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Why the search for alien life is about patience, not belief

Astronomer Jill Tarter explains why SETI is really about technology, patience, and learning how to tell alien signals from our own.

with Jill Tarter

SETI [stands for] the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. But that's actually a misnomer. We don't know how to define intelligence. We certainly don't know how to detect it at a distance. What we can perhaps do is find evidence of someone else's technology that is detectable over these vast distances between the stars.

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