[Los Angeles, CA] Seth Shostak: “When Will We Find ET?”
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Presented by CFI Los Angeles.
The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is about to enter its sixth decade, and there hasn't been a confirmed peep from the cosmos. We still don't even know id life at any level of intelligence exists beyond Earth. Could this mean that finding aliens, even if they're out there, is a project for the ages - one that may take centuries or longer?
SETI astronomer Seth Shostak will peer into the future as exciting new technologies for use in the search for ET suggest that, despite the continued lack of contact, there is good reason to expect that success might not be far off - that within a few decades we might find evidence of sophisticated civilizations. Why this is so, what contact and what such a discovery would mean are the subject of his talk on the role of humans in the universe.
Shostak, the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, has an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University and a doctorate in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. Shostak has conducted radio astronomy research on galaxies and published about 60 papers in professional journals; written hundreds of popular magazine and Web articles on various topics in astronomy, technology, film and television; lectured on astronomy and other subjects at Stanford and other venues in the Bay Area; edited and contributed to a half dozen books and wrote the Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence for National Geographic; and been a Distinguished Speaker for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for the past six years. Every week he hosts the SETI Institute's science radio show, "Are We Alone?"
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