Seeking Life in the Cosmos – The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe and what it Means for Humankind

A provocative paper published in ‘Nature’ in September of 1959 by two Cornell University scientists put forward the idea of using radio telescopes to search for possible interstellar communications between advanced civilizations. In November that same year, Harlow Shapely of Harvard University speculated that there might be as many as a million worlds existing where life has been forged by evolution. In April of 1960, Astronomer Frank Drank undertook the first ever Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe – so-called SETI – using the new 25m radio telescope in Green Bank West Virginia. Started in 1984 by Cornell Astronomer Dr. Jill Tarter, the SETI Institute has been at the forefront of the quest for intelligent life in the Universe for more than 36 years. What have we learned over this time? What evidence has been found? What is the status of the search, and what new questions have arisen over the last 60 years? And why does any of this matter? SETI Institute President and CEO, Bill Diamond will address these questions and more and review the Institute’s research, education and outreach programs. While science fiction abounds in the world of SETI, the science facts are even more
fascinating.

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