Adam Frank is an astrophysicist studying star systems and the search for extraterrestrial life and alien civilizations.

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OUTLINE:

(00:00 ) – Introduction

(14:22 ) – Planet formation

(19:32 ) – Plate tectonics

(26:54 ) – Extinction events

(31:04 ) – Biosphere

(34:02 ) – Technosphere

(38:17 ) – Emergence of intelligence

(44:29 ) – Drake equation

(48:43 ) – Exoplanets

(51:28 ) – Habitable zones

(54:30 ) – Fermi Paradox

(1:03:28 ) – Alien civilizations

(1:12:55 ) – Colonizing Mars

(1:25:11 ) – Search for aliens

(1:41:37 ) – Alien megastructures

(1:47:43 ) – Kardashev scale

(1:52:56 ) – Detecting aliens

(1:59:38 ) – Warp drives

(2:05:45 ) – Cryogenics

(2:09:03 ) – What aliens look like

(2:17:48 ) – Alien contact

(2:28:53 ) – UFO sightings

(2:40:38 ) – Physics of life

(3:06:29 ) – Nature of time

(3:22:53 ) – Cognition

(3:27:16 ) – Mortality

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