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Seth Shostak

American Scientist

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Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance. Seth Shostak

News You Big Become Research Unless No Big Deal Wrong Long-Term Since Importance Most Deal Scientist Scientists Big Deal Historical Errors Curiosities Flash Little Here Consequently

Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence. Seth Shostak

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I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films. Seth Shostak

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If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn't exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be 'just right.' Seth Shostak

You Physics Stronger Stars Other Several Weaker Neither Would Somewhat Said Were Exist Same Just Right Gravity

Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could be that, before you've paid off your house, we'll learn that the universe is not the center of the universe, either! Seth Shostak

News You Humanity Before Universe Earth Cosmos Could House Learn Off Five Upset Center Either Centuries Paid Your

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