{"id":236416,"date":"2026-05-03T11:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/carl-sagan-perhaps-the-aliens-are-already-here"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:06:59","slug":"carl-sagan-perhaps-the-aliens-are-already-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/carl-sagan-perhaps-the-aliens-are-already-here","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sagan: Perhaps the aliens are already here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDJ9dvpAIDY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: \u2022 David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Hab\u2026<br \/> Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:<br \/> SimpliSafe: <a href=\"https:\/\/simplisafe.com\/lex\">https:\/\/simplisafe.com\/lex<\/a><br \/> Shopify: <a href=\"https:\/\/shopify.com\/lex\">https:\/\/shopify.com\/lex<\/a> to get free trial<br \/> ExpressVPN: <a href=\"https:\/\/expressvpn.com\/lexpod\">https:\/\/expressvpn.com\/lexpod<\/a> to get 3 months free.<\/p>\n<p>GUEST BIO:<br \/> David Kipping is an astronomer at Columbia University, director of the Cool Worlds Lab, and host of the Cool Worlds YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>PODCAST INFO:<br \/> Podcast website: <a href=\"https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/podcast\">https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/podcast<\/a><br \/> Apple Podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/2lwqZIr\">https:\/\/apple.co\/2lwqZIr<\/a><br \/> Spotify: <a href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2nEwCF8\">https:\/\/spoti.fi\/2nEwCF8<\/a><br \/> RSS: <a href=\"https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/feed\/podcast\/\">https:\/\/lexfridman.com\/feed\/podcast\/<\/a><br \/> Full episodes playlist: \u2022 Lex Fridman Podcast<br \/> Clips playlist: \u2022 Lex Fridman Podcast Clips.<\/p>\n<p>SOCIAL:<br \/> Twitter: \/ lexfridman<br \/> LinkedIn: \/ lexfridman<br \/> Facebook: \/ lexfridman<br \/> Instagram: \/ lexfridman<br \/> Medium: \/ lexfridman<br \/> Reddit: \/ lexfridman<br \/> Support on Patreon: \/ lexfridman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: \u2022 David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Hab\u2026 Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: SimpliSafe: https:\/\/simplisafe.com\/lex Shopify: https:\/\/shopify.com\/lex to get free trial ExpressVPN: https:\/\/expressvpn.com\/lexpod to get 3 months free. GUEST BIO: David Kipping is an astronomer at Columbia University, director of the Cool Worlds Lab, and host of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}