As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us. — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy, — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California,… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis for the interrelatedness of life, but our ego hasn't… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
