"A widespread and popular impression of SETI is that it's a worldwide enterprise. Well, it's not, and there's something modestly puzzling in that."
Read Seth's latest essay, Why Don't They Do SETI?, and find the possible answers to why SETI research seems to be an American endeavor.
This essay is also available on SETI Thursday at SPACE.com.
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Confessions of an Alien Hunter
Aliens are big in America. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years.
Seth’s new book, Confessions of An Alien Hunter: A Scientist’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (National Geographic Books) offers an entertaining and expert account of the facts, fantasies, and future of finding intelligence elsewhere in the universe, and how real science differs from the Hollywood view of extraterrestrial life.
Seth on the Radio!
Okay, since he hosts Are We Alone? every week, that's perhaps not so novel, but here are a couple of Seth's recent appearances on other radio programs:
On Point with Tom Ashbrook (WBUR, Boston) (click "Listen to this Show" at the very top of the page)
Coast to Coast with George Noory (listening options are on the right)
Aliens are big in America. Whether they’ve arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they’ve been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they’ve fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years.
Seth’s new book, Confessions of An Alien Hunter: A Scientist’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (National Geographic Books) offers an entertaining and expert account of the facts, fantasies, and future of finding intelligence elsewhere in the universe, and how real science differs from the Hollywood view of extraterrestrial life.
Seth on the Radio!
Okay, since he hosts Are We Alone? every week, that's perhaps not so novel, but here are a couple of Seth's recent appearances on other radio programs:
On Point with Tom Ashbrook (WBUR, Boston) (click "Listen to this Show" at the very top of the page)
Coast to Coast with George Noory (listening options are on the right)
Seth on TV
Seth speaks at Arizona State University (September 2009)
Seth's Google Tech Talk (June 2009)
Seth on The Colbert Report (May 2009)
Seth's Google Tech Talk (June 2009)
Seth on The Colbert Report (May 2009)
Seth on Fora.tv, a website focusing on people, issues, and ideas changing the world. (April 2009)
It Came From Seth's Brain!
When Seth isn't hosting Are We Alone? he's kept locked away in a sensory deprivation chamber where electrodes hooked up to his brain extract ideas that are developed by robotic chimps into "essays". Compiled here are just a few of his writings, as well as this popular item from his film making past:
The Turkey That Ate St. Louis
Essays:
Check out more of Seth's ruminations and even some serious science on his publications list.
The Turkey That Ate St. Louis
Essays:
"Is Manned Space Flight Obsolete?" (02/09/10)
"Is SETI Hopeless?" (12/03/09)
"Weird Ways to Search for ET" (9/24/09)
(Spanish translation of "Weird Ways to Search for ET")
"Meet the Neighbors in 'District 9' (8/17/09)
"Why Aliens Won't Abduct You (8/12/09)
"Sifting for Planets with Kepler's Fine Comb (8/6/09)
"What Will Aliens Really Look Like? (7/16/09)
"Fighting Global Warming with Pavement, (7/15/09)
"No More TV for Aliens? (6/18/09)
"When Will We Find the Extraterrestrials? (Spring 2009)
"Race to the Bottom (5/28/09)
"The Future is Wow (5/4/09)
"Have a Wacko Theory? Write It Up (4/16/09)
"Boldly Going Nowhere, (New York Times, 4/14/09, p. A21)
"Surprise Recovery of Meteorites Following Asteroid Impact, (3/26/09)
"What Finding Alien Life Could Mean for Earth (2/18/09)
"Is Humanity a Spacefaring Race?" (1/15/09)
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Physics Phrontiers (3/15/10)
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Climate Clamor (3/08/10)
You've Been Slimed! (3/01/10)
Space Race 2.0 (2/22/10)
Sex and the SETI (2/15/10)
Pave New Worlds (2/8/10)
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5 comments:
Interesting article. Don't forget we also spend more money than other countries looking for "illegal aliens." We have an obsession with aliens ;)
well an alien by any other word must still be an alien.
Yes, and we have an obsession with roses too.
Maybe they all support SETI - as long as someone else is paying for it.
Somehow the US is populated with people who know that if you want something done, you're going to have to do it yourself.
What do any of you think of the Stephenville, Texas sighting(s) on January 8, 2008?
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