Jill Tarter

Jill Tarter's line of work is extremely fascinating. Are we alone? Is there extraterrestrial life out there? Has her team heard signals? Are they even allowed to tell us? Regardless, the most interesting part of the interview to me was the integration of social scientists and astroethics philosophy to discuss these questions on how we would interact with this newfound life. Are we to come up with a strict set of guidelines that govern the way people on future space missions should study and interact with these aliens? Is such a framework even enforceable? In the event that we discover such a world, there is no question that this will be an influential event that creates mass hysteria unless we approach this carefully.