Searching for Habitable Exoplanets | Prof. Sara Seager | Talks at Google

Sara Seager is a professor of planetary science and physics at MIT and a contributor to a recent collection of essays on the current state of the search for life beyond Earth.

Here she gives an in-depth presentation on the state of the art in detecting exoplanets, including what more we can learn about them now than we have been able to up to this point, and what the future holds for this field.

[cnacma]

This woman is so brilliant! Have to watch the rest of her lectures

[kevinpetroff]

This is a highly intelligent woman. Two years after the Ted talk that I watched just now, her presentation has completely transformed. This is coming from an actor. Great job, Sara.

[dougraddi]

She is so intelligent and her lectures are getting better. Also she is easy to listen to. I love you Sara

[shivamm]

Incredible presentation and very impressive woman

[Norman]

Fantastic presentation and very exciting field of research. JWST will hopefully contribute to this new field. I'm thinking someday Dr. Seager will have a space telescope named after her for her contributions to astronomical research.

[stbsabs]

Think will definitely find planets like earth with plants and animals and even some kind of civilizations. The scary conclusion will be that we will never be able to go there or even communicate with anyone, we will just know that other life is there. Then thousands of years later earth will vanish along with all the knowledge, history etc, establishing the vanity and randomness of the cosmos.

[falcodarkzz]

There really are no other words than holy ****, how doesn't this have more views?

[soumyasengupta]

It was a great presentation indeed. Thanks a lot. Can anyone tell me where can I get more lectures on exoplanets?

[Rickwmc]

8:28  Wow, you mean the most common planet size is only 2 to 3 times the earth?  I thought it was the gas giants.  The chance of extraterrestrial life and technical civilization just got more likely.

[chaneclarke]

Great and best excellent review lady....

[johnm.]

Does anybody have a link to the website she is talking about in reference to Olivier Yan?

[iamnotevenanumber]

20:14 We can be sure they make outstanding beers in the TRAPPIST system! I can't wait to make first contact!

[zapfanzapfan]

If I found seven planets around a star I would have named them after the seven dwarfs :-)

Great talk, TESS will soon launch, can't wait!

[deliciousquinoa]

Interesting. Looking at that Trappist one star. It's so small that it's not a star. Wounder how many almost stars are out there with smaller planets going around them that we can't even see because the star in the centre never started burning. Cool

[jmcrop]

Telescopes became obsolete in 2066 as far as search for exoplanets concerned. _Sikuli_ has placed all the observation techniques known with the one of enhanced quantum entaglement and observation technology. Life at a microscopic level were discovered on the surface of several exomoons and a few exoplanets in the milky way. As far as I know the first habitable earth like planet was discovered in an exogalaxy in 2079.

[Jaba]

They have a bandwidth issue. We have the technology, but simply can't generate data quickly enough for meaningful analysis. Someone needs to build infrastructure that reduces the cost of these missions... We need more rich guys like Musk who dedicate themselves to this.

[Southernburrito]

I saw her tonight on AA declassified. She spoke of the color spectrum & what we see in our visible rainbow is from Earths atmospheric gasses. If I could ask her one heavy question, or two, it would be this. Biblically speaking the rainbow was given as a promise to man from God to never repeat the deluge, So what gases & atmospheric conditions could & would we have presumably lived in as a species to recreate a rainbowless atmosphere? Not presuming the answer/results would be a fountain of youth, or are my aspirations aside from the coincidences of deducted variables in this circumstance, but could these changes have been a larger part in the lengthier & shortening of biblically renown lifespans?
To me it's all very strange input & contemplation.? It also makes me question the flood. Could it have been a shift in tectonic plates, melting enormous amount an environmentally foreign gas from within, erupting bubbling to surface & climate melting polar caps? It'd have to so MAJOR wherever it happened! Or was the air thinned? How do we make a rainbow disappear & still have breathable conditions!??! 900-nothing?!? Weird!

[SuPeRbOmBeRmAn]

not that we are going to find them again? they already found aliens ? 1.55 lol

[impufinstuf]

I wish the scientists would pull there head out of their ass and wake up to the idea that we have been visited and still are. if we had the technology we would be visiting other planets and since we don't have the prime directive and the other visitors don't have one either. thats why we know about them.

[rameyzamora]

Can't see what Sara is indicating on the graphs - useless to find flares, etc.