very easy make fun of ferdinand magellan's idea to sail around the earth or captain cook, exploration, that's what this is. consequences are always -- shall we say celebratory, there's life, intelligent life that calibrate our position in the universe. as congressman smith said probably be greatest discovery humankind could ever make and what's important is this is the first generation that has both the knowledge and technology to do that. >> thank you for the opportunity to talk about this question. can you guys show the slides? i want to walk you through some of the seti experiments we and other people are doing. as seth mentioned this nasa keppler mission from that we learned there are a trillion planets in our milky way galaxy, lots of places for life and we learned a lot of these planets are what we call goldilocks planets, right distance where it's not too hot or cold. rocky planets, liquid water. there could be life out there. how are we getting in touch? one of the ideas is earthings are sending off radio, television signals in space. the early shows like "i love lucy" 10,000