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Silvano Colombano discusses erroneous assumptions in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Silvano Colombano, a long-time NASA scientist, argues that the search for extraterrestrial life makes some erroneous assumptions. We talk to him about what those assumptions are, why they might be wrong, and how we might think differently about the search. *Season 2 of Wild Thing is produced by Laura Krantz and Scott Carney. Editing by Alicia Lipinski. Music and mixing by Louis Weeks.

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Guest: Silvano Colombano

Topics covered

• extraterrestrial life
• NASA
• scientific assumptions
• search for life
• space exploration

Keywords

• extraterrestrial life
• NASA
• Silvano Colombano
• scientific assumptions
• space exploration

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Organizations: NASA

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