Vera Rubin Telescope Will Revolutionize Astronomy. Here's Why
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Published 2023-06-29
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00:00 Intro
01:56 How to search for ETs
10:20 What should we be looking for
19:31 Being a SETI researcher
24:02 Technosignatures are biosignatures
29:57 Rise of UFO talk
35:00 Vera Rubin Observatory
39:06 How Vera Rubin Telescope will change astronomy
44:05 Technical details
50:13 Vera Rubin and SETI
52:34 What else should we do with it
56:56 Next milestones
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All Comments (21)
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Man, what an incredible time we live in. JWST, Vira Rubin, and eventually LISA, and many more. It's a wild time to be alive :)
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Your channel is so refreshing because of your attention to accuracy. Also your resilience to people with loaded questions is awesome to watch. Thank you sir.
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Loving these interviews!! This is some of the best astronomy content anywhere. Any chance of doing a “great observatories” series? Interviews with Rubin, GMT, ELT scientists?
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My god this might be my favorite interview of all time!!!!
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Thank you so much for this update on the Vera Rubin Observatory. I had the privilege of visiting The University of Arizona Mirror Lab in 2009 when the 8.4 meter glass for this telescope (which contains both the primary and tertiary mirrors in a single casting) was being prepared for grinding and polishing. It had been removed from the furnace, the foam cores (that created the reverse side honeycomb) removed and the mounting brackets for the polishing machine bonded to the underside. I have pictures of both the mirror laying horizontal in its frame and the underside. Can't wait for First Light and your podcast with the first data stream!
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Dr. Davenport is really great.
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Thank you, Fraser, so much for curating this guest and this topic, we talked about VRO recently, and can't wait for it to go online!
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THIS is the most amazing conversation I have heard about future possibilities in a long time. Thanks Guys! :)
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This is the show I have been waiting for! I am so excited for the Vera Rubin. Thanks for the great coverage
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Another great interview. Always makes me smile when Fraizer makes his getting his brain around a concept face.
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How have I not even heard of the Vera Rubin telescope? This thing sounds AMAZING
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Amazing stuff gentlemen. Thank you.
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Inspiring! Lots of great content and enthusiasm. It has me juiced for the LSST era. Still my fave scientific observation was from Dr Davenport regarding us putting objects into space - "Space is super-duper hard"
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Wow! This is so exciting! Great interview as always. And I love how the thumbnail makes it look like some futuristic science vessel. Haha
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Love the idea of a live stream during the first hour of light... watching the NSF stream when dart impacted live with the project head was soooo cool. Seeing the reactions on everyone's face as the images came down was priceless.
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Proper interview, thanks james and fraser
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Thank you again Mr. Cain for an awesome interview. I for one enjoy your content, and your various subjects and topics. Loyal fan.
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Excellent interview, I was already excited about Vera Rubin before, even more so now.
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This man's enthusiasm is infectious!!!
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Another great broadcast from the direction of the GCA ! I shall research Vera Rubin further !
