SETI : astronomy as a contact sport : a conversation with Jill Tarter / Open Agenda Publishing.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • [Toronto, Ontario] : Open Agenda Publishing, [2013]
  • ©2013
Description
1 streaming video file (1 hr., 4 min.) : digital, sound, color + 1 PDF + 1 podcast.

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Available Online

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Publisher
Interviewee
Interviewer
Producer
Editor
Musician
Library of Congress genre(s)
Series
Ideas Roadshow
Summary note
Jill Tarter is a passionate astronomer who has long guided SETI's research program of searching for alien signals. Despite having heard nothing so far, Jill is unbowed, enthusiastically telling us how SETI uses modern technology to listen carefully to the heavens with increasingly greater efficiency.
Notes
Includes MP3 podcast of conversation.
Creation/​Production credits
Producer, Howard Burton ; editor, Andrew Niblo ; music, Shafton Thomas.
Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
Host, Howard Burton.
Language note
Closed captioned.
Contents
  • What is SETI?
  • SETI history
  • Galaxies, exoplanets and Raisin Bran commercials
  • Fermi's Paradox : why aren't they here?
  • An extraterrestrial agenda : the Drake equation
  • The benefits of scientific serendipity
  • Engaging the public and changing our perspective
  • Being special and religious adaptability
  • Outreach and interdisciplinarity.
Other title(s)
  • Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
  • Ideas Roadshow.
OCLC
892845619
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