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OUTLINE: (00:00) - Introduction (14:22) - Planet formation (19:32) - Plate tectonics (26:54) - Extinction events (31:04) - Biosphere (34:02) - Technosphere (38:17) - Emergence of intelligence (44:29) - Drake equation (48:43) - Exoplanets (51:28) - Habitable zones (54:30) - Fermi Paradox (1:03:28) - Alien civilizations (1:12:55) - Colonizing Mars (1:25:11) - Search for aliens (1:41:37) - Alien megastructures (1:47:43) - Kardashev scale (1:52:56) - Detecting aliens (1:59:38) - Warp drives (2:05:45) - Cryogenics (2:09:03) - What aliens look like (2:17:48) - Alien contact (2:28:53) - UFO sightings (2:40:38) - Physics of life (3:06:29) - Nature of time (3:22:53) - Cognition (3:27:16) - Mortality
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