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(The recording was edited from material only recently received, with simplified editing retained. Apologies for the late publication.) We have been discovering planets in other stars for more than two decades, and especially in recent years the stream of discoveries has turned into a veritable flood. The imagined exoplanetary jungle is beginning to take on more realistic contours - and in many ways it has surpassed even the most daring visions, whether it is the number or the nature of the catches. Can we find habitable planets among them? How would we recognize them? And what do we actually mean by a habitable planet? Let's go together into the wilderness of alien suns, bizarre worlds, detection errors and journalistic ducks! Tomáš Petrásek was born in 1984 in Prague, studied biology at the Faculty of Science of the Charles University, currently works at the Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the National Institute of Mental Health, where he deals with brain and behavior research. In his free time, he is dedicated to popularizing astronomy and astrobiology. He is the author of the popular science series Distant Worlds (together with Igor Duszko), dealing with the issue of exobiology, and the website of the same name. He entered the field of science fiction with the novella Posledni hlídka (in the anthology Newt 2007, published independently in 2012) and the short stories Tvůrci (Kočas 2009) and The Benson Effect (in the anthology Terra Nullius, 2015). Support for the Fridays project: https://www.startovac.cz/patron/vasi-... More information: www.patecnici.net www.facebook.com/patecnici.cyklus