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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This entry was posted on Monday, July 12th, 02004 at 2:13 pm and is filed under Seminars.

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  • Thierry

    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

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