Last year, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence got a major boost when Russian billionaire Yuri Milner unveiled a $100 million effort to scan the skies for radio and light signals emitted by aliens. Not content to simply sit tight and wait for ET to hail us, Milner now plans to build interstellar spacecraft.…
The search for extraterrestrial life is the ultimate hybrid of creativity and science, the quest to discover something we can’t even describe yet. Jill Tarter embodies that creativity in her work with the SETI Institute, and is the subject of a special video released today.
Spore owes a debt to the research carried out by scientists at the SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute - in particular the work of SETI Director Jill Tarter. Now that the game is out and players are exploring some of SETI's ideas, the SETI Institute is hoping that some players will have their…
