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SETI - What if....?
OPENING QUESTIONS: Consider *some* movie or TV show that includes a scene where humans come in CONTACT with an alien civilization. What comes to mind?
OBJECTIVE: I will work with my group to continue to *design* an exoplanet during today's class with emphasis on its atmosphere and magnetic fields.
CALENDAR: One More Observation (Tonight!) Be there at 8:15 to help us setup
WORD FOR TODAY:
- SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)
- Fermi's Paradox ("Where are the Aliens?")
- Drake Equation
- Kardashev Scale
WORK O' THE DAY:
Hare are just a few *ahem* Cinematic/TV Versions. We'll take a look through these and rate them as follows:
1) Realism/Science: 1 - 5
2) Apparent Kardashev Scale: 1.0 - 3.0
- Star Trek - First Contact (1995)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (original version) 1951
- Independence Day (199)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- War of the Worlds (2005)
- Twilight Zone ("To Serve Mankind" Early 1960's)