Are We Alone? with Jill Tarter

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

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Are we alone in the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen sit down with one of the founders of the SETI Institute, Jill Tarter, to explore the search for intelligent life beyond Earth, technosignatures, The Drake Equation, and more.

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0:00.0	So, Matt, we got the top dog at SETI on StarTalk to catch us up on all.
0:05.3	It's Jill Tarter.
0:06.8	The other one, the alien whisperer. Can you call it the Alien Whisperer?
0:09.8	She's the main alien person.
0:12.2	We went to the number one alien person.
0:14.6	Coming up on StarTalk, the alien whisperer, Jill Tarter. Check it out.
0:20.7	Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:29.6	StarTalk begins right now. This is StarTalk. Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal
0:36.6	astrophysicist. I got with me my co-host,
0:39.6	Matt, how are you doing, man? I'm very good, thanks, Neil. How are you doing? Yeah, we caught up with you.
0:44.7	You're in Port in Bermuda. Why didn't you invite us for that? I am. I'm in a very small cabin
0:51.5	on a cruise right now. So I'm on tour right now.
0:54.8	I'm doing some lovely theater shows with Sarah Milliken,
0:58.0	who's a fantastic UK comic,
0:59.3	and I'm doing some headline spots off the back of that.
1:01.4	And then in between those, I'm on a boat.
1:03.5	Correct, on a boat.
1:04.9	Why not?
1:06.8	You know what you talk about today?
1:08.2	It's Cosmic Queries.
1:10.2	We're catching up with this search for
1:12.8	alien intelligence. We should do at least two of these a year because that's what the
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