[Basfa] Fwd: [SALT] Finding life-capable planets - next MONDAY Aug. 10 (for forwarding)

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:29:47 -0700 

If I were in the Bay Area I'd want to go to this.

Best wishes,

Cheryl

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We are one tool away from learning which distant planets already have life on them or might be welcoming to life.
MIT Planetary Scientist Sara Seager is working on the tool. She is chair of the NASA team developing a “Starshade” that would allow a relatively rudimentary space telescope to observe Earth-size planets in other solar systems directly, which would yield atmospheric analysis, which would determine a planet’s life-worthiness.
Despite the Kepler spacecraft having discovered over 1,000 exoplanets, and hundreds more expected from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite after 2017, neither instrument can make detailed observation of the atmosphere of small rocky planets, because each star’s brilliance overwhelms direct study of the rocky motes that might harbor life. A Starshade cures that.
A former MacArthur Fellow, Seager is author of /Exoplanet Atmospheres/(02010) and an astrophysics professor at MIT. Her maxim: “For exoplanets, anything is possible under the laws of physics and chemistry.“ 

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   **"*Other Earths, Other Life*," *Sara Seager, *SFJAZZ Center, Hayes
   Valley,* San Francisco, *7pm, *Monday August 10*. *The show starts
   promptly at 7:30pm.

   To be sure of a seat:
   *•* Long Now Members <https://longnow.org/membership/> can use the
   discount code on the Seager Seminar page to reserve 2 free seats
   <http://longnow.org/seminars/02015/aug/10/other-earths-other-life/>.
   *•* You can purchase tickets for $15 each
   <http://longnow.org/seminars/02015/aug/10/other-earths-other-life/>.
   • Seminar at SFJAZZ Center
   <http://www.sfjazz.org/visit/directions> 201 Franklin Street, San
   Francisco, CA 94102
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September 21(Mon.) - Saul Griffith, Infrastructure and Climate Change <http://longnow.org/seminars/02015/sep/21/infrastructure-and-climate-change/> October 6 (Tues.) - James Fallows, Civilization's Infrastructure <http://longnow.org/seminars/02015/oct/07/civilizations-infrastructure/> December 9 (Wed.) - Rick Prelinger, Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 10 <http://longnow.org/seminars/02015/dec/09/lost-landscapes-san-francisco-10/> January 11 (Mon.) - Eric Cline, 1177 B.C: When World Civilization Collapsed <http://longnow.org/seminars/02016/jan/11/1177-bc-when-world-civilization-collapsed/>
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                                     --Stewart Brand [email protected]
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