Name: Making Contact...
Start: 2016-05-24T
End: 2016-05-24T
Location: Bloo 88

This evening talks will reveal the likelihood of discovering extraterrestial beings in space, and the scientific problems associated with this. We will also delve into theories of how life came to be on Earth, along with some electric activities.

Is anybody out there?

We have discovered over 2000 planets around other stars, and we are a decade away from the technology to find life on those planets. How are we going to be able to do this, and what might we find? I will show you...

The High Life: Microbes of the Stratosphere

Tareq Omairi (PhD Student)

How did the first cell arise? Was it created here on earth or was brought from somewhere else? How do we know if life is a cosmic phenomenon and not just limited to our planet? And if life did in fact exist everywhere in the universe, and did come to Earth from the cosmos, can it happen again? Might it be still happening? In this talk, I will explain the work our team is doing, in which we launch special balloons 40 kilometres up into our atmosphere, to try and capture stratospheric life-forms, and answer one of life’s biggest mysteries.

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