Is there any intelligent life out there for Man to meet? The talk puts some numbers into the Drake Equation, armed with new insights from the Kepler Telescope, and addresses the difficult questions of the evolution of intelligence and the possible longevity of a species like Man. And what might ET look like? Will he have a hand to shake? The talk examines the probability of hearing from an ET, and the huge problems of interstellar travel, before venturing into the realms of Sci-Fi to answer the question posed in the title
Views: 562 | Enquiries: 026 years at the Atomic Energy Authority. In 1995 I took up a post in an engineering company in Gloucester, working on surface coatings. I became the Research and Development Director and retired after 16 years in 2011. I continued with consultancy work, including companies in the power generation industry. My degree is in physics, at Birmingham.
I speak on 16 varied subjects, including Climate Change, Energy, Population (A bomb?), Water (Elixir of life), Money (How does it all work?), Dreams (Own theory), Ordnance Survey, ET (Will we ever shake his hand?), Robotics, Waste, Apocalypse (what will wipe us out first?), Jesus (the real man), Lies and Damn Lies (A humorous take on statistics, 'Balls' - a look at how different sports balls behave.
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