Summary: I found the topic of the Drake equation particularly interesting, since it just seemed that the components of the equation could be almost infinitely refined, and as such the simplicity of its form was really cool. I enjoyed Jill’s take on accounting for error and uncertainty in this equation, building in room for observation, and as such given her observational method (different telescopes in different parts of the world), I quite liked this concept.
Question: I would have been interested in asking Jill - say that SETI is successful, and intelligent life is formed, how would you go about communicating? What would we say and what information would we share? And how?
First of all, a very nice post that I feel like discusses well the interview and what makes Jill such a unique Scientist! I think its really interesting to hear about her discussion on evaluation of accuracy as it relates to the discussions we've had on accounting for error in other scenarios? I'm curious, does her method of accounting for error have a framework we can apply to other areas of science?
Would your question be different than the very similar ones asked during the second part of the interview?