Why Can't We See Evidence of Alien Life?
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Stand by for an animated exploration of the famous Fermi Paradox. Given the vast number of planets in the universe, many much older than Earth, why haven't we yet seen obvious signs of alien life? The potential answers to this question are numerous and intriguing, alarming and hopeful. (Part of the series "Questions no one knows the answers to"... Read more
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- -: Why Can't We See Evidence of Alien Life?
March 12, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Stand by for an animated exploration of the famous Fermi Paradox. Given the vast number of planets in the universe, many much older than Earth, why haven't we yet seen obvious signs of alien life? The potential answers to this question are numerous and intriguing, alarming and hopeful. (Part of ...
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- -: The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away
March 12, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Google Tech Talk February 14, 2012 Presented by Ron Garret. ABSTRACT The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away The Remote Agent Experiment (RAX) was an autonomous control system for an unmanned interplanetary spacecraft called New Millennium Deep Space 1 (DS1). I...
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- -: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Bringing Commercial Space Fantasies Back to Earth
March 21, 2012 (about 12 years ago)http://bigthink.com/ There is a lot of talk lately about what role the privatization of space might play in our future ambitions of space exploration, and Neil deGrasse Tyson tells Big Think "from where I sit there is a lot of delusional thinking there." Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler ...
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- -: Bill Nye: How to Talk to an Alien
March 2, 2012 (about 12 years ago)~~~~~~~~~~~ http://bigthink.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~ What would you say to an alien? Big Think turned to Bill Nye, aka, 'The Science Guy,' who heads The Planetary Society, an organization that fosters ways for the public to be actively involved in space exploration, including the search for extraterr...
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- -: TEDxPhoenix - Lucianne Walkowicz - Look Up for a Change
February 12, 2012 (about 12 years ago)- About Lucianne Walkowicz - Lucianne Walkowicz, a 2011 TEDGlobal Fellow, studies the inscrutable faces of the stars for clues to the inner workings of their hearts. She got her taste for astronomy as an undergrad at Johns Hopkins, testing detectors for the Hubble Space Telescope's new camera (i...
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- -: Oral Histories: Gene Kranz Part 2
February 12, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Roy Neal, a longtime NBC News reporter who covered the American manned space program, interviews NASA flight and missions operations director Gene Kranz. Kranz worked on NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space missions and was acting flight director when the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the Moo...
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- -: TEDxRaleigh 2011 - Tony Rice - What The Planets Can Tell Us
January 14, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Space enthusiast and lecturer Tony Rice navigates the galaxy answering fundamental questions and revealing new ones.
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- -: TEDxVilnius - Vidmantas Tomkus - Living in the Space: True Reality
January 12, 2012 (over 12 years ago)http://www.tedxvilnius.lt/en In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. Th...
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- -: Interstellar Travel: Will We Ever Get Out of the Solar System?
January 12, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/02/Martin_Rees_Lifes_Future_in_the_Cosmos Astronomer Royal Martin Rees examines the various options for colonizing worlds beyond our own solar system, and expresses skepticism that humanity will ever achieve faster-than-light travel. "There are hypotheti...
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- -: TEDxUniversityofGothenburg - Maria Sundin - Water - a necessity for life on Earth and other Planets
January 10, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Why is there water on earth? Life is highly connected to liquid water so the question arises, are there other worlds like ours? Maria Sundin is an associate professor in theoretical physics at the University of Gothenburg. Her main research interests are computer simulations of barred and intera...
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