"Senior astronomer Seth Shostak on the "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence"

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By Hana Baba

If you take the train or the freeway south this weekend, through the Peninsula, into the South Bay, and you end up in Santa Clara, you’ll be just in time for a very special, first of its kind event. This weekend is the first annual convention of the SETI Institute, SETI is short for “Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.”

It’s a gathering of astro-physicists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists and astronomers who all have one thing in common – they are in search of life outside planet Earth. But don’t confuse them with astrologists and the UFO crowd. Seth Shostak is a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, host of KALW’s radio show “Are We Alone?” and a self-proclaimed alien hunter. KALW’s Hana Baba asked him what exactly he’s looking for.

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