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

3597.18 - 3620.144 Adam Frank

So Gavin called this the Silurian hypothesis after the Doctor Who episode with the lizard creatures, the Silurians. But that paper got a lot of press. But it was an important idea. And this was really Gavin's. I was just helping with the astrobiology. To recognize that, yeah, we could have been visited a long time ago. There just would be no record. Yeah. It's kind of mind blowing.