OTHER: A multidisciplinary approach to the search for other inhabited worlds

FUNES, JOSÉ; LARES, MARCELO; DE LOS RÍAS, MARTÍN; MARTIARENA, MIGUEL; AHUMADA, ANDREA

San Juan

Congreso; Reunión Anual de la Asociación Argentina de Astronomía; 2016

Instituto de Ciencias Astronómicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio

We present project OTHER (Otros mundos, tierra, humanidad, and espacio remoto), a multidisciplinary laboratory of ideas, that addresses questions related to the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligent life such as: what is life? how did it originate? what might be the criteria that we adopt to identify what we might call an extraterrestrial civilization? As a starting point, we consider the Drake equation which offers a platform from which to address these questions in a multidisciplinary approach. As part of the project OTHER, we propose to develop and explain the last two parameters of the Drake equation that we call the cultural factors: the fraction of intelligent civilizations that want or seek to communicate , and the average life time of the same, . The innovation of the project OTHER is the multidisciplinary approach in the context of the Argentine community. Our goal is to provide new ideas that could offer new perspectives on the old question: Are we alone?