Host Dave Schlom is joined by two guests from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California for a fun and thought-provoking program.
Simon Steel, Deputy Director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research joins us for an inside look at the Institute's role as a science advisor for the Disney/Pixar film Elio.
Elio is an 11 year old boy trying to find his way when he is accidentally beamed up by aliens and mistaken for Earth's ambassador to the galaxy.
Along the way Elio finds some unexpectedly meaningful relationships with living beings that are most definitely different!
Then Dave is joined by Sophia Sheikh, a SETI postdoctoral researcher who specializes in searching for signatures of alien technology for a thought provoking discussion of The Fermi Paradox.
The famed Italian physicist, part of the Manhattan Project, once famously mused to friends when discussing the possibility of alien life, "Where are they?"
