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ET is (probably) out there -- get ready

Seth Shostak · TED

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SETI researcher Seth Shostak bets that we will find extraterrestrial life in the next twenty-four years, or he'll buy you a cup of coffee. He explains why new technologies and the laws of probability make the breakthrough so likely -- and predicts how the discovery of civilizations far more advanced than ours might affect us here on Earth.

The talk

  1. ET is (probably) out there -- get ready 19 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDxSanJoseCA
Speaker
Seth Shostak
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Astronomy and space, Philosophy
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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