The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
The Montgomery College planetarium will present The Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Since Marconi invented the radio
transmitter (1897) and we first started sending radio messages we have
been announcing our presence to the technologically advanced
civilizations of the cosmos. How likely is
it that we have been heard? How likely is it that we have been visited
before
or after we started radio broadcasts, which go out to all of space? How
would
we go about listening for extra-terrestrial intelligence? What are we
doing
now about searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence? Come to this
planetarium
show and find out.
- SETI@home, Search for
extraterrestrial Intelligence at home on your computer.
The planetarium shows 1,834 naked eye stars, the Milky Way (the
diffuse band of light caused by the disk of our own galaxy), and the
five naked-eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn)
under a twenty-four-foot dome with forty-two comfortable chairs.
PowerPoint
program which was part of the program on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 7P.M.
Montgomery
College's Planetarium home page
Web page by Dr. Harold Alden Williams.
Last changed May 5, 2008 at 9:34A.M.