What are the best strategies for finding life in space? #021 with Natalie Grefenstette?
Astrobiology is a paradoxically established and yet still burgeoning field that is reconsidering the fundamental boundaries of what we mean by "life," while simultaneously searching for that life beyond Earth. Past guests have outlined how difficult the search for life is; they've contributed new detection methods and measures, they've proposed new tools, and they're working to establish new standards of evidence in support of such a discovery. This week we ask SFI post-doctoral fellow, Natalie Grefenstette, how we can best equip ourselves to recognize life in space, given how little we know about life, at all. Natalie is working on the Agnostic Biosignature Project, a multi-institutional endeavor funded by NASA.
Alien Crash Site · Caitlin McShea, Santa Fe Institute, Natalie Grefenstette
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Show Notes
To learn more about items mentioned in this podcast:
- Natalie's homepage
- Co-Ordination: On Time Between Worlds - An InterPlanetary Panel discussion on Complex Time
- Chris Kempes's Alien Crash Site Interview on life detection
- "Towards a more universal life detection strategy" as submitted to the Planetary and Astrobiology Decadal Survey
- Arrival
- Ted Chiang's "The Story of Your Life"
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.