Us Quotes by Seth Shostak

12 Us quotes by Seth Shostak

Shostak’s curiosity about humanity’s place in the cosmos filters into these twelve brief observations, giving a quick, thoughtful look at how we define ourselves together.

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Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar…

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Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look…

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Nine out of 10 Hollywood aliens look like us. Oh, sure, they might be short, big-eyed and hairless - decked out in…

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Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully…

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Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years…

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Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because…

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Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like…

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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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The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our…

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In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the…

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Every day, the temperature of Sol's surface increases by five billionths of a degree, a change of no consequence for thousands of…

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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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