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Mar 2006
45m 56s

Lecture 44: Life, the Universe, and Ever...

Richard Pogge
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How can we search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and what are we looking for? This second part of a 2-part lecture picks up where we left off yesterday by examining SETI, the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, and reviews what we might look for and how. We will use this as a point of departure to then briefly review where we have come and what ... Show More
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