SETI

Lastly, there is SETI, the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence.

We will talk more about SETI in a week or two since SETI is really a search not for habitable worlds -- since there is no search for planets or their conditions involved -- but rather for inhabited worlds.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/seti1.htm

The question of relevance here, though, is this: "What stars are being searched, and why those?"

This is the same question as I asked at the beginning of the lecture: What are we searching for, and where are we searching?

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