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From October 2023.

Hosted by Tony Darnell.

The search for life on other worlds is, to say the least, a daunting and overwhelming task. We’ve been searching for only about one human generation and have yet to find anything in our own solar system, let alone the vast expanse of our galaxy.

 

To increase our chances of finding life on other planets, a systematic approach needs to be adopted, one that applies reasonable assumptions that maximize our success.  So, an important question becomes, where should we point our telescopes?

 

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