Complete video at: fora.tv SETI’s Jill Tarter talks with inventor Robin Sloan about the importance of the institute’s work beyond its quest to discover extraterrestrial intelligence. Tarter argues that the search for ET is one of the few truly global issues, and suggests that simply pondering humanity’s place in the universe forces people to “hold up a mirror to all of us…in a way that makes us see ourselves as all the same.” —– Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area’s most interesting minds, took place over six hours in San Francisco on Saturday, October 16, 02010. Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time was a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of MIT Long Conversation was presented with a live performance of 1000 minutes of composer Jem Finer’s Longplayer. Astronomer Jill Tarter is Director of the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute’s Center for SETI Research, and also holder of the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI. She has devoted her career to hunting for signs of sentient beings elsewhere, and almost all aspects of this field have been affected by her work. Tarter led for Project Phoenix, a decade-long SETI scrutiny of about 750 nearby star systems, using telescopes in Australia, West Virginia and Puerto Rico. While no clearly extraterrestrial signal was found, this project was the most comprehensive targeted search for artificially …
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