# Preparing for Discovery: A Rational Approach to the Impact of Finding Microbial, Complex or Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (Morning, Day 1)

Kluge Center Astrobiology Chair Steven Dick convenes scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians from around the world for a two-day symposium at the Library of Congress to explore how we prepare to face new knowledge that may challenge our very conceptions of life and our place in the universe. Day 1/morning speakers included Mary Voytek, Hon. Lamar Smith, Seth Shostak, Clement Vidal, Iris Fry, Carol Cleland, Dirk Schulze Makuch, Lori Marino, Carlos Mariscal, John Traphagan and Douglas Vakoch.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2014
- By: John W. Kluge Center (library Of Congress)
- Genres: Science, Religion
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689520/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/loc/2021689520?play=1)