SETIcon II: public conference about space, extraterrestrial life, and imagination

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Are you an extraterrestrial? Or you dig thinking about extraterrestrial life and other far out ideas? Then you should attend SETIcon II, June 22-24, 2012, in Silicon Valley. Presented by the SETI Institute, SETIcon II is a public conference for scientists, artists, authors, space enthusiasts, and anyone curious about our place in the universe. SETI stars Jill Tarter, Frank Drake, and Seth Shostak will present, along with dozens of other science educators, researchers, and open science evangelists like Bill Nye the Science Guy, Ariel "Spacehack" Waldman, author Mary Roach, Pixar's Chris Ford, and UC Berkeley planet hunter Geoff Marcy. SETIcon II

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Will it be webstreamed?

And also broadcasted out into space?
http://profile.yahoo.com/2QF4EHB2E4DFBCFLIEAIXX7HBA Bob

Anyone heard of the band playing there on Friday night?
http://profile.yahoo.com/U33XNY6TEW3BRBCOGIGCZJXOU4 Vimana Boy

*yaaaaawn* Who wants to listen to a bunch of smug, pompous, irrelevant old-guard denialists like Nye and Shostak?

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- http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli
  
  Probably best to listen to people who aren’t delusional.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/U33XNY6TEW3BRBCOGIGCZJXOU4 Vimana Boy
    
    Do some reading, come back with a bibliography that includes those two books, and you’ll at least have an *informed* opinion on the subject. Or you can continue to regurgitate the unscientific status-quo of scientismic dogma as represented ably by the likes of Nye and Shostak, whose heads are planted firmly up their own rear ends.