Date: October 22, 2010
Title: SETI Then and Now
Podcaster: Sue Ann Heatherly
Organization: NRAO – http://www.gb.nrao.edu/
Description: Fifty Years ago, Dr. Frank Drake conducted the first modern Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) using a telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV. In September of this year, the NRAO held a conference to discuss the future of SETI. One of the participants unearthed an article written by Ray Bradbury for Life Magazine called: A Serious Search. The article, 50 years old on October 24, 2010, is remarkably germane today. Astronomer Glan Langston reads portions of this article and discusses its implications as we contemplate SETI in the next 50 years. To read the entire article, go to http://bit.ly/bradbury_seti.
Bio: Sue Ann Heatherly is the Education Officer at the NRAO Green Bank WV site. She comes to astronomy by way of biology (BA in 1981), and science education (MA in 1985) She visited the Observatory as a teacher in 1987 and knew she’d found Camelot. She has been employed with the NRAO since 1989.
Today’s sponsor: This episode of “365 Days of Astronomy” is sponsored by Alice and Jason Enevoldsen, in honor of all the unborn future astronomers of the world.
Transcript:
***Transcript coming soon.***
End of podcast:
365 Days of Astronomy
=====================
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Astrosphere New Media Association. Audio post-production by Preston Gibson. Bandwidth donated by libsyn.com and wizzard media. Web design by Clockwork Active Media Systems. You may reproduce and distribute this audio for non-commercial purposes. Please consider supporting the podcast with a few dollars (or Euros!). Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org. Until tomorrow…goodbye.