“Inventor and programmer” Robert Walker at Science 2.0 discusses the vast resources of our solar system: Asteroid Resources Could Create Space Habs For Trillions; Land Area Of A Thousand Earths.
This leads him in turn to talk about the Fermi Paradox and possible solutions to it: With Humans Already Close To Space Colonization – Why Haven’t Millions Of Years Old ETs Colonised Our Solar System Already?
I liked this video he used:
The video below is of a SETI Institute Google Hangout devoted to a discussion of
the potential for the WISE telescope to detect extraterrestrial super-civilizations that acquired a large energy supply by building a mega-structure to harvest the energy of their star (“Dyson sphere“) or their entire galaxy.
The participants include
SETI Institute researchers Jill Tarter and Franck Marchis (host & moderator) will hangout with Jason Wright, professor of astronomy at Penn State, Matt Povich, professor of astronomy at Cal Poly Pomona and Freeman Dyson, theoretical physicist and mathematician at the Institute for Advance Study.
– Searching for Kardashev Type II and III Civilizations with WISE – SETI Institute
Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute, and the role model for Jodie Foster’s character in the movie Contact, talks in this video about “her experiences, and the need to support the future of scientific research”.
Famous exoplanet hunter Geoff Marcy is looking for signs of exo-civilizations: Astronomer uses Kepler telescope’s data in hunt for spacecraft from other worlds – The Washington Post.
The UK SETI Research Network has been formed to help coordinate and support UK researchers carrying out searches for extraterrestrial intelligence. They are currently seeking UK government funding: UK proposes piggy-backing to search for alien signals – New Scientist – 09 July 2013.
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LA Times blogger Carla Hall remembers her time in a SETI effort: Looking for life in outer space — always a worthy goal – Blog/latimes.com
