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Few Quotes by Seth Shostak
- There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something…
- [O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It…
- The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is…
- I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to get to me.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the…
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