ET is (probably) out there -- get ready - Seth Shostak

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SETI researcher Seth Shostak bets that we will find extraterrestrial life in the next twenty-four years, or he'll buy you a cup of coffee. At TEDxSanJoseCA, he explains why new technologies and the laws of probability make the breakthrough so likely -- and forecasts how the discovery of civilizations far more advanced than ours might affect us here on Earth. (Filmed at TEDxSanJoseCA.)Talk by Seth Shostak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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