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A few weeks ago I interviewed this amazeballs woman named Jill Tarter, the director of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). I know you've never heard of her, but you've definitely heard of her work: Jodie Foster's character in Contact (pre-actually finding aliens (or not?) in the film) is based on her life. Basically, she's the shit.My Q&A with Jill is posted over at Fast Company as a part of the Most Influential Women in Tech 2010 package, which is definitely worth looking through. In the meantime, here's a highlight and my favorite part of the interview:
FC: Beyond the green-guy searching, what's your message?JT: My wish was to get all Earthlings involved in the search, because it gives me, and SETI in general, an opportunity to change their point of view. People realize they are part of one tiny little planet in a vast cosmos that may have other intelligent life out there, and that probably means that all of us here on Earth are far more similar to one another than Earthlings are to another intelligent forms out there. So even if we don't detect a signal, I think we can get people to internalize this Earthling concept and trivialize the differences among humans that we're willing to kill each other over. Anyway, that's my evangelical platform.
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