Tag: extraterrestrial life
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‘Life. Extraterrestrial, Artificial and Synthetic’ book available online in Swedish
This book is the result of an interdisciplinary project at the Pufendorf Institute, Lund University. Twelve researchers from the same number of disciplines have been included in the project. The purpose has been to highlight the challenges that come with extraterrestrial, artificial and synthetic life. The interdisciplinary approach has given us the opportunity to highlight…
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Grand Challenges Seminar, Oxford University
Oxford Talks, part of: Grand Challenges Seminar Series University of Oxford, T. S. Eliot Lecture Theater Are We Alone? Discourse on extraterrestrial research 26 January 2016, 17:00 ‘Are We Alone?’ is a public seminar on the existence of extraterrestrial life, and the implications for our society. Questions posed during ‘Are We Alone?’ will include: is…
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BBC Radio Wales Science Cafe – Searching for Alien Life
BBC Radio Wales Science Cafe programme: Searching for alien life – Adam Walton explores what message the world should be sending out to alien worlds. And Klara Anna Capova gives her thoughts on the problems of trying to communicate with alien life. Full BBC Description: Adam Walton explores the search for extra-terrestrial life following the recent launch of Breakthrough…
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BBC Three Counties Radio – About Life on Other Planets
Yesterday, on Monday July 20 the News Agency (amongst many others) reported that Stephen Hawking has teamed up with a Russian billionaire to launch a new quest to discover life on other planets. The British scientist has given his backing to Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Initiatives project, which will provide $US100 million over the next decade…
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Frontiers of Life: Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Prospections
I am very much looking forward to giving a talk at Frontiers of Life Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Prospections workshop in London tomorrow! Confirmed speakers: Gisli Pálsson (University of Iceland), Sophie Houdart (Université Paris X Nanterre), Jane Calvert (University of Edinburgh), David Dunér (Lund University), Klara Anna Capova (Durham University), Perig Pitrou (Laboratoire d’Anthroplogie Sociale/ Collège…
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BBC 2 Portillo’s State Secrets
Dr. Klara Anna Capova, social anthropologist working in science & technology studies, anthropology of outerspace, and the founder of Space Cultures, will be talking about social dimension of space exploration and search for life beyond earth tonight at 6:30 pm, BBC Two, in Portillo’s State Secrets. According to the official BBC Two Portillo’s State Secrets…
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Klara on BBC World News
On Friday the 13th at 9:30am I received an email from BBC World News TV, the international rolling news channel in London, asking me to come into the studio at about 12 to talk about SETI’s initiative to send messages to any extraterrestrials who may exist in the universe. The photo below illustrates what has happened:
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Universe Today Reports on the Communicating Across the Cosmos Workshop
Since it was founded in 1984, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, has been a principal American venue for scientific efforts to discover evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations. In mid November, the institute sponsored a conference, “Communicating across the Cosmos”, on the problems of devising and understanding messages from other worlds. The conference drew 17 speakers from numerous disciplines, including linguistics,…
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SETI Workshop: How Can We Make Ourselves Understood by Other Civilizations in the Galaxy?
SETI Institute webpages devoted to the workshop Communicating Across the Cosmos is now up and running. Go to How Can We Make Ourselves Understood by Other Civilizations in the Galaxy? to read the abstracts, biographies, and media info and even watch the talks.
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Report to the IAA on the 5th “Search for Life Signatures” symposium held at UNESCO
Report to the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) on the 5th “Search for Life Signatures” symposium held at UNESCO in Paris was written by Dr. Claudio Maccone IAA (Director for Scientific Space Exploration and Chair, IAA SETI Permanent Committee); the report is now available to download (PDF).
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