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About this episode

Kovi and Benjamin discuss the book 'Project Hail Mary' and its themes related to alien communication and life evolution.

Welcome to The Nerd and The Scientist's Book Club. Today Kovi and Benjamin will be talking about Project Hail Mary. Specifically - THE BOOK - as Kovi hasn't seen the movie yet. The book does raise some interesting questions, however, like how would we go about communicating with aliens? Extreme environments where liquid water could still exist. How life might evolve on other worlds. And was it funny? (It was) Follow us everywhere! Find Benjamin at Science, Actually : https://www.scienceactually.com/ & https://www.facebook.com/actuallyscience Find Kovi at Fun Fact Science : https://www.funfactscience.com/ & https://www.facebook.com/funfactscience

People in this episode

Hosts: Kovi, Benjamin

Topics covered

• book club
• communication with aliens
• extreme environments
• evolution of life
• humor in science

Keywords

• Project Hail Mary
• aliens
• liquid water
• life evolution
• science humor

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Project Hail Mary

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