Been Quotes by Seth Shostak

11 Been quotes by Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak’s comments on been are brief yet thought‑provoking, gathered in eleven concise lines. This small collection offers a quick glimpse into his vision of humanity’s future.

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Even if the Moon didn't exist - even if it had been vaporized billions of years ago by cantankerous Klingons - there…

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Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape.…

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America's popular heroes have seldom been its great thinkers, and even less its scientists. The success of TV's 'Big Bang Theory,' which…

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NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one…

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Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through…

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The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass…

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It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing…

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Lamentably, alien audiences may be frustrated by the switch to digital television. That's because the transmitter power for DTV is fairly evenly…

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As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system…

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Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His…

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'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems…

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If you could drive straight down, into a tunnel bored through the crust of the planet, you'd hit this molten mess in about an…

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I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to…

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About the only things that are unique to Earth are our biota and our culture. If aliens ever come here, they'd most likely be…

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