Today’s American Astronomical Society press conference is a wee bit different: it’s about more speculative stuff. We’ll be talking to astronomers about putting telescopes on the Moon, looking for dark matter in the Sun, and upping the odds on looking for (and talking to) aliens.
It all starts at 9:30 a.m. Central time (15:30 UT). I’ve embedded the video below. If you want to participate in the chat room, go to the UStream channel. You an change your nickname (and please do!) by typing "/nick Al E. Inn".
June 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Hmmm…
I don’t fully accept SETI’s new hypothesis, and I agree with a comment Spaceenthusiast made in the chat room about intelligent life does not necessarily mean radio capable intelligent life. Maybe they never evolved opposable thumbs.
However, it doesn’t really matter, because in our search for extraterrestrial intelligent life, we have to search for technology — what else is a cosmic indicator of intelligence? Dolphins are very smart, but an alien species would not know this observing earth from afar.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Hi Phil,
as I also wrote in a personal mail, today was the first – but only only – time that the Ustream feed worked without a glitch. Please “freeze” the set-up and remember it next time (and improve the audio quality …). So, thanks for all the effort!
Regarding this blog (and a few others, I may add), I have a evere complaint, though: This %$$&§ Digg service often freezes loading pages for several seconds. Being ranked on Digg may be oh-so-Web2.0-iy, but when it stalls operations of valuable sites like yours, better drop it!
Also I’ve noted that – contrary to the Wikipedia experience – the self-regulating forces in the Digg community don’t necessarily work towards quality improvement; quite often the weird instead of the good space stuff bubbles to the top …
June 4th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Doh, sorry I missed it! Any chance the Hewitt talk will be covered?