By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean that they are brains, but… — Seth Shostak Behind Copy Share Image
The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams… — Seth Shostak Awarded Copy Share Image
Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and… — Seth Shostak About Copy Share Image
Consider that the overwhelming majority of those 40,000 near-Earth asteroids are small enough to fit on the parking lot at the mall.… — Seth Shostak Armageddon Copy Share Image
We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be… — Seth Shostak Bus Copy Share Image
A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it… — Seth Shostak Alien Copy Share Image
'E.T.' was far-fetched. 'E.T.' was this wimpy-looking kid that came to Earth to pick some plants, but he came from the Andromeda… — Seth Shostak Came Copy Share Image
If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe,… — Seth Shostak Beach Copy Share Image
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan.… — Seth Shostak Better Copy Share Image
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings… — Seth Shostak Alien Copy Share Image
It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try… — Seth Shostak About Copy Share Image
The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the… — Seth Shostak God Copy Share Image
The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on… — Seth Shostak Donations Copy Share Image
Mining asteroids is a well-oiled trope of science-fiction. But someday, actually doing it will make economic sense. Many of the essential metals… — Seth Shostak Actually Copy Share Image
Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero -… — Seth Shostak Among Copy Share Image
I you look at the drawings of aliens made by people who believe that Earth is under saucer attack, you'll quickly note… — Seth Shostak Admit Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things… — Seth Shostak Around Copy Share Image
Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in… — Seth Shostak Accompanied Copy Share Image
Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't… — Seth Shostak Although Copy Share Image
The total number of people that do a job that has the same description as mine in the entire world is fewer… — Seth Shostak Conversation Copy Share Image
We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see… — Seth Shostak About Copy Share Image
There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the… — Seth Shostak Be prepared Copy Share Image
Just knowing that there's somebody else out there - that what's happened on this planet has also happened in many other places… — Seth Shostak Also Copy Share Image
It will be the mother of all telescopes, and you can bet it will do for astronomy what genome sequencing is doing… — Seth Shostak Astronomy Copy Share Image
When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger… — Seth Shostak Also Copy Share Image
