Is there really anybody out there?

This panel discusses the likelihood of meeting an alien species and the necessary etiquette for First Contact.
Speakers include:
Profesor Mark Brake Author, science communicator and lecturer in Astrobiology
Lewis Dartnell Astrobiologist and space researcher investigating the possibility of microbial life surviving in the surface dust of Mars in the face of the constant rain of radiation from space.
Jonathan Cowie Environmental scientist and science communicator
Dr Rachel Armstrong SF author and medical Doctor with an interest in non Darwinian techniques of evolution and the challenges of the extra-terrestrial environment.