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Revised and updated Summer 1999. Includes Computer generated dissolve sequences, directly from Project Phoenix, SERENDIP, BAMBI and SETI@Home.

This production was originally designed for the eighth grade as an academic presentation dealing with the subject of SETI (The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). The show was designed to generate an interest in astronomy and wound up being a motivating show for Sr. High and College students. Many planetaria have used this show as a public presentation!

The structure of this show is open ended and attempts to answer the following questions: What is an ET star? What kind of planet would support ET's? What makes the Earth so different from all the other planets in our solar system? Will we ever receive ETI signals? The show progresses by comparing the stars of the winter sky to the Sun and a random sample of other stars. By using current theories of stellar evolution the students are shown how to locate a 'possible' ETI home star. An examination of the electromagnetic spectrum reveals why we have not heard from the ET's yet! Join us and form your own opinion! We also explain why SETI at home may or may not find "them."

Special Effects Needed
Two slide projectors. All diagram sequences are animated and pin-registered.

Suggested Special Effects
A two projector dissolve unit. Orrery, grain of wheat star or fiber optic star, and/or laser pointer, 3-D rotating pulsar, solar wind projector, aurorae projector (save those Pepsi bottles), part-pans, vertical pan of Milky Way (four projectors, one if you have a 1.4" focal length lense), part-pan of radio telescopes (slides provided, one radio telescope per projector), projector with rotating wheel and many different coloured gels on the wheel, slewing mirror, and a rotating galaxy.