The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, with Jill Tarter

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🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Is anybody out there? Neil deGrasse Tyson and former SETI Institute director Jill Tarter search for ET, with the help of comic co-host Michael Ian Black, SETI’s Seth Shostak, neuroscientist Lori Marino, Mona Chalabi, and Bill Nye. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:14.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:18.0	I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:23.0	And tonight we're talking about the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
0:27.0	Are they out there? If they are, where are they?
0:30.0	Are we listening?
0:33.0	Those questions and more tonight.
0:36.0	So let's do this.
0:41.0	As you know, I never do this alone.
0:46.0	I'm comedic co-host tonight, Michael Ian Black.
0:50.0	Welcome.
0:52.0	You've been on with us before.
0:54.0	I'm continuing to do this.
0:56.0	My pleasure. I'm boldly going where a lot of people have gone before.
1:00.0	And this is a show on the search for aliens.
1:02.0	And I got one of the world's experts on it, Seth Shostak, friend and colleague.
1:06.0	Seth.
1:09.0	Welcome.
1:11.0	You're a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View.
1:14.0	How long have you been looking for aliens?
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