"Spring School Colloquium" dei Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati: The SETI Project
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Europe/Rome
Auditorium "Bruno Touschek" (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (RM) (Ingresso adiacente stazione FS Tor Vergata))
Auditorium "Bruno Touschek"
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (RM) (Ingresso adiacente stazione FS Tor Vergata)
Via E.Fermi 40
I-00044 Frascati (RM)
Description
Aim of the workshop:
Looking for E.T.: The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now well into its fifth decade, and we still haven't uncovered a confirmed peep from any cosmic company. Could this mean that finding aliens, even if they exist, is a project for the ages – one that might take centuries or longer? New technologies for – and new approaches to – the Search forExtraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) suggest that, despite the continued dearth of signals, there is good reason to expect that success might not be far off – that we might find evidence of sophisticated civilizations within a few decades. What would a contact tell us, and what would it mean to us, and to our descendants?