1967: CARL SAGAN on the search for INTELLIGENT LIFE | Where Is Everybody? | BBC Archive

In this extract from the classic BBC science documentary Where Is Everybody?, Dr Carl Sagan - an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University - considers the complexities of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life, and suggests means by which we might communicate with it.

Clip taken from Where Is Everybody?: The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 5 October, 1967.




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