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[Unedited] Jill Tarter with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is There Any Microbe Out There?

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 it's astonishing that life would eventually produce something that could study the cosmos and wonder about where we came from. I mean, no other species on the planet to day can use its senses and its tools to understand that long cosmic evolution and where we come from. It's just an extraordinary thought....

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