Searching for Life Among the Stars

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Are We Alone?
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Are They Alone?
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Birth of Radio Astronomy

• Karl Jansky
• Bell Labs, 1932
• Bruce Array
• Cosmic Static

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Amateur Science

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

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So Whats A SETI?
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Searching for Inter-Stellar Communication
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Project Ozma

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

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The Drake Equation
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Big Ear
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Mom?
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Wow!
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Could It Be a Hoax?
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The Microwave Window
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Extra-Solar Planets?
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Habitable Zones

• Stable Orbits
• Rocky Shores
• Nitrogen Skies
• Liquid Water

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Life in the Universe

• Planets Abundant
• Liquid Water
• Organic Molecules
• Microbial Life

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Complex Life?
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Intelligent Life?
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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

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The SETI League, Inc
A New Kind of Ham Club

• Global
• Grass-roots
• Nonprofit

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Do It Yourself SETI
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Project Argus

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

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Going Global
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Array2k
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Arecibo Tests
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Extra-Terrestrial QSL
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ETCC
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Honor Roll
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Symposia
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How To Join Us
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TAU-SETI
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