Life Beyond Earth and Man - 1975

A 6-day symposium at the foot of Mount Ararat, jointly sponsored by US & Soviet Academies, marked a shift. Scientists from diverse fields convened to discuss contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.
Credit: US National Archives This is edited from a symposium held at Boston University on November 20, 1972. Panel members: Dr. Richard Berendzen, astronomy professor and historian of science at Boston University; Dr. Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, social biologist and author at Rutgers University; Dr. Philip Morrison, physicist educator and philosopher of science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Dr. Carl Sagan, astronomer and exobiologist at Cornell University; Dr. Krister Stendahl, clergyman and theologian at Harvard University; and Dr. George Wald, biologist at Harvard University. Full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQeOp7a8QMI #Space #Science #Extraterrestrial #Civilizations #CarlSagan #AlienContact #fulldisclosure #USNationalArchives