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Author: Adam Frank
This episode explores The Little Book of Aliens by Adam Frank as a systems-level analysis of how standards of evidence, planetary thermodynamics, and scientific institutions influence belief, inquiry, and the search for extraterrestrial life.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than sightings, personalities, or spectacle, the episode shows why alien debates changed from ancient philosophy to modern science — and how biosignatures, technosignatures, and Fermi’s Paradox now connect the question to larger scientific, cultural, and planetary systems.
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