Lecture 25 outline and notes

Detection of life

1) Kepler and TPF

2) SETI (a teaser)

Signatures of life/advanced life

3) Signatures of life [Overheads]

4) The Drake equation

5) SETI

6) Messages sent to space

7) The Fermi paradox

8) Other "evidence"

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