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Oct 22, 2013

100YSS A Success

Posted by Benjamin T. Solomon in categories: education, events, fun, human trajectories, physics, scientific freedom, space

I am very pleased to say that the 2013 100YSS conference held in Houston, TX, was a success. I met a lot of like minded people — people who want to make interstellar travel a reality — though we differ in our opinions of when.

I was especially pleased to be able to visit with Mae Jemison, Jill Tarter and Pamela Contag. These three are amazing, shepherding us along. Shepherding us? Yes, are a loose collection of visionaries going every which way.

: Mae Jemison

: Jill Tarter

: Pamela Contag

Tags: 100YSS, Benjamin T Solomon, Jill Tarter, Mae Jemison, Pamela Contag

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Jul 20, 2012

Expect Confirmation of Extraterrestrial Life by 2047

Posted by Benjamin T. Solomon in categories: cosmology, policy, space

Recently Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute, wrote an article in the Huffington Post How to Find Extraterrestrial Life. He had proposed that the search for extraterrestrial life was a three-way horse race. According to Shostak:

(1) Discover Life Nearby: This is the search for life in our solar system.

(2) Sniff It Out: Do the sort of spectral analysis that might detect atmospheric gases caused by biology.

(3) Eavesdrop On ET: Otherwise known as SETI, is the effort to detect radio signals or laser flashes from technically savvy extraterrestrials.

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Tags: Chilean Andes, extraterrestrial life, Goldilocks Zone, Interstellar Travel, James Webb telescope, Jill Tarter, Porbability of Detecting Life, Seth Shostak, SETI Institute, Tau Bootis, Very Large Telescope

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