CMA Presents "Sharing the Universe: Perspectives with Making Contact with Extraterrestrial Life"

The Skeptics Society and CMA wonder if anyone out there is listening... Are we alone in the universe, or are the cosmos teeming with life? If extraterrestrial intelligences are out there, why aren't they here yet, or at least why haven't we heard from them? This is what is known as the Fermi Paradox, after the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi. He reasoned that if ETIs were only slightly ahead of us in biological evolution, they would be light years ahead of us in technological evolution, and thus would have colonized the galaxy by now. Yet they are nowhere to be found, unless we are the first, which seems unlikely.

So, the question is, where are they?

Dr. Seth Shostak, astronomer and public programs scientist for the SETI Institute, the largest organization on Earth currently searching for radio signals from possible ETIs, brings us up to date on the latest science behind the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, including the exciting new optical SETI and how you can participate in SETI from your home computer.