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Seth's Latest Book!
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)
This Week's Show
Show archive
Written in Code (6/14/10)
Seth's Garage (6/07/10)
Cell! Cell! (5/31/10)
Life of Brain (5/24/10)
Skeptic Check:
Fraudcast News (5/17/10)
Alien Invasion (5/10/10)
Robots Call the Shots (5/03/10)
Seth's Crawl Space (4/12/10)
Skeptic Check: Conspiracy! (4/05/10)
SETI: Now What? (3/29/10)
Thanks for the Memories (3/22/10)
Physics Phrontiers (3/15/10)
Skeptic Check:
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)
It's the Science, Cupid! (2/1/10)
Who's on First? (1/25/10)
Skeptic Check:
Swimming in Denial (1/18/10)
Eureka! (1/11/10)
Seth's Garage (6/07/10)
Cell! Cell! (5/31/10)
Life of Brain (5/24/10)
Skeptic Check:
Fraudcast News (5/17/10)
Alien Invasion (5/10/10)
Robots Call the Shots (5/03/10)
Seth's Crawl Space (4/12/10)
Skeptic Check: Conspiracy! (4/05/10)
SETI: Now What? (3/29/10)
Thanks for the Memories (3/22/10)
Physics Phrontiers (3/15/10)
Skeptic Check:
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)
It's the Science, Cupid! (2/1/10)
Who's on First? (1/25/10)
Skeptic Check:
Swimming in Denial (1/18/10)
Eureka! (1/11/10)
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1 comment:
I think that the timescales are so enormous, that there can be a number of reasons why we have not found any other civilisation out there.
We have been listening for half a century, which is a blink of an eye really. Civilisations, interstellar or not, could have come and gone long before Homo Sapiens even evolved on Earth. The ones that are still out there may be so far away that we have not been able to detect them.
Another thing... I disagree with Frank Drake that it is too difficult to travel to other stars. Yes to us it is beyond our abilities to send a fast manned spaceship to another star. But we will have such abilities in the future, just like we can do things now we could not even dream about a couple of hundred years ago.
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