Contact

Chris Mason: Space Travel, Colonization, and Long-Term Survival in Space | Lex Fridman Podcast #283

Lex Fridman

Film based on Carl Sagan's novel, depicting attempts to communicate with aliens using mathematical sequences.

Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, The Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #232

Lex Fridman

A science fiction film, mentioned as an example of a narrative where characters travel through a wormhole.

Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize | Lex Fridman Podcast #257

Lex Fridman

A science fiction film that repurposed footage from Bill Clinton's press conference about Martian microbial life.

The Books Cal Newport Read in April 2022 | Deep Questions Podcast

Cal Newport

A science fiction novel by Carl Sagan exploring humanity's first contact with an alien civilization, focusing on the scientific and societal implications.

Ep. 194: Doing Less, Building Discipline, and the Books Cal Newport Read in April | Deep Questions

Cal Newport

A science fiction novel by Carl Sagan exploring first contact with an alien civilization.

Growth with Alex Schultz (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 6)

Y Combinator

Mentioned alongside MySpace as a platform that used registered user numbers, contrasting with Facebook's monthly active user metric.

Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets | Lex Fridman Podcast #195

Lex Fridman

A book by Carl Sagan that greatly influenced Clara Sousa-Silva as a child, shaping her scientific aspirations and perspective on the search for life.

Manolis Kellis: Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything | Lex Fridman Podcast #142

Lex Fridman

A movie (and book) about humanity's first contact with alien intelligence, featuring travel as light and sending instructions to create machines.

Windy City Physics Slam 2016

Fermilab

A science fiction novel by Carl Sagan, which inspired one of the presenters to pursue science.

Matthew McConaughey: Freedom, Truth, Family, Hardship, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast #384

Lex Fridman

Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333

Lex Fridman

A film by Carl Sagan where a message from an alien civilization is found encoded in the digits of Pi.