"Let's Tattoo Mars!" The Unhinged History of Cosmic Chat: From Martian Lasers to the Dark Forest Theory - Short-isode

Are we alone? In this short-isode, Elton traces the bizarre, hilarious, and occasionally unhinged history of humanity's quest for alien communication . From Frank Drake’s Equation in 1961, a mathematical roadmap for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) , to the times before radio, when our ideas were pure fantasy: he dives into the wild ideas and scams. Like, the 19th-century scheme…