#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

10155.28 - 10180.287 Adam Frank

We kind of have, in the modern scientific culture we live in, we think like, oh yeah, degrees Celsius, they're out there. The molecular cloud in space is 10 degrees Kelvin. The way we got there is we've forgotten how that idea is rooted in experience, right? We started off with science by, we had the subjective experience of hot and cold. I feel hot, I feel cold, you feel hot, you feel cold.