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Seth Shostak - Author of Confessions of an Alien Hunter - CANCELLED

Presented by Commonwealth Club at Menlo Park City Council Chambers

March 11, 2010

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Seth Shostak - Author of Confessions of an Alien Hunter - CANCELLED

Please note: This event has been CANCELLED. Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute and Author of Confessions of an Alien Hunter, Shostak has been at the center of the sometimes admired, sometimes dismissed effort to pick up extraterrestrial radio communication. Shostak will explain the challenges of trying to detect alien communications using ever more sophisticated methods and explaining why the almost 50-year effort has so far yielded...

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Please note: This event has been CANCELLED.

Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute and Author of Confessions of an Alien Hunter, Shostak has been at the center of the sometimes admired, sometimes dismissed effort to pick up extraterrestrial radio communication. Shostak will explain the challenges of trying to detect alien communications using ever more sophisticated methods and explaining why the almost 50-year effort has so far yielded nothing. He will also discuss practical questions: Would alien societies communicate via radio or something more advanced? If they were more advanced, how could we understand what they were saying? Would it be safe and proper to reply, and who would decide what to say back? Might aliens have evolved into something akin to computerized machines?

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Menlo Park City Council Chambers

701 Laurel Street
Menlo Park, CA 94025

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Tickets:
$9-$15

Times:
7pm

Phone: 800-847-7730

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