Search for Habitable Exoplanets - Sara Seager (SETI Talks)

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For centuries people have wondered, "Are we alone?" With hundreds of planets now known to orbit other stars, we are finally able to begin answering the ancient questions, "Do other Earths exist? Are they common? Do any have signs of life? NASA's Kepler space telescope will soon tell us the statistical numbers of Earth-size planets orbiting sun-size stars. Beyond Kepler is the search for potentially habitable worlds around nearby, sun-like stars. Professor Seager will discuss how astrobiology and space engineering research will come together to enable us to discover and identify other Earth-like worlds.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Exoplanets
• Kepler
• Space Science
• Carl Sagan
• SETI Institute
• SETI
• Astrobiology
• SETI Talks

[sbergman27]

Thanks, Adrian, for taking the time to post this over the holiday. Those of us who don't really do holidays appreciate a bit of quality programming when all the stores are closed and the sidewalks are rolled up.

[setiinstitute]

@sbergman27 Thanks Steve, glad you enjoyed it!

[szpetnyjan]

12:45 - fifty 15-meter or fifty 50-meter? I can't make it out

[setiinstitute]

@szpetnyjan 50 spaceborne one meter telescopes using interferometry.

[mirzadaniel]

sara me encantaría ser tu esposo

[theideagirlsays]

#NASA #SETI #wow Excellent correlations in average peak velocity (r =0.99, P <.001) UFO ENGINE VELocity equation? found in Line 17t4b video i'm uploading it by monday jan 29 2012.

[1973brianmoran]

here is another woman who has NO IDEA HOW STUPID  i am

[Warren111able]

its the chick from 'Alien Earths' but without the hair-do and slap.

[theideagirlsays]

im currently decoding the 1977 wow signal it's based on ancient mathematics from what i've found so far doing my research on google.. i got a lot of scientific data that comes up from the mayas message that was received.. i've sent you the two videos as a response to see what you think.. please send my message through the satellite and begin it with 5.8783279E6 i'll be posting a video on the coordinates of the planet that i think is there in pegasus close to saggitarius where your signal came.

[IGCentertainmentca]

im making a video message for you but don't know how to transmit it in your satellite.. i'm on the idea girl says youtube channel where i've been decoding a message from the mayas.. i've pinpointed a thing that could be a space ship or planet out in the same area as your signal but in the pegasus region i don't know what i'm looking at.. i've marked it in google sky but i'll video tape it for you to look at i want you to send a signal to this area for me if you can to see if anything happens.

[skal203]

I think it was a very interesting talk, thank you! 40 years means it's somewhat in reach. It would only be feasible I think if you could comatose or cryostatis the passengers for they would go nuts. It's interesting to think that there could be a company out there pioneering this type of statis technology. Even if we doubled that speed it would be 20 years. Imagine then, after 20 years we'd have to wait another 4 years to find out what they see, and another 4 years for them to hear our reaction.