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Perspectives on our cosmic habitat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2011

Martin J. Rees
Martin J. Rees*
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Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, United Kingdom email: [email protected]
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In this talk I shall try to highlight some themes that seem to promise specially interesting progress in the coming decades. I can't claim to be much of a prophet myself, but I'd like to recall someone who was: Arthur C. Clarke. He lived in Sri Lanka, and died in 2007, aged 90. I'd like to discuss three issues that he would have found interesting: space and alien life; galaxies and their origin; and (more speculatively) the size of our universe.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S260: The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture , January 2009 , pp. 16 - 21
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