Are we alone?
That’s a question that has haunted humankind since we realized that
points of light in the night sky were actually other suns.
Dr. H. Paul Shuch is a scientist, teacher and entertainer who takes a
very complicated subject of radio astronomy and makes it as simple as…
well... a song. In fact, Dr. Shuch will bring a guitar as well as a
laptop to his lecture entitled "Sing a Song of SETI" on the Search for
Extra-terrestrial Intelligence.
Dr. Shuch has impressive credentials, including a doctorate from the
University of California at Berkeley in engineering. An educator for
over 30 years, Dr. Shuch is now the executive director of the SETI
League, whose research was originally funded by NASA. The SETI League is
a non-profit corporation of amateur and professional scientists founded
to take over the research that was once funded by NASA. The League
searches for intelligent life by monitoring radio waves. The members use
radio telescopes to search the heavens in an organized fashion for
evidence of technology "out there" and intelligent life.
"We figure that maybe someone else out there is polluting the
universe with radio waves, like we are," Dr. Shuch explains.
The lecture will end with a demonstration of the College’s own new
radio telescope by Dr. David Wolfe.