New Search Methods for Primitive and Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
Offered By: Harvard University via YouTube
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Syllabus
SCIENCE LECTURE
Astronomer's Vocabulary . Life is associated with chemical reactions in liquid water which produce gases, like O2 and Methane, at abundances vastly out of chemical equilibrium
Biology Far From the Earth . Life in the solar system (early life in liquid water on Mars, bacteria in Enceladus, fish in Europa)
Detection Technique for Artificially-Illuminated Objects in the Outer Solar System and Beyond
Ballistic Missile Early Warning Systems
Detecting bio-markers fingerprints: Spectroscopy of Planetary Atmospheres During Transits of their Host Star
Transits of Nearby Stars by Earth-like Planets in the Habitable Zone
Abundance of planets
Detecting Biomarkers In 5 years: James Webb Space Telescope
Extremely Large Telescopes (24-39 meters)
White Dwarf = 1% R Sun
Detection of Oxygen (Loeb & Maoz arxiv:1301.4994)
Industrial Pollution
Our Archaeological Dig
Thinking Inside the Simulation Box
THE DARK AGES of the Universe
The Habitable Epoch of the universe
Panspermia: proof of concept with Tardigrades
Transfer of Life Between Galaxies: Ejection of Fast Stars
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Harvard University
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