Tech Nation - Carl Sagan and SETI
       
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       02/25/1994 - Carl Sagan and SETI
       
       Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Carl Sagan, Professor of Astronomy at
       Cornell University and host of the award-winning PBS series "Cosmos."
       Dr. Sagan discusses his interest in finding habitable planets that can
       support life, and reviews the characteristics of habitable planets,
       the locations of suspected candidate planets, and the problems with
       all the current theories.
       
       Dr. Gunn also speaks with Dr. Frank Drake, president of the SETI
       Institute and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa
       Cruz. They discuss the strategy for the search for extraterrestrial
       intelligence (SETI), the controversies which surround the efforts,
       the problems with funding such research, and the basic
       scientific assumptions of the technical project.
       
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