SESAS - Information
SESAS, the School of Exo-Science and Alien Studies, is a division of
the Lunar Institute of Technology and is
dedicated to the following areas of study:
- Exo-Science
- Studying the planets of our solar system (this involves
exo-geology, exo-meteorology, exo-oceanography, and a
huge list of other sciences)
- Searching for extra-solar planets
- Alien Studies
- SETI, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (this
science, which deals with hypothetics, involves determining
just how and where to conduct such searches)
- CETI, Communication with Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
(this is even more hypothetical, and deals with what forms
such communication might take, and what kind of information
might be gleaned from any type of communication... a
simulation which attempts to
answer some of these questions is available)
- Exo-biology (one aspect of exo-biology is attempting to
determine how a planet's environment might shape the
living beings that evolve there)
- Exo-sociology (... and based on the planet's environment,
and the shape of the beings that live there, can we
determine what kind of society might be present?)
- Basic Science Education
- Using the above mentioned CETI simulation,
it is possible to teach students a good deal of mathematical
concepts while engaging their interest. The Contact Project
assumes that these students already have used the math they
will encounter (i.e. arithmetic, trigonometry, algebra) but
in translating the "messages" will gain a deeper understanding
of how such mathematical relationships work with one another.
- Exo-biology and exo-sociology can be wonderful introductions
to the concept of evolution (i.e. creatures will evolve to fit
their environment, and their physical form can have an affect
on their behavior... which can have an affect on how they
continue to evolve)
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David Levine <lunar@sunsite.unc.edu>