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Royal Society meeting on detecting extraterrestrial life

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The Royal Society's building on Carlton House Terrace in London
The Royal Society in London, which hosted the January 2010 meeting on detecting alien life Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Royal Society opened a two-day meeting in London on detecting extraterrestrial life and its consequences for science and society. Speakers included Frank Drake, Paul Davies and Christian de Duve, with NASA, ESA and UN representatives. Papers appeared in Philosophical Transactions A.

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  1. OfficialIs there anybody out there?The Royal Society / 2010-01-25
  2. OfficialThe detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 369:499-507)PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine) / 2011-02-13

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