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During the interview on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence with Jill Tarter , she mentions about how she has had two false positives within her system. This is a relatively new concept in t

I found the interview with Jill Tarter to be very interesting and insightful into a realm of science that has a lot of uncertainty and much to still be discovered. The idea of extraterrestrial life

In the interview with Jill Tarter, she mentions how science fiction sometimes forms the basis for later scientific innovations. I wonder what she thinks about how science fiction may be important or

Image: still from the 1982 film E.T. about an alien who becomes stranded on Earth. Firstly, listening to the talk with Jill Tarter I was completely enthralled by her accounts of the two occasions sh

After watching a fairly mindblowing interview with Dr. Jill Tarter , I have a number of follow-up questions. First, I would ask her to expand on what was going on in her mind during the two false pos

One thing I'd love to have asked Jill Tarter is her opinions on the public hype that tends to surround any sort of announcement for weak evidence of extraterrestrial life. For example, she mentions th

I found the discussion about searching for alien life forms or communications that may manifest in a way that we do not yet recognize intriguing. As Professor Goodman put it, "we have zero examples

I liked the grounding point in the Professor Loeb interview that it is important to be able to do more than just predict things accurately. Sometimes knowledge for knowledge's sake can have implicat

This isn't really a question that could've been asked at the time of this interview, but there was recently an experiment done that suggests there very well might be a fifth fundamental force that we

I have always associated the exploration of the stars, no matter how precise and reasoned it may be, with the realm of the futuristic and science-fiction. As such, Jill Tarter's description of the pot

I was deeply compelled by Prof. Goodman's discussion with Jill Tarter. In particular, I thought their conversation about the role of science fiction in astrophysics—namely, that science fiction can an

This post is about Jill Tarter's Video . One thing I found very surprising and interesting is Jill Tarter’s thoughts on the what if first contact happens. She mentions that the first thing she would

Although this doesn't have too much of a connection with our predictive systems discussion, during the interview with Jill Tarter , what I found really surprising was the fact that they constantly pr

The discussion with Avi Loeb was an enjoyable one, and I appreciated the common thread between his interview and Jill Tarter's regarding the necessity of imagination in order for science to progre

The interview with Professor Avi Loeb was super interesting and took a deep dive into astrophysics and its ties to prediction. Loeb discusses the beginning of the interview of how in order to kno

In the interview with Jill Tarter, I was surprised to find out that SETI is no longer government-funded. I did consider that the government has stricter policies on what type of research is allowed,

This post is about Jill Tarter's Video . The Drake Equation is something that has fascinated me ever since I learned about it in another Gen Ed at Harvard. So, I would love to ask some questions abou

In her interview , astronomer Jill Tarter discusses looking for extraterrestrial signals and techno-signatures without actually knowing exactly what to expect. As a result, astronomers must pay atten

If I were to add a question to Prof. Goodman's discussion with Jill Tarter, I would focus on their conversation about the hypothetical human response to first contact with an extraterrestrial civiliza

Professor Loeb's discussion of uncertainty especially its importance to the study of astrophysics and science more broadly raised a few interesting points regarding predictive models. Discriminating b