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

9157.721 - 9178.601 Adam Frank

In order to actually do science with anything, the data you have, you have to understand where it came from, like down to the, you know, the nth degree. You have to know how that camera behaves in a bunch of different wavelengths. You have to characterize that. You have to know what the software does, what the limits of the software are possible. You have to know what happened to the camera.