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SETI Scientists on 40 years of Asking the Universe 'Are We Alone?'

SETI Scientists on 40 years of Asking the Universe 'Are We Alone?'

We celebrate the SETI – as in, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Institute’s anniversary and all their contributions to science which, sadly, do not yet include finding aliens.

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November 18, 202455m 45s

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Show Notes

Are we alone? Really, though, in a cosmic sense. 40 years ago the pioneering radio astronomer Jill Tarter co-founded a Bay Area non profit to support humanity searching for life beyond ourselves. We celebrate the SETI – as in, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – Institute’s anniversary and all their contributions to science which, sadly, do not yet include finding aliens. What do you hope SETI finds in its next 40 years?

Guests:

Bill Diamond, president and CEO, SETI Institute

Wael Farah, radio astronomer and project scientist on The Allen Telescope Array, SETI Institute

Nathalie Cabrol, astrobiologist and planetary geologist; director of Science, the Carl Sagan Center for Research at the SETI Institute

Simon Steel, astronomer, director of Education and Public Outreach, SETI Institute

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