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Seti, the past, present and future

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Last broadcast on Sat, 21 Jan 2012, 11:32 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Jason Palmer explores the past, present and future of Seti.

In the second programme he looks at what sort of signal might ET send us, and how might we respond?

Jason talks to Seti's co-founder Frank Drake as well as its current active researchers, including Seth Shostak, Jill Tartar and Doug Vakoch.

Alien hunters: An array of hope

"Since 1993, Seti has had to run on private donations from people who think this is an interesting thing to do. After all, you're not going to find ET unless you have the telescope operational"

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Broadcasts

  1. Mon 16 Jan 2012
    19:32
  2. Tue 17 Jan 2012
    04:32
  3. Tue 17 Jan 2012
    12:32
  4. Sat 21 Jan 2012
    11:32

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