Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man - 1975

A symposium from renowned experts, including Carl Sagan, on extraterrestrial life. More footage on space, and nearly every other subject, is available in the moving picture holdings of the National Archives. Just a sampling of our holdings is on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/usnationalarchives

Transcript (PDF): http://archives.gov/social-media/transcripts/transcript-life-beyond-earth-min...

CREATED BY
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (10/01/1958 - )

SUMMARY
This film is an edited version of a symposium held at Boston University on November 20, 1972 that explores the implications of the possible existence of extraterrestrial life within the galaxy and the universe. The panel members were Dr. Richard Berendzen, astronomy professor and historian of science at Boston University; Dr. Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, social biologist and author at Rutgers University; Dr. Philip Morrison, physicist educator and philosopher of science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Dr. Carl Sagan, astronomer and exobiologist at Cornell University; Dr. Krister Stendahl, clergyman and theologian at Harvard University; and Dr. George Wald, biologist at Harvard University.


REPOSITORY:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.

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SUBJECTS
Congresses and conventions
Life on other planets
Drew Associates, Producer

MORE INFORMATION:
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Category:

Education

Tags:

• NARA
• extra terrestrial life
• extraterrestrial
• ET
• life
• intelligent aliens
• life beyond earth
• outer space
• ufo
• astronomy
• harvard
• rutgers
• nasa
• national air and space
• aeronautic

[aoxomoxoadead]

Wasn't this on the X-Files?

[Tsimosh]

@woaibailong I see em trollin..?

[TheCapBerry]

Carl Sagan shows up

[intoxsik]

@woaibailong You make me laugh, but at the same time you make me sad (if you're serious). Just step back and think about what you said for a couple moments. Is that really who you are?

[Shipgate]

@woaibailong

LOL

You a genius!

I laughed so hard at this. I think you're serious too.

[VoronweMagor]

All these comments signify the problems in education. Even if someone is not astrophysicist or biologist, should understand that this is about science and not some kind of conspiracy! Wake up dreamers!

[wormspeaker]

@woaibailong The coincidence? It's because their parents encouraged them to studying something useful, like science, instead of something like the bible that is only useful for giving you ammunition to attack other people's lifestyles.

[jatspageage]

racist.



[GhostTracker]

In my opinion this conference had NOTHING to do with "finding intelligent life in other star systems."

It was all about whooping up interest in sending space probes to other planets in our solar system

so that they could study them astronomically.

[GhostTracker]

I don't mean to belittle this conference or some of the wonderful things which were said, but pay attention to what was *really* said - especially by Carl Sagan. He initially made a case for detecting "little green men" from other stars by detecting radio signals. He then made a case that BEFORE that happens, the first logical step would be to send probes to the other planets - such as Mars and Venus - an extremely expensive program which had been cancelled at that time due to the bad economy