"the following is a conversation with sarah seeger a planetary scientist at mit known for her work on the search for exoplanets which are planets outside of her solar system she's an author of two book..."

"as a quick side note let me say that extraterrestrial life aliens i think represent our civilization longing to make contact with the unknown with others like us or maybe others that are very differen..."

"sustainable healthy household products their products have a minimalist black and white design that i find to be just clean elegant and beautiful it's a style that makes me feel like i'm living in the..."

"when did you first fall in love with the stars i think i've always loved the stars one of my first memory is of the moon i remember watching the moon and i was in the car with my dad who my parents we..."

"you're a scientist an exo world class scientist planetary scientist astronomer uh now i'm a bit of an idiot who likes to ask silly questions so some questions are a little bit in the realm of speculat..."

"talk about that is people know about the drake equation which is a very high level almost framework to think about what is the probability that correct me if i'm wrong that there's life out there uh a..."

"do you detect that type of gases that are on the planet from a distance and that's going back to that that's what people were skeptical about when i first started working on exoplanets long time ago p..."

"we mentioned exoplanets what about earth like or i don't know what the right distinction is if is it habitable or is it earth-like planets but what are those different categories and how can we tell t..."

"land of speculation uh what about intelligent life uh us humans consider ourselves intelligent surprisingly or unsurprisingly do you think about from your perspective of looking at planets from a gas ..."

"maybe getting a sense of numbers how many stars are there in maybe i don't know what the radius that's reasonable to think about i don't know if the observable universe is like way too big to think ab..."

"exploration there's been a lot of exciting developments with nasa with spacex with other companies successfully uh getting rockets into space with humans and getting them to land back uh especially wi..."

"about visiting okay i apologize but i mean there's an exciting longing to um visit earth-like planets elsewhere so what's the closest uh earth-like planet you think is worth visiting and how how hard ..."

"well first of all we want to find the planets like earth first like just even finding those earth-like planets is a billion dollar endeavor billions of dollars endeavor and that's so hard because an e..."

"other topics that aren't mine but i still love them one of them let's just talk about it briefly because it's not a probe but it's the idea to send a telescope very far away to 500 times the earth sun..."

"what about the second the second one it's called starshot you know starshot means like big dreams and it's an initiative by the breakthrough foundation and starshot is the concept to send thousands of..."

"your new book discussing rogue planet pso j318 i never said this out loud 0.522 so a rogue planet which is just this poetic beautiful vision of a planet that that as you right lurches across the galax..."

"so the book is uh as a memoir is about your life and it uh weaves both your fascination with planets outside the solar system and the path of your life and you lost your husband which is a kind of cen..."

"let me ask uh by way of recommendations i think a lot of people are curious about this kind of stuff what three books technical or fiction or philosophical or anything really uh had an impact on your ..."

"it's tough advice in a way but it is to find something that you love doing that you're also very good at in some ways the stars have to align because you've got to find that thing you're good at or th..."

"life i didn't know that you could be that for a job yeah i was good at all those things and although my dad wanted me to do something more practical where he could be guaranteed i could support myself..."

"so like i said uh the book is excellent i admired you work from afar for a while i'm i think you're one of the the great stars at mit and makes me proud to be part of the community so thank you so muc..."