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	Podcast:		Sydney Ideas
	Episode:		Extremophiles and Exoplanets: Expanding the potentially habitable real estate in the galaxy
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		01:22:22
	Publish Date:		2009-07-21 00:00:00
	Description:		At the same time that we have been developing the capabilities to detect distant Earths, we have also been finding that life on Earth occurs in places that earlier scientists would have considered too hostile to support life. We now know that extremophiles can exist (and sometimes thrive) in the most astounding places. Since life-as-we-know-it is so extraordinarily hardy, might it exist on any of the exoplanets that are being found? In this 2009 Sydney Ideas lecture, professor Jill Tarter discussed what was then known about life on other planets, as well as the questions that would likely remain unanswered until new technologies enable new explorations. She argued that it might even turn out that our first indication of another inhabited world will be the signals deliberately generated by its inhabitants. For more info see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2009/extremophiles_exoplanets.shtml
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