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Nov 2007
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Lecture 46: Are We Alone? Life in the Un...

Richard Pogge
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Are we alone in the Universe? This lecture explores the question of how we might go about finding life on planets around other stars. Rather than talking about speculative ideas, like the Drake Equation or SETI, I am instead taking the approach of posing it as a problem of what to look for among the exoplanets we have been discovering in huge numbers in th ... Show More
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