What Janna Levin thinks about space

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Theoretical cosmologist, professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, and chief science officer of Pioneer Works.

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1. 5 May 2025

   Our readingLooking for aliens who build things is a failure of imagination: the long-lived species we know of do not manipulate their environment at all.

   Their wordsSo I think we’re very attached to imagining creatures like us, that manipulate technology, and I think we have to be way more imaginative if we’re going to really take seriously life in the universe.

   ↗Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468youtube.com 17th of 24 in this recording