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Jill Tarter — 'It Takes a Cosmos to Make a Human'

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is There Any Microbial Life Out There?

For my astor biology colleagues, that means, is there any ponscumb out there? Any microbial life, any kind of biology. And for me, i'm more interested in the mathematicians than the microbes. So i want to know whether any of that life elsewhere has evolved into technological civilizations and io. It's really so stupendous to conceive of life evolving over billions of years,. from the first reproducing biological molecule into the diversity of life on this whole planet somewhere....

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