When Will We Discover the Extraterrestrials?

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Speaker: Dr. Seth Shostak
The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now into its fifth decade, and we still haven't uncovered a confirmed peep from any cosmic company. Could this mean that finding aliens, even if they exist, is a project for the ages -- one that might take centuries or longer?

New technologies for use in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) suggest that, despite the continued dearth of signals from other societies, there is good reason to expect that success might not be far off -- that we might find evidence of sophisticated civilizations within a few decades.

Why this is so, what contact would tell us, and what such a discovery would mean, are the subject of this talk on the continuing efforts to establish our place in the universe of thinking beings.

This Space Exploration series talk was hosted by Boris Debic.

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  • HuMaNNaM#

    HuMaNNaM February 27, 2013 12:22:42 AM CET

    Now that was a waist of time - haha.

    The thing that bugged me is that Dr. Seth Shostak totaly keeps all hes parts "in the box" - boring!

  • RATRODROB#online

    RATRODROB February 22, 2013 8:42:48 AM CET

    i dont hav much faith in ceti either, why cant ETs already be here such as interdimentional entities that dont need nuts an bolts space craft , judging by all the orange lights these days (i dont mean lanterns) that arent at the mercy of the wind or gravity, maybe ETs are light energy that can appear anywhere they want, JUST SAYN

  • Thebuster893#

    Thebuster893 February 22, 2013 12:04:22 AM CET

    Seth Shostak only cares about his funding and nothing else. These seti cock heads are only after money and IF they found any evidence they would hide it. LOOK who supports these deceptive shit heads.

  • CodeChief#

    CodeChief February 21, 2013 8:34:47 PM CET

    Just the "truth" we are supposed to believe. The SETI project is just a PR investment to support debunking UFOs and wormhole travel. of course no alien would be stupid enough to try and "fly" between such great distances to visit. And then they probably wouldn't use radio either.