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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.
Availability
Available Online
Ideas roadshow
Details
Subject(s)
Interstellar communication
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Extraterrestrial beings
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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.)
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Publisher
Open Agenda Publishing
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Interviewee
Tarter, Jill C.
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Interviewer
Burton, Howard, 1965-
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Producer
Burton, Howard, 1965-
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Editor
Niblo, Andrew
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Musician
Thomas, Shafton
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Internet videos
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Interviews (Sound recordings)
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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.
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Other title(s)
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Ideas Roadshow.
OCLC
892845619
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