Exploring First Contact: Weir, Wall, and Loeb on Life Beyond Earth

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Stephen Humphries hosts a Monitor podcast special with Andy Weir, Michael Wall, and Avi Loeb that explores Project Hail Mary, alien life, and first contact, arguing that science and empathy could turn any encounter into a hopeful friendship (as with Rocky) and that life beyond Earth—perhaps on Enceladus or Europa—could reshape humanity’s sense of kinship in the cosmos.

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Movies about aliens have fascinated audiences for decades. But two new movies about alien life – “Project Hail Mary” and “Disclosure Day” – led Monitor culture writer Stephen Humphries to wonder, What does our fascination with aliens tell us about our views of humanity? In this writer’s-notebook variation on our “Why We Wrote This” podcast, Stephen shares excerpts of his conversations with three of the experts in his recent story.