The Contact Paradox: Where Are All The Aliens? | Keith Cooper | Modern Wisdom Podcast 130

Keith Cooper is the Editor of Astronomy Now and an author. Why is searching for aliens so hard? How would they contact us? How would we decode a message? What are the potential dangers of responding? Should the general public be told if we find them? Should we be freely sending messages out into space? Extra Stuff: Buy The Contact Paradox - https://amzn.to/2EXuFsR Follow Keith on Twitter - https://twitter.com/21stCenturySETI The End Of The World Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-end-of-the-world-with-josh-clark/id1437682381 Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Chris WilliamsonhostKeith Cooperguest

Dec 30, 201950mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: December 30, 2019
Duration: 50m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Keith Cooper is the Editor of Astronomy Now and an author. Why is searching for aliens so hard? How would they contact us? How would we decode a message? What are the potential dangers of responding? Should the general public be told if we find them? Should we be freely sending messages out into space? Extra Stuff: Buy The Contact Paradox - https://amzn.to/2EXuFsR Follow Keith on Twitter - https://twitter.com/21stCenturySETI The End Of The World Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-end-of-the-world-with-josh-clark/id1437682381 Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

SPEAKERS

Chris Williamson
host
Keith Cooper
guest

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Chris Williamson and Keith Cooper, The Contact Paradox: Where Are All The Aliens? | Keith Cooper | Modern Wisdom Podcast 130 explores searching the Stars, Seeing Ourselves: Rethinking Alien Contact and Risk Keith Cooper discusses his book *The Contact Paradox*, exploring how the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is shaped by human assumptions, biases, and history. He explains why SETI was long marginalized, how new funding has revived it, and why our ideas about altruistic, radio-using aliens may be dangerously simplistic. The conversation delves into whether we should actively message aliens, the potential cultural and existential risks of contact, and frameworks like the Great Filter for understanding cosmic silence. Cooper argues for cautious, interdisciplinary, and long-term thinking, emphasizing that SETI may teach us more about ourselves than about aliens—at least initially.

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