SETI Institute
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Nov 4, 2026
Terry AdairGUEST
We have that.
Terry AdairGUEST
I guess the SETI Institute, which is a search for extraterrestrial intelligence, they want a crashed UFO and a taxidermied ET, right? That's what they want.
Terry AdairGUEST
Some people say we have that.
Terry AdairGUEST
The governments around the world are hiding them, right? We have that.
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O puede que estemos escuchando en la longitud de onda equivocada para detectar señales.
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El Instituto SETI utiliza radiotelescopios para escuchar posibles señales de civilizaciones extraterrestres a lo largo de la galaxia.
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Lleva décadas explorando los cielos en busca de cualquier indicio de vida inteligente que esté transmitiendo mensajes al espacio.
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La búsqueda requiere paciencia, ya que las señales procedentes de estrellas distantes son increíblemente débiles cuando llegan a la Tierra.
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Or we may be listening at the wrong wavelength to detect signals.
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The SETI Institute uses radio telescopes to listen for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilizations throughout the galaxy.
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It has spent decades scanning the skies for any sign of intelligent life transmitting messages into space.
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The search requires patience, since signals from distant stars are incredibly weak by the time they reach Earth.
Brian KeatingGUEST
based on a real life story up until they detect aliens.
Brian KeatingGUEST
And that's Jill Tarter is a renowned radio astronomer from the SETI Institute here in California.
Brian KeatingGUEST
And these measurements that they made were, you know, kind of fancifully displayed in terms of, well, could you teleport? Could you use this as a shortcut through space and time? This is an old idea.
Brian KeatingGUEST
Like I said, it goes back 100 years almost.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And that's definitely what we intend to do today.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
We're reaching into the depths of the search for alien life and finding an old colleague of mine from way back, one of the founders of the SETI Institute, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And that would be none other than Jill Tarter.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
Jill, welcome back to StarTalk.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
You're looking for intelligent life.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And what's odd is there, you know, you get this sense that people think that somehow we don't want to know if there's intelligent life or that it's being suppressed or that it's being, it's like nothing could be farthest from the truth.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And given the efforts that we as a community have put in, especially focused at the SETI Institute, I'm just surprised by this overall sense that somehow people think there's some kind of cover-up.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
I presume you've had to contend with this.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
That's a new one for me.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
Advisory board of the SETI Institute.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
They can't do much better than you on that one.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Franck MarchisHOST
My name is Franck Marchis.
Franck MarchisHOST
I'm a researcher at the SETI Institute.
Franck MarchisHOST
And today, we are going to explore one of the NASA.
Franck MarchisHOST
I can hear myself twice.
Franck MarchisHOST
Good.
Franck MarchisHOST
You are the principal investigator of the science investigation team for the Roman coronagraph instrument.
Franck MarchisHOST
But I know you because you're also a senior scientist at the SETI Institute, our beloved institution.
Franck MarchisHOST
So welcome.
Fred WatsonGUEST
And these are a little bit different from the normal SETI instrumentation.
Fred WatsonGUEST
So SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, there is a SETI Institute and they operate the Allen Telescope Array, which is an array of radio telescopes, which has been dedicated to looking for alien signals for, what, 20 years or something like that.
Fred WatsonGUEST
But Laser SETI is a network of optical detectors, in other words, ones that detect visible light.
Fred WatsonGUEST
It's been under development for the last couple of years.
David KippingHOST
And so, we enter the draconian free-for-all.
David KippingHOST
Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, once wrote, There have been enough previous studies on this topic to fill a small hoard of hard drives.
David KippingHOST
many ways the drake equation is a victim of its own success it seems that every month or so we hear about a new study that plugs numbers into the drake equation
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and arrives at a different answer
Brennan ByrneHOST
Should we or shouldn't we be actively sending a message into the cosmos to signal we are here and want to talk is a controversial question.
Brennan ByrneHOST
Bill Diamond, president and CEO of the SETI Institute, explains.
Brennan ByrneHOST
You know, there are opposing views
Bill DiamondSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
about a phenomena or a technique that is... referred to as METI, which stands for Messaging SETI.
Bill DiamondSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One could imagine that this is a universal phenomena, that any civilization that gets to our point is going to be dealing with and facing the consequences of their technology.
Bill DiamondSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And if they are successful, and overcoming those risks, that's probably gonna mean that they ultimately evolved into a fairly benevolent, very socially and culturally advanced civilization that probably has no motivation or interest in going around and killing other civilizations.
Brennan ByrneHOST
Putting aside the alien invasion argument, will they or won't they, Chelsea Jaramilla, a philosopher at Bonn University and co-director of the Discovery and Futures Lab at the SETI Institute, argues there's another consideration.
Brennan ByrneHOST
It's an ethical one.
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