Chris Lintott, Marek Kukula and Louisa Preston
Are we alone in the Universe? The search for extraterrestrial life has, so far, proved futile. Scientists the world over have yet to yield any evidence of lifeforms existing elsewhere in the Universe. Some may argue that our Universe is old enough for intelligent civilisations to have spread ubiquitously. That there should be an abundance of signals from communicative civilisations and so we should have found each other by now. The discovery of hundreds of planets beyond our Solar System has reinforced the belief that our galaxy is teeming with potentially habitable worlds. Our galaxy is just one of billions of galaxies in the observable Universe, so is it reasonable to argue that intelligent life is probable elsewhere? Is it simply a matter that we are not searching for the right signals? Are there advanced civilisations who gaze into the night sky and try to imagine us?
The evidence for both sides is mounting, but which is right? Dr Louisa Preston will be chairing a debate where Dr Chris Lintott will offer a perspective against intelligent extraterrestrial life and Dr Marek Kukula will be in favour of it.
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