Week 1
What does “Are We Alone?” Mean?
Are we alone? seems like a simple question. But, who is “we”? What does it mean to be alone? Alone where?… in our stellar neighbourhood? the galaxy? the entire universe? Is “Are we alone?” an important question? Have humans always asked this question? How have our ideas about extraterrestrials changed with time? The range of “expert” answers to these questions is enormous.
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1.1.1 Questions
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1.1.2 Origin of an Are We Alone Course
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1.1.3 The People We Surveyed
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1.1.4 Are We Alone? Yes? No? Maybe?
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1.1.5 Who is "We"?
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1.1.6 Is "Are We alone?" an Important Question?
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1.2.1 Our Earliest Animistic Views
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1.2.2 The Greeks and Romans
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1.2.3 Augustine to the Enlightenment
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1.2.4 HG Wells to the 1950s
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1.2.5 Ithaka: Poem by C.P. Cavafy
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1.3.1 Jochen... Are We Alone?
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1.4.1 Brian Schmidt: astrophysicist
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1.4.2 Charles Cockell: astrobiologist
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1.4.3 Jill Tarter: radio astronomer
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1.4.4 Steven Dick: historian of "Are We Alone?"
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1.4.5 Genevieve Bell: anthropologist/technologist
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1.4.6 Martin Rees: Astronomer Royale
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1.4.7 Stephen Wolfram: theoretical physicist/founder of Mathematica
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1.4.8 Julian Burnside: barrister/human rights advocate
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1.5.1 Meet Students
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1.5.2 Student Discussion
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1.5.3 Advice for Students
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15:36
Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) - Georges Méliès - (HQ) - Music by David Short - Billi Brass Quintet
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02:11
1918 " Himmelskibet " (A trip to Mars) par Holger-Madsen (Danemark)
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02:21
Day the Earth Stood Still Trailer
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0:59
'50s Adventures of Superman - Intro
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02:24
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Trailer
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02:11
Alien (1979) Trailer
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04:14
Yoda Explains the Force to Luke - from Empire Strikes Back
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02:24:49
Independence Day
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02:23
Contact (1997) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers
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02:25
Men in Black (1997) Official Trailer 1 - Will Smith Movie
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0:43
The X files intro and opening theme
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02:26
Arrival Trailer (2016) - Paramount Pictures
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21:24
Jill Tarter: Why the search for alien intelligence matters
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01:22:52
Martin Rees - The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss - FULL VIDEO
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48:45
What We Still Don't Know - Are We Alone (Episode 1)
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59:56
Is Alien ‘Life’ Weirder Than We Imagine: Who Is Out There?
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01:33:30
Alien Life: Will We Know It When We See It?
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11:26
SETI: Are we alone in the universe?
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50:15
Universe: Beyond the Millennium - Alien Life
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15:45
Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (full interview, March 2nd 1978)
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
by Carl Sagan, 1973, Cambridge University Press
The Quest for Extraterrestrial Life: A Book of Readings
by Donald Goldsmith (edt) 1980, University Science Books, Mill Valley, CA
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate: Antiquity to 1915
by Michael J. Crowe, 2008, Cambridge University Press
Life on Other Worlds
by Steven J. Dick, 2001, Cambridge University Press
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1686, republished 1990, University of California Press
The question “Are We Alone?” in different cultures
by Jean Schneider, 2009 (arXiv)
Making a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) about Astrobiology: Why? For Whom? How?
by Charles H Lineweaver, 2019, EPJ Web Conf., 200, 01019 (DOI:10.1051/epjconf/201920001019)