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DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming SOU OLLI instructors\, Victoria Leo and Ri
 ck Baird.\n\nThe search for exoplanets\, planets outside our solar system\,
  has been partly driven by basic scientific curiosity\, but the major impet
 us is the strong desire\, by the tax-paying public as well as funding decis
 ion-makers\, for proof of life beyond the Earth.  \n\nThere are two parts t
 o this quest: finding life as we know it and finding life so different from
  our own that the basics of biology would have to be rewritten. Exploration
 s in our own solar system\, in the so-called Snow Zone\, are occurring in p
 arallel with explorations of exoplanets atmospheres. But there are dangers—
 as several Mars missions have discovered\, announcing the presence of life 
 before very detailed studies are done\, can back-fire. Many geological and 
 chemical processes can create gases and other “potential life signs.”  \n\n
 Victoria Leo and Rick Baird are amateur astronomers with biology and chemis
 try grad degrees respectively\, who are fascinated by the most recent resea
 rch into the process by which chemistry transitioned into biology\, and how
  it can be detected using robot landers and the latest generation of terres
 trial and space-based telescopes in multi-frequency ranges.  They teach at 
 OLLI now and previously taught university classes and worked at The Boeing 
 Company\, with degrees from Arizona State\, Caltech and MIT.
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LOCATION:Science Building\, Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Friday Science Seminar: Detecting Life - It's not as easy as it sou
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