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ET, are you there?
UFO sightings, moon walks, Mars roving, perhaps even alien-inspired
prehistoric art, fascinate, inspire and fuel our sense of
wonder about the possibilities of intelligent civilation on
other worlds. Jill Tarter, research director of the Search
for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) was the
Konopinski Memorial Lecturer in Physics this month at IU Bloomington.
Listen to her conversation with colleague Caty Pilachowski,
the inaugural Kirkwood Chair of atronomy at IU.
Listen to the entire
conversation or listen by topic:
• Open
How did you get into astronomy?
How did your interest in SETI develop?
• How
does one devise a strategy to find other intelligences in
the galaxy?• Contributions
of astrobiology
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"If you want to send information across interstellar distances,
there are definite limits to the lowest and highest frequencies."
• Detecting
a beacon or observable signal
• If
there is another civilization out there broadcasting, will
we find it in the next few decades?
•What
happens next after a signal from another civilization is
found
•Extraordinary
discovery's impact on the culture of the world
•Funding
of SETI
"There is a small chance that we could all be Martians."
Women in the sciences
•What
happens next after a signal from another civilization is
found
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