Where is Everybody?: The Rare Earth Hypothesis
Theme:
Science
What:
Panel
When:
12:00 PM, Saturday 30 Sep 2017
(50 minutes)
Where:
Gateway Center
- Ballroom A
How:
Fermi's question is part of SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) and led to the Drake Equation. A variation on this question is the Dyson Dilemma - a space faring people will probably become a Kardeshev Type II civilization and use almost all their sun's output, building a Dyson Sphere or Dyson Swarm and be observable as dumping an astronomical amount of waste heat. SETI has found no radio signals, no heat signature - could it be that we are The Elder Race for our galaxy?
Moderator
St. Louis Space Frontier (a chapter of the National Space Society)
(retired)