All Seth Shostak Quotes
- Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against… Afterwards
- If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual. Arisen
- This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to… Able
- When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes. Alien
- The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer… Alien
- Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks… Alien
- Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know. Bang
- Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly one-third of the… Aerial
- Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them… Alien
- Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles… Advanced
- Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere. Abundant
- One of the jovian moons, Europa, is coated with twice as much liquid water as is sloshing around our planet. Coated
- Nine out of 10 Hollywood aliens look like us. Oh, sure, they might be short, big-eyed and hairless - decked out in skin smoother than… Afar
- The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources of energy - for example black holes, or even the neighbourhoods… Attractive
- While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them… Bridging
- Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother… Armageddon
- A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as… Frequently
- Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of… Amount
- Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang… Bang
- The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even… All
- The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes. Content
- The next time you check your moves in the mirror and reflect on how special you are, consider that somewhere in this universe or in… Check
- The strongest signals leaking off our planet are radar transmissions, not television or radio. The most powerful radars, such as the one mounted on the… Antenna
- Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those… Continue
- The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid -… Ago