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Jill Tarter – “Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence – A Necessarily Long-Term Strategy”

July 12th, 02004 by Stewart Brand

Jill Tarter

The long search

“The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy” is the title for Jill Tarter’s Seminar About Long-term Thinking this Friday. There’s no deeper question than “Are we alone in the universe?” And there’s no quick way to answer it. Slow, steady science is the hardest to fund and organize, but Jill Tarter has been working on the question for 30 years and the SETI Institute (which she co-founded) for 20 years. The work has had incremental jumps in capacity…

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3 Responses to “Jill Tarter – “Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence – A Necessarily Long-Term Strategy””

  1. Long Views » Blog Archive » The 1000 year conversation… Says:

    Posted on December 10th, 2007 at 3:59 am

    [...] Tarter from SETI also discussed these issues in her Long Now Seminar back in [...]

  2. Thierry Says:

    Posted on October 16th, 2008 at 4:20 am

    dr Jill Tarter! hello ! bonjour !

    ja m appl Thierry ! j ai une idée innovante pour vous ! signe evident pour (for) extraterrestre

    je crois que vos recherche ne vons pas reussir ! exuse me , je pense que vous devriez construire un BIG GIANT LASER ! RED !!!! in earth !

    diametre circonference !! enorme !!!!! avec maximum Killowatt !!!! direction cosmos !!!!! the night !!!

    merci ! Jill Tarter ! made in belgium ! e mail stratus007@hotmail.com / stratus006@hotmail.com

  3. Life Out There. « there’s no place like homage Says:

    Posted on July 27th, 2009 at 1:44 am

    [...] write about it,” easy, another mid-morning, another Seminar About Long-term Thinking. Jill Tarter … was the model for the Ellie Alloway character in Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel “Contact” [...]

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