500 3rd St
San Francisco, California 94107

WHAT: The fourteenth Luna Philosophie will feature Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at SETI Institute.

WHEN WILL WE DISCOVER THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS?
The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now into its fifth decade, and we still haven't uncovered a confirmed peep from the cosmos. For that matter, we still don’t know if life – at any level of intelligence – exists beyond Earth. Could this mean that finding aliens, even if they’re out there, is a project for the ages – one that might take centuries or longer?

New technologies for use in the search for extraterrestrial biology suggest that, despite the continued dearth of hard evidence for life elsewhere or signals from other societies, there is good reason to expect that success might not be far off – that within a few decades we might find evidence of sophisticated civilizations.

Why this is so, what contact would tell us, and what such a discovery would mean, are the subject of this talk on the continuing efforts to establish our place in the universe of thinking beings.

WHEN: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
6:00 - 6:30 PM Socializing
6:30 - 7:30 PM Presentation by Seth Shostak & Discussion
7:30 - 8:00 PM Socializing

WHO: All are welcome!

Please RSVP to [email protected], snacks and drinks will be served but space is limited.

For more information on Luna Philosophie, visit: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/luna

Unable to attend?
Watch the livestream of this event at http://ustream.tv/channel/lp1 !

Official Website: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/luna

Added by NASACoLab on October 22, 2008

Comments

beach

I have to go to one of these at some point.. this might as well be the one. :) I can meet a lot of 12ers too!

Victoriuhh

Seth Shostak is awesome!!!

ronin691

"...When Will We Discover the Extraterrestrials? "

The tinfoil hat wearer in me says they've been here since 1947!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident

No need for "discovery"

:P

Zed

Is this anywhere near a BART station?

Shanley

its right next to CalTrain but a 12 minute walk from Montgomery BART.

should be a great talk tonite, looking forward to it!

Sean Casey

Sorry I missed this one.