Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets. — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak. — 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
