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Jill Cornell Tarter: SETI: Past, Present and Future — Finding Aliens and Finding Ourselves
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Jill Cornell Tarter
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In this lecture, Jill Cornell Tarter, the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, speaks to the importance of investing in long-term endeavors in a world of short-sighted thinking and how looking beyond our atmosphere can help better sustain life here on earth. This lecture was originally presented on March 3, 2015.