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Jill Tarter
Jill Tarter
American Scientist
Born: Jan 16, 1944
Actually Came Life Space Stars Time
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth's crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. Jill Tarter
Life Pure Thrive Salt Beneath Waters Our Extreme Valleys Earth Battery Evolved Inside Only Hot Environments Crust Crystals Dry Sheets Limited Permanent Antarctica Springs Rocks Yellowstone Cracks Human Acid Ice Miles Standards Boiling Cooling Nuclear
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. Jill Tarter
Long Hydrogen Primordial Came Mixture Begins Where Happens Ask Us Helium
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy. Jill Tarter
Technology Intelligence Distances Instead Over Know Identify How Use
We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets. Jill Tarter
Learning Physics Will Chemistry Stars Earth Out Out Here Laws Most Common Planets Turns Now Played Here
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales. Jill Tarter
Life Science Humanity Thinking Earth Ancient Fabricated Cosmos Through Attempts Over Hijacked Wishful Wishful Thinking Tales Beyond Concern Understand Got However Years Existence Often Human Place
As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project. Jill Tarter
School Project Ancient Hat Join Computer Had Observatory Knew Mainly California Because How Leaving Been Donated Graduate Graduate School Creek Program

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