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Searching for Life Among the Stars

Searching for Life Among the Stars. H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D. Executive Director The SETI League, Inc. Are We Alone?. Are They Alone?. Birth of Radio Astronomy. Karl Jansky Bell Labs, 1932 Bruce Array Cosmic Static. Amateur Science. Grote Reber, W9GFZ 10 meter dish, 1937

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Searching for Life Among the Stars

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  1. Searching for Life Among the Stars H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D. Executive Director The SETI League, Inc.

  2. Are We Alone?

  3. Are They Alone?

  4. Birth of Radio Astronomy • Karl Jansky • Bell Labs, 1932 • Bruce Array • Cosmic Static

  5. Amateur Science • Grote Reber, W9GFZ • 10 meter dish, 1937 • first true radio telescope • first Milky Way map

  6. So What’s A SETI?

  7. Searching for Inter-Stellar Communication

  8. Project Ozma • Frank D. Drake • Green Bank WV, 1960 • Two Sun-like Stars • Order of the Dolphin

  9. The Drake Equation

  10. Big Ear

  11. Mom?

  12. Wow!

  13. Could It Be a Hoax?

  14. The Microwave Window

  15. Extra-Solar Planets?

  16. Habitable Zones • Stable Orbits • Rocky Shores • Nitrogen Skies • Liquid Water

  17. Life in the Universe • Planets Abundant • Liquid Water • Organic Molecules • Microbial Life

  18. Complex Life?

  19. Intelligent Life?

  20. What Does It Take? • Once, facilities only • governments could afford • In fact, the kinds not even • governments can afford • New paradigm: SETI with • what you can afford

  21. The SETI League, Inc. • Global • Grass-roots • Nonprofit

  22. Do It Yourself SETI

  23. Project Argus • Launched 21 April 1996 • Initially, 5 radio telescopes • Our Goals: • 5000 small dishes • Coordinated via • the Internet • All directions at once

  24. Going Global

  25. Array2k

  26. Heard So Far

  27. GPS Interference

  28. L2 Too!

  29. ATC Radar Interference

  30. Moonbounce

  31. Iridium Satellites

  32. SuperNova Remnants

  33. Mars Global Surveyor

  34. SETI@home

  35. ‘Wigglers’

  36. How To Join Us www.setileague.org join@setileague.org 1 (800) TAU-SETI

  37. There are so many successful musicians with no talent . . . Why can’t I be one of them?

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