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The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Culture · Friday, November 13 · 21:00 · Nantes
Amphithéâtre Lycée Notre Dame de Toutes-Aides, 14 Rue des Epinettes
Conference by Frédéric FOUCHER, CNRS research engineer at CEMHTI. The detection of extraterrestrial life would constitute one of humanity’s most important discoveries. Nevertheless, after more than a century of intensive research, nothing has yet been detected. This absence of detection does not necessarily mean that we are alone in the universe but rather highlights the limits of our exploration methods in view of the immensity of the universe. Indeed, if the number of potentially inhabited stars, and thus the probability of finding an evolved form of life, increases ave…
