1.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Searching for Life Among the Stars H. Paul Shuch, Ph.D. Executive Director The SETI League, Inc.

2.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved In Search of The Ultimate DX Dr. H. Paul Shuch, N6TX Executive Director The SETI League, Inc.

3.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Are We Alone?

4.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Are They Alone?

5.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Birth of Radio Astronomy Karl Jansky Karl Jansky Bell Labs, 1932 Bell Labs, 1932 Bruce Array Bruce Array Cosmic Static Cosmic Static

6.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Amateur Science Grote Reber, W9GFZGrote Reber, W9GFZ 10 meter dish, 193710 meter dish, 1937 first true radio telescopefirst true radio telescope first Milky Way mapfirst Milky Way map

7.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved So What’s A SETI?

8.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Searching for Inter- Stellar Communication

9.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Project Ozma Frank D. Drake Green Bank WV, 1960 Green Bank WV, 1960 Two Sun-like Stars Two Sun-like Stars Order of the Dolphin Order of the Dolphin

10.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved The Drake Equation

11.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Big Ear

12.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Mom?

13.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Wow!

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15.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Could It Be a Hoax?

16.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved The Microwave Window

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18.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Habitable Zones Stable Orbits Rocky Shores Rocky Shores Nitrogen Skies Nitrogen Skies Liquid Water Liquid Water

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20.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Life in the Universe Planets Abundant Planets Abundant Liquid Water Liquid Water Organic Molecules Organic Molecules Microbial Life Microbial Life

21.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Complex Life?

22.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Intelligent Life?

23.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved What Does It Take? Once, facilities only Once, facilities only governments could afford governments could afford In fact, the kinds not even In fact, the kinds not even governments can afford governments can afford New paradigm: SETI with New paradigm: SETI with what you can afford what you can afford

24.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved The SETI League, Inc. GlobalGlobal Grass-rootsGrass-roots NonprofitNonprofit

25.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Do It Yourself SETI

26.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Project Argus Launched 21 April 1996 Initially, 5 radio telescopes Our Goals: Our Goals: 5000 small dishes 5000 small dishes Coordinated via Coordinated via the Internet the Internet All directions at once All directions at once

27.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Going Global

28.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Array2k

29.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Heard So Far

30.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved GPS Interference

31.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved L2 Too!

32.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved ATC Radar Interference

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34.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Iridium Satellites

35.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved SuperNova Remnants

36.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved Mars Global Surveyor

37.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved SETI@home

38.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved ‘Wigglers’

39.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved How To Join Us www.setileague.orgjoin@setileague.org 1 (800) TAU-SETI

40.  © 2000 The SETI League, Inc. Background © Jon Lomberg All Rights Reserved There are so many successful musicians with no talent... Why can’t I be one of them?