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

On Being with Krista Tippett

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How to Find Planets Beyond Our Solar System

You were one of the first scientists to embark on this methodical search for ams terrestrial intelligence. And i think that that work m on, looking for habitable planets, the exo planets, is, has been in the news more recently. We we can't find intelligence at a distance. E, ah, maybe we could define people listening to your padcast as intelligent because they're listening, but it's hard to know that remotely. Ah, so we've just used technology as a proxy for intelligence, and we're trying to find places on the sky where something has used technology to modify their environment in ways that we could detect over interstellar distances....

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