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Early History of SETI
Early History of SETI
Transcript: Speculation about the possibility and implications of life in the universe dates back a long time. Over two... Read more
28 Jul 2011
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Communicating in Space
Communicating in Space
Transcript: However unlikely a successful outcome a priori, SETI is based on the premise that science is an empirical en... Read more
28 Jul 2011
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Transcript: One of the standard conceits of science fiction is that humans, when they develop the capability for starshi... Read more
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Transcript: One of the arguments that we are not alone in the universe and that there are other intelligent civilization... Read more
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Transcript: The Fermi Paradox starts with the simple question, where are they? It’s based on the huge number of potenti... Read more
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Galactic Colonization
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Transcript: The idea of travel into space leads naturally to the concept of galactic civilizations. It’s been the histo... Read more
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Von Neumann Machine
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Transcript: Johnny von Neumann, the father of modern computing, was thinking about the Fermi Paradox, the prospect that ... Read more
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The Fermi Paradox
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Transcript: In the 1940s, Enrico Fermi, who was a Nobel Prize winning physicist and developer of the first working fissi... Read more
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Transcript: As an analogy for the Drake equation where independent probabilities combine to reduce an initially large nu... Read more
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