Jill Tarter
Jill Tarter
Jill Cornell Tarteris an American astronomer and the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 January 1944
CountryUnited States of America
dark ideas light
The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.
ocean thinking years
The space that we're looking through is nine-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we've done in 50 years is equivalent to scooping one 8-ounce glass out of the Earth's ocean, looking and seeing if you caught a fish. No, no fish in that glass? Well, I don't think you're going to conclude that there are no fish in the ocean. You just haven't searched very well yet. That's where we are.
motivation inspiration long
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.