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> [Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/life-has-evolved-to-thrive-in-environments-that-are-extreme-only-by/)

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## More by Jill Tarter

> [We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/we-all-of-us-are-what-happens-when-a-primordial-mixture-of-hydrogen/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/the-space-that-we-re-looking-through-is-nine-dimensional-if-you-build/)

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> [SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/seti-is-a-mirror-a-mirror-that-can-show-ourselves-from-an/)

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> [We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/we-don-t-know-how-to-identify-intelligence-over-interstellar/)

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> [We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/we-are-made-out-of-stardust-the-iron-in-the-hemoglobin-molecules-in/)

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> [As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/as-i-was-leaving-graduate-school-in-1974-i-was-recruited-to-join-a/)

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> [In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/in-the-future-will-our-technologies-help-stabilise-or-planet-and/)

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> [Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/ultimately-we-actually-all-belong-to-only-one-tribe-to-earthlings/)

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> [Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/life-has-evolved-to-thrive-in-environments-that-are-extreme-only-by/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/we-misuse-language-and-talk-about-the-ascent-of-man-we-understand-the/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/the-existence-of-life-beyond-earth-is-an-ancient-human-concern-over/)

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> [Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/might-it-be-the-discovery-of-a-distant-civilization-and-our-common/)

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> [The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/the-story-of-humans-is-the-story-of-ideas-that-shine-light-into-dark/)

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> [We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/we-are-the-laws-of-chemistry-and-physics-as-they-have-played-out-here/)

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> [Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-tarter/earlier-generations-of-stars-in-the-galaxy-could-well-have-had/)

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