Name: Searching For Extraterrestrial Life Like ‘Sherlock Holmes’ by SciFri
Duration: 17 min 8 s
Description: A strange celestial visitor in 2017 has this Havard astrophysicist convinced of intelligent life outside our solar system.

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Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/2CXa8GS

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