For centuries, humans have looked to the heavens and asked: Are we alone in the universe? And when it comes to answering that question, it’s not a matter of if. It’s a matter of when. With that day on the horizon, are we, as humans, ready for what insight that might bring? “When We Find Them” is a new limited podcast series from Central Florida Public Media that looks at our search for life in the universe and the not so finished plan to tell the world what we find. We’ll look at our current efforts to search for...
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19 min
The Message
When we discover life in the universe, how will we find out? Most likely, through the news.An example of that is from a CBS radio broadcast from October 30, 1938.A series of news b…
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20 min
Implications
On April 1, 2026, four astronauts launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to circle the moon and return home.Artemis II was the first time humans ventured to…
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22 min
Search and confirm
As we continue to search for signs of life in the universe, how will we know we’ve found credible proof?For many scientists, they use the Sagan standard: Extraordinary claims requi…
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18 min
False alarms
In the search for life in the universe there have been plenty of close calls. Each instance brings us closer to answering that existential question and lays bare how we as humans m…
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18 min
Searching for life in the universe
If scientists ever found evidence that we are not alone in the universe, what would happen next?I posed that question to Bill Diamond, CEO of the SETI Institute in 2023 during an i…
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2 min
Trailer: When We Find Them podcast
“When We Find Them” is a new limited podcast series from Central Florida Public Media that looks at our search for life in the universe and the not so finished plan to tell the wor…