[Unedited] Jill Tarter with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — or SETI — goes beyond hunting for E.T. and habitable planets. Scientists in the field are using telescopes and satellites looking for signs of outright civilizational intelligence. One of the founding pioneers in this search is astronomer Jill Tarter. She is a co-founder of the SETI Institute and was an inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in the movie Contact, based on the novel by Carl Sagan. To speak with Tarter is to begin to grasp the creative majesty of SETI and what’s relevant now in the ancient question: “Are we alone in the universe?”

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.
0:07.5	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:23.5	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with astronomer Jill Tarder.
0:29.5	There is, as always, a shorter, produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:36.0	Or do you think we can go? Should we do it? Okay, let's just plunge in.
0:41.0	Do you have any questions of me before we start?
0:45.0	No. Okay.
0:46.5	Let's just see what comes out.
0:48.5	See what happens. Okay.
0:51.0	So, I've been steeping in obviously the biography of you that was written and other interviews you've given, speeches you've given.
1:08.5	So this is just going to be a really wide-ranging conversation, but just about the things that you think about and speak about and the life you've lived.
1:19.0	I did read, and I think this is in Sarah's School's biography, that you first considered the possibility of alien life when you were visiting the Florida Keys as a child.
1:31.0	Did that actual thought cross your mind?
1:34.5	Yeah, it did.
1:35.5	Yeah.
1:36.5	The my aunt and uncle were literally beach comers, and when I was a small child, we'd visit them in Manasota Key two or three times a year.
1:47.5	Yeah.
1:48.5	And so I was walking along the beach on this beautiful key, very uninhabited, very dark.
1:55.5	So the sky was beautiful.
1:57.5	I was walking with my dad holding his hand, and he was trying to teach me various constellations.
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