What If, discussed.

There's perhaps no bigger "What If" that will ever be asked. As long as we have been able to look up at the stars and understand the vastness of space, humans have pondered whether we are indeed alone in the universe. But perhaps no one has "been on the case" in a more serious way and for as long as the former Director of SETI - Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - Dr. Jill Tarter. Dr. Tarter was also the inspiration for the character of "Ellie Arroway" played by Jodie Foster in the award winning blockbuster "Contact". But unlike in the movie, Dr. Tarter and SETI are still yet to make contact with intelligent alien life...but they feel they're closer than ever. Join Teddy, Richard and Dr. Tarter as they discuss exoplanets, extremophiles and when she thinks we will finally make first contact.

Show notes: https://whatifshow.com/podcast

Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of your most popular What If videos.

 

Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities.

 

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Hosts: Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson

Voice of What If: Peter Schmiedchen

Executive producer: Steve Hulford

Supervising producer: Richard Garner

Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik

Technical producers: Adam Karch and Antosia Fiedur

Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh 

Social media: Saida Mirzalimova

Research: Jay Moon

Trailer: Evan Yue

Artwork: Alex Griffith

Production: Underknown

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/whatifshow

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What has long been explored in science-fiction as well as prophesied as the next step in the evolution of human beings by "Singularity" proponents like Ray Kurzweil is now not only predicted as an eventuality...it's already happening!!! In fact you could argue with things like pacemakers and prosthetics, we have been meeting the technical definition of "cyborg" for years which essentially just means the enhancement of human capabilities but the integration of mechanical elements built into our biology. But We are joined by someone who has taken things a step further - Neil Harbission is the President of the "Cyborg Foundation" which exists to help people become cyborgs...and one of the world's first officially recognized "cyborgs." We talk AS (artificial senses) vs. AI (artificial intelligence) and why he believes he and others like him are "collaborating with God."

Show notes: https://whatifshow.com/podcast

Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of your most popular What If videos.

 

Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities.

 

Join us online:

Website https://whatifshow.com/podcast

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/WhatIfScienceShow

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whatif.show

If you’d like to sponsor this podcast, please get in contact with our partners at Notorious - [email protected]

Hosts: Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson

Voice of What If: Peter Schmiedchen

Executive producer: Steve Hulford

Supervising producer: Richard Garner

Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik

Technical producers: Adam Karch and Antosia Fiedur

Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh 

Social media: Saida Mirzalimova

Research: Jay Moon

Trailer: Evan Yue

Artwork: Alex Griffith

Production: Underknown

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/whatifshow

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Do you consider yourself a pioneer? An explorer perhaps? Would you "go boldly where no one has gone before" - well, almost no one. And would you stay? With everything from the financial incentives of mining to contingency planning for problems here on Earth to creating a jumping off point to get to Mars, settling on the moon seems to be no longer a matter of "What IF", but rather "When will we?" As "Space Race 2.0" heats up not between governments as much as billionaires like Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the expectation of many is that we will not only return to the moon in the not too distant future, but we will stay there. Alexandra Hall, the former Senior Director of Google's Lunar X-Prize blasts off with Teddy and Richard and shares everything she's learned about the possibilities, the challenges and the timelines for returning to the moon...and lets us know whether she'd take a one way ticket to settle on the moon.

Show notes: https://whatifshow.com/podcast

Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of your most popular What If videos.

 

Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities.

 

Join us online:

Website https://whatifshow.com/podcast

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/WhatIfScienceShow

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whatif.show

If you’d like to sponsor this podcast, please get in contact with our partners at Notorious - [email protected]

Hosts: Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson

Voice of What If: Peter Schmiedchen

Executive producer: Steve Hulford

Supervising producer: Richard Garner

Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik

Technical producers: Adam Karch and Antosia Fiedur

Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh 

Social media: Saida Mirzalimova

Research: Jay Moon

Trailer: Evan Yue

Artwork: Alex Griffith

Production: Underknown

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/whatifshow

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"What Is Real?" Many remember the now famous quote from Lawrence Fishburne's character "Morpheus" in the smash hit phenomenon "The Matrix" to the Keanu Reeves' character NEO when pondering whether they might be living in a computer simulation. But "simulation theory" is no longer just the stuff of science fiction. It has become all the rage of the world's top technology minds across Silicon Valley, including most famously Elon Musk who has proposed this as a very real...and likely possibility. But when Musk talks about this subject, he cites Swedish Philosopher, Oxford professor and the world's leading expert on simulation theory, Nick Bostrom. Nick joins "What IF Discussed" today as we all take the red pill and go for a mind blowing journey of pondering "what If we are living in a simulation."

Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of your most popular What If videos.

 

Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities.

 

Join us online:

Web site https://whatifshow.com/podcast

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/WhatIfScienceShow

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whatif.show

If you’d like to sponsor this podcast, please get in contact with our partners at Notorious - [email protected]

Hosts: Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson

Voice of What If: Peter Schmiedchen

Executive producer: Steve Hulford

Supervising producer: Richard Garner

Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik

Technical producers: Adam Karch and Antosia Fiedur

Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh 

Social media: Saida Mirzalimova

Research: Jay Moon

Trailer: Evan Yue

Artwork: Alex Griffith

Production: Underknown

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/whatifshow

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What has most recently became known in some circles as "Thanos Theory", many people have wondered, especially in times of serious concerns about climate change and the scarcity of resources just how long this planet can support us...especially as the world's population is about to eclipse 8 billion people!!! Is this too many? What about estimates of 10 billion by the year 2050?!?! Is wiping out half the population at the snap of a finger the only way to save everyone else? Some people believe Thanos might have been onto something. There's got to be another way, no? We are joined by the man who literally started the conversation on overpopulation with his seminal book "The Population Bomb" in 1968!!! Dr. Paul Ehrlich helps us break down "how many is too many" and whether the problem might not be "how many" at all, but instead "how we live".

