Episode description

Stephen Euin Cobb (your host) is today's featured guest.

This episode celebrates humanity's imminent achievement of discovering our 500th planet outside our solar system (exoplanet or extrasolar planet). Your host shares three essays he has written on the topic: two of which are strictly scientific and one that is pragmatic speculation.

Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the November 3, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 31 minutes]

Stephen Euin Cobb is (according to Wikipedia) a U.S. author, magazine writer, interviewer and host of the award-winning podcast The Future and You. He's also a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine; a contributing editor for Robot Magazine; and has written for Space and Time Magazine, H+ Magazine, and Grim Couture Magazine. He is also a game designer, artist, essayist, futurist, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation.