Jill Cornell Tarter: SETI: Past, Present and Future — Finding Aliens and Finding Ourselves

10/06/2020 1h 38min
Jill Cornell Tarter: SETI: Past, Present and Future — Finding Aliens and Finding Ourselves

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Click here for lecture transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z6YpEAogBWehcWiDbMFg5yQnMCrKmTms/view?usp=sharingIn this lecture, Jill Cornell Tarter, the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, speaks to the importance of investing in long-term endeavors in a world of short-sighted thinking and how looking beyond our atmosphere can help better sustain life here on earth. This lecture was originally presented on March 3, 2015.

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