Please find below a selection of media mentions, interviews and reviews about my work. For media inquiries, you can contact me here. 

Haqq-Misra, Jacob, Clément Vidal, and George Profitiliotis. 2025. “Projections of Earth’s Technosphere: Luminosity and Mass as Limits to Growth.” Acta Astronautica 229 (April): 831–38. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.01.048. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576525000505.

Vidal, C. 2024. “The Spider Stellar Engine: A Fully Steerable Extraterrestrial Design?” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 77 (5): 156–66. doi:10.59332/jbis-077-05-0156. https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05038.

Interview with Fraser Cain about stellivores, the spider stellar engine, the noosphere and other big questions!

D’autres vies sont possibles

Par Emilie Rauscher, Science & Vie, 121, Mars 2019

Et si les extraterrestres avaient un GPS galactique ?

Par Clément Vidal
Le Figaro Sciences, Novembre 2018

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Based on our current scientific understanding of the universe as we know it, it is about 13.8 billion years old, give or take a couple of million. Over those 13 or so billion years, all kinds of fascinating, mesmerising, beautiful and terrifying phenomena have emerged.

Discussion with Alexandre Wajnberg, in French.

Ready for Aliens? Humanity between jubilation and shock.

Biologists, anthropologists and space scientists discuss the impact of discovering extraterrestrial life. Author: Yvonne Maier (in German).

In the science documentary Through the Wormhole, season 6, episode 4: Do we live in the Matrix? , I explain why computer simulations may be key to save the universe in the far future.

Jean-Michel Abrassart interviews me about the impact of discovering extraterrestrial life (in French). Listen to the interview. 

McHenry, Leemon B. “The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective.” Choice 52, no. 06 (February 1, 2015): 52–3036. doi:10.5860/CHOICE.186550.

Stone, Maddie. 2015. The Search for Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun. Motherboard. January 6.

Gilster, Paul. 2014. The Zen of SETI, Centauri Dreams, 27/10/2014
----------- 2014. Examining SETI Assumptions, Centauri Dreams, 28/10/2014
----------- 2014. A Test Case for Astroengineering, Centauri Dreams, 30/10/2014

Delahaye, Jean-Paul. 2014. “Cosmos: l’art de spéculer sérieusement.” Pour la Science, n°444, Octobre.

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Alexandre, L., Nous dans 100 milliards d'années, Le Monde, Cahier Science&Médecine, n°21590, 18/06/2014. Translation as "The Ultimate Metaphysical Debate: Should We Try To Save The Universe?", Worldcrunch, 02/07/2014.

Messerly, J. A Detailed Overview of Clément Vidal's "The Beginning and the End", Humanity+ Magazine, 14/05/2014

 

Book trailer: The Beginning and the End by Clément Vidal

PhD defense presentation, May 27th 2013.