[Interview] What Happens If We Find Extraterrestrial Life?

Are we alone in the Universe? Probably, one of the most important questions one can ask. So, how are we currently trying to answer it and what happens when we finally do? 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 01:24 Searching for extraterrestrial life 19:35 Agnostic methods of searching for life 26:20 What happens if we find life 29:38 Life as we don't know it 34:36 Searching for interstellar life 46:38 Which method will give results first 50:46 What if we don't find life 55:05 Current obsessions 58:59 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/2_buH0GXFx8 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)