Show notes: https://whatifshow.com/podcast

Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of your most popular What If videos.

 

Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities.

 

Join us online:

Website https://whatifshow.com/podcast

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/WhatIfScienceShow

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whatif.show

If you’d like to sponsor this podcast, please get in contact with our partners at Notorious - [email protected]

Hosts: Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson

Voice of What If: Peter Schmiedchen

Executive producer: Steve Hulford

Supervising producer: Richard Garner

Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik

Technical producers: Adam Karch and Antosia Fiedur

Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh 

Social media: Saida Mirzalimova

Research: Jay Moon

Trailer: Evan Yue

Artwork: Alex Griffith

Production: Underknown

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/whatifshow

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One of the most popular "What If" videos with over 75 million views, "What If you fell into a pool of liquid nitrogen takes us through the fascinating and quirky world of of one the world's most known but least understood substances: liquid nitrogen. With the help of Bob McDonald, one of the world's best science communicators and someone that's had more than his fair share of liquid nitrogen related experiences, Teddy and Richard "dive into" and try to answer the question, "What If you fell into a pool of liquid nitrogen." Spoiler Alert...they survive!

Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of your most popular What If videos.

 

Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities.

 

Join us online:

Web site https://whatifshow.com/podcast

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/WhatIfScienceShow

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whatif.show

If you’d like to sponsor this podcast, please get in contact with our partners at Notorious - [email protected]

Hosts: Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson

Voice of What If: Peter Schmiedchen

Executive producer: Steve Hulford

Supervising producer: Richard Garner

Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik

Technical producers: Adam Karch and Antosia Fiedur

Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh 

Social media: Saida Mirzalimova

Research: Jay Moon

Trailer: Evan Yue

Artwork: Alex Griffith

Production: Underknown

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/whatifshow

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Each week on “What If Discussed”, we explore the big hypotheticals and ponder the possibilities. This week is different. With “What If we had a worldwide pandemic?“, we are not only dealing with something that IS happening, but with real world consequences. But this is not the first time we’ve been here as a global society and won’t, unfortunately in all probability, be the last time. How concerned should we be? Is the media and social media helping us manage the situation or fanning the flames of fear? What role does a more connected world play in the spread of contagions? And, perhaps most importantly, what can we do now and in the future to prevent or at least mitigate viral pandemics? These are just some of the questions we address with award-winning author of “Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond” and science journalist Sonia Shah.

Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of your most popular What If videos.

 

Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities.

 

Join us online:

Web site https://whatifshow.com/podcast

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/WhatIfScienceShow

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whatif.show

If you’d like to sponsor this podcast, please get in contact with our partners at Notorious - [email protected]

Hosts: Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson

Voice of What If: Peter Schmiedchen

Executive producer: Steve Hulford

Supervising producer: Richard Garner

Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik

Technical producers: Adam Karch and Antosia Fiedur

Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh 

Social media: Saida Mirzalimova

Research: Jay Moon

Trailer: Evan Yue

Artwork: Alex Griffith

Production: Underknown

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/whatifshow

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Do you ever feel like you're being watched... by aliens? The "Zoo Hypothesis" as it is known in science circles speculates that some form of advanced, alien beings are watching us but deliberately not contacting us so as to not interfere with our evolution. Sort of like "Star Trek's" Prime Directive. But what if we reached out to them first and let them know we'd like to meet? Is that even a good idea or could it lead to unintentionally attracting the attention of a malevolent species who might want to attack us? Teddy and Richard are joined by world-renowned astrobiologist and President of METI (Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Life) Douglas Vakoch to seriously ponder, "what If we lived in a galactic zoo?"

Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of your most popular What If videos.

 

Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities.

 

Join us online:

Web site https://whatifshow.com/podcast

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/WhatIfScienceShow

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/What.If.science

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/whatif.show

If you’d like to sponsor this podcast, please get in contact with our partners at Notorious - [email protected]

Hosts: Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson

Voice of What If: Peter Schmiedchen

Executive producer: Steve Hulford

Supervising producer: Richard Garner

Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik

Technical producers: Adam Karch and Antosia Fiedur

Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh 

Social media: Saida Mirzalimova

Research: Jay Moon

Trailer: Evan Yue

Production: Underknown

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/whatifshow

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of our most popular What If videos. What If half the Earth’s population was wiped out? What If you fell into a pool of liquid nitrogen? What If we lived in a Galactic Zoo? What If we are living in a simulation? What if we Settled on the Moon? What if we became Cyborgs? What If we discovered Alien Life? What If you lived 50 years into the future?

Join hosts Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson of Mighty Trains with some of the world’s top thinkers in science, astronomy, technology, academia and futurism to ponder some of the most popular What If videos.

 

Subscribe to this podcast and please rate & review us. Thanks for being part of the What If community as we embark on an epic exploration of possibilities.

 

Join us online:

Website 

YouTube

Facebook

Instagram 

If you’d like to sponsor this podcast, please get in contact with our partners at Notorious - [email protected]

Hosts: Richard Garner and Teddy Wilson

Voice of What If: Peter Schmiedchen

Executive producer: Steve Hulford

Supervising producer: Richard Garner

Producers: Ira Haberman and Stephen Henrik

Technical producers: Adam Karch and Antosia Fiedur

Channel supervisor: Raphael Faeh 

Social media: Saida Mirzalimova

Artwork: Alex Griffith

Research: Jay Moon

Trailer: Evan Yue

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/whatifshow

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.