opening stuff.

Loved the steady and firm control of the arguments presented. If you’re a person interested in science, you probably knew some of the facts presented in the lectures. But the true power of this series is about connecting the dots and putting everything into a wide frame of reference. Makes you want to become an astrobiologist!

A fantastic introduction to one of the hottest topics in science

Sarah is a force to be reckoned with and this course is extremely well organized, well thought out, and a delight to listen to. Everybody from Sci fi to hard core science fans with delight in this lovely, lovely discussion of aliens and their possible origin stories.

Anazing Stuff

I was into astronomy in the thitd grade (around 1949), ham radio by 1955,, computing by 1964, telesco making by 1970, personal computing by 1976, and AI in the early 90's. I even attended some of Project Cyclops lectures, not realizing how Barney Oliver's shirt pocket would change my life. So Rugheimer could be my baby sister! The depyh and breadth of her knowledge is stunning. I think I will play these lectures again, while polishing my next mirror!

Are we alone? Most certainly not! But space is BIG. The aliens are so far away, we might as well be alone. And let us hope they do not get curious and try to map earth by radar astronomy- the required power would toasr us!