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To reach other intelligences our technology must reach beyond interplanetary distances it has to go interstellar distances.

The largest radio radar telescope on the planet Earth - Arecibo radio...

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The most famous American astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan explains the Drake equation.

The Drake equation (rarely also called the Green Bank equation or the Sagan equation) is a famous...

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The universe began with the big bang, and for the first four hundred thousand years all matter was ionised, indicated by the blue region in the diagram. When the universe had cooled enough to allow...

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Do you know how tiny Earth is compared to other planets and stars?

We are very very tiny!
Earth is compared to Venus, Mars, Mercury and Pluto.
Then to Jupiter, Saturn , Uranus and Neptune
Then to...

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The video shows how each planet scales in size relative to each other.

The exploration begins at the smallest planet Mercury which has diameter of just 4880 km, then comes Mars (6794 km), Venus,...

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