Public Debate: “Are We Alone?” Watch the Video SETI@home Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer participated in an exciting public debate with planet-hunter and skeptic Geoff Marcy on April 30, 2010 on campus of the University of California at Berkeley. The topic: “Are We Alone?” covered the range of issues related to the search for extraterrestrial life. [...]
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People’s Astronomy
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · boinc
In E&T’s second International Year of Astronomy feature, we discover that destinations for future space missions may be decided not by agencies like NASA, but by groups of ordinary people engaged in citizen computing. Question: what kind of person does it require to detect gravity waves in the universe, or calculate the 46th prime number? [...]
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