On December 4th 2013, the House Science Committee held a two-hour hearing about scientific approaches to identifying extraterrestrial life. The meeting had the title 'Astrobiology: The Search for Biosignatures in Our Solar System and Beyond' and the U.S. House of Representatives had invited three expert witnesses to sit on the panel:
o Mary Voytek, Senior Scientist for Astrobiology in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters.
o Sara Seager, Professor of Physics and of Planetary Science at M.I.T.
o Steven J. Dick, Baruch S. Blumberg Chair of Astrobiology at the Library of Congress.
Several topics were on the agenda: primarily biosignatures but also funding of research as well as the question of how to motivate young people to engage in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Origin: aliens-are-friends.blogspot.com
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